5 hours agoNobel winners write to UN for Myanmar, remind Kosovo
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)The letter says Myanmar's leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner has managed to fail to consider the Muslim community equal. A large part of Nobel Prize-winning laureates have criticised Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto Mianmar leader, for her country's army [...]
A large part of Nobel Prize-winning laureates have criticised Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto Mianmar leader, for the fact that her country's army has dealt a bloody blow to Roingya's minority population, warning of a tragedy “constituted ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity”.
The open letter to the UN Security Council was written by a group of 23 activists, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and renowned activist Malala Yousafzai, warned that military offensive had killed hundreds of people, including children, raped women, burned houses and many civilians arrested arbitraryly, Periscope broadcast.
The approach by humanitarian aid organisations is almost entirely impossible, creating a terrible humanitarian crisis in an already extremely poor area”, says the letter, whose signatories include activist Yousafzai, the latest Nobel Prize for Peace winner.
Some international experts have warned of a possible genocide. There are all indications of recent tragedies that have experienced humanity as those of Rwanda, Darfur, Bosnia, Kosovo”, the UN Security Council reported.
If we don't act, people can starve to death if they don't get shot by”.
Roggya is a minority of about a million people who, despite living in this country for a long time, are treated as illegal immigrants and denied citizenship.
They have been persecuted for years by the government and nationalist Buddhists.
The recent bleeding is more deadly, as hundreds were killed in the clashes in 2012, and more than 100,000 were forced into poor camps.
Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent most of the last two decades under house arrest and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, won last November's elections, ending decades of rule of the military junta.
Nobel Peace Laureates, who signed the letter, include Jose Ramos-Hota, the former president of East Timor and opposition activist Jeenas, Tawacul Karman. It was also signed by former Italy Prime Minister Romano Prodi and British businessman Sir Richard Branson.
About 50,000 citizens of Myanmar have been sheltered in Bangladesh since October 9th 2016”, the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday./Periscopi/
