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FILE - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres listens to a speech, during the opening of the High-Level Segment of the 55th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Feb. 26, 2024. Military airstrikes in western Myanmar killed at least 25 members of the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority, including children, local media reported, prompting the U.N. chief to express concerns over the escalating violence. According to the reports, the airstrikes took place early on Monday March 18, 2024 morning and targeted the village of Thada, north of Minbya township in Rakhine state. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

U.N. chief decries violence in west Myanmar as two dozen villagers are reported killed in airstrikes

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2017, file photo, a Myanmar police officer stands guard at a checkpoint in Shwe Zar village in the northern Rakhine state of Myanmar. Amnesty International, in a report issued Wednesday, May 29, 2019, says it has found new evidence of war crimes and human rights violations in Rakhine State, where the armed forces two years ago carried out a brutal counterinsurgency campaign that drove more than 700,000 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority to flee across the border to Bangladesh. (AP Photo/File)

Amnesty Int’l charges Myanmar military with new abuses

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Rohingya Muslim man Naseer Ud Din holds his infant son Abdul Masood, who drowned when the boat they were traveling in capsized just before reaching the shore, as his wife Hanida Begum cries upon reaching the Bay of Bengal shore in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation of 60 million, was basking in international praise just a few years ago as it transitioned to democracy after a half-century of dictatorship. Since then, a campaign of killings, rape and arson attacks by security forces and Buddhist-aligned mobs have sent more than 850,000 of the country's 1.3 million Rohingya fleeing. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

Fears that Rohingya Muslims could be next radical Islamic recruits

By Prashun Mazumdar — Special to The Washington Times