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Members of the group at the demonstration
Members of the group at the demonstration

Freedom and Justice Group demonstrate

The Freedom and Justice Group, a human rights advocacy group, last Monday demonstrated against the treatment of Rohingya Muslims, demanding the state of Israel to cease and desist from the support and the sale of offensive weapons to Myanmar.

This was against a police negotiation for the postponement of their action.

Demonstration

Guided by the police, the demonstration began from the Kwame Nkrumah Circle and ended at Nima.

Clad in black and red, they expressed their outrage on placards with inscriptions such as: “Stop killing Rohingyas, injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere; Muslims’ lives matter; ECOWAS should end all cooperation with Israel and Israel is sponsoring terrorism.”

According to the group the, inhuman acts were being inflicted on innocent people who lived in Myanmar, including the Rohingya Muslims.

The group also asked that Israel must halt the training of the military and other security forces of the Republic of Myanmar, specifically in the Rakhine State.

In an interview with the Daily Graphic, the spokesperson for the group, who is an International Relations and Security Analyst, Mr Irbad Ibrahim, asked that the Nobel Peace prize that was awarded to the Democratic Leader of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, be revoked.

“Aung San Suu Kyi won a nobel peace prize in 1991, but we have written to the Nobel Peace Secretariat in Oslow calling for the revocation of the peace prize she was awarded, because she can’t superintend over a genocide and still be a laureate of the global peace prize,” he explained.

He recommended that the UN should pass a resolution at the UN Security Council, imposing a no fly zone over Myanmar to end the carnage going on there.

Chairman of the group

For his part, the Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Group, Mr Ras Mubarak, said Israel’s continued support and sale of weapons and training of the Myanmar military was a tacit support and an approval of the ethnic cleansing, genocide and religious discrimination of the Rohingya Muslims.

“We find it tragic that the state of Israel will continue to sell arms to Myanmar when there are clear evidences that there are deliberate and calculated attempts to exterminate a minority group. Given the Jewish history of the ethnic cleansing and religious bigotry that they suffered in Nazi gas chambers, we demand that the state of Israel stop aiding and abetting the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar,” he added.

The Head of Public Relations of the Ghana Police Service, ASP Effia Tenge, speaking to the media, commended the group for adhering to the directives of the police and making the demonstration peaceful.

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