Source : International The News
Karachi
He suggested that media teams and human rights organizations from Pakistan should go to Myanmar and see for themselves the havoc being wrought on the Muslims by the non-Muslims “in complicity with the Myanmar Government”.
Intikhab Alam Suri, President, Human Rights Network, narrating the sequence of events, said that on My 28, a Buddhist girl embraced Islam and married a Muslim man, which, he said, made the Buddhist community very indignant and they resorted to vengeance by stopping a bus carrying Muslim pilgrims and killing some of them. Regretting the killing of Rohingyas by the Bangladesh Government, and condemning international agencies for their biased stance, he said that when the sectarian killings were taking place in East Timor, the Western powers and UN agencies lost no time in dispatching their aid teams and military personnel. If, he said, the whites were facing such a situation in some part of the world, the western countries lost no time in dispatching their troops. But now that the Muslims were being killed “in such large numbers”, all these “self-proclaimed custodians of human rights” were not bothering to even bat an eyelid.
Speakers said that this phenomenon in Myanmar was nothing new and was actually an outcome of Britain’s divide-and-rule policy. They traced the genesis of the problem to 1942 when the UK government, not being able to subdue the Muslims of Arakan, made it part of Burma which gave leeway to the successive Burmese governments to suppress the Muslims.
Karachi
The central
leader of the Rohingya Solidarity Organization of Myanmar, Muhammad
Imran Saeed, who is in town to acquaint the people of Pakistan with the
ongoing Muslim-non-Muslim riots in Myanmar (formerly Burma), narrated
the atrocities being perpetrated on the Arakan Muslims of Myanmar by the
non-Muslim majority.
Addressing a Press conference at
the Karachi Press Club (KPC) Thursday afternoon, he said that it was an
attempt on the part of the Myanmar government to “eliminate the Rohyinga
race” and according to him, 135 mosques had been pulverised.
He
condemned the attitude of the Bangladesh Government towards the issue
and said that instead of sympathising with their persecuted Muslim
brothers and sisters, the Bangladesh government was adopting a punitive
stance towards them and issuing shoot-at-sight orders in case any
Rohingya Muslim was found crossing over into Bangladesh territory.
As
for Pakistan, he said that while he was impressed by the way the people
and private organizations were incensed at the killings, he was not
satisfied with the stance of the government of Pakistan and felt that it
was somewhat lukewarm. In fact all the speakers expressed their dismay
over the overall apathy of the Muslim world on the issue and called upon
the Islamic countries to wholeheartedly support the cause of the
Rohingyas.
Speakers also called on United Nations agencies
like the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to
immediately dispatch aid and observers teams to the site of the rioting
and help the Muslims out of their ordeal.He suggested that media teams and human rights organizations from Pakistan should go to Myanmar and see for themselves the havoc being wrought on the Muslims by the non-Muslims “in complicity with the Myanmar Government”.
Intikhab Alam Suri, President, Human Rights Network, narrating the sequence of events, said that on My 28, a Buddhist girl embraced Islam and married a Muslim man, which, he said, made the Buddhist community very indignant and they resorted to vengeance by stopping a bus carrying Muslim pilgrims and killing some of them. Regretting the killing of Rohingyas by the Bangladesh Government, and condemning international agencies for their biased stance, he said that when the sectarian killings were taking place in East Timor, the Western powers and UN agencies lost no time in dispatching their aid teams and military personnel. If, he said, the whites were facing such a situation in some part of the world, the western countries lost no time in dispatching their troops. But now that the Muslims were being killed “in such large numbers”, all these “self-proclaimed custodians of human rights” were not bothering to even bat an eyelid.
Speakers said that this phenomenon in Myanmar was nothing new and was actually an outcome of Britain’s divide-and-rule policy. They traced the genesis of the problem to 1942 when the UK government, not being able to subdue the Muslims of Arakan, made it part of Burma which gave leeway to the successive Burmese governments to suppress the Muslims.
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