Dhaka: A cross-party group of 70 British parliamentarians urged the UK government to ‘intensify pressure’ on the Myanmar government and allow full humanitarian access to Rohingya Muslims in the North Rakhine State of Myanmar.

“Together with the international community, the UK government must intensify its pressure on the Myanmar government to allow full humanitarian access to the Rohingya,” the British parliamentarians. including co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group for Burma Rushanara Ali MP, said in a letter to British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

They called on the British government to do all in its power to help those fleeing the violence to find a safe passage home.

The letter, dated December 7, said there currently exists an urgent need to prevent further violations of the Rohingya’s human rights.

With the UN estimating that 30,000 people are already displaced, many of the Rohingya are crossing the border into Bangladesh to join the thousands of Rohingya refugees already seeking asylum, it reads.

“We condemn any reprisal attacks that have followed the recent incidents of violence on the Myanmar border and call for an immediate end to the targeted use of violence of an already persecuted religious minority,” the parliamentarians wrote.