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  A senior UN representative said that more than 1,000 people have been killed in violence in Myanmar already. Most of them are minority Muslims, which are twice as big as the government. He called on Aung San Suu Kyi to discuss the issue openly. The UN representative told the AFP news agency on Friday.   The United Nations says 2,070 thousand Rohingya civilians have fled in the last two weeks. They have no place to live in refugee camps.   Many people were killed while fleeing during the conflict in Rakhine state. Meanwhile, the officials said that the whole village has been burned since the Rohingya militants organized a series of coordinated attacks on August 25. As a result, the operation led by the military started.   According to eyewitnesses, the UN Human Rights Special Representative of Myanmar Yanhhai Li said, "Perhaps a thousand or more people have already lost their lives."   Rohingyas in Buddhist-dominated Myanmar have been subjected to disc...

         In the context of the Rohingya crisis, UN Secretary General Antonio Gutters has urged the Myanmar government to give citizenship or legality to the Rohingya Muslims. He expressed deep fears of reaching 1.25 thousand people in Bangladesh in the new conflict beginning August 25. Gutters said that it is important for Myanmar to immediately provide Muslim citizenship or legal validity. Through which they can live independently, find livelihood and take education. On Monday, he said, I condemned the recent attack by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army. But we now get regular reports that the army is arbitrarily attacking in Myanmar. This will increase the chances of leaning into fundamentalism among them. Gutters said that for several decades the Rohingya Muslims have been suffering from discrimination, despair and extreme poverty in Myanmar and they face ethnic cleansing. 1 lakh 25 thousand people have suffered in horrors and have taken s...