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Plea to #LeedsUnited: Cancel this misguided #Myanmar tour
Leeds United must reconsider their "misguided" plans to to stage a tour of strife-torn Myanmar, regional MEP Amjad Bashir said. Bashir, who has campaigned tirelessly for the protection of Myanmar's brutalized Rohingya minority, said the club needed "a crash course" in the disgraceful truth about the country they were planning to visit.
The Conservative MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber said: "By playing football there, they would be giving succour to a brutal regime and aligning themselves with the perpetrators of ethic cleansing and genocide." Myanmar has been condemned by the international community for the oppression and murder of Rohingya communities in Rakhine state, leading to ore than 600,00 terrorized refugees fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh.
Bashir said: "This is a murderous and blood-soaked rogue state. Decent people should be isolating them and doing all they can to ensure people face justice for crimes against humanity - not going there for games of football, however lucrative. "If the folk in charge at Elland Road do not realize that they are misguided and need a crash course in the realities about this country. They could start by Googling 'Myanmar' and 'Rohingya'.
"If they do not cancel this tour immediately they will do a terrible wrong to the Rohingya, our country, the city of Leeds and fans like me."
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