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Intl. community accommodating genocide in Myanmar: Activist

Thursday, 04 January 2018 1:40 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 04 January 2018 1:43 PM ]

This file photo taken on November 11, 2017 shows Rohingya Muslim refugees sailing a makeshift raft made from jerry cans and bamboo across the Naf River into Bangladesh at Sabrang, Teknaf district. (Photo by AFP)

The international community is refusing to do something tangible to stop ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Muslim minority in Myanmar, says a commentator.

The international community is “actually accommodating it (ethnic cleansing) by the fact that it is doing nothing whatsoever in challenging and stopping Myanmar government from implementing this barbaric policy” against the Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, Massoud Shadjareh told Press TV on Thursday.

The head of the Islamic Human Rights Commission also proposed that the only way forward is putting real pressure on Myanmar government and the start for that will be the Security Council referring the Myanmar government to the International Court of Justice.

More than 655,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled the predominantly-Buddhist Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh since August 2017.

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