Br. Shaukhat Ali gave an informative speech about the plight of the Rohingya Muslims in Burma. Below are excerpts from his speech. Today in Burma, the Arakan Muslims, especially the Rohingya people, are the worst victims of a pre-planned controlled genocide, ethnic cleansing and massive human rights. These violations are from the hands of the Burmese government security forces and law enforcing agencies with the active collaboration and cooperation of extremist, racist and xenophobic Rakhine Buddhist.
Yet, there is a very systematic organized, concerted and criminal design by the Burmese Buddhist authorities, which can appropriately be termed as ethnic cleansing, genocide and socio-cultural degradation of the Rohingya. If the process of gross violations of human rights against the Rohingya are allowed to continue there won’t be a single Rohingya left in the next fifty years. Since 1999, the USA has designated Burma as a ‘Country of Particular Concern’…It is high time that the world body take appropriate measures so that the basic human rights of the Rohingya people are protected and guaranteed under UN supervision. I would like to fervently appeal to all brothers and sisters to provide their moral support to the cause of the suffering Muslim Rohingyas of Burma and to advocate their rightful citizenship status in Burma by all available peaceful means. We do hope that you all will do the best level within your capacity for those suffering humanity.
Haber: Risâle Tâlim