In the suburbs of Karachi this is the Myanmarese colony which is one of over one hundred slums spread across the Southern port city of Karachi, housing over 200,000 Rohingya Muslims who flee their homeland in different times.
Noor Hussain who is struggling for the welfare of these displaced Rohingyans tells about the nightmare when they flee Arkan Province. He says they were subject to the systematic persecution and human rights abuses that include forced land confiscation, torture, extrajudicial killings, forced labor, and restrictions on movement at the hand of the Myanmar authorities, on account of their ethnic identity. The Human Rights Watch says that the Myanmar government continually refuses to grant Rohingyans citizenship, rendering them stateless in their ancestral homeland.
The Rohingyas’ persecution has further intensified because they cannot seek protection from neighboring countries, they say.
Thousands of miles away from the state of Arakan, Rohingya Muslims living in this slum in the port city of Karachi, demand the international community to take affective steps and help them to get their right of return to the land where they belong.
After months of recent violence and slow international response, Myanmar’s government has finally established a commission to launch a probe, but Rohingyans here say that they are only buying more time to unfocus the international attention.
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