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Mainstream, VOL L, No 49, November 24, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi and Plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims

Saturday 1 December 2012

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This letter was sent to us when Aung San Suu Kyi was in India but could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons.

Two persons died in police firing on a rally protesting against the Burmese Government’s genocidal ethnic cleansing campaign that killed and displaced hundreds and thousands of Rohingya Muslims. Now that Myanmar’s Opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is in India and meeting External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, India, as a neighbour and signatory of the International Human Rights covenants, should raise the matter with her and seek urgent remedial, rehabilitation actions to rectify the situation in Myanmar through her intervention. India has a duty to raise human rights issues with friendly neighbouring countries to amicably solve the problems now engaging world attention and condemnation.

Aung San Suu Kyi should not forget how the world stood by her for decades in her fight for her personal human rights. She owes it to the world and to her own people to give human rights the first and foremost priority in her quest to seek world approval of her country joining the free and democratic international community.

Ghulam Muhammed
IDRAAK, Mumbai

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