“The international community’s expectations of so-called rights organizations have not been met due to the silence of these organizations on the brutal killing of [the Rohingya] people of Myanmar,” Abbasali Mansouri said Saturday.
The lawmaker, who is a member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said the silence of these organizations on the Muslim killings in Myanmar has revealed their true nature for the people of the world.
“We see that the neither the United Nations, the Human Rights Council and nor other international organizations, are …reacting to this horrendous mass killing in order to stop it…this is while the Islamic Republic of Iran has repeatedly condemned such crimes in the past 33 years,” he noted.
According to recent reports, Muslims in Myanmar are suffering a human tragedy. Since June, hundreds of the nearly-one-million-strong Rohingya Muslim minority have been killed and tens of thousands of others have been displaced in the west of the country due to a wave of communal violence.
The government of Myanmar refuses to recognize Rohingyas, who it claims are not natives and classifies as illegal migrants, although the Rohingya are said to be Muslim descendants of Persian, Turkish, Bengali, and Pathan origin, who migrated to Myanmar as early as the 8th century.
Myanmar’s President Thein Sein said on Thursday, July 19, that the “only solution” to the plight of Rohingya Muslims is to send the country’s nearly a million Muslims — which is one of the world’s most persecuted minorities — to refugee camps run by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
However, the UN refugee agency has snubbed the idea of setting up refugee camps to accommodate the Rohingyas.
“We will send them away if any third country would accept them,” Sein added. “This is what we are thinking is the solution to the issue.”
Over the past two years, waves of ethnic Muslims have attempted to flee by boat in the face of systematic oppression by the Myanmar government.
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