(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - An analyst has slammed Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s approach to the country’s ongoing discrimination against its Rohingya Muslims, describing her narrative on the Muslim minority as “worrying.”“In fact her own [Suu Kyi’s] narrative on the Rohingya Muslims was in itself quite worrying in terms of some of the parallels that you see with nationalist movements, which are not particularly taking into account the rights of minorities,” Raza Kazim, from London-based NGO Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), said in an interview with Press TV on Sunday.He further expressed concern over the fact that people have turned a blind eye to the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in the Southeast Asian state, adding, “when you have a leader, a so-called democratic leader, whose attitude is more nationalistic than actually recognizing that there are people, all people that need to have rights, then that becomes a problem.”The comments were made in response to the reports which showed that extremist Buddhists have once again laid a brutal siege to areas where the Rohingya Muslims are residing in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, surrounding the Muslim areas of the state capital Sittwe as well as the city of Maungdaw.Myanmar’s army and police have been deployed to the region but they have ignored abuses of the Muslims by the Rakhine Buddhists. They also have raided several houses and abducted dozens of Muslims, including women, and there are reports of sexual abuse of the female detainees.The Buddhist-majority 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.According to reports, thousands of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims are living in dire conditions in refugee camps after government forces and Buddhist extremists started burning down their villages on August 10.The UN human rights authorities blame Myanmar’s security forces for the violence, who are believed to have been targeting the Muslims rather than bringing the ethnic violence to an end in the country. /129
source : Presstv
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30 September 2012
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An analyst has slammed Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s approach to the country’s ongoing discrimination against its Rohingya Muslims, describing her narrative on the Muslim minority as “worrying.”