ISLAMABAD: On behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Pakistan has demanded an immediate end to the violence against Rohingya Muslims and urged Myanmar to allow UN observers into the affected areas.
At the 36th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland, which began on Monday, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Farukh Amil termed the persecution of Rohingyas “ethnic cleansing” and “crimes against humanity.”
According to a press release issued by the Foreign Office, Amil urged the international community to provide adequate humanitarian assistance to the Muslim civilians in the Rakhine state of Myanmar as well as to the refugees in Bangladesh.