SUNGAI PETANI: Act now or the Rohingya Muslims will be wiped out from Myanmar for good.
This is the bleak outlook faced by the community said Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisation (Mapim), following the latest violence outbreak in Myanmar.
Describing the latest atrocities as massive and well-organised ethnic cleansing campaign, Mapim president Azmi Abdul Hamid said the Rohingya community risk of being completely flushed out from their own land.
He claimed the Myanmar government is using the "fight against terrorists" as a front to eliminate the minority Muslim population for good this time.
"This is the final blow for the Rohingya ethnic. The Myanmar government is mobilising all its heavy weapon assets at an extraordinary scale in a well-coordinated assault against the Rohingya community and burning down their settlements.
"This will be the Myanmar government final push to force the Rohingya out for good, after decades of persecution and atrocities against the minority group.
"If the United Nations, the international community and the Muslim nations failed to react swiftly, we risk allowing the most devastating humanitarian crisis in Myanmar ever," he said after launching a fund-raising campaign at Masjid Al-Abrar in Taman Peruda here today.
Azmi said Mapim aims to raise at least RM200,000 by the middle of this month to buy food supply for Rohingya refugees who are seeking shelter at the Bangladeshi border, following the latest violence outbreak, which has lasted for two weeks.
He pleaded to the government to use a diplomatic channel to get the Bangladesh government to facilitate the human relief mission by opening up its border.
"This time around, we are bringing the money to buy the food supply in Bangladesh and hand them directly to the refugees.
"We must act quickly as we have received report that some of the refugees had died from starvation and many others will die since the number of refugees is fast ballooning," he said.
On a similar note, Azmi said Mapim is initiating a campaign to get the support from the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak down to ministers, members of Parliament, assemblymen and party leaders from all political divide nationwide to pile pressure on the Myanmar government.
"Our target is to get the Nobel Peace Prize won by Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi to be revoked for her deafening silence in calling for a stop on the genocide.
"She has no right to keep the prestigious award, which she she won in 1991 as a champion of democracy, since she had failed to stop the atrocity against the Rohingya ethnic in her own country since assuming the power," he said.
Azmi said Mapim would initiate the campaign to collect 1,000 signatures from leaders in this country soon.