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April 10, 2013
Delhil: Indian Muslim organizations and human rights
bodies today demonstrated near Myanmar embassy in the capital against the non-
stop violation of human rights, atrocities and inhuman cruel activities meted
out on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
Indian Muslim organisations and civil society under
the banner of an umbrella body of Muslim organisations All India Muslim
Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM) today condemned the Burmese government in the
strongest terms for its inaction and collaboration to stop violence against,
and expulsion of, its minority Rohingya population in the Rakhine [Arakan]
state.
-We wanted to hold a symbolic protest outside Myanmar
Embassy, but the Delhi Police which is infamous for its goondaism and its
special cell which has earned global notoriety for fake killings and
encounters, have forced us to protest here,- said Dr. Zafrul Islam Khan,
president, All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat and condemned the Delhi Police
for not allowing them to demonstrate outside the embassy.
-We want to tell the world that Muslims in India are
not silent, they know how Rohingya Muslims are the most oppressed community of
the world, their citizenship has been snatched through a law which asks
Rohingya Muslims to prove their citizenship since 1832. I have written a letter
to Myanmar Ambassador that if that law is applied to all communities in
Myanmar, the entire country would be empty, as hardly anyone would prove their citizenship,-
Dr. Khan, who is also Editor of English fortnightly The Milli Gazette.
-Roghinyas are stateless community, they can�t get education and job, and
even passport, over five lakh Rohingya Muslims are living outside the country.
Buddhist monks are leading killer mobs,- he said while addressing the
demonstrators.
-The persecution of Rohingyas started way back in the
1960s. In 1982, under a strange -law- they were stripped of their Burmese
citizenship unless they proved that their ancestors live in Burma way back in
1832. No such law exists anywhere in the world and most Burmese will lose their
citizenship if is applied to all in Burma. Rohingyas have lived in that part of
Burma continuously for around a thousand years and have ruled the area for centuries.
As a result of this persecution and maintaining curfew-like situation in
Rohingya towns and villages, close to a million have forces since to flee to
the neighbouring countries especially Bangladesh. The current wave of
persecution and ethnic cleansing spearheaded by Buddhist monks started in
February last year when murder, destruction and torching of thousands of houses
and community facilities and expulsion of Rohingyas from their villages started
with the connivance of the Burmese government. An estimated 150,000 Rohingyas
have since fled their country taking refuge in Bangladesh, India, Thailand and
Malaysia where they are living in pitiful conditions. Many have died while
attempting to flee in small boats.-
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind�s all India secretary
Mohammad Ahmad said, -we find it highly disappointing that supporters of the
on-going democracy process in Myanmar, led by the Nobel Laureate Ang San
SuuKyi, have refused to stand for these hapless citizens of Burma. We condemn
the inaction by the Myanmar government and ask upon our own government as well
as the international organisations and governments of all freedom-loving
nations to stand by the Rohingya people in their hour of need and pressurise
the Mayanmar junta to mend its ways and apply to the Rohingyas same principles
which are applicable to our citizens of Burma and hasten to repatriate the
Rohingya refugees who have fled their villages and towns and compensate them
adequately to enable them to start their lives once again with honour and
dignity and punish the Buddhisht supremacists whose intolerance is turning
Burma into a pariah state in the world.-
Addressing the gathering, SQR Ilyas, General Secretary
of Welfare Party of India said Myanmar is becoming a Palestine for Rohingya
Muslims. -As Palestinians have been removed from their homes and forced to
migrate, Rohingya Muslims are also being uprooted, they are being killed and
their homes demolished,- said Dr. Ilyas.
He expressed sorrow at the silence of Muslim nations
over the plight of Rohingya Muslims. -It is really sad that 52 Muslim countries
are not speaking on the issue, they are not pressing the United Nations to pass
even resolutions.- He asked Indian Government to respond to the tragedy as the
victims will ultimately migrate to India as it is neighboring country. -India
should press Myanmar government to stop atrocities against Rohingya Muslims,-
demanded Dr. Ilyas.
National Coordinator of Association for Protection of
Civil Rights, Akhlaque Ahmed termed the violence in Myanmar as the worst case
of human rights violation. He criticized world bodies of human rights for
remaining tightlipped over the plight of Rohingya Muslims.
He also expressed anguish over the silent of Myanmar�s democratic activist Aung
San Suu Kyi on this issue.
Markazi Jamiat-e-Ahle Hadees leader Shees Taimi also
condemned and expressed support for suppressed Rohingya Muslim minority.
Students Islamic Organisation of India all India secretary Khaliquz Zafar all
expressed his views and condemned the so called champions of human rights who
are silent over the violatio
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