Ousman here, Campaigns Coordinator for London Green Party. After consulting fellow officers, I urge the London Green Party to support the campaign to end the violence against the Rohingya minority in Burma.
At least 160,000 Rohingya are in desperate need of food, life-saving medical assistance and other forms of aid. Almost 2,000 homes have been burned to the ground and with no where to flee almost 35,000 people are now internally displaced. Rape has become commonplace with 202 reported cases but many, many more unaccounted for.
John McKissick, head of the UN refugee agency UNHCR in the last week told the BBC that troops were “killing men, shooting them, slaughtering children, raping women, burning and looting houses, forcing these people to cross the river” into Bangladesh and the Burmese government had the “ultimate goal of ethnic cleansing of the Muslim minority in Burma”
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