The United Nations Security Council’s response on Thursday to the campaign of ethnic cleansing against Myanmar’s Rohingya population fell pitifully short of what was needed. Instead of the comprehensive arms embargo which could have helped pressure Myanmar’s military into ending the assault which has created over half a million refugees in the space of a month, the session in New York produced little more than platitudes.

It will not be enough to protect the Rohingya.

On 25 August Myanmar’s security forces, whose Commander-in-Chief is Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, began a campaign of violence against the Rohingya which was unprecedented in scale and brutality.