Arakan News Agency
Escalated crisis of Muslims of Burma in recent time because of the international silence on the humanitarian crimes committed against them by the government of that country, which is dominated Buddhist, Muslims have found a narrowing terrible suppression and continuous persecutions by burning down their homes also forced displacing them within their country or to neighboring countries.
Muslims in Burma only represent about 20% percent ratio from 50 million people population, and half of Muslims living in Muslim-majority Arakan province, where the percentage of Muslims is 75 percent among others are Buddhist.
Arakan have been occupied in 1784 by Burmese Buddhist King (Bodabaa), annexation of territory to Burma by the fear of the spread of Islam in the region and wreaked in the land of corruption, which destroyed much of the Islamic monuments from mosques and schools, and killed scholars and preachers, and Burmese Buddhists continued the persecution of Muslims by looting of their property during their occupation of 40 years, the massacres continue to this day, under international silence and negative protest from Arab and Muslim countries of the world.
According to the facts the oppression suffered by Muslims in Burma over the years which includes burning of entire villages or killing of entire families, chasing even those who managed to escape in the woods or to the beaches to escape by sea, it is reported many of killed victims are buried in the muddy places near sea.
Rohingya activist Mohammed Noorullah Habib describes tragic situation of Muslims in Burma, saying “the Muslim villages suffers repeated extensive arrests and the presence of a considerable number of dead bodies on the banks of the River (NAF) killed by sharp objects later these dead bodies were identified to be arrested by the Burmese authorities earlier. “
For its part, the United Nations and the organizations like “Doctors without Borders” announced that ten of their staff were arrested in western Burma, where tension remains sharply high after the bloody acts of violence against Muslims.
OIC has called upon Muslims of the international community to take action to stop Buddhist hate crimes against the Muslim minority, said in a statement: «We follow the suffering of the Muslims in the Arakan province in Burma, they have suffered killing, displacement and persecution for a long time in addition to the destruction of their homes, property and mosques, at the hands of the group Buddhist religious extremist, and with great regret the government stand by the Buddhist of their heinous massacres escalating day after day in the country where you cannot count the number of people killed in their attacks.
He added: «The time has come for Western powers interested in democracy on ground to remember the tragedy of the thousands of Muslims situated in the state of Arakan; these Muslims has become the victims of ethnic tensions which have killed thousands of them.
