KABUL (SW): Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on Sunday joined the calls for stopping the brazen killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar (Burma) that has left this left this marginalized community frightened and stranded in the region.
The Kabul government asked the United Nations and the international community to take immediate and efficient measures to stop the bloodshed.
“Islamic Republic of Afghanistan strongly denounces the sectarian violence against Muslims in Burma, as a result of which a large number of innocent people have been killed,” a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
The statement further added that the Afghanistan considered the brutal torture and killing of defenseless and oppressed people, including women, children and the elderly as inhuman and contrary to the values of human rights.
“Therefore, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan expresses its deep sympathies to the victims’ families, people who are tortured and those who have been displaced as a result of this violence from their home country, as well as asks the United Nation, international human rights organizations and the world to exert their efforts to put an end to this crimes against humanity and assist with those who are threatened by the violence,” the statement added.
According to the UN, more than 25,000 people, including many Rohingya and economic migrants from Bangladesh, made the dangerous sea journey south from the Bay of Bengal between January and March this year.
An estimated 1.3 million Rohingya scratch out an existence in Rakhine, one of Myanmar’s poorest states — tens of thousands are trapped in displacement camps, with conditions outside often worse.
The government of Burma does not recognise its 1.1 million Rohingya as citizens, rendering them effectively stateless. Almost 140,000 were displaced in deadly clashes with Buddhists in the country’s western Rakhine state in 2012.
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