{"id":354558,"date":"2017-09-19T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=354558"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:19:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:19:09","slug":"i-wont-mind-visiting-myanmar-over-rohingya-crisis-ras-mubarak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=354558","title":{"rendered":"I won&#8217;t mind visiting Myanmar over Rohingya crisis &#8211; Ras Mubarak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MP for Kumbungu, and the leader of the Freedom and Justice Group, Ras Mubarak, is open to visiting Myanmar, as the Asian country contends with allegations of state-sponsored ethnic cleansing of\u00a0Muslim Minority Rohingya population.<\/p>\n<p>The MP said at the moment, the authorities are not allowing independent observers as \u201cthe country is putting a lot of restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;FCaEk84W3dDKHBlP7B87YOWwghuZO6dm&#8221;]But if the opportunity arises, Mr. Mubarak said he would seize it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wouldn\u2019t be an option off the table. It is something I would look at again, and if the need arises to go to Myanmar and see for myself, and up the activism against this grotesque killing of people, why not? I will be happy to do that,\u201d he said on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a Muslim, I care about human beings. It is a human rights issue. It has absolutely nothing to do with religion or politics, and we have got to be each others keeper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mubarak has been passionate about the escalating humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, and he\u00a0led his pressure group on a demonstration on Monday in Ghana&#8217;s capital, Accra.<\/p>\n<p>They\u00a0have accused world leaders of turning a blind eye to the happenings in Myanmar, and they presented a petition to the Israeli Embassy in Ghana, who they accused of supporting the Asian state with weapons.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_354101\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-354101\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-354101\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/97835305_5e2e1bba-3c92-41eb-ba8f-aa7da0ccb9b6.jpg\" alt=\"More than 400,000 Rohingya have fled from Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-354101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 400,000 Rohingya have fled from Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rohingyas have been fleeing attacks in Western Myanmar, specifically Rakhine state, which began on August 25, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The military has been accused of burning Rohingya villages, but the army has explained that it is only responding to attacks by militants and not targeting civilians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MP for Kumbungu, and the leader of the Freedom and Justice Group, Ras Mubarak, is open to visiting Myanmar, as the Asian country contends with allegations of state-sponsored ethnic cleansing of\u00a0Muslim Minority Rohingya population. The MP said at the moment, the authorities are not allowing independent observers as \u201cthe country is putting a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[3,10951,2698,11187],"class_list":["post-354558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-myanmar","tag-ras-mubarak","tag-rohingya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}