REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono urged Myanmar to stop violence towards Rohingya Muslims in the country. 

"I'm afraid the impact will be bad to Myanmar and also for the majority Muslim community in Indonesia," Yudhoyono said on Tuesday. It was a month after 43 Muslims in Meikhtila died in mobs, and other cases in other cities.

HRW: ethnic cleansing

Ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity have been committed against Myanmar's ethnic Rohingya people, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York-based nongovernmental organisation.

According to the report released on Monday and quoted by Aljazeera, entitled All You Can Do is Pray, more than 125,000 ethnic Rohingya have been forcibly displaced since two waves of violence in May and October 2012. Satellite images show almost 5,000 structures on land mostly owned by Muslim Rohingya have been destroyed, says the report.

The October attacks, the report states, were co-ordinated by Myanmar government officials, an ethnic Rakhine nationalist party and Buddhist monks. The deadliest attack took place on October 23, in which witnesses say at least 70 Rohingya - including 28 children - were massacred in Mrauk-U township. The UN has described the Rohingya as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.

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