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ARU DIRECTOR GENERAL PROF. DR. WAKAR UDDIN MEETS WITH OIC SECRETARY GENERAL H.E. PROF. DR. EKMELEDDIN IHSANOGLU AT THE OIC HEADQUARTERS IN JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA 

The Secretary General of Organization of Islamic Cooperation, H.E. Prof. Dr. Ekmeleddin Isanoglu, warmly received the Director General of Arakan Rohingya Union, Prof. Dr. Wakar Uddin, at the OIC Headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The meeting was attended by H.E. Ambassador Sayed Elmasry, Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Minority Affairs, HE Ambassador to the United Nations Ufuk Gokcen, and the Director of the Muslim Minority and Community, Mr. Talal Daous. 

The hour-long meeting covered the current situation in Arakan and chronic political and human right issues faced by Rohingya ethnic minority in Arakan. The Secretary General specifically asked Dr. Uddin the cause of the recent violence by Buddist Rakhine against Rohingya people. Dr. Uddin provided perspectives on two different causes the violence. He said “First, there is a long standing hate and bigotry against Rohingya by Buddhist Rakhine in Arakan. They have resorted to these types of violence before. In 1942, thousands of Rohingya people were slaughtered by Rakhine in Arakan, particularly in the central and southern parts of Arakan; therefore, the Rohingya population was drastically reduced to current level in those Rohingya areas”. 

Secondly, he pointed that the hardliners in the current military-dominated government in Myanmar was poised to deprive Rohingya people of flavor of democracy because of their fear that the democracy in Arakan could guarantee human rights for Rohingya. “All evidences that have gathered from the sequence of events on the ground during the violence in Arakan and the Burmese media war on Rohingya are clearly pointing to Rakhine and the military hardliners as the masterminds of the violence with systematic preplanning ; They evidently did not want democracy in Arakan, rather impose military rule which will give them free-hands to continue their old policy of ethnic cleansing and human right violations without any legal ramification” Dr. Uddin added. He also provided a detailed account of how the violence by Rakhine against Rohingya has quickly transitioned to atrocities and cold blooded murder of Rohingya by Burmese forces. He explained that the police force in Arakan, primarily made-up of Rakhine, has been arresting hundreds of Rohingya male adults and transported to various prisons with torture chambers where discharge of dead bodies have been reported by eyewitness. Dr. Uddin appealed to the HE Secretary General to mobilize all the OIC member states and the international community, particularly the West, to pressure the Government of Myanmar to immediately halt the arrests, torture, and murder of Rohingya men. A number of cases of rape by Burmese forces have also been elaborated by Dr. Uddin. One of the most pressing issues discussed at the meeting was the current humanitarian crisis faced by Rohingya in Arakan. “The Rohingya victims are not getting supplies in most areas because local Rakhine and Burmese officials are diverting the food supplies to Rakhine people.

The personnel from the United Nations and other international organizations must be present on the ground, in coordination with the Burmese officials in distribution of food, medicine, and shelter supplies. “We are running out of time. The Rohingya victims are facing starvation in several areas. Losing a day in supplying food to Rohingya areas is tantamount to losing many lives” Dr. Uddin stressed. He also appealed to the HE Secretary General to call on all the 58 member states of OIC to work in concert in pressuring the Government of Myanmar to permanent cease the hostility toward Rohingya ethnic minority to bringing the peace to Arakan. 



The HE Secretary General and the officials of OIC have assured Dr. Uddin that they will continue to work with the Government of Myanmar in coordination with the international community to find a solution to Rohingya political and human rights issue. On behalf Rohingya community worldwide, Dr. Uddin expressed his deep gratitude to HE Secretary General and officials at OIC for their continuous efforts in seeking solution for the crisis faced by the Rohingya people in Myanmar. Dr. Uddin also conveyed his special thanks to the HE Secretary General for the relentless efforts by the OIC Department of Muslim Minority and Community for the cause of Rohingya. 

ARU Director General Prof. Dr. Wakar Uddin meets with OIC Secretary General Prof. Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu at the OIC Headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 

OIC Ambassador to the United Nations, H.E. Ufuk Gokcen, ARU Director Prof. Dr. Wakar Uddin, Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Minority Affairs H.E. Ambassador, Sayed Elmasry, and the Director of the Muslim Minority and Community Mr. Talal Daous at OIC Headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 


RIYADH – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is planning to send a fact-finding mission to Myanmar to probe the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, according to OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu.



He said after the conclusion of the Executive Committee meeting of permanent representatives on the Rohingya issue held at the OIC headquarters in Jeddah Sunday that the OIC will communicate with the government of Myanmar.

Ihsanoglu expressed his disappointment over the failure of the international community to take action to stop the ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the government of Myanmar against the Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State.

Speaking at the extraordinary meeting of the OIC Executive Committee on this issue, he said that the indifference of the international community with regard to the rights of the Rohingya people, and the disunity among the 25 Rohingya organizations had motivated the OIC to take efforts to unite these organizations at the OIC headquarters last May.

Ihsanoglu declared that the OIC has directed its UN office to work in coordination with OIC member states which are non-permanent members of the Security Council, like Azerbaijan, Morocco, Pakistan and Togo, to urge the Council to look into the sufferings of the Rohingya minority.

He suggested looking into the possibility of forming an Islamic fact-finding committee to find an ever-lasting and just solution to this pending issue.

Ihsanoglu called on the OIC Permanent and Independent Human Rights Commission to study the crisis of Myanmar Muslims and its human rights implications during its next session which will be held in Turkey by the end of this month.

The OIC secretary general wished if Bangladesh could review its position on the Muslim refugees from Myanmar, and at the same time said that he understands Bangladesh position and the sensitivity of the issue.

Dr. Waqar Uddin, Director General of Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU), who broke down in front of the participants, pleaded the OIC to render support to its brothers and sisters who are being killed and displaced in Rakhine State.


He supported imposing economic sanctions on the Myanmar government and tightening of Western sanctions imposed on it.

Dr. Waqar Uddin made a presentation on the condition of Myanmar Muslims at the OIC Executive Committee meeting.

In a report this week citing witnesses and interviews with 57 people in Rakhine state, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said there was evidence of “state-sponsored persecution and discrimination” against the Rohingyas, which number at least 800,000 in Myanmar.

The report said security forces had carried out extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrest and torture and had done nothing to intervene to stop the lynching of 10 Muslims by a Buddhist mob, which preceded a week of riots, arson and knife attacks that killed 77 people and displaced tens of thousands.

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The OIC Ambassador HE Ufuk Gokcen expressed serious concern over the deteriorating situation in Arakan in a meeting with Prof. Dr. Wakar Uddin, the Director General of Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU) and the Chairman of the Burmese Rohingya Association of North America (BRANA), and Nay San Oo, the Information Secretary of BRANA and the Co-founder of Free Rohingya Campaign, at the OIC Mission at the United Nations. 

In response to the questions by the HE Ambassador, Dr. Uddin provided detailed accounts of the current crisis in Arakan and the most immediate needs of the Rohingya victims in Northern Arakan State. Dr. Uddin and Nay San Oo explained how the brutal murders of Rohingya men, women, and children by Buddhist Rakhine vigilantes recently has transitioned to massive arrests, torture, and cold blooded murders of innocent Rohingya men by Burmese police, Lon Htein, and Nasaka forces in jails. They further explained how the State of Emergency imposed by Burmese government in Arakan is taking toll on Rohingya as they cannot go out of their houses in search of food and medicine even during day time as the Rakhine mobs are continuously attacking and looting Rohingya while Burmese police forces are providing coverage for Rakhine. “ The Rakhine are not obeying the state of emergency law, and they are roaming the streets and looting Rohingya houses. The imposition of state of emergency is providing leverage for Rakhine and crippling the Rohingya. These are compelling evidences of how the Burmese government has manipulated the situation in favor of Rakhine through this state of emergency law to further marginalize Rohingya” Dr. Uddin stated. “The Burmese forces are raiding Rohingya houses and taking the male adults away to unknown destinations. There are numerous cases of assault on Rohingya women and rapes by Burmese forces, particularly where men of the households were taken away by the Burmese forces” he added. Dr. Uddin has appealed to the HE Ambassador to assist the international community in rapid mobilization of the food aid to Rohingya as the Burmese forces are diverting the current aid supplies to Rakhine. He has also given the accounts of numerous mosques gutted and others shut down in Arakan by the Burmese government - not allowing Rohingya to pray and arresting Imams in several locations. 


ARAKAN ROHINGYA UNION (ARU) DIRECTOR GENERAL BRIEFS AT THE UN  

On the same day, in the afternoon, Dr. Uddin and Nay San Oo were invited to the United Nations for a closed-door briefing on the current situation in Arakan. The briefing was conducted through audio-visual presentation, beginning with demographic background information on Rohingya, some highlights of the roles of Rohingya in the multi-ethnic political process during the post-colonial periods of Burma, how the military dictatorship have systematically revoked the citizenship of Rohingya, the persistent human rights violations and persecution of Rohingya by the Burmese government forces, coordinated ethnic cleansing in Rohingya areas in Arakan, the ultra-nationalist and racist ideology of Rakhine as a compounding factor, implication of Burmanization schemes in ethnic minority areas in Burma, and the current ongoing violence and genocide against Rohingya in Arakan. Dr. Uddin stressed the serious needs of humanitarian aid such as food, shelter, and medicine as the current aid supplies are not reaching Rohingya people. Additionally, the Rakhine vigilantes are robbing food from Rohingya, if there is any remnant left in Rohingya’s possession. Further, Dr. Uddin made an urgent appeal the UN to intensify its efforts in Arakan and to demand Burmese Government to allow immediate deployment of UN personnel, particularly a commission of enquiry and peacekeeping/monitoring team, in Arakan State. In conclusion, Dr. Uddin stressed “we are running out of time, people are dying in the open and in jails of horror - please initiate the deployment of UN personnel in affected areas urgently”. 

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OIC အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu ဓာတ္ပုံ - oic-oci.org

မဇၩိမသတင္းဌာန | ၾကာသပေတးေန႔၊ ဇူလုိင္လ ၂၆ ရက္ ၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္

 အဖြဲ႔၀င္ႏိုင္ငံေပါင္း ၅၇ ႏိုင္ငံရွိသည့္ အစၥလာမ္မစ္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေရးအဖြဲ႔ (OIC)၏ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu က ျမန္မာသမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ႏွင့္ ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ မစၥတာ ဘန္ကီမြန္းတို႔ထံသို႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္း မူဆလင္မ်ားအေပၚ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈမ်ား အဆံုးသတ္ေရးအတြက္ ကူညီေပးပါ ရန္ ဗုဒၶဟူးေန႔က စာေရးသား ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္သည္။

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ မူဆလင္မ်ား၏ လံုျခံဳေရးအတြက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးပါရန္ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္အား OIC အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္က ေတာင္းဆိုထားျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

ဦးသိန္းစိန္ထံ ေပးပို႔လိုက္ေသာ Dr. Ihsanoglu ၏ စာတြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္း မူဆလင္မ်ားအေပၚ ဖိအားေပးေနမႈမ်ား အဆံုးသတ္ရန္အတြက္ေရးသားထားေၾကာင္း OIC က ေၾကညာခ်က္ထုတ္ျပန္ထားသည္။

“ဤကိစၥႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ၿပီး OIC အေနျဖင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအား မည္သည့္အကူအညီမ်ဳိးမဆို ေပးအပ္ရန္ အဆင္သင့္ ျဖစ္ေနပါသည္” ဟု ဦးသိန္းစိန္ထံေရးသားေပးပို႔လိုက္ၿပီး မစၥတာ ဘန္ကီထြန္းထံသို႔ ေပးပို႔လိုက္ေသာ စာတြင္လည္း “ဤကိစၥႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ၿပီး OIC အေနျဖင့္ ကုလသမဂၢအား မည္သည့္အကူအညီမ်ဳိးမဆို ေပးအပ္ရန္ အဆင္သင့္ ျဖစ္ေနပါသည္” ဟူ၍ အလားတူ ပါရွိသည္။ ထို႔ျပင္ ကုလသမဂၢအေနႏွင့္ ျမန္မာအစိုးရအေပၚ ပိုမိုၾသဇာေညာင္းပါေစေၾကာင္းလည္း ေရးသားထားသည္ဟု ေဆာ္ဒီ အာေရးဗ်ႏိုင္ငံ Jaddah ၿမိဳ႕မွလာသည့္ Anadolu Agency သတင္းတရပ္ တြင္ ေဖာ္ျပပါရွိသည္။

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ မူဆလင္မ်ားအေပၚ တိုက္ခိုက္မႈမ်ားအား လွ်င္ျမန္စြာ စံုစမ္းေဖာ္ထုတ္ၿပီး တာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ားအား တရားရံုးတင္စစ္ေဆးမႈအတြက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးပါရန္ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ကို OIC အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu က ေတာင္းဆိုထားသည္။

၁၉၆၉ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းခဲ့သည့္ OIC အဖြဲ႔သည္ ကုလသမဂၢတြင္ အျမဲတမ္း ကိုယ္စားလွယ္တဦး ထားခြင့္ရရွိထားၿပီး မူဆလင္ကမၻာ၏ စုေပါင္းအသံ ျဖစ္ေစရန္ႏွင့္ မူဆလင္မ်ား၏ အက်ဳိးစီးပြား ကာကြယ္ရန္ စသည့္ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္မ်ားျဖင့္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းထားျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။

မူလ အမည္ျဖစ္သည့္ Organisation of the Islamic Conference ကို ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္တြင္မွ Organisation of Islamic Cooperation သို႔ ေျပာင္းလဲလိုက္သည့္ OIC တြင္ အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွ ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား၊ ဘရူႏိုင္းႏွင့္ မေလးရွားတို႔ ပါ၀င္သလို ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံႏွင့္ နယ္နိမိတ္ခ်င္း ထိဆက္ေနသည့္ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ႏိုင္ငံလည္း အဖြဲ႔၀င္အျဖစ္ ပါ၀င္ေနသည္။



Rohingya refugee Rehana Begum holds her child as she hides in a house in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on June 17, 2012. She said her family fled mass burning of houses and violence in Burma, setting out in a wooden boat for neighbouring Bangladesh. They were pushed back three times by border guards, but finally made it on their fourth attempt and are now hiding with local villagers to avoid being arrested. (PHOTO: Reuters)



WASHINGTON—The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has written to Burmese President Thein Sein, urging him to address the plight of the Rohingya minority community in accordance with the accepted practices of international human rights.

In the letter, OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu sought assurances from the Burmese president for the safety and security of the Rohingyas as citizens of the country, and called for an end to all intimidation and oppression against them. Ihsanoglu also called on Thein Sein to take appropriate steps to carry out prompt and effective investigations of the atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims since June 3, and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Ihsanoglu assured Then Sein of the OIC’s readiness to cooperate with the Burmese government to advise and assist in the repatriation process of Muslim ethnic minority in the country and to help create a climate of trust and confidence.

OIC letters were also sent to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, urging them to use their good offices and influence with the Burmese government to bring about an immediate resolution of the issue.
Earlier this month, Ihsanoglu had strongly condemned the alleged repression and violation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims in Arakan State, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians, and the burning of their homes and mosques.

Ihsanoglu made no mention of the allegations that Rohingyas had carried out reciprocal acts against Arakanese Buddhists.
Noting that the recent restoration of democracy in the country had raised hopes in the international community that oppression against Rohingya Muslims citizens would end and that they would be able to enjoy equal rights and opportunities, the OIC secretary-general, however, said that the recent violence against them had caused great alarm and concern to the international Muslim community.

The OIC said it was “shocked by the unfortunate remarks” of President Thein Sein disowning Rohingya Muslims as citizens of Burma.

The 57-member OIC includes all the nations of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia and other countries with strong Muslim populations, encompassing some 1.6 billion people worldwide.

In its mandate, the OIC says it seeks to safeguard the well-being of Muslims around the world. It has been a vocal supporter of the Palestinian cause, and has criticized Israel for its continuous use of state terrorism over the years. It has accused Thailand of committing human rights abuses against its Muslim minority in the southern states of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani. And India’s membership is blocked, vetoed by Pakistan, due to its occupation of parts of Kashmir.

In 1999, the bloc adopted the OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism. It does not recognize groups such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban, but does allow observer status to the Moro National Liberation Front, thereby blocking the membership of the Philippines.

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Friday 20 July 2012
The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has launched a major international campaign to put an end to the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority in the Arakan state of Myanmar and protect their legitimate rights.

OIC offices in Geneva, New York, and Brussels are making intense efforts to foster international intervention in the issue. The OIC is in touch with the United Nations, UN Human Rights Council, European Union and other international organizations to halt the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar.

OIC Secretary-General Ekmeledin Ihsanoglu strongly condemned the renewed repression of Rohingyas since June 2012, which has resulted in deaths of innocent civilians, burning of their homes and mosques, and forcing them to leave their homeland.
He added that over the past three decades, Rohingya Muslim citizens had been subjected to gross violation of human rights including ethnic cleansing, killings, rape, and forced displacement by Myanmar security forces.

“The recent restoration of democracy in Myanmar had raised hopes in the international community that oppression against Rohingya Muslims would end, and that they would be able to enjoy equal rights and opportunities. However, the renewed violence against Rohingyas has caused great concern to the OIC,” Ihsanoglu said.

“When efforts of the international community including the United Nations were underway for a peaceful resolution of the issue, the OIC was shocked by the unfortunate remarks of President Thien Sein disowning Rohingya Muslims as citizens of Myanmar,” he said.
The OIC chief stressed that the Myanmar government, as a member of the United Nations and ASEAN, had to adhere to the international human rights charters, including the relevant conventions and declarations, in treatment of its citizens.

Ihsanoglu referred to the UN declaration that the Rohingyas are an ethnic, religious and linguistic minority from western Burma. Historical facts show that Rohingyas have been present in the land of Myanmar for centuries before the arrival of the British and before the formation of Burma.
“In spite of this, the government of Myanmar continues to persecute and discriminate against the Rohingyas,” he said, adding that the citizenship law of 1982 violated international norms by stripping the Rohingyas unjustly of their right to citizenship.

Ihsanoglu hoped that the Myanmar government would respond to the concerns of the international community in a positive and constructive manner, so that all its Rohingya Muslims are able to return to their homeland in honor, safety and dignity. 

“The OIC Charter stipulates that the organization should assist Muslim minorities and communities outside the member states to preserve their dignity, cultural and religious identity,” he added. “Myanmar should recognize that its new engagement at the international level does not only come with opportunities but also with responsibilities,” Ihsanoglu said.
The OIC intends to send a delegation to Myanmar after meeting with its permanent representative to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Ihsanoglu called on the Myanmar government to order an immediate probe into the slaughtering of Rohingya Muslims to bring those responsible to justice.

The OIC chief recently sent a letter to Myanmar’s pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi urging her to help end the violence against the Rohingya community. “As a Nobel Peace laureate, we are confident that the first step of your journey toward ensuring peace in the world would start from your own doorstep, and that you would play a positive role in putting an end to the violence that has afflicted Arakan State,” it said.
The OIC chief suggested that Suu Kyi could make the government in Naypyidaw 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 homes.

Rohingyas living in Arakan State of Burma are one of the most forgotten and persecuted peoples on earth. Their population is about three million, of which about 1.5 million are in diasporas in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK and Europe.

“The successive Burmese regimes have subjected them to institutionalized persecution, and the ruling civilianized military government is no exception,” said Nurul Islam, president of Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO).

The Thein Sein government's wind of change has not touched the Rohingyas yet, he said. Even the very word “Rohingya” is blacklisted and unmentionable, while the authorities have described them as “illegal immigrants from Bangladesh”, he added. 

According to Nurul Islam, the primary factor that has led the Rohingyas to suffer grave human rights violations or crimes against humanity in Burma is their religion and ethnicity.
“Arbitrary killings, rape, torture, land confiscation, forced labor, forced relocation, theft, extortion and so on, perpetrated by the authorities in cohort with local miscreants and xenophobes, are widespread,” he said. The phenomenon can be described as slow burning genocide, which aims at ethnic cleansing or driving the Rohingyas into Bangladesh, he said.
In 1982, late dictator Ne Win enacted a new citizenship law that violated several fundamental principles of international charters and rendered the Rohingyas stateless. Their basic freedoms, such as freedom of movement, marriage and education, and economic activities are under humiliating restrictions.

Extension, repairs and renovation, and construction of new mosques or religious institutes have been prohibited. Muslim relics, monuments and place names have been erased. All these attempts aim at effacing the Muslim character of Arakan, said Nurul Islam.
A planned increase in Buddhist settler villages has caused serious demographic changes in Rohingya homeland. Vast tracks of their lands have been confiscated, forcing the Rohingyas to become increasingly landless, internally displaced, and to eventually starve them out to cross the border into Bangladesh.

There are 28,000 legal and over 200,000 illegal Rohingya refugees living in squalid condition in southern Chittagong, Bangladesh. The illegal refugees are vulnerable, often subject to arrest and harassment by security forces.

As a result, many Rohingyas become desperate and voyage in rickety boats to Southeast Asian countries in search of protection and food security. Since 2009, many died, over a thousand drowned, while scores of others were rescued or jailed in Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and East Timor. A number of them were victimized at the hands of greedy exploiters and human traffickers.

Given their position of statelessness, food insecurity, denial of access to education and employment, lack of security of life, property, dignity and honor, the Rohingyas have virtually become a “dying alive” population in their own homeland. “This impossible situation is a 'push factor' that the Burmese government has created. They want the Rohingyas to slowly leave their hearth and home,” said Nurul Islam, who has repeatedly appealed to the international community to address the root cause of the Rohingya problem for a permanent solution. He has also requested for international protection in the absence of national protection.

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Date: 15/07/2012

The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, in a statement issued in Jeddah today, strongly condemned the renewed repression and violation of human rights of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim nationals since last June 2012 that has resulted in deaths of innocent civilians, burning of their homes and mosques and forcing them to leave their homeland. He added that over the past three decades, the Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim citizens have been subjected to gross violation of human rights including ethnic cleansing, killings, rape, and forced displacement by Myanmar security forces. 

Ihsanoglu said that the recent restoration of democracy in Myanmar had raised hopes in the international community that oppression against Rohingya Muslims citizens would end and that they would be able to enjoy equal rights and opportunities. However, the renewed violence against Rohingya Muslims on June 3, 2012 had caused great alarm and concern to the OIC. He said that when efforts of the international community including the United Nations were underway for a peaceful resolution of the issue, the OIC was shocked by the unfortunate remarks of Myanmar President Thien Sein disowning Rohingya Muslims as citizens of Myanmar. Secretary General stressed that the Myanmar Government as a member of the United Nations and the ASEAN, must adhere to the international human rights instruments including the relevant conventions and declarations, in treatment of their citizens. 

Secretary General Ihsanoglu referred to the United Nations declaration that the Rohingya are an ethnic, religious and linguistic minority from western Burma, and historical facts show that Rohingyas have been present in the land of Myanmar centuries before the British came in and after they left, before the formation of Burma, and very clearly before the formation of the current state of Myanmar. In spite of this, the government of Myanmar continues to persecute and discriminate against the Rohingya minority, particularly the citizenship law 1982, which violated international norms by stripping the Rohingyas unjustly of their rights of citizenship.

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu hoped that the Myanmar Government would respond to the concerns of the international community in a positive and constructive manner so that all its Rohingya Muslim citizens are able to return to their homeland in honour, safety and dignity. He said that the OIC Charter stipulates the Organization to assist Muslim minorities and communities outside the Member States to preserve their dignity, cultural and religious identity. In this spirit, he also expressed the OIC’s determination to remain seized with the issue and to bring it in the agenda of the concerned international interlocutors including the United Nations, Human Rights Commissions, ASEAN, the EU as well bilaterally with the Myanmar Government, for a peaceful and lasting resolution of the issue. Myanmar should recognize that its new engagement at the international level doesn’t only come with opportunities but also with responsibilities.

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ကမာၻေပၚတြင္ ၅၇ ခုေသာမြတ္စလင္ႏုိင္ငံမ်ားပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္သည့္အဖြဲ႔ျဖစ္သည့္ Organisation of Islamic Cooperation OIC မွ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာမြတ္စလင္မ်ား အေပၚျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္ျဖစ္ေပၚ လ်က္ရွိေသာ အေျခအေနမ်ားကုိအထူးစုိးရိမ္ေၾကာင္းထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာၾကား၍ ေဆာ္ဒီအာေရဗ်ားနိုင္ငံ  ဂ်ီဒၵားၿမဳိ႕ မွယေန ႔ဇူ လုိင္ လ  (၁၅) ရက္ေန႔ တြင္ တရား၀င္စာထုတ္ျပန္လုိက္သည္။


OIC ၏အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ Mr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu မွေျပာဆုိရာတြင္ဇြန္လ အတြင္းျဖစ္ေပၚခဲ့ေသာ အေျခအေနမ်ားတြင္ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ား၏အိမ္မ်ားမီးရွဳိ႕ခံရျခင္း၊ ဗလီမ်ားဖ်က္ ဆီးခံ ရျခင္းႏွင့္ေန အိမ္မ်ားမွာအတင္းအဓမၼေမာင္းထုတ္၍မိမိတုိ႔၏ေျမမွစြန္႔ခြာရျခင္းတုိ႔ အျပင္အျပစ္မဲ့ေသာ သူမ်ားသတ္ျဖတ္ ခံရျခင္းမ်ားရွိခဲ့သည္။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသားျဖစ္ၾကေသာ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာမြတ္စလင္မ်ား ကုိလူ႔အခြင့္ အေရးခ်ဳိးေဖာက္ ၍ထပ္မံဖိႏွိပ္ရန္ေျပာဆုိျခင္းကုိလည္းအျပင္းအထန္ကန္႔ကြက္ရႈံ႕ခ်ေၾကာင္း၊ လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ ဆယ္စုႏွစ္သုံးခုေက်ာ္မွစ၍ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသားမ်ားျဖစ္ ၾကေသာရုိဟင္ဂ်ာမြတ္စလင္မ်ားကုိ နယ္ေျမခံ လုံၿခဳံေရးတပ္ဖြဲ႔မ်ားမွလူ႔အခြင့္အေရးခ်ဳိးေဖာက္ျခင္း၊ အစုလုိက္အၿပဳံလုိက္သတ္ျဖတ္ျခင္း၊ မုဒိန္းက်င့္ျခင္းႏွင့္ အုိးမဲ့အိမ္မဲ့ျဖစ္ေအာင္အတင္းအဓမၼေမာင္းထုတ္ျခင္းမ်ားရွိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း Mr. Ihsanoglu မွေျပာၾကားသည္။ 

၎ကဆက္လက္ေျပာၾကားရာတြင္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္ဒီမုိကေရစီစနစ္ျပန္ လည္ထူေထာင္လာျခင္း သည္ႏုိင္ ငံတကာအသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္းအတြက္ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ဳိးအေပၚညွင္းပန္းႏွိပ္ စက္ျခင္းမ်ားအဆုံးသတ္ၿပီး၊ တူညီေသာႏုိင္ငံသားအခြင့္အေရးမ်ားရရွိခံစားရလိမ့္မည္ဟူေသာေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ သုိ႔ေသာ္ဇြန္လ (၃) ရက္ေန႔မွစတင္ခဲ့ေသာ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈႀကီးသည္ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအေရး အတြက္ မိမိတုိ႔ အဖြဲ႔မွအေရးစုိက္ရန္ ႏႈိးေဆာ္ခ်က္ တစ္ခုျဖစ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ ႏုိင္ငံတကာအသုိင္း အ၀ုိင္းႏွင့္ကုလသမဂၢ တုိ႔မွၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာေျဖရွင္းရန္ေျပာဆုိေနေသာအခ်ိန္တြင္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတ သိန္းစိန္မွ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာမြတ္စလင္မ်ားကုိႏုိင္ငံသားျငင္းပယ္ျခင္းသည္လြန္စြာစိတ္ပ်က္ဖြယ္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသည္ ကုလ သမဂၢႏွင့္ အာဆီယံအ ဖြဲ႔၀င္ျဖစ္သည္ႏွင့္အညီ ႏုိင္ငံတကာလူ႔အခြင့္ အေရးေၾကညာ စာတမ္း၊ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ ညီလာခံမ်ားတြင္သေဘာတူညီခ်က္ မ်ား၊ ေၾကညာခ်က္မ်ားႏွင့္ႏုိင္ငံ သားမ်ားကုိ အေပၚ အျပဳ အမႈ မ်ား ကုိေစာင့္ထိန္းလုိက္နာရန္လုိေၾကာင္းထုတ္ျပန္သည့္စာတြင္ေရးသားထားသည္။ 

အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္မွရည္ညြန္းေျပာဆုိရာတြင္ ကုလသမဂၢ၏ေၾကညာခ်က္တြင္ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ား သည္လူမ်ဳိး၊ ကုိးကြယ္သည့္ဘာသာ၊ ေျပာဆုိ သည့္ဘာသာစကား အရျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ၏ အေနာက္ပုိင္းမွ လူနည္းစုျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ သမုိင္းေၾကာင္းအရရုိဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားသည္ ယခုလက္ရွိ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ တြင္ျမန္မာႏုိင္ ငံဟုမေပၚေပါက္ သည့္အခ်ိန္ျဖစ္ သည့္ၿဗိတိသွ်ေခတ္ မတုိင္မွီရာစုႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ား စြာကတည္းကရွိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ ျမန္မာ အစုိးရမွ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားကုိခြဲျခား ဆက္ဆံ၍ဖိႏွိပ္ သည့္အျပင္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ စံခ်ိန္စံညြန္းႏွင့္ဆန္႔ က်င္ေသာ ၁၉၈၂ ခုႏွစ္ႏုိင္ငံသားအက္ဥပေဒ ျပ႒ာန္း၍ ႏုိင္ငံသား အျဖစ္ မွျငင္း ပယ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ဆက္ လက္ေျပာ ၾကားသည္။ 

Mr. Ihsanoglu အေနႏွင့္ျမန္မာအစုိးရမွေကာင္း မြန္ေသာအျပဳသေဘာေဆာင္၍ႏုိင္ ငံတကာ အသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္း ကုိတုန္႔ျပန္မည္ဟုေမွ်ာ္လင့္ ေၾကာင္း၊ ႏုိင္ငံသားမ်ားျဖစ္ၾကသည့္ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာ မြတ္စလင္မ်ားသည္ လည္းလုံၿခဳံစြာႏွင့္ဂုဏ္သိကၡာရွိစြာမိမိတုိ႔၏ေနရပ္မ်ားတြင္ျပန္လည္ေနထုိင္ ႏုိင္မည္ဟုေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေၾကာင္း၊ မိမိတုိ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္း အေနႏွင့္မိမိတုိ႔၏ အဖြဲ႔၀င္ႏုိင္ငံမဟုတ္ သည့္ႏုိင္ငံမ်ားတြင္ေနထုိင္ေသာ မြတ္စလင္လူနည္းစု မ်ား၏ဂုဏ္သိကၡာ၊ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈႏွင့္ ဘာသာေရး အေျခအေနမ်ားအတြက္ကာ ကြယ္ကူညီေပးရန္မိမိတုိ႔၏ အဖြဲ႔အစည္း၏ လုပ္ပုိင္ခြင့္တြင္ပါရွိ ေၾကာင္း၊ မိမိတုိ႔အေနႏွင့္ႏုိင္ငံတကာအသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္း၊ ကုလသမဂၢ၊ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေကာ္မရွင္မ်ား၊ အာဆီယံႏွင့္ ဥေရာပသမဂၢ၊ ျမန္မာအစုိးရ တုိ႔ႏွင့္အတူပူးေပါင္း၍ ယခုျဖစ္ေပၚေနေသာျပႆ နာကုိၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာေျဖရွင္း ရန္လုိလားေၾကာင္း၊ ႏုိင္ငံတကာအဆင့္တြင္အခါအခြင့္ႀကဳံ၍မဟုတ္ ပဲ၊ တာ၀န္သိတတ္စြာၿငိမ္းခ်မ္း စြာေရရွည္ခံ မည့္အတုိင္း အတာႏွင့္ေျဖရွင္း သြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းေၾကညာ ခ်က္ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကာင္း သတင္းရ ရွိပါ သည္။ 

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ကုလသမဂၢ လက္ေအာက္ခံ အစၥလမ္ အဖြဲ႕တဖြဲ႕ျဖစ္သည့္ Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) အဖြဲ႕က ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ေလ့လာ စုံစမ္းရန္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသို႔ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ အဖြဲ႕ေစလႊတ္မည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

 ဆြစ္ဇာလန္ႏုိင္ငံ ဂ်နီဗာၿမိဳ႕ရွိ ကုလသမဂၢ လူ႔အခြင့္ အေရး ေကာင္စီ ဆိုင္ရာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ အၿမဲတမ္းကုိယ္စားလွယ္ႏွင့္ ေတြ႕ဆုံၿပီးေနာက္ ယင္း သို႔ စီစဥ္ျခင္းျဖစ္ ေၾကာင္း OIC ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ကို ကိုးကား၍ ဘနားမား သတင္းက ယေန႔ ေဖာ္ျပသည္။ ဇူလိုင္ ၉ ရက္ကလည္း ရခိုင္ေဒသ ပဋိပကၡမ်ားအတြင္း ေသဆုံးခဲ့ေသာ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ မ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး တရားဥပေဒႏွင့္အညီ အျမန္ဆုံး စုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးရန္ OIC အဖြဲ႕က ျမန္မာ အစိုးရကို ေတာင္းဆို ထားသည္။

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Rohingya Exodus