As Burmese Rohingya bleed, immigrants in Karachi share grief
August 5, 2012 § Leave a Comment
As the world rallies in favour of non-violence and mobilises against unjust oppression, a small community in Pakistan’s largest city struggles to raise its voice: these are Karachi’s Rohingya Muslims – a small band of immigrants who managed to escape from the Burmese oppression when the time was right. Today, they helplessly look upon the citizens of the world for a gleam of hope as their kith and kin are…
Rohingya People have been persecuted by Burmese Military dictators and ignored completely since the 1940s by India / East Pakistan / Bangladesh.Current Bengali policy is to prevent aid reaching Rohingya people who live tenuously in the Westernmost region of Burma near the Bangladesh border. An urgent callout for Bangladesh to actively enable humanitarian aid shipments via that country. Calling also for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese Government to uphold the UN Charter of Human Rights in respect of all its indigenous and ethnic peoples as well as all citizens.
