Over 50,000 Rohingya Muslims have been massacred in Burma as tensions flared on June 3 and brutal killings and arrests of Muslims continued, however the international community, human rights organizations and United Nations have done nothing stop this grave injustice.
Talking to sources on Sunday, Maulana Abdul Qudoos, a Pakistani scholar of Burmese origin, currently residing in Karachi said that all mosques and seminaries in the Arakan province of Burma have been shut down by the government and thousands of innocent Muslims have been massacred during the recent surge of violence in Burma. He said that his brother and several members of his family have been arrested by the provincial government.
“The Mugh sect of Buddhists, who are in power in the Arakan province, are involved in the killing and arrests of Muslims,” Abdul Qudoos said, adding that the same sect in the Burma army had inflicted cruelties on Muslims and are still actively trying to kill all Muslims in Burma.
He said that after the 2010 elections, Muslims were given basic rights to travel from one province to another, from one city to another and to follow Islamic rituals openly. The Maulana said that Muslims in Arakan started peacefully protesting against the killing of Muslims in other provinces which caused the Mugh sect to start taking Muslims to task.
He said that more than 2,500 small and big seminaries and thousands of mosques had been closed down by the government, adding that Muslims are not allowed to go to mosques to offer prayers and Taraveeh. He said that the government even arrested Muslims on charges of praying in mosques. He pleaded to the international community, human rights organizations, UN, US and Muslim countries to help and stop the massacre of Muslims of Burma.