Tehran opens Myanmar massacre poster exhibition

Tehran’s Art Bureau has opened an international exhibition to showcase posters on the massacre of Muslims in Myanmar.

Opened on Tuesday, October 10, 2017, the exhibition has put posters on the massacre of Muslims in Myanmar on display to give an idea about the violent act of the country’s government that has caused thousands of Muslims to run off to Bangladesh.

Art Bureau’s Visual Arts Department director Masoud Shojaei-Tabatabaei explained earlier in a press release that the exhibition has selected 70 posters by artists from 19 countries, including China, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Austria, Italy, the US, Poland, Egypt and Algeria.

He added that the exhibition is part of the strong reaction from worldwide artists to the ethnic cleansing by the Myanmar government.

“The event was so atrocious and unpredicted that the world public opinion was extremely affected,” Shojaei-Tabatabaei also noted.

On the sidelines of the exhibition, a miniature painting titled “The Wings of the Heaven” created by Mehdi Farrokhi was also unveiled.

The miniature is the sixth artwork made on Mohsen Hojaji, an Iranian soldier killed by Daesh terrorists in Syria in August, under the auspices of the Art Bureau.

Since October 2016, Myanmar’s government has laid a siege to the western state of Rakhine, where the Rohingya Muslims are concentrated.

Horrific violence, including killing, rape and torching property, has been taking place against the minority Muslims living there. The attacks have seen a sharp rise since August 25, 2017.

Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence and persecution in their home country of Myanmar continue to arrive in Bangladesh. Thousands of the displaced people, many sick and wounded, have been stranded or left without enough food for weeks.

MG/MMF