United Nations reports Myanmar Muslims at risk of extinction (Video/Photo)

UN human rights activists have warned that violence against women and children in the state of Rakhin “could constitute crimes against humanity”, said “Al Jazeera”, Periscopi broadcast.

The United Nations Committee on Eliminating Discrimination against Women (CEDAË) and Children's Rights Committee urged the authorities of Myanmar of <x1 to investigate immediately and effectively follow cases of violence against women and children” in northern Rakihna.

“We are particularly concerned about the fate of Rohingya women and children who are subject to serious violations of their human rights, including murder, rape and forced shift”, the committees said in a statement Wednesday.

“Such skeletons could constitute crimes against humanity and we are deeply concerned by the state's failure to end these shocking human rights violations that are being committed under the command of military forces and other security forces, from which women and children continue to keep their target”, it is said among other things in that statement.

More than 507,000 Rogingya have fled to Bangladesh since Myanmar's army launched a military strike in response to an attack by the Ringya fighters in dozens of police posts and a military base on August 25th.

The UN has previously named the Roingya exfil from Myanmar in Bangladesh “the world's most urgent refugee crisis”.

The predominantly Muslim minority, who live mainly in the state of Rakhine, is not known as an ethnic group in Myanmar, despite having lived there for generations. They have been denied citizenship.

On Monday, Bangladesh's foreign minister said Myanmar proposed the capture of Ringya refugees who had fled.

The two UN rights committees on Wednesday showed how their protracted “deployment had exposed them to high poverty and malnutrition levels”. /Periscopi/