This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Petition Arm the Rohingya who are facing ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
The Rohingya are the most persecuted ethnic minority group on Earth. Their villages are burnt to the ground by Burmese soldiers. Abuses include rape, killing civilians and burning villages.
The Rohingya need access to weapons to defend themselves and their families.
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The Burmese military has committed harrowing atrocities against the Rohingya and we need to act in the same way that the international community acted when ISIS committed atrocities against the Kurds and Yazidis.
The UK should provide military and logistic assistance including arming Rohingya villagers so that they can sufficiently protect themselves against the rapists and killers.
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MPs debate the persecution of the Rohingya by the Myanmar Government
On Tuesday 17 October MPs debated the persecution of the Rohingya by the Myanmar Government.
You can watch the debate here: http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/87ff390f-5c49-4a23-9380-bdbbaf7940d9?in=15:09:08
You can read the debate here: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2017-10-17/debates/85ADE193-5E40-4798-B15F-F916C81CD87D/TheRohingyaAndTheMyanmarGovernment
On Tuesday 10 October, a group of cross-party MPs, called the Foreign Affairs Committee, questioned academics and experts about violence in Rakhine State.
You can find out more here: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/foreign-affairs-committee/inquiries1/parliament-2017/inquiry/