Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Friday staged a protest demonstration against the continuing cleansing of Muslims in Myanmar by Buddhists and demanded of the UN to step up to protect the religious minority from communal violence. The JI activists held a stationary demonstration to protest the Muslims extermination by the majority Buddhists in Myanmar, outside Karachi Press Club.
Addressing the protestors, chief of JI Karachi Chapter, Muhammad Hussain Mahenti, invited the UN's attention towards the human tragedy in Myanmar. He asked the world body to step up and intervene to protect the minority Muslims lives and property. "The UN should undertake its plan to stop the Muslims carnage in Myanmar," he said. He called the communal violence against Muslims a 'conspiracy,' vowing his party denounce the genocide of its faith followers.
Calling the Myanmar government's crackdown against Muslims and the forcible closures of mosques and religious schools during the communal violence as 'unjustified', he said his party resents such anti-minority official acts. He also called upon Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) to prepare a plan to supply basic relief goods to the violence-hit people taking refuge at Bangladesh-Myanmar border. He said the OIC should also send its team of observers to ascertain the condition of communal violence-plagued Muslims in affected areas of Myanmar. Mehanati pointed out that JI had sent consignment of relief goods including ration and medicines for the affected Muslim families sheltering on Bangladesh border and other areas of Myanmar.