Iran Calls For Halt to Massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar

Rasa - Iranian Health Minister Seyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi urged the international community to take practical steps to put an immediate end to the ongoing Genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

News ID: 433038

Date: 11 October 2017 - 17:09

RNA - “Let me express my special tribute to all the people who have lost their lives as the result of extremism and terrorism, particularly the innocent victims of Syria and Yemen and recently in the Rohingya in Mynmar,” he said.

"We must also take practical steps to stop violence against Rohingya minority," Qazizadeh Hashemi added.

The Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar have long been subjected to discrimination in Buddhist-majority country, which denies them citizenship.

Myanmar's government regards them as illegal migrants from Bangladesh, even if they have lived in the country for generations.

Refugee camps near Bangladesh's border with Myanmar already had about 300,000 Rohingya before the upsurge in violence last month and are now overwhelmed.

Tens of thousands of new arrivals have nowhere to shelter from monsoon rains.

Those flocking into Bangladesh have given harrowing accounts of killings, rape and arson by Myanmar's army. Myanmar authorities deny any wrongdoing.

Most have walked for days and the UN says many are sick, exhausted and in desperate need of shelter.

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