Rohingya Muslims continue to suffer amid Muslim World's silence
The Muslim world is silent over one of largest humanitarian crises of the decade
LAHORE (Web Desk/Dunya News) – The thousands of Rohingya Muslims are forced to flee the ethnic cleansing and worst form of persecution in their homeland Myanmar, after which, scores are still on boats looking for refuge on land.
Probably one of the largest humanitarian crises in the 21st century, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims continue to be deprived of basic facilities to survive as majority of them are stateless after Myanmar and its largely Buddhist population refuse to recognize them as fellow citizens.
The crisis has become prominent only after international rights bodies and media brought it to surface. Only today, United States (US) president Obama called for end of discrimination and urged the Myanmar authorities to recognize all Rohingya Muslims as Myanmar citizens.
The American actor Matt Dillon is one of the prominent media figures who have also come forward to put spotlight on the crisis. Dillon visited the camp of refugees and described their condition as “heartbreaking”.
He said “"No one should have to live like this, people are really suffering".
Amid this massive humanitarian tragedy, the Muslim World continues to look the other way as no substantial measure from global Islamic bodies including the Arab World and the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) has been seen.
Here is a report by Dunya News aired on its programme Nuqta-e-Nazr
Veteran journalist and prominent media personality Mujibur Rehman Shami slammed leaders of the Muslim World and called for their attention into the issue.“There are over a billion Muslims in the world having dozens of countries”, he said, calling for Muslim countries to accept Rohingya as refugees into their lands.
The Executive Secretary of the Rakhine State – the home state for over 700,000 Rohingyas – is quoted by media to have blamed the victims by saying:
“I’m afraid and I’m worried. Some people, they don’t follow our program and they don’t — they don’t — they are refusing to apply citizenship. So, that’s why this is a big problem.”
