“It really is outrageous. It is reaching a very dangerous point. The fact of the matter is that the international community is doing very little; the continuation of the oppression of the Rohingyas that is systematically not just by the military of the past, but the so-called democrats,” said Massoud Shadjareh, head of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, in a Wednesday interview with Press TV.
Reports say some 650 Rohingyas have been killed in the Rakhine state in the west of Myanmar in recent months. This is while 1,200 others are missing and 80,000 more have been displaced.
The Buddhist-majority government of Myanmar refuses to recognize Rohingyas, who, it claims, are not natives, and classifies them as illegal migrants though the Rohingyas are said to be Muslim descendants of Persian, Turkish, Bengali, and Pathan origin, who migrated to Myanmar as early as the eighth century.
“This is happening while the international community not only is doing nothing but all the sanctions against Myanmar government are being lifted … under the banner that they are becoming democratic and … this is really outrageous,” Shadjareh added.
The analyst also slammed the Muslim nations which are quiet and are not doing anything in order to prevent the massacre of Rohingyas.
He went on to say that, “With the exception of Iran, we have not heard any statement of any of the Muslim countries regarding these innocent civilians who happen to be Muslims.”
“You are seeing the call as a rise of nationalism and super-nationalism being used to bond a nation together at the cost and expense of ordinary innocent people who are being ethnically cleansed and everything is being done against them and they are being even denied their basic right of citizenship and that is the start of the whole thing and the international community is doing nothing,” Shadjareh concluded.
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