Leader Allocates $300,000 to Help Rohingya Muslim Refugees
According to the Leader’s office, the donation was made after the head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society wrote a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei about the dire situation of the persecuted Muslim minority.
Rohingya Muslims have long faced severe discrimination in Myanmar and were the targets of violence in 2012 that killed hundreds and drove about 140,000 people from their homes to camps for the internally displaced.
In recent months, they have been facing a deadly military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
More than half a million Rohingya have fled from the military crackdown launched in late August and are now living in very harsh conditions in refugee camps in Bangladesh.
In September, the UN top human rights official accused Myanmar of carrying out "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” against Rohingya Muslims.
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said the military’s "brutal” security campaign was in clear violation of international law, and cited what he called refugees’ consistent accounts of widespread extrajudicial killings, rape and other atrocities.
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