European Parliament Urges End to Discrimination against Rohingya Muslims

Brussels, 03 Syawal 1437/08 July 2016 (MINA) – The European Parliament (EP) voiced Thursday its deep concern about the plight of Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar.

The EP in a resolution said this ethno-religious Muslim minority “of about one million people is one of the world’s most persecuted minorities, officially stateless since the 1982 Burmese Citizenship Law and unwanted by the Myanmar authorities and by neighbouring countries.”

It called for regional and international mobilisation to provide them with urgent assistance in their extremely vulnerable situation, KUNA reported.

The EP urged the Myanmar authorities to, “as a matter of urgency, ensure free and unimpeded access to Rakhine State, where some 120,000 Rohingya remain in more than 80 internal displacement camps, for humanitarian actors, the United Nations, international human rights organisations, journalists and other international observers”.

The Myanmar government should condemn unequivocally all incitement to racial or religious hatred and implement specific measures and policies to prevent direct and indirect discrimination against the Rohingya in the future, adds the resolution. (T/R07/R01)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)