Arakan News Agency
ISLAMABAD: Taking strong notice of inhuman attitude towards Rohingya Muslims, legislators in the Upper House of parliament on Monday asked the government to raise the issue with the United Nation.
They suggested that the issue should be raised at the UN Security Council and its Human Rights Council against genocide of Rohingya Muslims. The senators strongly criticised the Myanmar government for the genocide of the most prosecuted minority of Rohingya Muslims as well as the world community for acting as a silent spectator.
The House began debate on a call attention notice moved by Mohsin Leghari, and later decided to pass a unanimous resolution to convey its concern to the international community and express solidarity with the Rohingya Muslims. The House will pass the resolution today (Tuesday) and a copy will also be sent to United Nations.
Taking part in the debate, opposition leader Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan lashed out at the Muslim world for its silence over the atrocities against Rohingya Muslims. “We must accept the facts. There is no Muslim Ummah at all… we will pass the resolution but nothing will happen, the Rohingya Muslims will continue to be prosecuted but the Muslim Ummah will not come for their rescue,” he stated angrily.
Apparently pointing towards the Arab League who supported Saudi Arabia against Yemen, he pointed out that Iraq was invaded and Afghanistan was attacked but there was no Muslim Ummah to raise its voice but they joined hands with Saudi Arabia because the kingdom is an ally of the US.
“We, instead of calling the Muslim Ummah, must urged the international human rights body to look into the matter on humanitarian grounds”, he said and endorsed the MQM’s Barrister Saif’s suggestion to invoke the UN Security Council and its Human Rights Council.
Earlier, Barrister Saif stated that mere passing a resolution and rhetoric statements would not serve the purpose, adding that the government should instruct the Foreign Office to raise the issue under the UN’s Convention against Racial Discrimination and Convention Against Torture at the international level.
He further said that any member country could take the issue in UN General Assembly and Security Council under Chapter 7 of the United Nations. He pointed out that Rohingya Muslims were not the only community being prosecuted but Christians in the North are also being subjected to the discrimination. He said that the European Union came and took up the issue at the UN by tabling a resolution but not a single Muslim country is ready to take this initiative.
Source : dailytimes
