Thursday 9 June 2016

The formation of the Muslim Lawyers Association in Myanmar



Yangon (Ina) - formed by legal authorities in Myanmar, lawyers Muslims Association, in order to protect the fundamental rights of Muslims in the country, against the backdrop of the growing practice ofviolence and religious discrimination against them, in the past years. 
A lawyer at the Supreme Court, Ko Ni, and serves as the party legal adviser "national League fordemocracy , " the ruling, on Thursday (June 9, 2016), we have "discussed six months ago, the formation of the Muslim lawyers Association plans." 
He added , "Assembly serves as a bar association, who will take it upon themselves to protect thefundamental rights of Muslims in the country, against the acts of repression and violence and religious discrimination practiced against them. " 
He added," the significance of Assembly, in that it seeks to promote the achievement of justice, inaddition to the fight against bribery and corruption inherent in the legal system, since the former military government. " 
He expressed the hope that" increasing numbers of lawyers joined to the Assembly, 70 at present, more than two hundred Muslim lawyer. " It is 
noteworthy that the " Muslim lawyers' Association, recorded officially, in the city of Yangon, dated June 4 this month. It is 
noteworthy that about a million Muslims of Rohingya, living in camps "Arakan" Having been deprived of the right to citizenship under a law approved by Myanmar in 1982, as it considers immigrants government illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, while classified by the UN as " a persecuted religious minority." 
known global Alroheenga center on its website, Rohingya as "ethnic oppressed in Arakan province 70 years ago, it has been exercised in the right ugliest colors of abuse and torture, where she was homeless, murder, and arson. " 
and won the " national League for democracy "party, led by Aung San Suu Kyi (Nobel peace Prize), with 390 seats in Myanmar 's parliament , which has a seats 664, in the elections that took place on November 8 / November last, this party to form a new government in March / March last, instead of theprevious government , which was formed by the "solidarity and development" party, which won 42 seats only in the last election. 

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