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Myanmar must stop violence against Muslims, rights group says
Wednesday | 21/08/2013 - 01:32 PM
Myanmar must stop violence against Muslims, rights group says

Rohingya News Agency-(Press Tv): ‎Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) published a report on Tuesday condemning the widespread violence against Muslims of Myanmar.

The report said that the situation may appear calm at present but “the brazen nature of these crimes and the widespread culture of impunity, in which these massacres occur, form deeply troubling preconditions that make such crimes very likely to continue.”

"If these conditions go unaddressed, Burma may very well face countrywide violence on a catastrophic level, including potential crimes against humanity and/or genocide," PHR said, using the country's former name.

The report, which detailed many of the violent events that have taken place across country over the past two years, also said there was evidence showing the government’s role in violence against Muslims in Myanmar.

“Consistent patterns of behavior by government entities, and consistent patterns of abuse, may imply that police or military were following orders from their superiors, thus suggesting a government role in the abuses.”

The violence that originally targeted Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar is beginning to spread to other parts of the country, where Muslims who have been granted citizenship are now being attacked, according to the website Myanmarmuslims.org.

About 800,000 Rohingyas in the western state of Rakhine are deprived of citizenship rights due to the policy of discrimination that has denied them the right of citizenship and made them vulnerable to acts of violence and persecution, expulsion, and displacement.

The Myanmar government has so far refused to extricate the stateless Rohingyas from their citizenship limbo, despite international pressure to give them a legal status.

Rohingya Muslims have faced torture, neglect, and repression in Myanmar for many years.

Hundreds of Rohingyas are believed to have been killed and thousands displaced in recent attacks by extremists who call themselves Buddhists.

The extremists frequently attack Rohingyas and have set fire to their homes in several villages in Rakhine. Myanmar army forces allegedly provided the fanatics containers of petrol for torching the houses of Muslim villagers, who were then forced to flee.

Myanmar’s government has been accused of failing to protect the Muslim minority. Rohingyas are said to be Muslim descendants of Persian, Turkish, Bengali, and Pathan origin, who migrated to Myanmar as early as the 8th century.

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have issued separate statements, calling on Myanmar to take action to protect the Rohingya Muslim population against extremists.




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