COUNCIL for Mosques is writing to the British Government to demand it makes a stand against the atrocities taking place in Burma.

The Bradford-based organisation is asking Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and local MPs to use all their influence on Burma leader Aung San Suu Kyi to get her to intervene in stopping the genocide of Muslims, claiming Burma has "blatantly failed to protect Muslims from being slaughtered".

It is also asking the British Government to openly coordinate British relief efforts for the thousands that have entered Bangladesh in order escape the mass murder.

More than 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar last month.

A spokesman for Council for Mosques said: "We believe that had it been any other faith minority the international stance would have been very different."

According to the UN Human Rights Chief, the targeting of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing".

Mr Zeid, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said: “We have received multiple reports and satellite imagery of security forces and local militia burning Rohingya villages, and consistent accounts of extrajudicial killings, including shooting.”

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest ever Nobel peace prize winner has called on Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn the “tragic and shameful” treatment of the Myanmar’s Rohingya people.

Bishop Desmond Tutu, in an open letter to the UN Security Council signed by 23 other peace laureates to the Burma leader asking her to speak out and end the “unfolding horror” and “ethnic cleansing”.

Council for Mosques also states NATO should not rule out a military intervention if the Aung San Suu Kyi government fails to bring the situation under control.