During recent weeks anti-Muslim campaigns have been getting stronger in Burma. The aggression is targeted, coordinated, and premeditated against the Rohingya and Muslim population of Myanmar.

President Thein Sein’s government remains complicit and has ignored the growing anti-Muslim campaigns.

NGO’s within Myanmar have been reporting of a staggering increase in anti-Islamic and anti-Rohingya propaganda, protests and hate speeches. They say government security personnel are not protecting the Muslims. According to reliable sources the killing, burning and looting is still going on in Meiktila as well as other towns and villages.

Tun Khin, the President of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation in the UK (BROUK) said, “It is very clear that security forces are just watching while the mobs are destroying and burning Muslim’s houses. Cleansing of Muslims in Burma is happening under the noses of the international community. These are not communal clashes; this is not equal sides fighting.”

The international community, United Nations, European Union and ASEAN countries are urged to put effective pressure on the Burmese regime to stop the killings and violence against Muslims in Burma, to restore peace and security in the region and to allow the international community and NGOs to provide immediate humanitarian assistance to the victims.

Letter published in the Daily News on Friday, 12 April 2013

Darul Ihsan Media Desk