UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. envoy for Myanmar said Monday that progress on alleviating the crisis that led more than 720,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighboring Bangladesh has been slow and if there is no action it will be time to "ring the alarm bell." Christine Schraner-Burgener was responding to frustrated speeches and questions from many countries --- from Bangladesh to Saudi Arabia to the United States --- on the lack of progress in returning Rohingya nearly two years after they fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar's military. She told the General Assembly there are "not a lot of changes on the ground," pointing to "many challenges"...
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