HYDERABAD: Activists of political and religious parties and civil society organisations continued protests in several Sindh towns against massacre and subsequent mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

In Hyderabad, activists of various political and religious parties and civil society organisations converged on the local press club carrying banners and party flags and shouting vociferous slogans “Shame on Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi; shame on UN; shame on heads of all Muslims states; shame on all champions of human rights.”

Separate processions were also taken out by the Tando Mohammad Khan chapter of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Anjuman Ghausia Rizvia Pakistan, MK Foundation and other civil society organisations.

The leaders appealed to rulers of all Muslim countries to get united to fight for the protection of innocent and oppressed Muslims of Myanmar who were being killed and driven out of their homes.

They said that Rohingya girls and women were being dishonoured and subjected to rape, children and old men were being cut into pieces and their bodies being thrown into fire only because they were Muslims.

They said the Myanmar government was involved in the massacre of Muslims but international human rights organisations and heads of Muslim states remained silent over the atrocities.

They said that thousands of Rohingya Muslims were forced to live in subhuman conditions on Bangladesh borders where they were deprived of all basic facilities and they were not even provided proper camps to live in.

They demanded the Pakistan government should immediately send its soldiers to Myanmar to save the persecuted Muslims and play its role in stopping atrocities and restoring sustainable peace and harmony in their area.

SUKKUR: Activists of Tanzeem-i-Islami held a protest in front of Sukkur press club against the killings of Muslims in Myanmar.

In Jacobabad, Tanzeem Islahul Fuqara-i-Hussainia took out a rally from Husaini Mosque. Carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans against Myanmar government, America and Israel, the protesters marched on different roads of the city before reaching the press club where they held a sit-in, suspending vehicular traffic for some time.

The protesters’ leaders said on the occasion that thousands of innocent Muslims, including women, children and the elderly were being killed mercilessly in Myanmar by government forces and violent Buddhist mobs.

Girls and women were being disgraced but the United Nations and other international organisations of human rights were silent over the situation, they regretted.

BADIN: Activists of Jamaat-i-Islami including a large number of women took out a rally and staged a demonstration to register protest against killings of Muslims in Myanmar.

Speaking to the protesters outside the Badin press club, the JI leaders demanded the federal government should put pressure on the Myanmar government by severing diplomatic ties to stop it from committing inhuman atrocities with innocent Muslims.

Members of civil society and political parties also staged protests in Matli, Tando Bago and other towns of the district to record their protest in favour of Myanmar Muslims.

Published in Dawn, September 11th, 2017