Sarai spoke in solidarity with the victims of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. He also received a letter addressed to the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking for his immediate intervention in the matter. Signed by scores of residents of Greater Vancouver, the letter was presented to him by the organizers – Indians Abroad for Pluralist India (IAPI), who demanded that the honorary citizenship given to Aung San Suu Kyi by Canada be revoked for her complicity in the repression of Rohingya Muslims.
Others who spoke on the occasion included Yasmin Ullah and Abu Hafiz Ullah Jamal who had organized a rally for Rohingyas in Vancouver last Sunday. Yasmin, being an immigrant from Rakhine that has witnessed large-scale violence against Rohingya Muslims by the army and Buddhist extremists, shared her story.
The IAPI co-founder Gurpreet Singh, veteran Communist activist Harjit Daudhria, Bhupinder Malih from People’s Front and BC Muslim Association President Dawood Ismail were among other speakers at the rally that was attended by women, children and seniors carrying placards bearing slogans against genocide.