The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu reached out to Aung San Suu Kyi, Chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar, and Nobel Peace Laureate, to play a positive role in bringing an end to the violence that has afflicted Arakan State. In a letter to Suu Kyi, the OIC leader wrote: As a Nobel Peace Laureate, we are confident that the first step of your journey towards ensuring peace in the world would start from your own doorstep and that you would play a positive role in bringing an end to the violence that has afflicted Arakan State. He suggested she could make the Government agree to an international inquiry into the recent violence, granting free access to humanitarian aid groups and international media in Arakan as well as expediting the return of the victims to their respective properties.
He expressed his deep concern about the unabated and continuous violation of Rohingya rights in Myanmar where thousands of Rohingyas were killed, injured and displaced both internally and externally. Ihsanoglu stated that the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and its institutions, being the second largest intergovernmental political entity after the United Nations remains seized with the issue of Rohingya.