TTP threatens to attack Myanmar to avenge violence against Muslim Rohingya

Terming itself as a defender of Muslim community in Myanmar, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) issued warning to attack the country to take revenge crimes against Muslim Rohingyas, unless Islamabad ends all ties with the government and shuts its embassy.
Concentrating on the plight of Muslims in Myanmar (Burma), the TTP vowed to take revenge of the blood of Muslim Rohingyas.
TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan issued a rare statement, asking the Pakistani government to end all ties with Myanmar otherwise ready for consequences.
He threatened, “Otherwise we will not only attack Burmese interests anywhere but will also attack the Pakistani fellows of Burma one by one”.
The banned militant outfit frequently claims responsibility of attacks on security forces in the country. However, its ability to attack foreign countries is questionable.
Thousands of Muslims reportedly killed and tortured in result of the recent clashes in western Myanmar between Buddhist ethnic Rakhine and Muslim Rohingyas.
According to the media reports, Buddhist monks have been accused of fueling ethnic violence in the country by calling on people to sun a Muslim community in the area.
Some monks’ organizations have issued pamphlets asking people not to associate with the Rohingya community, and have blocked humanitarian assistance from reaching the Muslims.
The recent wave of violence reportedly erupted after the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman, allegedly by three Muslims, unleashed long-standing ethnic tensions.
After a deep silence Amnesty International commented over the issue, “Hundreds of people, mostly men and boys, have been detained in sweeps of areas heavily populated by the Rohingyas, with almost all held incommunicado and some ill-treated”.
According to Amnesty, most apprehensions appear to have arbitrary and discriminatory and there were credible reports of abuses including rape, destruction of property and unlawful killings by both Rakhine Buddhists and the security forces.
Due to decades of discrimination towards the Rohingyas, the United Nations termed it as one of the world’s most persecuted area for minorities.
The Muslims Rohingyas have lived in Burma for centuries, but in 1982, the then military ruler Ne Win stripped them of their citizenship. Thousands fled to Bangladesh where they live in pitiful camps.
A state of emergency was declared in the province while foreign media are still denied access to the conflict region.