Alwaght- Former UN Secretary General visited the southern Myanmar state amid reports on killing and displacing Muslim minority in the region.
Kofi Anan is in the region to visit the displaced Muslim population as the head of the UN Commission tasked with finding solutions to the crisis.
A senior official in Rakhine State's regional government told Anadolu Agency that the Advisory Commission on Rakhine had arrived in a northern part of the state where the army is accused of violence against members of the Rohingya Muslim minority.
“The commission is visiting displaced people in villages in Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships today,” Min Aung said.
This is the second visit to the region by Kofi Annan. His first occurred in early September, five years after a series of incidents of communal violence took place in Rakhine between ethnic Buddhists and Rohingya, which left around 100 people dead and some 100,000 displaced in camps -- mostly members of the Rohingya minority.
This weekend's visit comes on the back of Oct. 9 attacks, during which nine police officers were killed by armed individuals near the Bangladesh border. Since the deaths, soldiers have been accused of numerous human rights violations -- including sexual assaults -- in the area as they conduct clearance operations to find those responsible.
Rohingya advocacy groups said around 400 Rohingya Muslims were subsequently killed in the military operations in the north of the state.
The latest arrests by security forces have been a major source of concern in the country as the total number of detainees reached 528 since the Oct. 9.
The country’s special committee has said that four people had died during interrogations, and 70 people suspected to have been involved in attacks had been killed in the area as of Dec. 3.
