By TCN News,
Bhopal: The Social Democratic Party of India, (SDPI), while expressing shock and outrage at the mass execution of the Rohingyas, a Muslim ethnic minority group, in Myanmar (Burma) and the silence of the so-called civilised world which is least bothered about this kind of massacre, has urged the world community at large to intervene to bring peace to the battered community.
The Rohingyas, who have been stripped of their citizenship rights by the Myanmar government, are being butchered and driven out of their centuries old homeland allegedly to effect ethnic cleansing while the world at large is sitting as a mute spectator.
Mr. E. Aboobacker, the national president of SDPI, in a statement has expressed their utter disbelief, alarm and distress at the holocaust unleashed in Myanmar and the international community, media and even the Gulf/Muslim countries are looking the other way as if nothing horrendous is happening there. More than 20,000 Muslims have been killed this month in Myanmar by police, army and Buddhist extremists which has failed to curdle the hearts of even activists of human rights organisations, he pointed out.
Mr. Aboobacker said it is intriguing that the Noble Prize winner Ms Aung San Suu Kyi, who is on a world tour, has reportedly refused to even acknowledge that any violence did take place back home and not stopping at that, she even questioned if the Rohingyas minority indeed belongs to Burma?
He said Rohingyas minority has been living in Burma since last 8th century which is an established fact of history. This is most persecuted minority, according to Amnesty, was stripped out of their citizenship around 1962 by the Junta and now they are outsiders.
Ms Suu Kyi, herself much suffered the military persecution, is now their partner in crime. She is perfectly playing in the hands of the West, no wonder she has got hold of so many privileges hitherto withheld from her, Mr. Aboobacker opined .
Mr. Aboobacker demanded that India Government at the international level should take up the cause of Rohingyas and urge the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, (UNHCR), to step in to give them refugees status and usher them in refugee camps to save their skin from the onslaught of Buddhist extremists.
He regretted that the UN refugee agency has reportedly snubbed the idea of setting up refugee camps to accommodate the Rohingyas. The UN says decades of discrimination have left the Rohingyas stateless, with Myanmar implementing restrictions on their movements and withholding land rights, education and public services. For the past two years, waves of ethnic Muslims have attempted to flee the country in the face of systematic oppression by the Myanmar government.
Mr. Aboobacker moaned that the government of Myanmar has refused to recognize them claiming the Rohingyas are not native and has classified them as illegal migrants, although they have lived in Myanmar for centuries.