A Rakhine Buddhist politician facing treason charges linked to deadly riots appeared in a Myanmar court on Wednesday, a case that has aggravated ethnic tensions in a region also roiled by the crackdown on Rohingya Muslims. Aye Maung, an MP and former chairman of a Rakhine political party known for hardline anti-Rohingya views, was charged for allegedly making an inflammatory speech against the central government on January 15, a day before the unrest. On Tuesday, in a speech in Bangladesh’s refugee camps on his four-day visit to Cox’s Bazar district, Andrew Gilmour, UN assistant secretary-general for human rights, made a statement that Myanmar was continuing its “ethnic cleansing” of Rohingya, while claiming it is ready to receive them back from Bangladesh.