Arakan Rohingya Union Director General Appeals to President Thein Sein for Full Enforcement of the State of Emergency in Arakan
"The segment of the Rohingya issue in this report starts at 41th minute"
Prof. Dr. Wakar Uddin has urgently called on the Burmese President U Thein Sein to ensure that the imposition of state of emergency law is implemented in Arakan State to the fullest of its letter and spirit. During the interview on BBC World Service in London, Dr. Wakar Uddin has appealed to President U Thein Sein not to allow the local police and Lon Htein forces in Northern Rakhine State operate above the law, but to show full regards to the law by those forces.
Dr. Uddin was referring to the daily looting of Rohingya shops and houses by Rakhine mobs under the cover from the police and Lon Htein forces in broad daylight. Additionally, he expressed his serious concerns on police shootings and killings of Rohingya civilians, and the partiality in enforcement of the state of emergency law. He was referring to the movement of Rakhine mobs on the street during the curfew at night and Rohingya civilians getting fired upon when anyone tries to peak out from their property looking for food and water even during the daylight. When the BBC moderator asked Dr. Uddin whether he was sure about the police shooting and guarding of Rakhine property and the Rakhine mob, he offered documentation (photographs) as the evidence in addition to the reliable reports. He has also indicated that the ethnic cleansing to eliminate the indigenous Rohingya population of Arakan has been systematically turned into religious violence by Rakhine extremist elements (to seek broader supports from their fellow Buddhist elsewhere in the country).
In response to the question of whether the newly emerging democratic reforms is being threatened by the violence and the military rule in Arakan, he responded that there is a real risk of return of the military administration in other areas in Burma. "This is because the government may have to impose such conditions in other parts of the country, if the violence spills over to other cities in Burma beyond Arakan. So, there is a risk" he added.
Evidence suggests Myanmar’s military has participated in abuses against stateless Muslim Rohingyas following June’s communal violence in western Myanmar, a report from a rights group said this week.
Burning Homes, Sinking Lives by the UK-based Equal Rights Trust (ERT), based on more than 50 interviews with Rohingyas between June 13 and 29, also criticised Bangladesh for refusing entry to many who fled the violence.
Rakhine State experienced days of sectarian violence last month following the gang rape and murder of a Buddhist Rakhine woman and an apparent vigilante killing of 10 Muslims unconnected with the first case.
The violence underlines the big challenges facing Myanmar's first civilian government, which took power in March 2011, ending half a century of authoritarian military rule.
The report said information collected by the ERT and others appears to show that serious and widespread abuses are taking place against Rohingyas in Myanmar.
“At best, the state may be unable or unwilling to take control of the situation and stop such violations,” it said.
“At worst – and what appears to be most likely on the basis of the available evidence – both state and non-state actors have been responsible for human rights abuses which have been carried out in an organised and a systematic manner,” the report added.
Rights groups say the Rohingyas, a Muslim minority in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, face some of the worst discrimination in the world. They were deprived of free movement, education and employment under the country's former military rulers - a situation that continues today.
They are also denied Myanmar citizenship and considered illegal immigrants. Bangladesh refuses to recognise them as citizens too.
'KILLINGS AND ARRESTS'
According to the ERT, the violence against Rohingyas worsened after the government declared a state of emergency on June 10 and the United Nations withdrew from the area, leaving no international observers on the ground.
“From June 16 onwards, the military became more actively involved in committing acts of violence and other human rights abuses against the Rohingya including killings and mass-scale arrests of Rohingya men and boys in North Rakhine State,” the report said.
“This has caused an increased proportion of men and boys to flee the country, resulting in increased incidences of rape of the women left behind, committed by Myanmar security personnel,” it added.
The report also said displaced Rohingyas have not received sufficient humanitarian assistance from the state.
Across the border in Bangladesh, fleeing Rohingyas were turned back “despite the pleas... that they would be killed if returned, as well as the extremely unsafe condition of some of their boats”, violating international refugee and human rights laws, it said.
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Reported from Maung Ni Village this morning by Rahim, a victim who escaped the terrible incident on a close shave.
A joint group of Police, Lun-Htin (Security Forces), Sa-Ra-Pha (State Affairs Security) and local Rakhine thugs raided Maung Ni Village of Maung Daw, Arakan, Burma this morning at a time when everyone was sleeping and praying. Hence, everyone was unconscious about the raid.The Rohingya men are made into coma and unconscious state by beating with already designed and articulated weapons. By this means, they took away almost every man from the village by putting into four trucks to unknown locations. Besides, it is informed that the blood was dropping like rain all along the way from the trucks on which Rohingya men were taken away. According to the people in Arakan, the authorities have plans to do more such barbaric killings in other villages too.
The worst thing is that this plan to wipe out all Rohingyas from Arakan is supported by the Rakhine leaders in the country and abroad. They (the leaders of Rakhines) are saying "let's wipe out all these people. If International Court of Justice punish us for these killings, we (a few leaders of Rakhines) will plead guilty and take the punishments on behalf all Rakhine people. By no means, they (International Court of Justice) can punish all the Rakhines for the killings of these people." So, by this statement, it is very obvious that they have genocidal tendency against Rohingyas, who want to extinguish all Rohingyas from Arakan.
As it is known to everyone that Rohingyas in Arakan have been under threats and being killed by the authorities. Now, the situation has become worse as they have speeded up the killings. Please UN, International Criminal Court of Justice Amnesty International and other international communities, help out to save Rohingyas from being extinguished.
Report By :Mohammed S. Anwar
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Maungdaw Township
4 July, Wednesday Early morning: A joint raid in Maung Ni Village arrested at least 100 Rohingyans, 2 shot dead and the 8 other wounded..
(Pl see BRCA's press statement from the attached file)
As we, NDPHR received information, except from the 2 dead bodies, all of them including wounded people were taken by trucks after brutally beating until some got unconscious. The forces also did religious humiliations by kicking and pissing on the Holy Books, prayer-mats and in the mosque..
Sittwe Township
4 July, Wednesday
16:30pm: Four military forces who guard Aungmingala Quarter were beaten-up by a group of Rakhines near the central market as a result of they came to buy foods for Rohingyans. The money military have about four lakhs Kyat given from Rohingya villagers were also looted. Because of seriously injured, the military were admitted to hospital and the 3 related Rakhines were also arrested.
A few hour later, a group of Rakhines crossed Minbargyi Road and chanted to set fire the remaining houses..
Reported by : Habib (KL)
4 July, Wednesday Early morning: A joint raid in Maung Ni Village arrested at least 100 Rohingyans, 2 shot dead and the 8 other wounded..
(Pl see BRCA's press statement from the attached file)
As we, NDPHR received information, except from the 2 dead bodies, all of them including wounded people were taken by trucks after brutally beating until some got unconscious. The forces also did religious humiliations by kicking and pissing on the Holy Books, prayer-mats and in the mosque..
Sittwe Township
4 July, Wednesday
16:30pm: Four military forces who guard Aungmingala Quarter were beaten-up by a group of Rakhines near the central market as a result of they came to buy foods for Rohingyans. The money military have about four lakhs Kyat given from Rohingya villagers were also looted. Because of seriously injured, the military were admitted to hospital and the 3 related Rakhines were also arrested.
A few hour later, a group of Rakhines crossed Minbargyi Road and chanted to set fire the remaining houses..
Reported by : Habib (KL)
There are few opposition leaders who are welcomed abroad with the same pomp and ceremony as heads of state. But that's the sort of star treatment lavished on Aung San Suu Kyi, opposition leader of Myanmar, also known as Burma, on her three-week tour of Europe.
But pressure is increasing on her to address simmering political crises at home, and to move her country's democratic changes forward.
In Geneva, Oslo, Dublin, London and Paris, Suu Kyi issued eloquent pleas for ethical foreign investment in Myanmar and foreign support for her country's ongoing reforms.
"This is the most important time for Burma," she told parliamentarians and dignitaries gathered in London's Westminster Hall.
"This is the moment of our greatest need," she continued. "And so I would ask that our friends both here in Britain and beyond participate in and support Burma's efforts toward the establishment of a truly democratic and just society."
'Reform Program' Still Fragile Suu Kyi, the first foreign woman and Asian citizen to speak at Westminster in the palace's 900-year history, said that beyond President Thein Sein, it's hard to determine how much support the current efforts in Myanmar enjoy, especially within the country's military. It's an assessment shared by outside observers.
"The entire reform program in Myanmar now hangs by a very slender thread," says Vikram Nehru, a Southeast Asia expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. He says Suu Kyi must quickly throw her considerable authority behind Thein Sein's key reform policies.
"Otherwise there's a great danger that the enemies of reform, those that are currently benefiting from the current system, will exert a pushback," he warns, "and that might be to the detriment of the long-term development of the country."
Pressure is increasing for Suu Kyi to make good on her inspiring rhetoric about human rights. There's no starker example than the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, next to Bangladesh.
Mob violence among Burmese Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims there has claimed at least 80 lives and created as many as 90,000 refugees in the past month.
Many Rohingya immigrated to largely Buddhist Myanmar from what is now Bangladesh generations ago. But neither Bangladesh's nor Myanmar's government recognizes them as citizens.
When asked in Oslo whether Rohingyas are citizens of Myanmar, Suu Kyi said she did not know.
"When you talk about the Rohingya, we are not quite sure whom you are talking about," she said. "There's some who say those people who claim to be Rohingyas are not the ones who are actually native to Burma but have just come over recently from Bangladesh."
A Sensitive Issue
Suu Kyi echoes popular complaints in Myanmar that the problem is caused in part by corrupt immigration officials along the border, and ineffective law enforcement in Rakhine state. She says that establishing the rule of law is the key to resolving the issue, but she does not suggest what the law should say.
"She finds herself in a very difficult position, because her constituency is known to be extremely anti-Rohingya," says Maung Zarni, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Suu Kyi was elected to represent the remote rural township of Kawhmu, a three-hour drive from the main city of Yangon.
Maung Zarni points out that, when it comes to the subject of the Rohingya, the views of many Burmese pro-democracy activists are just as discriminatory and intolerant as those of the former junta they once fought.
"We must not be ashamed to admit that we have illiberal tendencies and elements within our culture and our practices, and they need to be rectified in accordance with the principles that we espouse or we are fighting for," Maung Zarni says. "You can't have it both ways. Are you for human rights, or are you against human rights?"
Maung Zarni suggests that Suu Kyi emphasize her principles while avoiding the specifics of the citizenship debate. He admits that he, too, opposes recognizing the Rohingya as one of the country's ethnic minorities.
Capitalizing On Recent Momentum
Fresh from her election to Parliament on April 1, and at the end of a triumphant tour of Europe, Suu Kyi now finds herself at an unprecedented level of popularity at home and abroad.
Some supporters point out that Suu Kyi is under considerable pressure not to upset the military into rolling back the changes and revoking her freedoms, and that she is working hard to build an organization that was focused on survival during decades of military suppression. They advise observers to be patient and not judge her too quickly.
But other supporters say Suu Kyi can afford to waste neither time nor opportunities to consolidate and push forward the country's fledgling reforms.
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Fresh from her election to Parliament on April 1, and at the end of a triumphant tour of Europe, Suu Kyi now finds herself at an unprecedented level of popularity at home and abroad.
Some supporters point out that Suu Kyi is under considerable pressure not to upset the military into rolling back the changes and revoking her freedoms, and that she is working hard to build an organization that was focused on survival during decades of military suppression. They advise observers to be patient and not judge her too quickly.
But other supporters say Suu Kyi can afford to waste neither time nor opportunities to consolidate and push forward the country's fledgling reforms.
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အာဏာဟာ ေသနတ္ေျပာင္းဝက သာလာျပီး အနုိဳင္ရသူေတြက (တရားဝင္) သမုိင္းေရးေနတဲ႕ကာလမွာ ကိုယ္ဖဲကိုယ္ခ်ဳိး ကိုယ့္ဥပေဒ ကုိယ္ထုတ္ထားတဲ႕အစုိးရတရပ္ ဆုိသူေတြက ရခုိင္ျပသနာကုိ သူတုိ႕ အၾကပ္အတည္းေတြ အတြက္ ထြက္ေပါက္တခု ဖန္တီး လုိက္ တယ္လုိ႕ ဆုိရမွာပါ၊၊ ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ကဘဂၤါလီနဲ႕ရခုိင္ျပ သနာဟာ အစုိးရ မဖန္တီးဘဲျဖစ္လာနုဳိင္စရာ မရွိေပ၊၊ ဘာေၾကာင္႕ဒီလုိေျပာနုိဳင္သနည္း၊၊ အစုိးရဟာကခ်င္စစ္ပြဲေတြေၾကာင္႕မ်က္နွာပ်က္ေနရခ်ိန္ အပစ္ရပ္ထား တဲ႕ တုိင္းရင္းသားေတြကလဲ ယုံၾကည္မွဳနည္းေန ခ်ိန္ ျပည္တြင္းက အလုပ္ သမား ဆနၵျပမွဳက လုပ္အားခေတာင္းတဲ႕ျပသနာ ဖေယာင္းတုိင္ထြန္းျပီး လွ်ပ္စစ္မီးေတင္းတဲ့ၿပသနာ။ လယ္သိမ္းခံရလို့ လယ္သမားေတြနဲ့ ေခတ္ပ်က္သူေဌးေတြၾကား ၿပသနာေတြ ကသူတို့နဲ့တိုက္ရိုက္ သက္ဆိုင္ေနတဲ့ အရာေတြၿဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။ တဖက္မွာလည္း ဒီမိုကေရစီကို အေၾကာင္း ၿပဳၿပီး လြတ္လပ္စြာေၿပာဆိုခြင့္၊စုေဝးခြင့္၊ထုတ္ေဝခြင့္ေတြ ပြင့္လင္းလာၿပီဆိုတာကို ေတာင္းဆိုသံ က်ယ္ေလာင္ လာတဲ့ကာလမွာတသက္လံုးတေသြးတသံထိမ္းသိမ္းလာခဲ့တဲ့လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးခ်ဳိးေဖါက္မွဳၾကီးကို ေခါင္းၿပဴထြက္မလာဘိုးအတြက္ သတိဆိုတဲ့ခ်ြန္းနဲ့ အုပ္ေနခဲ့ပါတယ္။
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The government authorities do not installed Law and Order for Rakhine people who are openly doing crimes. A few Rakhines those arrested from Sittwe, Kyauktaw and Maungdaw were also released after days. Beside, police authority are arresting Rohingya elders and youths from every village of Sittwe, Maungdaw, Rathedaung and Kyauktaw townships and framing them with false charges.
Government doesn't bother with the call of UN therefore Rohingya people are continued to face tyrant attacks of Rakhines and arbitrary abuses of local authorities. While there is ongoing heavy raining and flooding, it is more than two weeks now they are confined by military guards without supply of food and medicine. Rohingyans are ending-up between gun-fires of security forces and lethal knives of Rakhine people. This time they can't escape because security forces rounded up all the way out, those hiding in remote areas were also attacked by Rakhines and security forces and navy forces are patrolling across the beach and eliminating them.
We also heard about aid contribution. However, all aid supplies are reached to government designated relief centres where authority places perpetrator Rakhine family members only. It is more than two weeks now Rohingya people in all areas including homeless people are seriously and painfully suffering from starvation. Rohingyans need immediate supply of foods, clothes, medicines and shelters. Because, the restriction is still imposed on Rohingya people who are dying on daily basic for lack of foods, medical care, shelters and clothing.
Therefore, this matter of Rohingya is directly requires UN's effectively intervention urgently. Thereis in need of United Nation and international communities to directly monitor the situation
Kyauktaw Township
3 July, Tuesday
Afternnon: The 700 years old ancient mosque (Myoatma Jarmae Mosque) situated between the market and Manaegya Fara, was completely demolished by Rakhines.
Morning: Four Rohingyans who were picked up from in the middle of Kaladan River by a group of Rakhines on 30 June, were confirmed killed and dead bodies were not returned.
Myebon Township
Muslims in Myebon township are mixed of Rakhine muslim, Kaman and Rohingya and population make up around 700 people that size is just about 1% of total Rakhine population in Myebon. Their houses are situated in the Khataktin village of Taungbo Quarter.
Their houses were rounded up by Rakhine people who came from different areas during the time of violences occurred in Sittwe. However, their neighbour who have been lived together for decades are not agreed with any attacks upon muslims and prevented as much as they can. Due to such disputations, military were arrived on time and protected them.
One of their neighbour respected Rakhine leader explained outsider Rakhines those came to attacks muslims that these muslims people have been living with them for generations without any problems and they speak only Rakhine language either. They have already asked to pave away to out from Myebon, they will abandon everything if they could. But these muslim people have no place to escape. So, they would be died here but not alone and their houses within Rakhine village. Incase these few houses of muslims were torched, most of Rakhine houses beside them will be burnt down.
But some Rakhines set fire a muslim house which was only one in central area (Alay Baine) that caused 20 of Rakhine houses inlcuding that muslim house were burnt down since the beginning of violence.
Up to yesterday 2nd July, Rakhines those came from different regions are awaited to attack therefore military forcing are still protecting muslim. Despite native Rakhine leaders ask outsider Rakhines who came to attack to be leave, they said they will not leave unless at least cutting off of 30 muslim heads.
Based on various sources we received, it come to understand that the military forces deployed in Myebon, Kyauktaw and Sittwe are seem as not much abusive and somehow they are protecting muslims. They are much different from those deployed in Maungdaw, Rathedaung and Buthidaung townships.
Breaking news from MaungDaw and Sittwe
3/7/2012
On Monday in daylight, police, lone Htein, Nasaka forces routinely invaded into the Muslims Rohingyas villages; Maung Ni village, Ali village and Bomu Block. Soon they entered into the houses, they separated the elderly women, young ladies, and their children; elderly ones were absurdly beaten and some are still unconscious; young ones were first tortured and raped; and their children were being thrown away into the open raining spaces. Authorities are looting, damaging, destroying the belongings of Muslims Rohingyas as per their wishes in free hands. Mr. Bashir,68 years, and Mr.YasirHussein(f) Mohamed
Akbar,35 years from Block (5) were arrested and they are now in police custody. A man namely Putu, a brother of Than Tun who has been put in jail for 13 years since 2004, was bullied by the police to pay 5 million kyats as an extortion money, as per source. As more, the Mosque of Narundaung and Baguna village from Maung Daw Township were locked and ordered not to pray at all, in accord the villagers.
Sittwe,
A crowd of young girls, from Tantawli village, Sittwe Township, went for search of food desperately to Thetkaybyin village in which most are Muslim Rohingyas, a girl crowd was stopped not to enter into the village by the military on the way, snatching a beautiful girl by one of military unit to rape. Hamida, 20 years, daughter of Abdul Suvan was collectively raped by the three members of military unit which has been in charge for security. Having seen the scene by a fellow teenager, he hurriedly informed the case to the elderly people of the Thatkaypyin village; the in charge of the unit is on the process to take action of the rape committed by the soldiers. Though the situation has been calm a bit, the Rakhine authorities from Maungdaw, Buthidaung, Rathedaung are randomly arresting, torturing the innocent civilians and some were being released after taking money and some were put in Buthidaung Jail without any reason. Muslims Rohingyas feel that restoration of law and order are not prevailed by the authorities, instead, the peace and stabilities of the populace have been destabilized by the police, Nasaka and Paramilitary forces.
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Their houses were rounded up by Rakhine people who came from different areas during the time of violences occurred in Sittwe. However, their neighbour who have been lived together for decades are not agreed with any attacks upon muslims and prevented as much as they can. Due to such disputations, military were arrived on time and protected them.
One of their neighbour respected Rakhine leader explained outsider Rakhines those came to attacks muslims that these muslims people have been living with them for generations without any problems and they speak only Rakhine language either. They have already asked to pave away to out from Myebon, they will abandon everything if they could. But these muslim people have no place to escape. So, they would be died here but not alone and their houses within Rakhine village. Incase these few houses of muslims were torched, most of Rakhine houses beside them will be burnt down.
But some Rakhines set fire a muslim house which was only one in central area (Alay Baine) that caused 20 of Rakhine houses inlcuding that muslim house were burnt down since the beginning of violence.
Up to yesterday 2nd July, Rakhines those came from different regions are awaited to attack therefore military forcing are still protecting muslim. Despite native Rakhine leaders ask outsider Rakhines who came to attack to be leave, they said they will not leave unless at least cutting off of 30 muslim heads.
Based on various sources we received, it come to understand that the military forces deployed in Myebon, Kyauktaw and Sittwe are seem as not much abusive and somehow they are protecting muslims. They are much different from those deployed in Maungdaw, Rathedaung and Buthidaung townships.
Breaking news from MaungDaw and Sittwe
3/7/2012
On Monday in daylight, police, lone Htein, Nasaka forces routinely invaded into the Muslims Rohingyas villages; Maung Ni village, Ali village and Bomu Block. Soon they entered into the houses, they separated the elderly women, young ladies, and their children; elderly ones were absurdly beaten and some are still unconscious; young ones were first tortured and raped; and their children were being thrown away into the open raining spaces. Authorities are looting, damaging, destroying the belongings of Muslims Rohingyas as per their wishes in free hands. Mr. Bashir,68 years, and Mr.YasirHussein(f) Mohamed
Akbar,35 years from Block (5) were arrested and they are now in police custody. A man namely Putu, a brother of Than Tun who has been put in jail for 13 years since 2004, was bullied by the police to pay 5 million kyats as an extortion money, as per source. As more, the Mosque of Narundaung and Baguna village from Maung Daw Township were locked and ordered not to pray at all, in accord the villagers.
Sittwe,
A crowd of young girls, from Tantawli village, Sittwe Township, went for search of food desperately to Thetkaybyin village in which most are Muslim Rohingyas, a girl crowd was stopped not to enter into the village by the military on the way, snatching a beautiful girl by one of military unit to rape. Hamida, 20 years, daughter of Abdul Suvan was collectively raped by the three members of military unit which has been in charge for security. Having seen the scene by a fellow teenager, he hurriedly informed the case to the elderly people of the Thatkaypyin village; the in charge of the unit is on the process to take action of the rape committed by the soldiers. Though the situation has been calm a bit, the Rakhine authorities from Maungdaw, Buthidaung, Rathedaung are randomly arresting, torturing the innocent civilians and some were being released after taking money and some were put in Buthidaung Jail without any reason. Muslims Rohingyas feel that restoration of law and order are not prevailed by the authorities, instead, the peace and stabilities of the populace have been destabilized by the police, Nasaka and Paramilitary forces.
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1) Related photos (Rakhines enjoyed the sign of Nazi) at here
2) The sounds of gun-fires covered at- here
3) RFA video- here
(Nazi and Fishing villages of Sittwe burning were covered in this video but RFA reporter (Kyaw Kyaw) misinformed that setting fires of Rohingya houses were by Rohingya themselves.)
4) Rohingya escaping and praying during the attacks in betweeen Aungmingala and Nazi villages of Sittwe- here
5) Government troops, ethnic Rakhine Buddhists go on a rampage ~ here
1) Bangladesh turns away Muslims fleeing Myanmar (8 boats- more than 300 Rohingyans on 11 June) Here
(Note: 300 Rohingyans mostly women and children those arrived by ten boats in Bangladesh shore are from Sittwe/Akyab city. They and other sources from Sittwe confirm that they were total about 30 boats departed from Sittwe-beach.) During they crossed the middle of the sea, the Burmese navy-ships followed to captured them and firing launchers to some. They saw some boats captured and some boats drowning.)
2) Some of Rohingya refugees land on Bangladesh soil (believe to be another 8 boats)
here
3) Bangladeshi officials on Monday intercepted an additional 128 Rohingya refugees-
here
4) Helicopters Fire on Rohingya Refugees- click here
(Helicopters open fire in the sea killed 3 of 6 boats load of Rohingya refugees fleeing sectarian violence from Sittwe.)
5) Over 100 suspected immigrants arrested on Gwa Island
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( A group of 130 Rohingya refugees those fled sectarian attacks were arrested in an island of Gwa township bordering with Irrawaddy Delta.)
Source : Habib (KL)
The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) today launches its situation report Burning Homes, Sinking Lives: A situation report on violence against stateless Rohingya in Myanmar and their refoulement from Bangladesh. The report presents the findings and observations of ERT researchers.
The report, which includes testimony collected from over 50 interviews with Rohingya in the period 13-29 June 2012, paints an extremely bleak picture, which demands urgent action to prevent further human rights violations including loss of life, suffering, forced displacement and damage to property. In addition to the testimony of victims, the report reviews the legal obligations of the parties to this crisis and makes recommendations to the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh, the UNHCR and the international community.
Main Findings
In Myanmar, what began as sectarian violence has evolved into large-scale state sponsored violence against the Rohingya. The violence began on 3 June 2012 and has mainly occurred in Sittwe and Maungdaw. It includes killings, rape and burning of houses. On 10 June, a state of military emergency was declared, after which the UN pulled its staff out of the area, leaving no international observers on the ground. On 29 June, it was announced that UNHCR staff had returned to Rakhine State. From 16 June onwards, the military became more actively involved in committing acts of violence and other human rights abuses against the Rohingya including killings and mass scale arrests of Rohingya men and boys in North Rakhine State.
Bangladesh, in contravention of its international legal obligations, closed its border and pushed back into dangerous waters many Rohingya fleeing the violence and persecution in Myanmar. The first boat with Rohingya refugees arrived in Bangladesh and was pushed back - refouled - on 11 June 2012. On 18 June, 139 persons in eight boats were pushed back from Teknaf. However, more refugees continue to arrive. No visible steps have been taken by the government of Bangladesh to provide humanitarian aid for the refugees, thus shifting this burden onto local residents.
The legal obligations of both Myanmar and Bangladesh require them to protect all persons within their territories or subject to their jurisdictions, regardless of whether they are citizens, stateless persons or refugees. In their treatment of the Rohingya, both countries appear to have violated the right to life, the right to be free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the right to liberty and freedom from arbitrary detention, the right to food and shelter including the fundamental right to be free from hunger and the right to the highest attainable standard of health. Bangladesh has also acted in violation of the rights to seek and to enjoy asylum and not to be subjected to refoulement. The severity of the treatment of the Rohingya and the widespread, systematic nature of the violence additionally raises concern of crimes against humanity being committed by Myanmar.
Recommendations
ERT Recommendations to the Government of Myanmar include that it urgently takes all necessary steps to end the violence and protect all individuals in Myanmar; fully cooperates with UN agencies to enable independent monitoring of the situation and the provision of humanitarian assistance and support to affected communities; brings martial law in the region to an end as soon as possible; conducts an impartial and transparent enquiry into the causes of the violence; and reduces statelessness in Myanmar by establishing clear paths towards the acquisition of citizenship and effective nationality for all stateless persons including the Rohingya.
ERT Recommendations to the Government of Bangladesh include that it opens its borders to Rohingya refugees fleeing violence and persecution in Myanmar and refrains from refoulement or forcible return of all refugees, asylum seekers and persons of concern; fully cooperates with UN agencies and international NGOs to enable the provision of humanitarian assistance and support to all refugees; and fully cooperates with the international community in providing humanitarian support and protection in a fair and non-discriminatory manner to all long-term Rohingya refugees and persons of concern within Bangladesh.
The report also makes recommendations to the UN, Member States and the International Community.
To read the ERT Situation Report, click here.
Source : ERT
Hundreds of immigrants from Myanmar protesting at the Rainbow Hotel page, Padang Bulan, Wednesday 13 June 2012. They asked for peace and to end rampant ethnic violence in the Arakan , Burma.
According to Abu Ahmad, more than 1,000 houses were burned by unscrupulous ethnic Rohingya irresponsible blindly and violently murdered hundreds of people. Residents who want to make a complaint to the police in Myanmar even arrested and tortured. "The bottom line of the Rohingya people living in the midst of fear there.
Source : Maung Sein (Medan)
Source : Maung Sein (Medan)
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Government troops, ethnic Rakhine Buddhists go on a rampage
Burmese authorities have resumed a brutal crackdown on Rohingya minorities throughout Arakhan province, according to terrified sources in the villages who contacted Asia Sentinel, saying they are burning homes, beating women and children and arresting Rohingya males as the majority ethnic Rakhine go on a rampage, destroying and confiscating property.
The UN intervention is seemingly not effective,” said an exiled leader of the Paris-based National Democratic Party for Human Rights.
Scores of people are said to have died so far in the violence, which is being compounded by refusal to allow Rohingya access to relief supplies. At least four Rohingya in Sangadaung village were said to have died from starvation and exposure to the elements.
The reports are difficult to corroborate independently. The government has tightened press controls on reporting from the region which borders the Andaman Sea in western Burma, spurring the press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders to issue a statement saying the government is continuing to restrict press freedom despite recent promises to end censorship.
“Until now, the government has been relaxing its abusive control of the media but, as it does not know how to assist the media in the new, rapidly emerging political and economic environment, it has reacted in an instinctive manner to what it regards as the excessive liberties the media are taking and has initiated at least three prosecutions since the start of the year,” the organization said on its website Friday.
The Rohingya, who are minority Muslims whose centuries-old origin is in India and Bangladesh, are continuing to face attacks and abuses by both authorities and the ethnic Rakhine majority in the province, the villagers say. Although Myanmar President Thein Sein has been attempting to promote ceasefires between government forces and ethnic minorities, it appears to have had little effect in the province.
Adding to the misery, the region has been inundated by heavy rains and flooding. Two homeless villagers were said to have drowned Friday in flooding of the Kaladan River. In all, scores of people have reportedly been killed on both sides since the violence began in early June. The violence abated in mid-June but has since resumed, the Rohingya say.
The Rohingya, who number about 1 million people in the Buddhist-majority Burmese country of about 55 million, have been persecuted for decades, both in Burma and in Bangladesh. They are a desperately poor people, even in a desperately poor country with per capita gross domestic product by purchasing power parity of only US$1,300 in 2011. In 1982 the then-dictator, Ne Win, declared them stateless.
As early as 1991, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights reported that thousands of Rohingya were fleeing to Bangladesh to escape alleged persecution by authorities in Rangoon, now known as Yangon. However, they are hardly more welcome in Bangladesh despite their Muslim kinship, as the Bangladeshis regard them as interlopers in an overcrowded and poor rural country and have periodically forced them over the border. In 1993, 30,000 refugees were reported by the UNHCR to have fled Bangladeshi camps to avoid repatriation to Burma.
They are seemingly unwanted everywhere although commendably Malaysia has taken in refugees. A year ago, it was discovered that Thai military officials were towing boatloads of refugees away from the Thai coast to leave them at the mercy of the elements.
Terrified villagers are managing to get news of the scale of violence out to exile groups outside the country, the source said. Yesterday, hundreds of military forces were reported to have descended on one village, taking away about 20 villagers and going from house to house, beating women and children and destroying virtually all household items, breaking dishes and looting gold and cash money. The source said that except for side walls of the flimsy structures, everything had been damaged “by stamping and pounding with guns.”
The violence, never very far from the surface, flared out of control in early June when a 27 year old Buddhist woman was raped and murdered, allegedly by Muslims. That triggered a savage retaliation, with a mob reportedly dragging 10 Muslims off a bus and murdering them. An estimated 1,500 houses have been burned down on both sides since the current round of unrest began, according to relief agencies.
Some 172 under-age Rohingya were detained in a military camp on Friday, the exile sources reported, after being tortured by Rakhine. Thirty of the group were removed and reportedly taken to an unknown location. One was said to have been killed and returned to his village, where he was buried. That afternoon, Rakhine were said to have attacked the home of a Rohingya leader in the Ambala area and looted it of goods and money as police and paramilitary forces looked on, the sources said.
Six international and local staff of international NGOs have been reported arrested including aid workers from the World Health Organization and Artsen Zonder Grenzen, the Dutch version of Medicins Sans Frontiers although Asia Sentinel has been unable to verify that.
On Friday, according to the reports, a 700 year-old mosque, the Myoatma Jarmae Mosque, was destroyed by ethnic Rakhine mobs. By the time military forces arrived after being informed of the violence, the structure’s walls and veranda had already been destroyed. Rohingya shops in the town of Kyauktaw were said to have been seized and looted Thursday by municipal authorities.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, established in Burma after the devastation of Tropical Storm Nargis in May 2008, which killed as many as 100,000 people, reported that the United Nations World Food Program has provided 725 tonnes of food commodities such as rice, pulses, oil and salt to more than 92,000 affected people in the townships of Sittwe, Pauktaw, Maungdaw, Rahtedaung and Buthidaung. However, refugees charge, the aid supplies are only being delivered to Rakhine families and deliveries have not been made to homeless Rohingya.
The UN intervention is seemingly not effective,” said an exiled leader of the Paris-based National Democratic Party for Human Rights.
Scores of people are said to have died so far in the violence, which is being compounded by refusal to allow Rohingya access to relief supplies. At least four Rohingya in Sangadaung village were said to have died from starvation and exposure to the elements.
The reports are difficult to corroborate independently. The government has tightened press controls on reporting from the region which borders the Andaman Sea in western Burma, spurring the press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders to issue a statement saying the government is continuing to restrict press freedom despite recent promises to end censorship.
“Until now, the government has been relaxing its abusive control of the media but, as it does not know how to assist the media in the new, rapidly emerging political and economic environment, it has reacted in an instinctive manner to what it regards as the excessive liberties the media are taking and has initiated at least three prosecutions since the start of the year,” the organization said on its website Friday.
The Rohingya, who are minority Muslims whose centuries-old origin is in India and Bangladesh, are continuing to face attacks and abuses by both authorities and the ethnic Rakhine majority in the province, the villagers say. Although Myanmar President Thein Sein has been attempting to promote ceasefires between government forces and ethnic minorities, it appears to have had little effect in the province.
Adding to the misery, the region has been inundated by heavy rains and flooding. Two homeless villagers were said to have drowned Friday in flooding of the Kaladan River. In all, scores of people have reportedly been killed on both sides since the violence began in early June. The violence abated in mid-June but has since resumed, the Rohingya say.
The Rohingya, who number about 1 million people in the Buddhist-majority Burmese country of about 55 million, have been persecuted for decades, both in Burma and in Bangladesh. They are a desperately poor people, even in a desperately poor country with per capita gross domestic product by purchasing power parity of only US$1,300 in 2011. In 1982 the then-dictator, Ne Win, declared them stateless.
As early as 1991, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights reported that thousands of Rohingya were fleeing to Bangladesh to escape alleged persecution by authorities in Rangoon, now known as Yangon. However, they are hardly more welcome in Bangladesh despite their Muslim kinship, as the Bangladeshis regard them as interlopers in an overcrowded and poor rural country and have periodically forced them over the border. In 1993, 30,000 refugees were reported by the UNHCR to have fled Bangladeshi camps to avoid repatriation to Burma.
They are seemingly unwanted everywhere although commendably Malaysia has taken in refugees. A year ago, it was discovered that Thai military officials were towing boatloads of refugees away from the Thai coast to leave them at the mercy of the elements.
Terrified villagers are managing to get news of the scale of violence out to exile groups outside the country, the source said. Yesterday, hundreds of military forces were reported to have descended on one village, taking away about 20 villagers and going from house to house, beating women and children and destroying virtually all household items, breaking dishes and looting gold and cash money. The source said that except for side walls of the flimsy structures, everything had been damaged “by stamping and pounding with guns.”
The violence, never very far from the surface, flared out of control in early June when a 27 year old Buddhist woman was raped and murdered, allegedly by Muslims. That triggered a savage retaliation, with a mob reportedly dragging 10 Muslims off a bus and murdering them. An estimated 1,500 houses have been burned down on both sides since the current round of unrest began, according to relief agencies.
Some 172 under-age Rohingya were detained in a military camp on Friday, the exile sources reported, after being tortured by Rakhine. Thirty of the group were removed and reportedly taken to an unknown location. One was said to have been killed and returned to his village, where he was buried. That afternoon, Rakhine were said to have attacked the home of a Rohingya leader in the Ambala area and looted it of goods and money as police and paramilitary forces looked on, the sources said.
Six international and local staff of international NGOs have been reported arrested including aid workers from the World Health Organization and Artsen Zonder Grenzen, the Dutch version of Medicins Sans Frontiers although Asia Sentinel has been unable to verify that.
On Friday, according to the reports, a 700 year-old mosque, the Myoatma Jarmae Mosque, was destroyed by ethnic Rakhine mobs. By the time military forces arrived after being informed of the violence, the structure’s walls and veranda had already been destroyed. Rohingya shops in the town of Kyauktaw were said to have been seized and looted Thursday by municipal authorities.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, established in Burma after the devastation of Tropical Storm Nargis in May 2008, which killed as many as 100,000 people, reported that the United Nations World Food Program has provided 725 tonnes of food commodities such as rice, pulses, oil and salt to more than 92,000 affected people in the townships of Sittwe, Pauktaw, Maungdaw, Rahtedaung and Buthidaung. However, refugees charge, the aid supplies are only being delivered to Rakhine families and deliveries have not been made to homeless Rohingya.
Photo: SIDQ
The ethnic cleansing and human rights atrocities against the Rohingya in Burma over the past 3 weeks, we urge the Bangladesh government to open its borders to provide refuge and shelter for the stateless Rohingya. They have faced violence and persecution on their own home soil and have been told they are not citizens of Burma because of their ethnicity and because they choose Islam as their religion. Bangladesh has been sending back hundreds of refugees who are escaping the violence and we are urging the Government to open its borders.
The Demonstration organized by Restless Beings and BROUK today at Bangladesh Embassy at 28 Queens Gate, London SW7 5JA
Latest news report from the region : here
Maungdaw township
1 June, about 17:30pm: Hundred of military forces rounded-up the Nurula village and took away about 20 villagers. During the operation, the military entered house to house and damaged every household tolls and dishes and then looted golds and cash, beaten women and kids, The source said that except from side walls everything had been damaged by stamping and pounding with guns.
30 June, Kaladan Press report : One of Na-Sa-Ka forces took away Rohingyans on 16 June, Aklas-22 s/o Sayed Ahmed from Moti Fara of Kawar Bill village, was found dead in the filed near the Zambana out-post Nasaka camp on 28 June.
30 June: Some of about 20 Rohingya villagers of Mingalagyi (Feirumfur) village were released by payment one to three millions Kyat after brutally tortured a week in Na-Sa-Ka custody.
The authority also informed that there will be another raid on coming Friday.
Kyauktaw township
30 June, 10:00am: Four Rohingyans who went for fishing from Nidan village, were surrounded in the middle of Kaladan River by a group of Rakhines and picked them away. A member of Ethnic Rohingya Community-ERC based in Malaysia and who is also relative of the four victims confirmed today that they were not returned nor handed over to authority. The victims are identified as Shakir, Mabu, Ayub and son of Zyabul.
Rakhine people are subsequently entered into the Rohingya villages in the present of security forces and chanting to cleans the villages during night.
Sittwe township
The authority also informed that there will be another raid on coming Friday.
Kyauktaw township
30 June, 10:00am: Four Rohingyans who went for fishing from Nidan village, were surrounded in the middle of Kaladan River by a group of Rakhines and picked them away. A member of Ethnic Rohingya Community-ERC based in Malaysia and who is also relative of the four victims confirmed today that they were not returned nor handed over to authority. The victims are identified as Shakir, Mabu, Ayub and son of Zyabul.
Rakhine people are subsequently entered into the Rohingya villages in the present of security forces and chanting to cleans the villages during night.
Sittwe township
Missing report of 4 June: A staff of a French NGO (Artsen Zonder Grenzen-AZG) and former political prisoner- Kyaw Hla Aung (B.A LLB), nominee MP of Rohingya party-NDPHR for Sittwe during 1990, was arrested from Ye Nwe Su (Derum fara) quarter with false charges since 4 June and taken to unknown. It is confirmed that now he is neither in the custody nor prison. But according to Yangon Press International's report the arrest was in the morning of 11 June.
His first term arrest was took placed in a few days before 1990 election in May therefore he was not became MP. He was released in the end of 1997 after serving eight years imprisonment.
Rathedaung Township
Godaung village, NaungPinGyi village and AnaukPrin village from Rathedaung Township are under live threatening situation yet.
1 July 2012: According to local people information from the ground, the above said Muslims villages are still under lives threatening situation. Today, a military unit came to the villages and started harassing the people without any reason regardless of elderly people, pregnant women, and sick villagers and at last children. Totally helpless Muslims people from the Rathedaung Township have been under the situation of totally overall social devastation for nearly two weeks now and the villagers are absolutely hopeless for their survival.
We frustrated people from these villagers have an earnest request to save our lives from this dangerous state’s sponsored mass killing mechanism at this under dark hour operation.
Please help save us our lives before falling any more misfortune by the means of international diplomacy.
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Maungdaw Township:
Aklas (22), son of Sayed Ahmed, hailed from Moti Para of Kawar Bill village tract under the Nasaka area No (6), was picked up on June 16 by Nasaka while he was going to another village. He was brought to Zambana out-post Nasaka camp where he was killed. The dead body was found on the field by the villagers on June 28 and was brought to Maungdaw hospital for autopsy. However, on June 29, the dead body was returned to his parents and buried in his village grave yard, according to villagers.
On June 23, six Rohingya villagers from Mongla Gyi of Maungdaw Township were arrested by the Nasaka area No. 6. After arrest, three villagers were released and other three were brought to their Nasaka camp where Md. Noor (20), son of Bodiul Islam was killed in torture, it is learnt. The rest two villagers’ fate is not known.
Besides, another five villagers from Sarforddin village of Nasaka area Number (6) of Maungdaw Township were arrested by Nasaka on June 22 to 26.
They are identified as Osman (25), son of Fazal Ahmed, Yousuf (16), son of Noor Mohamed, Johar (17), son of Mohamed Siddik, Karim Ullah (18), son of Hamid Hussain, Ziaur Rahaman (18), son of Bodi Alam and another one named Habib Ullah (45), son of Nezam of Kyauk Pyin Seik village of Maungdaw Township.
Some Rakhine led by Than Maung Chey attacked Rohingyas in front of Boho Monastery where the security forces are stationed in Maungdaw on June 30. The Rakhine attacked with iron rot to 5 Rohingyas including one female with Rickshaw puller –injured head, backside, hand and legs.
Since, no media is allowed in the trouble zone, there is no way knowing how many villagers had been killed or detained exactly.
Why the latest upshot of ethnic raw nerves centering on a criminal act, but allowed to proliferate as a religious-ethnic reprisal by the majority community under military watch should be handled like “glass with care” approach?
Price of essentials, especially food items is going up alarmingly. Common people are in a very difficult situation. But, price of one thing has down, that is lives of Rohingya people. They are dying like flies on the roads in the hands of army and Nasaka.
Bangladesh has every right to address the problem bilaterally and it necessary internationally. But a hands-on role is missing, said a politician.
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No security for Rohingya in Maungdaw
Sunday, 01 July 2012 15:34
Maungdaw, Arakan State: The Burmese authority –Nasaka, Hluntin, police and Army- are arresting, torturing and killing innocent Rohingyas without giving any reason in Maungdaw Township since June 8, said an elder from Maungdaw.
19 Rohingyas from Nurullah para of Maungdaw south arrested today by Nasaka personnel without any reason, but, after arresting, the Nasaka personnel asked the name of arrestee Rohingya and write down on their note book then said your name was on the list. The Nasaka asked huge money for release, said a villager from Nurullah village.
Shukur son of Sultan and Rashid son of Jalal from Sawmonapara of Myothu Gyi, Maungdaw were arrested today by Nasaka from three miles gate. The village admin officer said there will be more arrest from this village.The villagers are poor and daily labors, but the officer from three miles gate want money from this village with false allegation of so called list – the person who participant in the march for praying on June 8.
Nur Kabir from ward number 5 was beaten and become seriously injure by Hluntin and Rakhine at Maungdaw Cinema hall yesterday at the evening. When Rohingya from ward number 5 informed to army officer about the event, then the army officer with along Hluntin chief and police chief arrived to the spot and save the Rohingya –Kabir. The officers take actions against the Hluntin personnel. The resident from Maungdaw learned that the high ranking officers have no information about harassing the Rohingya community in the field.
Aung Kyaw Than, the police officer from Maungdaw, arrested Johar son of Azizul Haque –an owner of motor parts shop- on June 29 without any reason. The officer bought a battery for police van and told to send it to police station where he was locked up in the police custody. The next day, the police officer asked 5 million kyats for released.
The police officers –Aung Kyaw Than, Tin Aye, Htun Htun, Kyaw Aye and Then Tin from Maungdaw police station- are harassing and arresting Rohingya community while the officer met anywhere in the town and extorting money from Rohingya comminty
source : Internal & Habib (KL)
KUWAIT, July 1 (KUNA) --
As a member state of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the State of Kuwait is keen to see Muslims worldwide living in better conditions, the source said.
The source quoted a recent OIC resolution calling on the government of Myanmar to put an end to internal displacement and forced migration of Muslims in Myanmar.
Kuwait is making contacts with other OIC member states for putting the Muslim body's resolution in force, urging the government of Myanmar to respect international legitimacy resolutions bearing on human rights. (end) fyf.mt KUNA 011853 Jul 12NNNN
Kuwait denounced on Sunday inhuman practices against Muslims in Myanmar, an official source of the Foreign Ministry said.
As a member state of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the State of Kuwait is keen to see Muslims worldwide living in better conditions, the source said.
The source quoted a recent OIC resolution calling on the government of Myanmar to put an end to internal displacement and forced migration of Muslims in Myanmar.
Kuwait is making contacts with other OIC member states for putting the Muslim body's resolution in force, urging the government of Myanmar to respect international legitimacy resolutions bearing on human rights. (end) fyf.mt KUNA 011853 Jul 12NNNN
Source: Kuwait News
"UN's intervention is seemingly not effective"
The government authorities do not installed Law and Order for Rakhine people who are continuously doing crimes. A few Rakhines those arrested from Sittwe, Kyauktaw and Maungdaw were also released after days. Beside, police authority are arresting Rohingya elders and youths from every village of Sittwe, Maungdaw, Rathedaung and Kyauktaw townships and framing them with false charges.
UN's intervention is seemingly not effective therefore Rohingya people are continued to face tyrant attacks of Rakhines and arbitrary abuses of local authorities. While there is ongoing heavy raining and flooding, it is more than two weeks now they are confined by military guards without supply of food and medicine.
A relief blog- OCHA's report states that the WFP has provided 725 metric tons of food commodities (rice, pulses, oil and salt) to over 92,000 affected people in five townships, Sittwe, Pauktaw, Maungdaw, Rahtedaung and Buthidaung. The government report also shows that it has received donation nearly 200 millions Kyat for Arakan crisis.
However, all aid supplies are reached to government designated relief centres where authority places perpetrator Rakhine family members only. Despite the INGOs have well experiences about the nature of government authorities, they have not yet ensured aid delivery for homeless victims of Rohinngya.
Similar complaints received for the past Cyclone Giri in Oct 2010 that hit along the coastal areas of Kyaukfru, Myebon, Myinbya, Pauktaw townships where fishing villages were mostly affected. Muslim victims from fishing villages were barred from receiving aid and assistance by local in-charge staffs who monitored distribution aid.
Rakhine people who involved directly in recent riot of Sittwe
We had escalated a number Rakhine people who involved directly in recent riot of Sittwe. Again these people are warmly received gratitude in a Face Book page of a Rakhine.
They are; RNDP psd Dr Aye Maung, Tat Thu Aung- Kuan Yat Society, chairman U Shwe Tun Aung- the Merchant Association of Arakan, Rakhine Rakhita Association, Sayadaw U Pinya Zya Ra.
And the rest who visibly involved are; 1)Shwe Tha Zin Hotel owner Tan Shwe, 2)Kiss Hotel owner Kyaw Thein (led in Nazi and Santoli), 3)Win Maunk umbrella shop owner, 4)Aung Thu Kha photo shop owner, 5)Shwe Nyo Nyo loterry and medicine shop owner, 6)Workers of Sein Video Hall, 7)U Maung Tan Hlaing from ward(2/Kha) of Min-Gan village, 8)Chairman U Tan Win of Aungmingala quarter, 9)RNDP member Balagyi, and 10)Ko Thein Shwe (weight player).
The source confirms that U Maung Tan Hlaing is who began the riot in Sittwe and now taking refuge in Rwa U monastry of Min Gan village.
Update: Violence continues in Arakan state
However, all aid supplies are reached to government designated relief centres where authority places perpetrator Rakhine family members only. Despite the INGOs have well experiences about the nature of government authorities, they have not yet ensured aid delivery for homeless victims of Rohinngya.
Similar complaints received for the past Cyclone Giri in Oct 2010 that hit along the coastal areas of Kyaukfru, Myebon, Myinbya, Pauktaw townships where fishing villages were mostly affected. Muslim victims from fishing villages were barred from receiving aid and assistance by local in-charge staffs who monitored distribution aid.
Rakhine people who involved directly in recent riot of Sittwe
We had escalated a number Rakhine people who involved directly in recent riot of Sittwe. Again these people are warmly received gratitude in a Face Book page of a Rakhine.
They are; RNDP psd Dr Aye Maung, Tat Thu Aung- Kuan Yat Society, chairman U Shwe Tun Aung- the Merchant Association of Arakan, Rakhine Rakhita Association, Sayadaw U Pinya Zya Ra.
And the rest who visibly involved are; 1)Shwe Tha Zin Hotel owner Tan Shwe, 2)Kiss Hotel owner Kyaw Thein (led in Nazi and Santoli), 3)Win Maunk umbrella shop owner, 4)Aung Thu Kha photo shop owner, 5)Shwe Nyo Nyo loterry and medicine shop owner, 6)Workers of Sein Video Hall, 7)U Maung Tan Hlaing from ward(2/Kha) of Min-Gan village, 8)Chairman U Tan Win of Aungmingala quarter, 9)RNDP member Balagyi, and 10)Ko Thein Shwe (weight player).
The source confirms that U Maung Tan Hlaing is who began the riot in Sittwe and now taking refuge in Rwa U monastry of Min Gan village.
Update: Violence continues in Arakan state
Akyab/Sittwe city
29 June, Friday
There are total 172 Rohingyans involving under age detained in military camp. The source confirmed all of them were brought from Rathedaung township after tortured in the hands of Rakhines from Ku Taung.
30 of them were reportedly taken to unknown. They were neither sent back to Rathedaung nor transferred to custody. One of them was died yesterday and burried at Thakkay Byin village (Sakki Fara).
Afternoon: Bsc Hla Maung's house in the Ambala area (down town) was attacked by a group of Rakhines and looted all goods and cash when Police and Paramilitary forces are surrounding from out side.
Six international and local staffs of INGOs, were arrested. The source said they are aid workers from UN organization, AZG and WHO. Thier arrest could be suspect of whether they have any recording devices.
Morning: A Hindu woman came out from Aungmingala area, was beaten by four Rakhines in the present of police. Her live was spared after they knew she is not really a muslim.
Kyauktaw Township
29 June, Friday
11:50am: The 700 years old ancient mosque (Myoatma Jarmae Mosque) situated between the market and Manaegya Fara, was destructed by a group of Rakhines. At the time of military forces arrived there after informed by a Khami (tribe people), its walls and veranda have been destroyed.
28 June, Thursday
4 homeless Rohingyans of Sangadaung village (near Sugar Mill) were died from starvation and lack of shelter. The Rohingya own lands in this village were also replaced by Rakhine people themselves.
Rohingya people own shops in the market of Kyauktaw were seized by municipal authority. The valuable things were taken away by Rakhines and proudly saying that all resources and belongings in the territory of Rakhine state are their own.
Two homeless villagers from Khaungdok Alay Kyuan (Barua Fara) were died in the flood of Kaladan River. One of them is identified as a brother of Mv.Habi who live in Denmark.
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Attach file-1, is re-prepared list of causalities in Sittwe. As, latest escalation from Sentoli village says number of houses burnt in second attack was added to total about 180 and death tools added to 50 total. The remaining half-destroyed mosque was also demolished by authority in the past four days.
Attach file-2, is list of causalities in Kyauktaw, Rathedaung and Rambre.
Source : BRAT
In my point of view, it’s yes and it’s going down very fast. Moreover, many people ignore to prevent and protect those who are pushing Burma down the drain and it’s likely being seen in the arena of Burma politics, many more are consciously or unconscious, directly or indirectly supporting it. Those pundits of politics who always like to point out whether things are politically correct or not are also surprisingly silent. This is not a good omen.
We all know the notorious system of apartheid, a racism in South Africa, segregating people based on their ethnicity. Who can’t go to which place, can’t take which transport, can’t go to which school, and can’t go into which career and so on. For the good of the country or any society, there’s no doubt and no brainer that different society must work together. Apartheid is a very disgusting and inhumane ideology and it has no place in today’s world; let’s forget about asking for it and propagating it, even accepting that system is extremely horrible.
However, in our country Burma, there now exists a political party that openly demands this system of apartheid and segregation. For 2 days waiting for any voice from any political leader or any ethnic leader, or any religious leader or any human right activist or any governmental or non-governmental organization, but in vain, there’s none. Nobody voice up this is a disgusting, horrible and sicken, atrocious and terrible thing. So the question comes is Burma going down in the drain. (Not to those who do not know the press release of RNDP yet.)
On RNDP’s press release 04/2012 dated 2012 May 25, sending back the illegal immigrants to their original country is not wrong and it’s acceptable. But regarding 6(b), instead of “taking legal actions against those criminals and lawbreakers, and working out to reconciliation and peaceful co-existence of all citizens”,
RNDP demands to segregate the Arakanese Buddhist and other Muslims (mostly Bengali descents) by separating the Muslims away from their places.
Those Burmese political, ethnic, social, religious and business leaders should answer what is this if not apartheid. Though they know this sicken and awful press release demand, being silent, and not condemning openly is certainly concerting to it and it’s a historical liability on all Burmese leaders. If in future, if there’re any similar occurrences, conquering the houses and businesses of different ethnic and religious minorities, how are the Burmese political leaders going to handle this issue?
It shows that those who demanding this kind not only understands the value of democracy and human rights, but also no intention of practicing any of it.
Leaders should learn from the lessons of Bosnia, Rwanda and alike. Prevent before it get worse. Get the country on the right path. The democratic forces urgently need to reorganize and reinforce in truth manner to ward off the hardliners of old guard who have been openly trying to set up the democracy-skinned quasi-civilian government permanently controlled by generals.
Daw Suu said today in France that this is a rare opportunity in 50 years and need to make use of it correctly. If not, Burma again will go down in the drain. Just another 50 years.
Aung Tin
June 28, 2012
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If Myanmar Military and U Thein Sein’s government failed to stop the following APERTHEID Master-Plan on Muslims in Rakhine state, which is already started, the world leaders should request for the urgent UNSC meeting to discuss and rescue the oppressed people.
OIC member Muslim countries should WARN the Chinese and Russian governments not to use VETO in the coming urgent UNSC.
(NOTE: The Apartheid Rakhine party had also requested for the discussion with UN and other countries as stated in the last line, i.e. No 6 d.)
The following is the direct translation of the The Rakhine Nationalities Development Party RNDP’s Party Policy announcement of APERTHOID STYLE Post-Riots relocations.
The Official letter-head of
The Rakhine Nationalities Development Party
RNDP Head Quarters
(Complete with the flag, emblem, seal and Coat of arms)
The Rakhine Nationalities Development Party RNDP
Party Policy announcement of Post-Riots relocations
Announcement No. 04/2012
26 June 2012
Rakhine State and Rakhine people are suffering a lot of national difficulties because of the communal riots that started on 8 June 2012.
Our Party viewed that the Federal (Central) Government and all the Myanmar Ethnic people need to cooperate in solving the above difficulties.
From the present events, we could deduct that Bengali People have being entering the Rakhine State illegally during every period of history and their present population is endangering the Rakhine People and all other Myanmar Ethnic population now.
Since the historical Communal Riots in 1942 between the Myanmars and Bengalis there erupted numerous riots.
Present 2012 riots is worse than those riots in 1988, 1996 and 2001 and it is threatening the security and National Interests of all the Rakhines and Myanmars.
The Illegal Bengalis are creating the fake history with the newly adopted name, Rohingya, and are using terrorism to endanger the lives, properties and the security of all the Rakhine People and the National Security of Myanmar. So our party hereby view that we need the final solution to solve this problem.
6. To solve the above problem, our party hereby announced our policies below:
Government and Rakhines must combine forces to lay down a Security protocol for the immediate security of the Rakhine State and Rakhine people.
Bengalis must be segregated and settle them all in the temporary separate places so that theRakhines and Bengalis would not be able to mix together in the villages and towns in the Rakhine State.
All the Federal Ethnic Groups should cooperate in preventing the illegal invasion of Bengali migrants into Rakhine State and various parts of Myanmar.
To discuss with United Nations and International Community to repatriate the non-citizen Bengalis to the third country in a short period.
Central Executive Committee
The Rakhine Nationalities Development Party Head Quarters
Sittwe
Distributed with the Publishing Permit No.- U Myint Naing- Na Tha-013
…………………………….. The end of the translation………………………
Syed Zain Al-Mahmood in Teknaf
29 June 2012
Sectarian violence in Burma has sent Muslim Rohingya refugees fleeing across the border, but they find themselves unwelcome in neighbouring Bangladesh.
Nozir Hossain shows the scar he received while trying to protect himself on the day his sons were killed. Photograph: Syed Zain Al-Mahmood for the Guardian
Some sobbed quietly while others pleaded and raised their arms to heaven. Their children looked on with glassy stares, utterly exhausted after days at sea in an open boat. Soon they would be on the water again, escorted by a Bangladeshi coast guard vessel and pushed back into the waters of Burma where they knew violence still raged.
"The Mogh slaughtered my brothers. They will kill us all … please help us!" screamed a woman carrying a baby only a few months old, before she was hustled away by border guards.
The sectarian violence in Burma that has sent boatloads of refugeesfleeing to Bangladesh in recent weeks – and being firmly pushed back – has once again turned the spotlight on the plight of Burma's Rohingya minority.
There is no place the Rohingya people can call home. Burma passed a law in 1982 – criticised as discriminatory by human rights groups – that effectively rendered them stateless. Waves of ethnic violence since 1991, some of it state-sponsored, have pushed more than 250,000 Rohingyas into Bangladesh, where they live in squalid, makeshift camps with little or no access to healthcare or education.
Nozir Hossain, 70, knows well what it means to live in limbo. Hossain, who used to be a farmer in the Maung Daw area of Burma's Arakan state, has been living in an unauthorised camp in Teknaf, on Bangladesh's southern tip, since 2001.
Sitting in the tiny shack he shares with four others, Hossain described the day his family was forcibly uprooted. "The Mogh [ethnic Rakhine] surrounded our village at dawn," he recalled. "The Nasaka [Burmese border troops] were behind them. They set fire to the houses and chopped, hacked and shot at anyone who got in their way. Two of my sons were slaughtered in front of my eyes. When I flung up my arm to protect my head, a machete nearly took my hand off. I fell and lay in a pool of my sons' blood. The killers moved on, leaving me for dead."
Despite the horrors he has witnessed, Hossain hopes to go back to Burma one day. "There is nothing for us here," he said. "We would like to go back home … back to farming our land. I hope the government will be fair and give us our rights."
Hossain was repatriated to Burma in 2005, but he came back after finding his land occupied by Rakhine. He said both the Burmese and Bangladeshi governments are falsely characterising the position of the Rohingya.
"The Burmese government says we're Bangladeshi, but the Arakan is the only home we know. My father was born in Arakan and so was my grandfather. The Bangladesh government says we're illegal migrants. But we didn't enter Bangladesh secretly to work. We came to save ourselves and our families."
According to Bangladeshi historian Abdul Aziz, there have been Muslims in Arakan since Arab traders came to the region in the eighth century. "The poetry of 17th-century poets like Alaol clearly mentions Muslims in positions of power in the court of the Arakan king," Aziz said. "The writing of travellers like Ibn Batuta in the 14th century proves that Bengal was one of the wealthiest nations in the world while Arakan was infested with pirates. There was migration from Arakan to Bengal and not the other way round."
Despite centuries-old roots in the Arakan region, discriminatory policies have been imposed on the Rohingya since Arakan was annexed by Burma in 1784. According to the Arakan Project, an NGO, the Rohingya are subjected to severe restrictions on their movement and marriages, and to arrests, extortion, forced labour and confiscation of land.
"The Nasaka used to come and take away the men and boys," said Hossain. "They forced us to work as labourers without pay. This was only done to us, not to Rakhine or anybody else."
The Rohingya have not fared much better on the Bangladesh side of the border. The government in Dhaka has refused to allow the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to register Rohingya arrivals since 1992. This means all but 30,000 of the Rohingyas are denied refugee status. The unregistered Rohingyas – more than 200,000 by some estimates – are officially considered illegal migrants and cannot get food rations provided by the World Food Programme. They are also denied access to basic healthcare and education provided by the UNHCR and its partner organisations.
The Bangladesh government is determined to keep services to a bare minimum to avoid creating a "pull factor" – conditions that will attract more refugees – an official of the ministry of food and disaster management said, on condition of anonymity.
As part of government policy, the NGO Affairs Bureau in Dhaka has not approved project proposals in health, education and other sectors in Cox's Bazar district, even if it benefits the local Bangladeshi community. Last year, Dhaka rejected a $33m UN joint initiative to develop Cox's Bazar with special focus on education and health.
The government has also put a stop to the UNHCR's resettlement programme, under which 900 Rohingyas were resettled in third countries to restart their lives. Most went to Australia, the UK and Canada. In November 2010, the Bangladesh government suspended the programme, pending a review.
Life is grim even for those in the authorised refugee camp. Rohingya children in the camp are permitted to study up to primary level – fifth grade – but not beyond. "Keeping them motivated is the main challenge," said Shahin Islam, director of the Education for Refugee Children project run by Save the Children. "It's very easy for them to lose hope … they don't see a future ahead."
Many experts have questioned the view that registering more Rohingya nationals in Bangladesh will bring more refugees across the border. "People do not leave their homes and go to a foreign country just because there's a basic health clinic or primary schools," said Jing Song, the UNHCR spokesperson in Dhaka. "Knowing who the refugees are and where they are is the first step to a solution to this protracted refugee situation. It's not only to the benefit of refugees, but also to the benefit of the host country."
Source : Guardian Co.UK
29 June 2012
Sectarian violence in Burma has sent Muslim Rohingya refugees fleeing across the border, but they find themselves unwelcome in neighbouring Bangladesh.
Nozir Hossain shows the scar he received while trying to protect himself on the day his sons were killed. Photograph: Syed Zain Al-Mahmood for the Guardian
Some sobbed quietly while others pleaded and raised their arms to heaven. Their children looked on with glassy stares, utterly exhausted after days at sea in an open boat. Soon they would be on the water again, escorted by a Bangladeshi coast guard vessel and pushed back into the waters of Burma where they knew violence still raged.
"The Mogh slaughtered my brothers. They will kill us all … please help us!" screamed a woman carrying a baby only a few months old, before she was hustled away by border guards.
The sectarian violence in Burma that has sent boatloads of refugeesfleeing to Bangladesh in recent weeks – and being firmly pushed back – has once again turned the spotlight on the plight of Burma's Rohingya minority.
There is no place the Rohingya people can call home. Burma passed a law in 1982 – criticised as discriminatory by human rights groups – that effectively rendered them stateless. Waves of ethnic violence since 1991, some of it state-sponsored, have pushed more than 250,000 Rohingyas into Bangladesh, where they live in squalid, makeshift camps with little or no access to healthcare or education.
Nozir Hossain, 70, knows well what it means to live in limbo. Hossain, who used to be a farmer in the Maung Daw area of Burma's Arakan state, has been living in an unauthorised camp in Teknaf, on Bangladesh's southern tip, since 2001.
Sitting in the tiny shack he shares with four others, Hossain described the day his family was forcibly uprooted. "The Mogh [ethnic Rakhine] surrounded our village at dawn," he recalled. "The Nasaka [Burmese border troops] were behind them. They set fire to the houses and chopped, hacked and shot at anyone who got in their way. Two of my sons were slaughtered in front of my eyes. When I flung up my arm to protect my head, a machete nearly took my hand off. I fell and lay in a pool of my sons' blood. The killers moved on, leaving me for dead."
Despite the horrors he has witnessed, Hossain hopes to go back to Burma one day. "There is nothing for us here," he said. "We would like to go back home … back to farming our land. I hope the government will be fair and give us our rights."
Hossain was repatriated to Burma in 2005, but he came back after finding his land occupied by Rakhine. He said both the Burmese and Bangladeshi governments are falsely characterising the position of the Rohingya.
"The Burmese government says we're Bangladeshi, but the Arakan is the only home we know. My father was born in Arakan and so was my grandfather. The Bangladesh government says we're illegal migrants. But we didn't enter Bangladesh secretly to work. We came to save ourselves and our families."
According to Bangladeshi historian Abdul Aziz, there have been Muslims in Arakan since Arab traders came to the region in the eighth century. "The poetry of 17th-century poets like Alaol clearly mentions Muslims in positions of power in the court of the Arakan king," Aziz said. "The writing of travellers like Ibn Batuta in the 14th century proves that Bengal was one of the wealthiest nations in the world while Arakan was infested with pirates. There was migration from Arakan to Bengal and not the other way round."
Despite centuries-old roots in the Arakan region, discriminatory policies have been imposed on the Rohingya since Arakan was annexed by Burma in 1784. According to the Arakan Project, an NGO, the Rohingya are subjected to severe restrictions on their movement and marriages, and to arrests, extortion, forced labour and confiscation of land.
"The Nasaka used to come and take away the men and boys," said Hossain. "They forced us to work as labourers without pay. This was only done to us, not to Rakhine or anybody else."
The Rohingya have not fared much better on the Bangladesh side of the border. The government in Dhaka has refused to allow the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to register Rohingya arrivals since 1992. This means all but 30,000 of the Rohingyas are denied refugee status. The unregistered Rohingyas – more than 200,000 by some estimates – are officially considered illegal migrants and cannot get food rations provided by the World Food Programme. They are also denied access to basic healthcare and education provided by the UNHCR and its partner organisations.
The Bangladesh government is determined to keep services to a bare minimum to avoid creating a "pull factor" – conditions that will attract more refugees – an official of the ministry of food and disaster management said, on condition of anonymity.
As part of government policy, the NGO Affairs Bureau in Dhaka has not approved project proposals in health, education and other sectors in Cox's Bazar district, even if it benefits the local Bangladeshi community. Last year, Dhaka rejected a $33m UN joint initiative to develop Cox's Bazar with special focus on education and health.
The government has also put a stop to the UNHCR's resettlement programme, under which 900 Rohingyas were resettled in third countries to restart their lives. Most went to Australia, the UK and Canada. In November 2010, the Bangladesh government suspended the programme, pending a review.
Life is grim even for those in the authorised refugee camp. Rohingya children in the camp are permitted to study up to primary level – fifth grade – but not beyond. "Keeping them motivated is the main challenge," said Shahin Islam, director of the Education for Refugee Children project run by Save the Children. "It's very easy for them to lose hope … they don't see a future ahead."
Many experts have questioned the view that registering more Rohingya nationals in Bangladesh will bring more refugees across the border. "People do not leave their homes and go to a foreign country just because there's a basic health clinic or primary schools," said Jing Song, the UNHCR spokesperson in Dhaka. "Knowing who the refugees are and where they are is the first step to a solution to this protracted refugee situation. It's not only to the benefit of refugees, but also to the benefit of the host country."
Source : Guardian Co.UK
Rathedaung Township:
Twenty two villagers were arrested from Anukpin village of Rathedaung Township earlier and on June 27, again 60 villagers were arrested from the said village by army and Nasaka. After arrest, they were sent to Rakhine villages where they were tortured severally by Rakhine villagers. After that, they were sent to Akyab. The fate of the arrested villagers is not known to their relatives. The village has about 1000 houses, of them, 60 houses were burned down by Rakhines with the help of army and Nasaka though they have responsibility to give security of the Rohingya villagers, said a villager from Rathedaung on condition of anonymity.
Besides, 350 houses from Mozai Dia village and 150 houses of Sarat Pyin village were burned down into ashes by a group of Rakhine extremists in front of army and Nasaka. The concerned authorities declared that the army and Nasaka take security of the villages of Rathedaung Township. It is very difficult to understand that the army and Nasaka give security only Rakhine, but not to Rohingyas. They also co-operate with the racist Rakhines for arson attack to the Rohingya villages. The Burmese media also highlighted that the Rakhines are suffering from crisis of food and shelter, showing artificial Rakhine refugees who have been taking shelter in Nasaka camps and Buddhist monasteries of Maungdaw and Akyab (Sittwe).
It is learnt that many Rohingya villagers in Rathedaung Township have been suffering from food, shelter, medicine crisis since the event were broken out.
In addition on June 26, the Rohingya villagers were flooded by heavy rain fall in Rathedaung. There is no place to take shelter whose houses had already burned down by Rakhine mobs. There is no one to give them any help as it is an isolated area. Every day, the army and Nasaka along with some Rakhines arrest the Rohingya villagers, so, the villagers are passing their days and nights with terrible situation for fear of arrest and torture.
Situation Maungdaw Township:
Yesterday, at about 4:00 pm a widow – Syeda Kanon daughter of Basa Meah – was shot dead by army while she was returning from a grazing ground with her goat. When the army took away her goat forcibly from her, the widow asked the army “Why do you take away my goat?”. It caused army angry and shot dead her on the spot. She was forty-five year old of Lamba Ghona village. Earlier, the army also took away a cow from her.
Moreover, today, at about 8:30 am, two helicopters arrived at Aley Than Kyaw village of Maungdaw Township from Akyab(Sittwe) and then flied to Nasaka headquarters to see the Rakhine refugees who have been taking shelter in the Nasaka camps and Buddhist monasteries at Maungdaw. The refugees are the Natala villagers who were brought to the Nasaka camps from Maungdaw north, Buthidaung and Rathedaung townships and the relocated Natala villagers of southern side of Maundaw town. Whenever, the international community and the high level officials from Naypyidaw visited Maungdaw, they only see the Rakhine refugees. They never visited to Rohingya refugees (internal refugees) who have been locking in their own villages by imposing state of emergency. They have been suffering from food crisis since the sectarian violence was occurred. The government didn’t expose to the international community regarding the internal Rohingya refugees who have been persecuted by the Burmese authorities by daily basis.
Besides, the army and Nasaka are arresting the Rohingya villagers continuously, especially from Nurrullah Para, Kilaidaung, Sarcumbo, Horsara and Sombonna villages and other villagers of Maungdaw Township. The authorities are targeting mostly to Rohingya young people even 10-12 year old boys. It is learnt that the young boys were stabbed by Natala villagers, after arrest.
The authorities also took away cattle, goats, rice, fowls and valuables from Rohingya villagers. Every night, the armies, Nasaka accompanied by Rakhines go to the said villages and make arbitrary arrest to the villagers. So, the villagers flee from the villages leaving their family members in the villages. Taking this advantage, the authorities assault the Rohingya women and young girls in the villages. This is the daily basis occurrence in the Rohingya villages. Where is the international community? asked a villager from inside Arakan.
Police arrests with various forms in Maungdaw.
Police officer inspector U aung Kyaw Than and its groups arrested Rohingya with various forms – called for repairing, meeting , listed involved in the demonstration on June 8 and meeting on the road- recently in Maungdaw, according to Maungdaw resident.
Today evening, the police personnel arrested Mohamed – a Rohingya technician- from clock tower junction for calling to repair the police vehicle, but he was sent to the Maungdaw police station with false allegation as he involved in the demonstration on June 8.
Similarly, two Rohingyas from Bomu village were arrested while they are going to their home from another friend home in the same village. The police met them on the road inside the village, but arrested with false allegation that they were doing to set fire the house yesterday.
Nasaka checks Rohingyas’ family list in Maungdaw
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Burmese border security force (Nasaka) has been going to check the family lists of Rohingya today morning, according to village administration office member from Maungdaw.
The Nasaka has been starting to check the family list of Ward number 2 and 4 where the Nasaka checked the lists with family members and if anyone fail to show on the time of checking, he/she was eased from the list. If every member is present at the time of checking, the authority issued a card masked “Checked”But, in Kyikanpyin and Nwahyondaung village, Nasaka has been checking the family lists but Nasaka has been taking signature from the family head on a blank paper after checked the list.
It is learnt that the medicine of MARTEZA (an NGO) and food items of World Food Program (WFP) were destroyed by the flood of June 26. On that day rain fall very heavily and caused inundated many villagers of Maungdaw north, said a youth from north of Maungdaw.
Situation of Buthidaung:
Two persons were released today morning who were arrested by army yesterday. The released two persons are: a son of Mr. Abu Toyub and another one is Adam Zee from Ward No. 7 of Buthidaung town. But, another two were not released among 4 persons who were arrested yesterday, said a trader from the locality.
Many villagers of Buthidaung south and north were flooded by heavy rain on June 26. The villagers have been suffering from many difficulties and there is no any help from government side.
Besides, the market of Buthidaung town was inundated under the water since Tuesday. The concerned authorities didn’t allow the shopkeepers to move their goods from the shops to other safe places giving the reasons that there should be untoward situation while moving the goods. As result, most of the goods should be rotten for keeping them for three days under the water. However, today at about 2:00 pm the concerned authorities of the market allowed shopkeepers to enter the market to see their goods.
Before, the sectarian violence, the concerned authorities did not allow to buy any one more than two kgs of rice from the market.
It is learnt that over 10,000 people including Rakhines and Rohingyas have been taking shelter in the Buthidaung High School because of flood.
Source : KPN
Manar Ammar | 28 June 2012 |
Western Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims face food shortages and ethnic violence.
CAIRO: Egyptian rights activists announced their solidarity with the under attack Muslim Rohingya community in Arakan, Myanmar, and plan to protest outside the Myanmar embassy later on Thursday.
“We are against exterminating peoples for their religion or beliefs,” said the invitation to action.
“The Arakan region has seen some serious human rights violations since the beginning of June where Muslims were attacked by Buddhists.”
The activists plan to gather in the upscale Cairo neighborhood of Zamalek at 5 PM to protest the ethnic violence outside of the embassy.
Some 30 Rohingya have been killed in violent clashes in Myanmar as a result of ethnic violence with Buddhists in the Western area.
The stateless community has struggled to find a positive way of life as many fled violence in Myanmar in the early 1980s.
The Rohingyas said the flare up of violence in Myanmar has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people in the past three decades and they want an end to the alleged atrocities.
They want a UN peacekeeping force as well as a medical team to be sent there immediately.
Many fear that thousands of Rohingyas may be heading towards a crisis situation without food, shelter and medication.
Source : BM
CAIRO: Egyptian rights activists announced their solidarity with the under attack Muslim Rohingya community in Arakan, Myanmar, and plan to protest outside the Myanmar embassy later on Thursday.
“We are against exterminating peoples for their religion or beliefs,” said the invitation to action.
“The Arakan region has seen some serious human rights violations since the beginning of June where Muslims were attacked by Buddhists.”
The activists plan to gather in the upscale Cairo neighborhood of Zamalek at 5 PM to protest the ethnic violence outside of the embassy.
Some 30 Rohingya have been killed in violent clashes in Myanmar as a result of ethnic violence with Buddhists in the Western area.
The Rohingyas said the flare up of violence in Myanmar has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people in the past three decades and they want an end to the alleged atrocities.
They want a UN peacekeeping force as well as a medical team to be sent there immediately.
Many fear that thousands of Rohingyas may be heading towards a crisis situation without food, shelter and medication.
Source : BM
Arakan Riot News Update : June 27, 2012
Buthidaung Township:
Yesterday night, 4-Rohingya man was arrested by army personnel of Military Operation Command (MOC) No.15 of Buthidaung Township over the allegation that they have been involved in political matter. After arrest, they were brought to unknown place. The arrestees are: two sons of Master Abu Tayub, Imam Hussain, and Abin Chay. They all belong to Ward No.7 of Buthidaung Town. This is the first time arresting occurred in Buthidaung Township, after the sectarian riots have been broken out in Arakan State, said a villager from Buthidaung Township.
Heavy downpours at Buthidaung Township yesterday, the following villages such as—U Hla Pay, longa Daung, Sindaung and Alay Chaung— went under water and villagers have been facing many difficulties. There is no report about death, but the water is still remaining. While the monsoon shower kept many villagers stranded at home throughout the day since early morning.
Maungdaw Township:
Today, Nasaka (Burma’s border security force) is seizing family lists of villagers of Myothu Gyi under the Maungdaw Township, reason is unknown, according to villagers.
Maungdaw north and south were flooded by heavy rain yesterday. Many villagers have been inundated and are facing many difficulties. Mean while, the army chased the villagers to arrest, so the villagers have to flee their villages to avoid arbitrary arrest leaving their women and daughters in the homes.
Yesterday, army accompanied by a group of Rakhines went to Oo Daung village – of Maungdaw south in the evening and arrested five villagers and the villagers fled from the village. They looted rice, gold, clothes and money etc.
Army and Natalia villagers went to Khorja Bill two days ago and an arrested 40 villagers (already released by Kaladan Press) and brought them to the mosque of the village and tortured them severely. In front of the arrestees, the army ransacked the mosque and tear of the Holy Quran. After that, they were put in a truck and covered it with a plastic sheet to avoid from public. Nobody knows their whereabouts. They also tortured the females in the village as their husbands were not present. At present, the women and girls are staying in the village in a panic-stricken position. They also looted goods from the village.
Yesterday, in the evening, the army arbitrary fired to the villagers of Khonsara and Whycha villages of Maungdaw south, as a result, villagers ran away where they think to be saved, but some villagers jumped into the river. Meanwhile, the water current was very strong as the rain fell very heavily, so the villagers who jumped into river were washed away. Today, the villagers found 10 dead bodies in the river that are floating.
Rakhines are backed by police, Hluntin, and Nasaka, but Rohingyas are only defenders while their houses were torched by Rakhine mobs in front of the security forces. Seeing the burning their houses, Rohingya villagers came forward to extinguish the burning houses, but the security forces fired to the villagers, so the villagers are unable to put out the fire and were killed and wounded by the firing of security forces. So, it is not a sectarian riots between Rakhines and Rohingyas, it is a preplanned action against the Rohingya community by government.
A village elder said,” The fake sectarian violence is still going on in Arakan State. It is really happened between government and unarmed Rohingya community. We are innocent, but the authorities give us pressure. ”
Source; by KPN
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