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11-11-2017, 10:22 AM
Salman Rushdie, Mindy Kaling, Aziz Ansari and others call for end to ethnic cleansing of Rohingya
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World leaders will do a lot of talking while they're gathered in the Philippines this week for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, but a group of notable writers, actors and others would like them to take a brief moment and listen.
Salman Rushdie, Mindy Kaling, Aziz Ansari, and many others signed their names to an op-ed (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/10/rohingya-genocide-ethnic-cleansing-never-again) in The Guardian on Friday, calling on world leaders to pressure the Myanmar government into halting what the United Nations has called "ethnic cleansing (http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=57490#.WgX8lrD82qA)" of Rohingya Muslims.*
SEE ALSO: Social media inflames violent hatred of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar (http://mashable.com/2017/10/24/facebook-social-media-rohingya-muslim-myanmar-fake-news/)
Rohingya Muslims have long lived in the Rakhine state of Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation. The government has long denied them citizenship, but this year, under the guise of fighting terrorism, the Myanmar military has displaced more than 600,000 (http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=58040#.WgX4jbD82qA) Rohingya Muslims through a campaign of of death and destruction that has wrecked Rohingya homes beyond repair.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/10/rohingya-muslims-salman-rushdie-aziz-ansari-mindy-kaling/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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World leaders will do a lot of talking while they're gathered in the Philippines this week for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, but a group of notable writers, actors and others would like them to take a brief moment and listen.
Salman Rushdie, Mindy Kaling, Aziz Ansari, and many others signed their names to an op-ed (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/10/rohingya-genocide-ethnic-cleansing-never-again) in The Guardian on Friday, calling on world leaders to pressure the Myanmar government into halting what the United Nations has called "ethnic cleansing (http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=57490#.WgX8lrD82qA)" of Rohingya Muslims.*
SEE ALSO: Social media inflames violent hatred of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar (http://mashable.com/2017/10/24/facebook-social-media-rohingya-muslim-myanmar-fake-news/)
Rohingya Muslims have long lived in the Rakhine state of Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation. The government has long denied them citizenship, but this year, under the guise of fighting terrorism, the Myanmar military has displaced more than 600,000 (http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=58040#.WgX4jbD82qA) Rohingya Muslims through a campaign of of death and destruction that has wrecked Rohingya homes beyond repair.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/10/rohingya-muslims-salman-rushdie-aziz-ansari-mindy-kaling/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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