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Rohingya Massacre: MAPIM Urges UN to Send Troops to Myanmar

Rohingya Massacre: MAPIM Urges UN to Send Troops to Myanmar
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The MAPIM [Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organization] called on the United Nations to deploy peace troops immediately to Myanmar to halt the massacre which is now executed by the military targeting civilian Rohingya.

Rohingya Massacre: MAPIM Urges UN to Send Troops to Myanmar

According to MAPIM, 25 Rohingya villages were attacked and burned down and 500 civilians killed.

"The brutal oppression by thousands of Myanmar troops in the Maungdaw district and vicinity villages will see unimaginable bloodshed," MAPIM statement read.

The organization highlighted that the current massacre of Rohingyas "is worse than the 4 month military operation in October 2016 - March 2017."

"Within just less than a day the number of casualties has been shocking. It is a show of military strength to wipe out what is left of the Rohingya," the statement went on to read.

MAPIM said that UN troops had previously been deployed to safeguard Rohingyas, noting that defenseless Rohingya civilians should be protected from the violent and high handed treatment by the Myanmar military.

In its statement, the MAPIM called on the Prime Minister of Malaysia and the President of Indonesia "to apply political and diplomatic pressure on Myanmar to stop the ongoing massacre."

The organization noted that since Malaysia was a member of the UN Security Council, it should "call for an emergency seating to urge an immediate response from the UNSC," urging the Malaysian government "to step in and initiate moves at the diplomatic level to stop the killings."

Accordingly, the MAPIM said "the Prime Minister of Malaysia should voice out again Malaysia's position and condemnation on the atrocities and brutal attack on women, children and the old," calling him to "reinvigorate the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration to urge for an emergency seating of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers and call for Myanmar to comply to the unanimously adopted November 2012 declaration to commit to the protection of human rights for all the people in the ASEAN member states."

Source: MAPIM, Edited by website team

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