(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) All political parties in the European Parliament Wednesday signed a joint resolution on the plight of Rohingya refugees, including the mass grave sites recently discovered in southern Thailand, British MEP Sajjad Karim, said in a statement.
The resolution urges the Thai government and its officials to end any complicity with the criminal gangs trafficking Rohingya people, and other migrants in Thailand.
It also welcomes the long overdue statement by Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party, the National League for Democracy, on 18 May that the government of Burma should give citizenship to the Rohingya minority.
It follows events at the beginning of May where the military-police discovered at least 30 bodies of ethnic Rohingya Muslims in a suspected human trafficking camp in the Sadao district of the Songkhla province close to the Thai-Malaysian border.
The EP resolution also calls on Thai authorities to hold immediate, full and credible criminal investigations into the mass graves of Rohingya Muslims, and if necessary with UN assistance, to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice.
"These horrific events have brought to light a trafficking ring that is truly shocking to people across the world. The Rohingya have been leaving Burma in large numbers since an outbreak of violence in 2012 that claimed hundreds of lives and left neighbourhoods completely destroyed.
The Burmese government has chosen to make the Rohingya stateless by arbitrarily depriving them of their citizenship and as a result continuing their suffering," said the British Muslim MEP.
"By signing this joint resolution I hope to pressure the countries involved to take action towards ending these atrocities, but more importantly to end the persecution and discrimination of the Rohingya Muslims," he added.
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