Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 14-09-2017
The Jamiatul Ulama South Africa has urged people come out it numbers and support the #SA4Rohingya protest action at the Burmese embassy in Pretoria on Friday against the atrocities being inflicted upon Rohingya Muslims by Myanmar.
According to the United Nations (UN) at least 370,000 of Myanmar’s minority Rohingya population have fled the country’s western state of Rakhine into neighbouring Bangladesh in recent weeks.
The violence began on August 25, after Rohingya fighters attacked police posts, prompting a military crackdown.
Secretary General of the Jamiatul Ulama Ml Ebrahim Bham says the protest action at the embassy will hopefully put pressure on officials and the world to end the crisis.
“I feel that together with our prayers, our salaat-ul-Hajaat (need), together with whatever remembrance of Allah we are making, it is not contrary to be able to do some form of activism to try to bring this to the attention of the world and put some pressure.”
Ml Bham says there are many organisation that is supporting the protest action.
“We humbly request everyone to make their voices heard on this matter and Insha’Allah it will become a means of alleviating of the oppression that is happening upon our Muslim brothers and sisters.”
Gross human rights violations of the Rohingya have been recorded since 1978.
They have been denied their rights to education, land, and freedom of movement, employment and to marry without state permission and are also subjected to both forced labour and forced sterilisation.
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