IINA, 9 Aag 2012
Jeddah: The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu expressed disappointment over the inaction of the international community to stop the massacres, injustice and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Myanmar government against Rohingya Muslims in the Arakan region.
In his speech at the extraordinary meeting of the OIC Executive Committee on this issue on Sunday, Ihsanoglu explained the steps being taken by OIC to protect Muslim minority in Myanmar.
The OIC Secretary General also proposed that setting up of an Islamic fact-finding committee on the events should be considered, and that a report in that regard should be submitted to the next ministerial conference.
Jeddah: The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu expressed disappointment over the inaction of the international community to stop the massacres, injustice and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Myanmar government against Rohingya Muslims in the Arakan region.
In his speech at the extraordinary meeting of the OIC Executive Committee on this issue on Sunday, Ihsanoglu explained the steps being taken by OIC to protect Muslim minority in Myanmar.
He said
that the neglect of the rights of Rohingyas by the international community and
the lack of unity among Rohingya organizations spurred the OIC to exert earnest
efforts to unite these organizations for the first time at the OIC headquarters
in May 2011.
The OIC
General Secretariat had directed its offices at the United Nations in New York
to coordinate with its member states which are also non-permanent members of the
UN Security Council (Azerbaijan, Morocco, Pakistan and Togo) to urge the Council
to consider the plight of the Rohingyan minorities, he noted.
The
secretary general condemned the continued repression and ethnically-motivated
oppression of the Rohingyan Muslims as well as to demand restoration of their
legitimate rights and request member states, particularly those with
representation with the Myanmar government, to do all within their means to
convince the Myanmar government to repeal the arbitrary 1982 Citizenship Law
which led to withdrawal of citizenship from Rohingyan Muslims.
Ihsanoglu also urged countries, especially Myanmar’s neighboring countries, as well as Islamic organizations and bodies to provide urgent assistance to the Rohingyan Muslims.
Ihsanoglu also urged countries, especially Myanmar’s neighboring countries, as well as Islamic organizations and bodies to provide urgent assistance to the Rohingyan Muslims.
He
proposed that the Islamic Group in Geneva should dispatch and urgent request to
the Human Rights Council to send a fact-finding mission to investigate the
massive violation perpetrated against the Muslims inhabitants of Arakan.
The OIC Secretary General also proposed that setting up of an Islamic fact-finding committee on the events should be considered, and that a report in that regard should be submitted to the next ministerial conference.
He also
proposed that an Islamic ministerial contact group should be established to find
a just radical solution to this pending issue by contacting all relevant
parties, including the government of Myanmar, as well as international and
regional organizations and bodies.
Ihsanoglu called on the OIC Independent Permanent Human Rights
Commission to consider the issue at its next session to be held in Turkey at the
end of August.
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