The Australian government has resisted calls to sanction Myanmar’s military for its ethnic cleansing campaign against Rohingya Muslims, writes Elaine Pearson, the Australian director at Human Rights Watch, for ABC. The Australian Government needs to send a strong message that its response to ethnic cleansing is not “business as usual”, she said. The International Rescue Committee has warned of a “lost generation” with more than 500,000 Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh unlikely to receive schooling in 2018. Since 25 August 2017, an estimated 655 000 Rohingya have crossed the border into Cox’s Bazar, joining approximately 300 000 that had fled in earlier waves of displacement. Respiratory infection, skin disease, and acute watery diarrhea risks remain high with increasingly crowded living conditions, World Health Organisation reported on Dec. 23.