Rohingya facing ethnic cleansing, warns UN

as Myanmar, have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh in the last three weeks, and pointed to satellite imagery and reports of “security forces and local militia burning Rohingya villages” and committing extrajudicial killings.

“The Myanmar government should stop pretending the Rohingyas are setting fire to their own homes and laying waste to their own villages,” he said.

He called it a “complete denial of reality” that hurts the standing of Burma, a country that had until recently, by opening up politics to civilian control, enjoyed “immense good will”.

“Because Myanmar has refused access to human rights investigators, the current situation cannot yet be fully assessed, but the situation seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing,” he said.

Mr Zeid said he was “further appalled” by reports that Burma’s military is planting landmines along the border. PRESIDENT Donald Trump, leading his first commemoration of the 9/11 anniversary, has said “the living, breathing soul of America wept with grief” for each of the nearly 3,000 lives that were lost on that day 16 years ago.

Addressing an audience at the Pentagon, one of three sites attacked on September 11 2001, Mr Trump used the anniversary to warn terrorists that “America cannot be intimidated”.

He said those who try are destined to join a long list of vanquished enemies “who dared to test our mettle”.

Mr Trump and first lady Melania Trump observed a moment of silence at the White House at the exact moment that a hijacked plane was slammed into the World Trade Centre.

The Trumps bowed their heads and placed their hands over their hearts as the Taps bugle call rang

President Trump and wife Melania pay tribute.

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Lawn. They were surrounded by White House aides and other administration officials in what is an annual day of remembrance.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijackers flew commercial planes into New York’s World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Mr Trump, who was in

New York on 9/11, said the attack was worse than the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbour during the Second World War because it targeted civilians. He vowed that it would never be repeated.

“The terrorists who attacked us thought they could incite fear and weaken our spirit,” Mr Trump said.

“But America cannot be intimidated.” ISLAMIC State militants have ambushed a police convoy in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, killing 18 police and wounding seven others.

It is one of the deadliest attacks this year in the restive region bordering Israel and the Gaza Strip.

Roadside bombs destroyed and set ablaze four armoured vehicles and a fifth one carrying signal-jamming equipment, police and military officials said.

The gunmen later opened fire with machine guns and commandeered a police pick-up truck.

Among those killed were two police lieutenants. The wounded included a police brigadier general.

IS claimed responsibility for the attack on its Aamaq news agency.

The attack yesterday took place about nearly 19 miles west of el-Arish in northern Sinai, the epicentre of a long-running insurout