UN weighs in on blame game over census tensions
The head of the United Nations’ technical advisory board for Myanmar’s census has dismissed criticisms of the process and blamed civil society and human rights groups for having “inflamed” tensions surrounding the count.
“It is absolutely shocking for a UN official advising the national census to so bluntly dismiss the concerns and aspirations of the peoples of Myanmar,” said Tom Kramer, a Yangon-based spokesperson with the Transnational Institute, which released a report a month before the census calling for it to be either modified or postponed.
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