Rohingya 'extremists' trying to build stronghold - Myanmar army

Myanmar's pinnacle fashionable has blamed rohingya human beings for the disaster that has caused masses of thousands crossing into bangladesh.
Gen min aung hlaing said the rohingya "has never been an ethnic group", and accused "extremists" of seeking to shape a stronghold in northern rakhine nation.
His navy is accused of concentrated on civilians in an offensive there, forcing rohingya to escape.
Myanmar denies this, and says it is responding to lethal militant attacks.
The un has warned that offensive against the rohingya - most of whom are muslims, while myanmar is 90% buddhist - ought to amount to ethnic cleansing.
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On saturday un secretary wellknown antonio guterres warned that the u . S .'s de facto leader aung san suu kyi had "a final hazard" to halt the navy offensive before the state of affairs will become "in reality horrible".
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Who're the rohingya organization behind attacks?
In a facebook put up on sunday, gen min aung hlaing entreated humans and the media in myanmar to unite over the "difficulty" of the rohingya.
He said the army operation started out after ninety three clashes with "extremist bengalis" - regarding rohingya militants - that commenced on 25 august.
The violence, he brought, turned into an organised try to build a stronghold in rakhine state.
"they have got demanded popularity as rohingya, which has in no way been an ethnic organization in myanmar. (the) bengali issue is a national purpose and we want to be united in organising the truth," his put up stated.
Rohingya militants did assault police posts in northern rakhine on 25 august, killing 12 safety personnel.
However rohingya who've fled myanmar considering that then say the navy answered with a brutal campaign, burning villages and attacking civilians in a bid to drive them out.
Rohingya muslim refugees move floodwater in thyangkhali refugee camp close to the bangladesh metropolis of ukhia on 17 september 2017.Image copyrightafp
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Bangladesh plans to restriction the movement of rohingya who have fled myanmar
The military's defence comes amid condemnation of the violence from the world over.
Aung san suu kyi is a nobel peace laureate who spent years beneath residence arrest in junta-run myanmar (burma) however has performed a key political position for the reason that her birthday celebration gained democratic polls in 2015. She is now going through growing criticism over the rohingya trouble.
On sunday, un chief antonio guterres advised her to prevent the offensive in her deal with to the kingdom on tuesday, caution that if she failed to so, "i do not see how this may be reversed inside the future".
Speaking to the bbc's hardtalk programme, the secretary popular stated it changed into clean that myanmar's navy "nonetheless have the higher hand" within the country.


Media captionantonio guterres told the bbc he feared an 'truly terrible' tragedy
Aung san suu kyi will not be attending the un preferred meeting in ny, and has claimed that the disaster is being distorted by way of a "large iceberg of incorrect information".
She said tensions were being fanned by using fake news selling the pastimes of terrorists.
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Bangladesh recently announced it was restricting the movement of greater than four hundred,000 rohingya who have fled from myanmar.
Bangladesh also introduced plans to construct shelters for as much as 400,000 humans close to the metropolis of cox's bazar.
Map of myanmar displaying rakhine vicinity and neighbouring bangladesh
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The violence has been concentrated in myanmar's rakhine vicinity
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The rohingya, a stateless minority, have lengthy experienced persecution in myanmar, which says they're illegal immigrants.
A few who fled from rakhine kingdom told the bbc earlier this month about killings, rape or even massacres, while internal rakhine, a bbc crew witnessed charred houses internal rakhine.