The AIPMC Myanmar President Thein Sein Urges Stop ethnic and religious Rohingya

As president of the Asean Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC), I feel it is important to express my deep regret for the failure of the world to react appropriately to the killing and persecution of Muslim ethnic Rohingya in Rakhine State, Myanmar. 

It is also regrettable that the recent visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Southeast Asia occupied the attention of most international media while neglecting and thus tolerating grave crimes against humanity in Myanmar.

The AIPMC is deeply troubled by the sectarian strife in Rakhine and concerned by the solution to the violence proposed by President Thein Sein. His solution to decades of sectarian violence and unrest does not express a willingness to promote national reconciliation, which the president campaigned under as part of his democratisation agenda.