Jordan condemned the aggressions and massacres committed against the Rohingyas in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, which left tens of thousands of innocent Muslims killed or displaced.

Mohammad Al Momani, State Minister of Media Affairs and Official Spokesperson for the Jordanian government, described the indiscriminate killing of Muslim Rohingyas as terrorism in a statement released today.

He said that the Burmese should be held accountable for these crimes, and that the international community must bear the responsibility to preserve the rights of minorities and freedom of religion.

Momani called for international cooperation to put an end to what the Muslim minority is suffering in Myanmar, and to spread peace in the the region through the cessation of violence.

The Minister confirmed Jordan’s condemnation of the ethnic cleansing the Rohingyas are subject to, and he urged nearby countries to host the displaced Muslim minority until they can live in peace in their own country.

The United Nations said today that 123 thousand people, most of whom are Rohingyas, fled Burma to seek refuge in Bangladesh, marking an increase in the number of refugees in the past 24 hours, with 37-thousand refugees crossing the borders in one day.

Myanmar’s Rakhine state became the center of religious tensions between Buddhists and Muslims across the years, with the Rohingyas, a Muslim ethnic minority living in the state, being discriminated against.

The United Nations believe that the Burmese military might have committed war crimes against the Rohingyas, allegations denied by the government of Aung San Suu Kyi and the army.

This article is an edited translation from the Arabic Edition