Three visiting Nobel laureates on Wednesday called for an immediate end to the ongoing genocide against the Rohingya people in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
The Nobel laureates – Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, Shirin Ebadi of Iran, and Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland – made the demand at a press conference at Hotel Pan Pacific Sonargaon in Dhaka after wrapping up their visit to Bangladesh on the six-month anniversary of the ongoing Rohingya crisis.
“We can’t remain silent. If we remain silent, we’re indeed complacent with the cruelties and crimes,” Maguire said.