Expatriate Seminarians Protest against Massacre of Muslims in Myanmar
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A number of students of Al-Mustafa International University held a gathering in Mashhad, northeast Iran, to voice their anger at the atrocities being committed against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, who are denied citizenship by the state and have suffered years of persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, have been forced to flee the country in the past fortnight following a brutal crackdown the government describes as a "cleansing operation."
Myanmar’s government has laid a siege to a western state where the Rohingya are concentrated. There, horrific violence has been taking place against the minority Muslims, according to reports and eyewitnesses.
Soldiers and extremist Buddhists have reportedly been killing or raping the Muslims and setting their homes on fire. The Myanmarese government says 400 people, mostly Muslims, have died in the latest bout of violence. The UN says the actual number likely tops 1,000.
