Dhaka, Oct. 2 -- UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi warned that the plight of the Rohingya will not end without decisive action inside Myanmar, stressing that the roots of the crisis and its solution lie there.

"This crisis originates in Myanmar. And that, Madam President, is where the solution lies," he said at the UN General Assembly High-Level Conference on Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar in New York on Tuesday.

Grandi recalled how eight years ago, brutal military violence forced 750,000 Rohingyas to flee to Bangladesh, while many others were displaced within Rakhine State.

But even with the Arakan Army now controlling most of the state, he said, their conditions "have not improved."

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