A special commemoration for the Rohingya and other Muslim victims of deadly violence in 2012-2013
A SPECIAL COMMEMORATION FOR THE ROHINGYA AND OTHER MUSLIM VICTIMS OF DEADLY VIOLENCE IN 2012-2013
From 3rd June to October 2012 waves of organized massacre and mass destruction were carried out in Arakan State against Rohingya and Kaman Muslims by the Buddhist Rakhine extremists in collaboration with the police and security forces.
Similar bloodshed and devastation against the rest of the Muslims in Burma proper were executed starting from a Central Burma town of Mekhtila on 20th March 2013, and the fire of violence spread to other towns, including the commercial capital city of Yangon.
Sporadic violence is still continuing as the government police and security forces are doing nothing to prevent and stop them.
Since June 2012:
- More than 5,000 Rohingya and other Muslims have been killed or burned to death, thousands of them missing, hundreds of women and girls raped.
- Many thousands of Muslim homes have been torched and many dozens of mosques and madrassahs destroyed.
- About 140,000 people have been forced to flee their homes facing humanitarian disaster -- starvation, mal-nutrition without education, medical care adequate food and essentials—in squalid displacement camps and villages in segregation under government’s neo-apartheid plan.
- Under extreme conditions, an estimated 20,000 Rohingya have taken the perilous voyages towards Southeast Asian countries and than 1000 boat people are missing while scores of others have drowned after several boats sank.
- In addition, hundreds of Burmese Muslims were brutally killed or burned alive, many hundreds of their homes, shops and properties destroyed, and 50,000 of them internally displaced.
BROUK is organising a special commemoration for all victims of the deadly violence and attacks as follows:
Monday 3rd June 2013 at 6 pm to 9 pm
Waterlily Hall, 69-89 Mild End Road, London E1 4TT
Stepney Green Tube Station (District line, Hammersmith & City line)
Waterlily Hall, 69-89 Mild End Road, London E1 4TT
Stepney Green Tube Station (District line, Hammersmith & City line)
More people are poised to face destruction from the looming natural catastrophe. Shifting the refugees at the last minute?; U Thein Sein has been at hide & seek play again since he gave promise to UN 3 month ago and prepared nothing.
Are daily killing in dozens at the hands of ethnocide not enough for big powers to sense the reality on the ground and take side? Your neutrality still keeps helping the oppressor, not the oppressed Rohingya and your continued silence still encourages the tormentor, not the tormented Rohingyas. Showing a global leadership act now before it becomes too late.
Among general Rohingya-public, these days, one can feel a sweeping climate of criticizing the leadership. For them waiting is painful and not knowing what must be his contribution to keep the leadership actively busy. Do not take anything personally. Nothing the leaders do should evolve around you only; what they say and do is a projection of their own judgment and within the mandate. Once you are immune to opinions and actions of others, you would n’t be the victim of needless suffering.