The crisis has generated multiple implications for neighbouring States and the larger region, including the risk of inter-communal strife. We should not be surprised if decades of discrimination and double standards in treatment of the Rohingya create openings for radicalisation. 

Antonio Guterres

UN Secretary General 

Violence in Rakhine hasn't stopped despite government claims.... Rohingyas described rape being used as a weapon to scare families to leave, and reported villages being burned....These atrocities attest that the Myanmar government is using arson to de-populate northern Rakhine and take over ownership of land.

Masud Bin Momen

Bangladesh Ambassador 

The time for well-meaning, diplomatic words in this council has passed.... We must now consider action against Burmese security forces who are implicated in abuses and stoking hatred among their fellow citizens.

Nikki Haley

US Ambassador 

International community should view the difficulties and challenges confronting the government of Myanmar through objective optics, exercise patience, and provide support and help.... Many of the differences and antagonisms in Rakhine have been building up over a long time and there is no quick fix. 

Wu Haitao 

China's deputy ambassador 

Excessive pressure on Myanmar's government can only aggravate the situation in the country and around it.... There is no alternative to resolving the longstanding and complicated crisis in Rakhine through political means and a dialogue among all nationalities and faiths. 

Vassily Nebenzia 

Russian Ambassador  

There is no ethnic cleansing and no genocide in Myanmar.... Security operations ended Sept 5 and the vast majority of those who fled to Bangladesh did so because fear was instilled in the heart by the 

terrorists.

U Thaung Tun 

Myanmar's national 

security adviser