Pakistan lawmakers rap Myanmar violence

During a Tuesday session of the upper house of the parliament (Senate), the lawmakers urged the international community to make further efforts to halt the massacre of Muslims in the Asian country.

They said the UN and other international organizations are not taking the issue seriously and that they are “behaving like silent spectators.”

The lawmakers called on the Pakistani government to lodge its protest over the killings to the United Nations.

On Friday, hundreds of Pakistanis took to the streets of Baluchistan’s provincial capital of Quetta to condemn the brutalities of the Myanmar government against the Rohingya Muslims.

The UN says decades of discrimination have left the Rohingyas stateless, with Myanmar implementing restrictions on their movement and withholding land rights, education and public services.

The government of Myanmar refuses to recognize Rohingyas, claiming they are not natives of the country. But Rohingyas say they migrated to Myanmar as early as the 8th century.

Reports say many Rohingya Muslims have been killed since clashes began in the western state of Rakhine, and many others are missing or have become displaced.

Activists say the UN must immediately provide humanitarian relief to the Rohingya refugees and tell the Myanmar government to stop the massacres and persecution of Muslims.

NK/DB/PKH

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