A Rohingya refugee who fled ethnic violence in Myanmar along with 750,000 others in 2017, spending seven years in Bangladesh, described Tuesday the endless cycle of violence and exile facing the mostly Muslim minority.

Addressing a special UN conference on the Rohingya, Maung Sawyeddollah held up a photograph of dead women and children in civilian attire and said they had been killed by an armed group fighting against Myanmar’s army.

“These people were killed in a drone attack by the Arakan Army on August 5, 2024,” said Sawyeddollah, part of the Rohingya Students Network.

“These are not isolated cases, they are a part of a systematic campaign…Where is justice for Rohingya?”

The mostly Muslim Rohingya have been persecuted in Myanmar for decades, with many escaping the 2017 military clam

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