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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Save the Arakan Muslim Population from Genocide in Arakan-Burma
Hundreds of Muslim girls and women were attacked by rogue Buddhist mobs who also burned villages.
(LONDON) - “War crimes and crimes against humanity are being carried
out every day against the Rohingyas and Muslims of Arakan and all of these
murderous acts are direct violations of international law under the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).” Join Press Statement
We, the Rohingya Diaspora and members of the following organizations
strongly denounce and condemn and we express our serious concern over the
current news information that Buddhist Rakhine extremists led by Rakhine ruling
political party namely, Rakhine Nationalities Development Party-RNDP had started
again mass killings of Muslim population of Arakan as well as burning and
destruction of Muslims villages and houses, in Minbya, Mrauk Oo, Kyaukpru,
Pauktaw, Ratheydaung, Myebone, and Kyauktaw Townships starting from October 21,
2012. This is the second time of genocide and persecutions of Muslims in Arakan
in 2012 by the RNDP led Buddhist Rakhine people including Buddhist Monks with
the direct help and strong involvement of the Burmese Government security forces
of President Thein Sein from both central and Rakhine State Government.
Beginning from the month of October
21, 2012, at least fourteen villages were burnt down and thousands of people
killed. Hundreds of Muslim girls and women were raped by the Burmese security
forces and Rakhine extremists while attacking the Muslims in those townships.
The Burmese Government officials and Security forces did nothing to prevent and
stop these mass killings and attacks. President Thein Sein led Burmese
Government had claimed that Arakan State is in normal situation but, in reality
the situation has become more worsened day after day. These atrocities and mass
killings were being committed under the open eyes of the Burmese security forces
involving the Police, Lun Htein, and Army. Available reports confirmed that
Buddhist Rakhine people led by RNDP President Dr. Aye Maung and Rakhine State
Prime Minister Hla Maung Tin are trying to spread this violence across the whole
Muslims residing areas of all Townships in Arakan.
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Full Article
Myanmar is Behaving Inhumanly Toward the Rohingya Muslims
Buddhist monks are supporting the plan
of exterminating the whole Rohingya ethnic community from Arakan.
Rakhine extremist & Buddhists Monks
have burned Rohingya Muslims houses and killed their women and
children.
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(FRANKFURT) - I do
not agree with the views of international media and their various news articles,
for the last few months, on the conflicts between Rakhine Buddhists and
minority Rohingya Muslims. It is true that Rohingyas are majority in
Maungdaw and Buthidaung while they are not more than 10% in Mrauk Oo, Minbya,
Kyauk Phyu, Myae Bon and Pauk Taw. As such the claim by certain media groups
that the Rohingyas that has been oppressed for many decades could attack the
overwhelming majority Rakhines who have full support of state apparatus, is
totally absurd and is very unfortunate for the suffering Rohingyas. One should
ask himself and use commonsense before publishing such destructive news
articles.
Many Rohingya
Organizations around the world are demanding UN intervention to provide UN
security forces because they are helpless and do not possess any mean to defend
themselves from this well-coordinated plan of genocide launched against them.
But the Bhuddist Rakhine and Myanmar government do not agree to any
international intervention. They will not even allow international humanitarian
organizations because they are afraid of the face of real culprits will be
exposed to the worlds society. This clearly shows who is under attack and who
are attacking. Buddhist monks in Myanmar declared the sympathizers of Rohingyas
would be considered as "national traitors," according to a report by a
humanitarian group.
Can someone imagine
how Buddhist monks are supporting the plan of exterminating the whole Rohingya
ethnic community from Arakan? If national security forces do not support Rakhine
Community how is it possible for them to do so? Surprisingly, there is no single
picture or video which shows Rakhine Buddhist died or their temple was burned
while there are thousands of videos and pictures to substantiate their claims of
Rohingyas that they have been raped, killed, looted and houses, properties and
mosques are being burned down by Rakhine Extremist.
The president has
been very clear that the Arakan issue should not be seen as a religious matter
but if anyone is trying to establish it as a religious issue it's definitely the
monks," if he doesn’t addresses the issue as religious why he allows all Myanmar
Monks to demonstrate against the Islam. There is no doubt that Thein Sein
government has involved complicity in this heinous crime against Rohingyas as he
is the one only president of a country in this modern days who openly called for
the segregation of two communities that have lived side by side for centuries.
The RNDP and the president Thein Sein are the most active players of this crime
of ethnic cleansing. International community must raise their voices against
them without further delay. Otherwise the world will witness the worst genocide
of the history in Asia.
In an attempt to
calm the situation, Myanmar President Thein Sein announced for a state of
emergency in several areas and said the confrontations have nothing to do with
religious differences but he fully involves in cleansing the Rohingyas and he is
still going forward on with his plan that Rohingyas should be kept in refugee
camp until resettlement to a third country. It seems that this is a master plan
to cleanse Rohingya Arakan, eventually from the whole country.
Few days ago, riot
ensued in Bangladesh. It was also pre-planned conspiracy jointly launched by
Bangladesh and Myanmar governments. Prime minister of Bangladesh promised that
her government would give compensation to the lost properties in the Bangladesh
during the riot while Myanmar Government embarked on mass arbitrary arrest of
Rohingyas.
A media reported
as: ‘Last week’s clashes once again highlight the plight of the Rohingya as a
minority that has been discriminated against for a very long time. The
systematic persecution of this group has been ell organized and its brutality
has reached all facets of life. This group had been targeted decades ago with a
systematic policy of elimination”.
It must be
stopped. Sending extra troops and fortifying security in the Rakhine region is
not enough to stop the violence. Without addressing the root cause of the
current situation, the problem will continue and so will be the
bloodshed’.
There was an
agreement between Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Myanmar
government to open liaison offices in Myanmar to provide the humanitarian aids
for the victims of violence regardless of race and religion but the monks and
Buddhists backed by the government protested against the OIC for opening the
office in Myanmar. The Buddhists from Rakhine state are blocking the aids for
the Rohingya since the Turkish government delegation visited the Refugee
camps.
As the situation
becomes worse day by day, we would like to request UN, USA, EU, and OIC to
advocate for the most oppressed Rohingyas of Myanmar. The world community should
give pressure on the Myanmar government to stop the ongoing violence against
Rohingya immediately, and restore their citizenship and ethnic rights, and to
urgently send an UN enquiry team for the crime against humanity to Arakan
State.
I would like to
appeal international Community for immediate humanitarian assistance for the
displaced Rohingyas who urgently need humanitarian aids, medical supplies and
other basic necessities.