Arakan News Agency
The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party in the southern city of Karachi on Sunday organized a march to denounce the Myanmar army’s massacres of Rohingya Muslims in the western province of Arakan, the Anadolu correspondent said.
Thousands of people took part in the march, which took place at the “Mohammed Ali Jannah” monument and ended at the city’s Tibet Center.
Siraj ul-Haq, the leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami (the largest religious political party / opposition), teleconference and addressed the crowd.
In his speech, Siraj ul-Haq called on world leaders to put an end to the genocide against Arakan Muslims.Demonstrators also held placards reading “Stop the Genocide in Arakan” and carried pictures of Muslim victims killed in Arakan.On Saturday, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry summoned the Myanmar ambassador to Islamabad, Win Myint, to protest against the violence practiced by the Myanmar army against the Rohingya Muslims in Arakan province.Since August 25, the Myanmar army has committed genocide against the Muslim minority of the Rohingya in the western province.There is no clear statistics on the victims of the genocide, but Rohingya human rights activist Imran al-Arakani said in an interview with Anadolu that they had identified 7,500 people killed and 6,541 wounded from Rohingya since the beginning of the last genocide campaign until Wednesday (September 6).On Saturday, UNHCR estimated the number of Rohingyas fleeing Arakan to Bangladesh since the outbreak of violence by 290,000 people.
