Riyadh: Saudi King, Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz, Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, has ordered $50 million in aid be sent to a Rohingya’s, a Muslim minority in Myanmar, which a human rights group said has been targeted by the authorities since sectarian riots in June.
Saudi Arabia has termed the killings of Rohingya Muslims in Buddhist-majority Myanmar as “ethnic cleansing” of the Muslims and demanded International community to react to the issue immediately.
“King Abdullah … has ordered that assistance of the amount of $50 million be provided to the Rohingya Muslim citizens in Myanmar,” said the report which was carried by Saudi media on Sunday. It did not say who was to blame for the abuses.
However, Human Rights Watch said on August 1 that the Rohingyas had suffered mass arrests, killings and rapes at the hands of the Myanmar security forces. The minority had borne the brunt of a crackdown after days of arson and machete attacks in June by both Buddhists and Rohingyas in Rakhine state, the monitoring group said.
Rohingya’s are not recognized as the citizens and they were deprived from accessing educational and professional institutes, US State Department said.
Saudi Arabia sees itself as a guardian of global Muslim interests thanks to being the birthplace of Islam and home to some of the religion’s holiest sites in Mecca and Medina.
Last week the Saudi cabinet condemned the violence against Muslims in northwest Myanmar and at a meeting on July 31, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in the kingdom’s second city of Jeddah urged members to send Rohingya Muslims aid.
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