Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday wrote an open letter to the United Nations chief on humanitarian crisis in Rohingya people which has forced resident to fleeing neighbour contries to avoid genocide in Myanmar
Khan strongly condemned the UN for giving a deaf ear to the screams and a blind eye to the plight of the people facing state-sponsored ethnic cleansing.
The plight of the persecuted Rohingya Muslims has drawn international attention following the boat people crisis that erupted last month, in which thousands of impoverished Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants struggled desperately to reach Southeast Asian countries.
Rohingya complain of systematic discrimination and mistreatment by Myanmar’s Buddhist-majority government, which refuses to even recognise them as citizens.
Many have been killed in sectarian clashes with Buddhists in recent years, and hardline Buddhist monks have promoted legislation seen as targeting them.
Most of Myanmar’s 1.3 million Rohingya have no citizenship and are considered by the government to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. (Photon News / Agencies)
