Muslims in Athens condemn genocide in Myanmar

TEHRAN(defapress)– Muslims residents in the Greek capital city of Athens together with non-Muslim Greek citizens staged huge rallies on Saturday and denounced killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

News ID: 65958

Date: 17 September 2017 - 12:25

Large number of protestors chanting slogans called for an 'immediate' and 'unconditional' halt of Muslims massacre in Myanmar.

The government of Myanmar began "clearance operations” against the country's Rohingya Muslims since August 25 under the pretext of insurgency.

According to media reports, the fleeing Rohingya said security forces shot indiscriminately, burned their homes and threatened them with death. The government says hundreds died, mostly Rohingya, and that 176 out of 471 Rohingya villages are now abandoned.

Myanmar's Muslim community has long faced discrimination in that country and is denied citizenship, despite the fact that many of them have lived there for generations.

The Greek protesters slammed silence of the international communities and that of certain Muslim countries towards the ongoing genocide of Muslims in Myanmar.

Noting that the massive killings in Myanmar are another example of the Zionist Regime's plots against the Islamic Ummah, the Greek protestors urged Islamic countries to sever ties with the Zionist entity.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on September 13 described violence against Rohingya as "ethnic cleansing” — a term that describes an organized effort to rid an area of an ethnic group by displacement, deportation or killing.

In another development, the Amnesty International said one day later (Thursday) that it has evidence of an "orchestrated campaign of systematic burnings” by Myanmar's security forces targeting dozens of Rohingya villages over the past three weeks.

Moreover, Iran's Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in an address on September 12 urged world Muslim states to take 'practical measures' to end the genocide in Myanmar.

'The Muslim countries should put more political and economic pressures' on the government of Myanmar, Ayatollah Khamenei stressed.