ISLAMABAD: Former President of Pakistan and head of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Asif Ali Zardari has condemned the atrocities against Rohingya Muslims as “barbaric and unacceptable”, and asked the UN to immediately intervene to end the ongoing genocide of the Rohingyas.
“No words are strong enough to condemn the atrocities against the Rohingya Muslims and the international community must wake up to its responsibility,” he said in a statement on Tuesday. He warned that the genocide and massacre of Muslims in Myanmar will only widen the space for militants, and urged the Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to put an end to this barbarism.
“Suu Kyi’s silence on ethnic cleansing of the minority Muslim population is deafening and it is starkly inconsistent with the Nobel peace prize awarded to her for her struggle for peace and human rights,” he said and added that her inability or unwillingness to act swiftly and decisively will make calls for revoking the peace prize louder and louder.
Zardari also asked the government to forcefully take up the issue with Myanmar, as well as with the international community and asked the PPP members of Parliament to raise the issue.
