Saqib Ali Haidri
Muzaffarabad: A protest demonstration followed by a rally against the killing of Muslims in Myanmar was held under the aegis of Pasban e Hurriyat here on Tuesday.
Large number of people including children and women gathered at Burhan Muzaffar Wani Shaheed Chowk. The protesters carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans rued the silence of United Nations and international community over the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Myanmar. The participants of the rally raised high-pitches slogans against Myanmar Army and Prime Minister Aung San Suu Kyi for their brutal acts against Rohingyan Muslims.
Chairman Pasban e Hurriyat Uzair Ahmed Ghazali, Commander Hizb ul Mujahideen Muhammad Asghar Rasool, Hurriyat leader Mushtaq ul Islam, Jamat e Islami leader Qazi Shahid, PPP’s Shaukat Javed Mir, Manzoor Ahmed Sheikh, Tanzeer Iqbal and many other participants were also present on the occasion. Speakers on the occasion urged Muslim Umma to take practical steps to help-stop genocide of Burmese Muslims.
They also asked the UN to help stop the brutalities being committed by the government of Burma on the defenseless Rohingya Muslims. While addressing to rally, Shaukat Javed Mir said,” Muslims of Burma are the most oppressed minority who don’t have any identity and country”. Asghar Rasool and Mushtaq ul Islam said that Rohingya Muslims became victims of their Army, world must help them. Chairman Pasban e Hurriyat Uzair Ghazali said that thousands of Muslim women were arrested and raped by beastly forces of Myanmar. “Innocent people are being killed callously, children are beheaded and even people are being burnt alive by the fascist armyâ€, he said.
He said,” it is core responsibility of all Muslim countries to protect Muslims around the globe, OIC should fulfill its responsibility on the issues of Kashmir, Burma and Palestine”. Under these terrible circumstances speakers said that for subjugated nations there was no other way but to fight instead of living a miserable life. Protestors also demanded people and the government of Pakistanis to stand with Rohingya Muslims and play their due role to mitigate the unending sufferings of Burmese people who were facing worst kind of genocide and state terrorism.
Pertinently, fears of systematic genocide and ethnic cleansing of Rohingya civilians in Myanmar were growing after eyewitness accounts emerged of children being beheaded and people burned alive.
Prime Minister Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel peace laureate has faced international condemnation for failing to address ongoing rights abuses of the Muslim minority and for online statements by her “information committee†that have been accused of inflaming public sentiment against the wider Rohingya population and aid workers in the country.
Aung San Suu Kyi hits a new low with this potentially deadly inflammatory propaganda. Leadership failure,” Phelim Kine, a deputy director of the Asia division of Human Rights Watch, said on Twitter.