Imran Khan writes open letter to UN Chief over Rohingya Muslims plight
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ISLAMABAD: PTI Chief Imran Khan has written an open letter to the UN Chief over the Rohingya Muslims plight. It says, We [PTI] find this continuing silence and complete inaction by the UN on the continuing plight and persecution of the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar a shameful testament to the failure of the UN to fulfil its basic principles of upholding human rights and protecting people from genocide,” the letter written on Friday reads.
In the letter, the PTI chairman writes that the international community seems to have learnt no lessons from the international appeasement that eventually led to World War II.
“In the wake of the Rwandan genocide, it was expected that the UN would assert the principle of humanitarian intervention without discrimination wherever people were threatened with massacre and genocide. Sadly, so far the UN has failed to live up to its own Charter.”
It lamented that it has been heartbreaking to witness the silence of the UN and the international community on the persecution of the Rohingyas in Myanmar since the 1970s. “The hypocrisy prevalent within the international community on human rights and humanitarian interventions has been acutely evident as the Rohingya crisis has unfolded.
Those who sought to give the UN the Right to Humanitarian Intervention have been the most reluctant to exercise this right now that it has been established within the UNO. It is the duty of the UN, and yourself as its secretary general, to ensure the safety of refugees and protection of people from persecution.”
Khan requests the UN SG to move the UNSC to end the persecution and genocide of Rohingyas within Myanmar and to bring to an end their inhumane plight as starving, disease-ridden refugees were denied basic shelter, under Chapter VII of the UN Charter.
