15 September, 2017
"We need to support Aung San Suu Kyi and her leadership but also be very clear and unequivocal to the military power sharing in that government that this is unacceptable", Tillerson said.
On a visit to London where he met British Prime Minister Theresa May and foreign minister, Boris Johnson, he told a news conference: "I think it is a defining moment in many ways for this new, emerging democracy".
"This violence must stop".
Activists say more than 100 villagers, women and children among them, have been killed by security forces.
The longtime human rights icon and Nobel peace laureate has been berated for failing to speak up for the Rohingya minority amid a crisis that has shocked the worldwide community.
An estimated 380,000 Rohingya refugees have fled the violence in Myanmar and are now seeking refuge in Bangladesh, UN Secretary General António Guterres said Wednesday. "Aid has been severely disrupted and 380,000 refugees have fled to Bangladesh", Guterres said in a tweet.
More than 400 people have been killed in Rakhine State and almost 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh, overwhelming the nation's border camps.
