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Summary Jamaat-e-Islami has appealed the world to stop atrocities on Muslims in Myanmar.
Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Syed Munawar Hasan, has appealed to international community, especially the Muslim rulers, to exert diplomatic pressure on the Burma government to stop its atrocities on Myanmar Muslims and protect their basic human rights.He said this in a press statement after a call on by a three member delegation of Myanmar Muslims at Mansoora which apprised him of the miserable plight of the Myanmar Muslims and the brutalities being perpetrated on them.Syed Munawar Hasan said that lakhs of Myanmar Muslims were lying at the borders of Burma and Bangladesh. They badly needed financial assistance. He said that all over the world, the Muslims were the being victimized but the plight of the Myanmar Muslims was most miserable.They were being tortured by the state machinery and the armed forces. But unfortunately, the world community, the media and the so called Human Rights bodies who raised hue and cry over the atrocities on the animals, were completely silent.He said that the JIP had set up a Relief fund for the Myanmar Muslims. He appealed to the well to do and the philanthropists to donate generously for the help of their brethren facing unprecedented atrocities.Earlier, the leader of the Delegation, Noor Husain Arakani, told the JI Ameer that the Myanmar Muslims were being forced to covert to Buddhism, and on their refusal, they were being subjected to untold brutalities.
