FG Condemns Human Rights Abuse in Myanmar

The Federal Government of Nigeria has expressed regret at the desperate human rights situation in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, which is very reminiscent of what happened in Rwanda in 1994 and in Bosnia Herzegovina in 1995.

It condemned the horrendous human suffering caused by what is now confirmed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in his statement today, to be a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” of the Rohingya people.

In a statement signed by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Jane Adams the government said called the United Nations to invoke the principle of the “Responsibility to Protect” and intervene in Myanmar to stop the ongoing ethnic cleansing and create the conditions for the safe return and rehabilitation of the fleeing Rohingya people to their motherland.

The government similarly called on all members of the civilised world to condemn the heinous act and to demand for appropriate punishment to the perpetrators.