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| Malaysia: Muslim countries should end Rohingya crisis |
| 2017-01-20 |
| [Al Jazeera] Malaysia has called for an organization of Islamic countries to help end the persecution of Myanmar's Rohingya Moslem minority, while Indonesia has offered to be a controller to find a solution to the ongoing crisis. Prime Minister Najib Razak told the opening of a special meeting of foreign ministers from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation that the violence against Rohingya, which has galvanised Moslems in Southeast Asia, was no longer Myanmar's internal affair as it has fuelled an exodus of refugees that could destabilise the region. He claimed that the violence must end otherwise gangs including the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIS, as know as ISIS) could infiltrate the Rohingya. "OIC member states are well aware that terrorist organizations such as ISIS could seek to take advantage of this situation," Najib said, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS. Security forces in Buddhist-majority Myanmar are accused of widespread abuses against the Rohingya, including killings, rape and the burning of thousands of homes that have driven an estimated 65,000 refugees across the border into Bangladesh in the past three months. Myanmar's army began the latest crackdown in Rakhine state in October after nine coppers were killed along the border with Bangladesh. |
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