In a statement released on Wednesday, the Basij Organization condemned the violence and said,” The disgraceful silence of the human rights and international organizations and those [countries] who claim to be advocates of human rights has aggravated the genocide tragedy in Myanmar.”
The statement described Myanmar’s massacre of Muslims as a “clear example of genocide and crime against humanity” and deplored the West and international organizations’ inaction toward the issue as lamentable.
Western countries, who seek to overthrow legitimate governments in the Middle East and accuse the Syrian government of violating human rights, have taken the mask off their hypocritical faces by remaining silent on Myanmar’s crimes, the statement added.
The statement said that the Iranian nation sympathized with Myanmar Muslims, urging the Iranian Foreign Ministry to seriously pursue the Myanmar violence via international channels.
According to recent reports, Muslims in Myanmar are in a tragic human plight. Reports say 650 of nearly one million Rohingya Muslims have been killed as of June 28 during clashes in the western region of Rakhine. This is while 1,200 others are missing and 80,000 more have been displaced.
The UN has described Rohingya Muslims as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
They are deprived of basic rights including education and employment and are subject to forced labor, extortion and other coercive measures.
The government of Myanmar refuses to recognize Rohingyas, who it claims are not natives and classifies them as illegal migrants, although they have lived in the country for generations.
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