ISLAMABAD: Senator Raja Muhammad Zafar-ul-Haq, Secretary General, World Muslim Congress in a statement issued on June 16, strongly condemned the continuing genocide of innocent Rohingya Muslims in the Arakan Region of Myanmar. He said Rohingyas are already described by the United Nations as one of the most persecuted minorities for the last 60 years. A large number of them live in Bangladesh as refugees but more migration is not permitted due to economic constraints. Around 500,000 have been granted refuge by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The recent spate of mass murders is much worse than these oppressed and poor people experience during the past six decades and presently over 30,000 people have been rendered homeless, he said. The WMC Secretary General appealed to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations; Prof. Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of OIC and President Human Rights Council, Geneva for "immediate effective intervention to stop the horrifying carnage of innocent Rohingya Muslims in Arakan region, and send a representative to this region, which is a very vast killing field".

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