13 December 2016
The Muslim Council of Britain today joined calls on the international community for the remaining besieged residents of Aleppo to be granted safe passage out of the city. Some 100,000 people remain trapped in Aleppo, and thousands have died primarily at the hands of the Assad regime and Russian bombardment. Harun Khan, Secretary General of the MCB said: “We cannot stand idly by and allow thousands more innocent civilians to be brutally killed. I call on our government and the international community to act now to free the people of Aleppo. And I call on Muslim governments in the region to redouble their efforts to look for peace in the region, particularly in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Many people have been killed, and the conflict is a dangerous and destabilising catalyst for the world, not least for Muslim communities in the West”.
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