IPCC Condemns Violence Against Muslims In Myanmar

Tehran, Oct 30, IRNA – The Islamic Propagation Coordination Council (IPCC), in a statement released here on Monday, condemned new waves of violence and genocide of Muslims in Myanmar. “While arrogant powers’ insult against Islam's revered Prophet Muhammad (P), continues in the West, a new wave of genocide of Muslims by the extremist Budhist monks in Myanmar is cause for serious concern.” The statement asserted that the US, the UK and the Zionist regime are provoking the current waves of Islamophobia in the world in order to deviate the Muslim world mass opinion from the Palestinian cause and to force the Muslims to abandon their faith.” “Myanmar government should be more responsible toward its humane obligations and react to the inhumane crimes of extremist Buddhists against the Muslim minority, there.” It concluded that international courts of justice and international organizations should act more dynamic and pursue those behind genocide of Muslims in Myanmar. Iran has called on the international community and the government of Myanmar to find a proper solution to the current crisis in the Southeast Asian country to protect the basic rights of the Muslim minority. The Iranian Foreign Ministry has expressed strong concern over renewed conflict between different ethnic groups in Myanmar, and underlined the necessity for the settlement of ethnic conflicts in the country. The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast, too, has underlined that Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to assist Myanmar government to basically solve ethnic and religious conflicts in that country. Iran hopes that Myanmar government actions cause return of sustainable peace and co-existence between Muslim and Buddhist societies in Myanmar as well as establishment of tranquility in the region. The silence of the human rights organizations towards abuses against the Rohingya Muslims has emboldened the extremist Buddhists and Myanmar's government forces. The Buddhist-majority government of Myanmar refuses to recognize Rohingyas and has classified them as illegal migrants, even though the Rohingyas are said to be Muslim descendants of Persian, Turkish, Bengali, and Pathan origin who migrated to Myanmar as early as the 8th century. According to reports, thousands of Myanmarese Rohingya Muslims are living in dire conditions in refugee camps ever since government forces and Buddhist extremists started burning down their villages on August 10. Reports say some 650 Rohingyas have been killed in the Rakhine State in the West of the country in recent months. This is while 1,200 others are missing and 80,000 more have been displaced. Anti-Islamic actions are not limited to Myanmar and West seemed to be the source of ongoing Islamophobia. Recently, a French weekly Charlie Hebdo published cartoons of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). The publication of the offensive cartoons came amid widespread outrage over a US-made film that insults the prophet of Islam./end