{"id":865,"date":"2013-11-25T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeanlambertmep.org.uk\/?p=865"},"modified":"2013-11-25T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:34:00","slug":"london-mep-calls-for-end-to-ethnic-cleansing-of-burmese-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanlambertmep.org.uk\/2013\/11\/25\/london-mep-calls-for-end-to-ethnic-cleansing-of-burmese-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"London MEP calls for end to \u2018ethnic cleansing\u2019 of Burmese Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON\u2019S Green MEP Jean Lambert is to host a debate with Human Rights Watch and representatives of Myanmar\u2019s largely-Muslim Rohingya community on the human rights abuses and organised violence they are suffering on an ongoing basis.<\/p>\n

Recent rapprochement between Myanmar\u2019s military junta and Europe \u2013 which has seen political prisoners including EU Sakharov prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi released from jail \u2013 has done little to prevent the persecution of the country\u2019s Rohingya minority.<\/p>\n

Ms Lambert has previously called for future trade between the EU and Myanmar to be limited<\/a> unless the South-East Asian country protects Muslims living there.<\/p>\n

Now she will host a discussion in the European Parliament on the plight of the Burmese Rohingya, to coincide with an exhibition of photographs documenting their lives.<\/p>\n

Other participants in the debate include photographer Greg Constantine, Tim Khin, President of the Burmese Rohingya Organization UK, and Lotte Licht, EU Director of Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n

The discussion takes place next Thursday, November 28th \u2013 with the exhibition, entitled: \u2018Exiled to Nowhere: Burma\u2019s Rohingya\u2019, running all week.<\/p>\n

Speaking before the event, Ms Lambert said:<\/p>\n

\u201cEarlier this year the European Parliament condemned the Government of Myanmar for failing to uphold the human rights and fundamental freedoms of its Rohingya minority, an issue often overlooked in global consideration of Burmese politics – and this exhibition and debate is about raising awareness of their plight.<\/p>\n

“Burma’s Rohingya minority has suffered grave human rights abuses – described by Human Rights Watch as a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n

\u201cViolent attacks against the Muslim Rohingya people have included rape, torture, destruction of property and places of worship as well as official long-standing restrictions on freedom of movement, marriage rights and freedom of education. Thousands of displaced Rohingya are now living in neighbouring Thailand and, especially, Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

“I call on the Government of Myanmar to recognise and uphold all their rights and do all it can to protect the Rohingya peoples from organised violence.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON\u2019S Green MEP Jean Lambert is to host a debate with Human Rights Watch and representatives of Myanmar\u2019s largely-Muslim Rohingya community on the human rights abuses and organised violence they are suffering on an ongoing basis. Recent rapprochement between Myanmar\u2019s military junta and Europe \u2013 which has seen political prisoners including EU Sakharov prize winner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[18,71,19,982,84,987,85,68,51],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n