Friday, 4 June 2021, 6:14 am
NUG issues monumental policy shift on Rohingya
rights
(BANGKOK, June 3, 2021)—The National Unity
Government (NUG) of Myanmar should appoint an
ethnic-Rohingya representative to help it implement and
expand upon its new policy on the rights of Rohingya people,
Fortify Rights said today.
The NUG today issued a new
“Policy
Position on the Rohingya in Rakhine State,”
acknowledging the rights of Rohingya people and atrocity
crimes they faced in Myanmar. The statement represents a
monumental shift from the persecution of the Rohingya by the
military junta as well as previous governments, which
routinely denied the existence of the Rohingya as well as evidence