A powerful ethnic party in Myanmar has rejected a United Nations human rights envoy’s request to meet during her visit to displaced persons camps in troubled western Rakhine state.
Yanghee Leeg, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, arrived in the state’s capital Sittwe on Wednesday morning and requested a meeting with officials from the Arakan National Party (ANP) on Thursday morning, the party said in a statement.
“We don’t believe at all that she wants to try to understand the situation here. She never really listens to us. That’s why we refused to meet her,” ANP joint secretary Ba Swe told Anadolu Agency by phone. (Courtesy of aa.com.tr)
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