Rohingyas in Myanmar suffering ‘heartbreaking’ misery and cruelty

Members of the minority ethnic Rohingya Muslim group in Myanmar are “suffering, misery, and cruelty on multiple levels and across the country that is heartbreaking,” according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.Volker Türk was speaking as a new report was released by an independent UN fact-finding mission which found that human rights in the country – especially for minorities – have hit a new low.Myanmar is locked in a brutal civil war between the military and various resistance groups.In August 2017, Myanmar’s military conducted a ruthless crackdown on the Rohingya Muslims in the western Rakhine State, prompting more than 740,000 to flee across the border to Bangladesh, where the vast majority are still living as refugees.Five years since the military junta took control of Myanmar, it has killed at least 8,075 and forcibly conscripted hundreds of thousands while the rebel Arakan Army – the de facto authority across most of Rakhine – has committed widespread abuses against the Rohingya, according to the report.Covering June 2025 to May 2026, the new report details how an armed group’s August 2025 decision to stop supplying other anti-military groups allowed the military ...