By Muslim Mirror News,
New Delhi, April 5: The Campus Front of India, Delhi state organized a signature campaign today at Jamia Millia Islamia University and Delhi University demanding the Indian government to take action against killing of Muslims in Myanmar and oppression of Tamils and Muslims in Sri Lanka.
Some 40 people were killed and 61 wounded in the attacks on Muslims minority by majority Buddhists in Myanmar recently. And in Sri Lanka for decades the Tamil minorities are being oppressed through various forms of violence including genocide, now the minority Muslims are being target by radical Buddhist monks who prohibited them for practicing their religion.
Campus Front Delhi General Secretary Mehboob Sahana who participated in the signature campaign in Jamia said: “It’s clearly evident that attacks in Myanmar are preplanned and led by the Buddhist monks that too in front of the Police and security forces. Buddhism is commonly believed as religion of peace and Lord Gautama Buddha as the apostle of peace. But the Monks in Myanmar and Sri Lanka are defaming the message of Buddhism; the international Buddhist community should disown the Buddhists fanatics of Myanmar and Sri Lanka”.
In June -July 2012 attacks on the Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State in Myanmar 110 people were killed and it left 120,000 people homeless. Most of the Muslims of Myanmar are Indian origins that constitute 5% of the country’s population. This population is driven out of Myanmar systematically through different types of violence and cruel draconian laws. This would become hurdle for the blooming democracy in Myanmar.
Campus Front member Mohamed Jabir said that in Sri Lanka, the large number of Indian origin Tamils who settled there centuries back are treated unequally and as second class citizens sine the independence of Sri Lanka. And now the Buddhists monks are targeting the Muslims by prohibiting them to follow their religion. India being a democratic state should intervene in the Human rights violation prevailing in the neighborhood countries”.