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TEHRAN, October 13- The Turnbull government has refused to directly condemn Myanmar after a new United Nations report revealed its troops continue the indiscriminate slaughter Rohingya Muslims, including children.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -The Turnbull government has refused to directly condemn Myanmar after a new United Nations report revealed its troops continue the indiscriminate slaughter Rohingya Muslims, including children.
Asked by Fairfax Media if it was time to condemn Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi or the country's military, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop side-stepped the question, saying through a spokeswoman at her Department of Foreign Affairs "we condemn all abuses of human rights and call on those responsible to be held to account".
The UN Human Rights office report detailing shocking testimonies of Rohingya survivors who have fled Rakhine state since late August has stoked international outrage.
The report called on Ms Suu Kyi's government to end the "cruelty" which human rights groups say amounts to crimes against humanity.
Only hours after the release of the report detailing the testimonies of dozens Rohingya survivors, Myanmar's army chief rejected accusations of abuses by his troops, and accused the media of exaggerating the numbers of Rohingya who have arrived in squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing repeated his uncompromising stance against 1.1 million Rohingya who have been living in Rakhine for generations, referring to them by the term "Bengali" which they regard as derogatory.
UN and international agencies have documented more than 520,000 distressed Rohingya who have fled Rakhine in the past seven weeks in the largest population movement in Asia since the 1970s.
Their arrival in what has become world's largest concentration of refugees has created an emerging humanitarian catastrophe, aid experts and doctors warn.
Australia's refusal to condemn Myanmar contrasts with the US whose ambassador to the United Nations last month denounced a "brutal, sustained campaign to cleanse the country of an ethnic minority" and called for countries to cut military ties with Myanmar.
French President Emmanuel Macron has called it genocide and the European Union has flagged renewing targeted sanctions.
Amnesty International on Friday called on Australia to suspend all forms of support to Myanmar's military, including training.
Source:watoday
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