Myanmar imposing ‘apartheid’ on Rohingya

YANGON: Myanmar’s suffocating controls over its Rohingya population amount to “apartheid,” Amnesty International said on Tuesday in a probe into the root causes of a crisis that has sent 620,000 refugees fleeing to Bangladesh.

Scenes of dispossessed Rohingya in Bangladeshi camps have provoked outrage around the world, as people who have escaped Rakhine state since August recount tales of murder, rape and arson at the hands of Myanmar troops.