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Monday 05 Oct 2015 - 12:45 Makkah mean time-22-12-1436
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Manhattan, (IINA) - Rejecting his anti-Muslim policies, American Muslim rights activists have filed a lawsuit against the Burmese President Thein Sein, accusing him of committing human rights abuses against the Rohingya Muslim community, Reuters reported on Saturday.
According to the plaintiffs, Muslim Rohingya are “subjected to genocide, torture, arbitrary detention, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” by officials controlled by Thein Sein and his ministers. The complaint was filed on Thursday in Manhattan federal court, just a few weeks ahead of November 8 historic Burmese general election.
It accuses Sein and top officials of planning and instigating “hate crimes and discrimination amounting to genocide.” The civil lawsuit was filed by Burma Task Force, a group of 19 Muslim organizations, and the Rohingya man Hitay Lwin Oo. It seeks compensatory and punitive damages for alleged violations of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), a US law often invoked in lawsuits alleging human rights abuses.
The government will have a chance to respond to the lawsuit once it is served. It typically takes at least a few months for a judge to decide whether a case may proceed.
Described by the UN as one of the world's most persecuted minorities, Rohingya Muslims are facing a catalogue of discrimination in their homeland, OnIslam reported. They have been denied citizenship rights since an amendment to the citizenship laws in 1982 and are treated as illegal immigrants in their own home.
It is worth to mention that rights groups have accused the Burmese security forces of killing, raping and arresting Rohingyas following the sectarian violence last year.
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