Pakistan Patriot Forum on Thursday lit the candles in Multan Press Club to express solidarity with the Muslims of Myanmar. A large number of civil society member under the leadership of Hamza Shahid Lodhi lit the candles. It was also joined by Niaz Gul Nasir, its central president, Faisal Kareem Sheikh Secretary General and others.
They vehemently condemned the genocide of Muslims in different cities of Myanmar (Burma), and accused the Burmese military of killing, rape and mass arrests targeting Rohingya Muslims during recent sectarian violence in Western Burma, where the bloodshed in Rakhin state between Muslim Rohingya and largely Buddhist communities erupted.
They said that hundreds of Muslim Rohingya men and boys had been detained in mass arrests since June. Their whereabouts are, as yet, unknown. They appealed to UNO to intervene to save the Muslim minority as Burmese government initially failed to take measures to stop the flare up of violence between ethnic Rakhine Burmese and Rohingya Muslims which began in June. The violence, which has left many dead and led to the displacement of more than 100,000 people, has also focused new attention on the plight of about one million members of the Rohingya minority, who live in Burma but are not accepted as citizens there, or in neighbouring Bangladesh.