Question 1383 — foreign policy

Summary

Mr. Brahim Hammouche draws the attention of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the dramatic situation experienced by the Rohingyas, a Muslim minority in western Burma and rightly considered by the UN to be “one of the most persecuted in the world”. Indeed, these people suffered the repressions of 1978 and 1991-1992 as well as the intercommunal violence of 2012 and 2015 which led them to several exoduses. in front of the helpless and sometimes even indifferent gaze of the international community! At the end of summer 2017, the situation of the Rohingyas further deteriorated considerably, following the riots which took place at border crossings in an attempt to take back, weapons in hand, their destiny in hand. The Burmese army, aided by local Buddhist militias, sounded the hallali which led to killings, rapes and fires against this population. Hundreds of thousands of poor people, including women, children and the elderly, without water or food, were forced to flee to Bangladesh to try to find asylum in already overcrowded poverty camps. The UN Secretary General also spoke of “ethnic cleansing” when referring to this human tragedy. A founding member of the United Nations in 1945, France, which plays a leading role in subjects as crucial as that of respect for human rights, cannot remain indifferent to this massacre. It is its duty to put an end to the abuse against this population with other UN member states. Also, he asks him if exceptional measures responding to the tragic situation of this Muslim minority, rejected from Burma for more than 40 years, will be taken in the coming weeks by the Government French on an international scale.

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