by J.A. | BANGKOK
THIDAR HTWE’s short life was not much older than Myanmar’s democracy movement. After a quarter-century of struggle the movement has scented victory of a kind, taking seats in parliament just this year. But now the untimely death of Miss Thidar Htwe, a 26-year-old from Thapraychaung village, has ignited a tinderbox of ethnic tensions. Violence is flaring around the western state of Rakhine. The president, Thein Sein, warned in a televised address that it could hinder the nascent reforms. As one of the worst episodes of communal violence the country has seen in decades, it also raises hard questions about the rights of minorities in a new Myanmar.
On May 28th, Miss Thidar Htwe, a Buddhist of the Rakhine ethnic group, was raped and killed, allegedly by three young Rohingya Muslims, as she made her way home from a nearby village. Six days later a mob of 300 Buddhist-Rakhine vigilantes stopped a bus carrying Muslim pilgrims was stopped in the town of Taungkok. The passengers were taken off the vehicle and ten of them were clubbed to death, and one of the women was sexually assaulted. The mob then poured alcohol on the corpses, in desecration. According to some accounts, one of the victims was a Buddhist, mistaken for a Muslim.
The local authorities in Thapraychaung had claimed to have detained the three rapists several days before the bus incident. The victims of the bus attack were not from Rakhine state, and were returning home to Yangon, the country’s commercial capital. Soon gruesome pictures of the victims were circulating the internet and small protests erupted within Yangon’s Muslim community.
This was not to prompt a moment of national soul-searching. Rather it marked the first salvo of fresh bigotry, unleashed against Myanmar’s Muslim minority on the internet and beyond. Discrimination against the Rohingyas has never been subtle. They are not allowed to travel within Myanmar, nor to serve in the police—technically, they do not even have citizenship (though this has been questioned in parliament). But their persecution has suddenly turned fervid.
It was evident in the state-run press. The Myanmar Alin, a newspaper, referred to the murdered Muslims with the derogatory term kalar, a word derived from Sanskrit which means “black”. In Myanmar it is used as an epithet for people with South Asian appearances, such as the Rohingya. More surprisingly, dozens of Burmese human-rights activists (many whom are themselves granted status as asylum-seekers by the West) have rounded on the country’s loosely defined community of Muslims—which includes plenty of ethnic Burmese, as well as Rohingyas and the descendants of South Asians.
Regarded by activists as the “most persecuted ethnic group in Asia”, the Rohingya inhabit the impoverished borderlands between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Much like their Buddhist-Rakhine neighbours they traverse both sides of the border. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh since Burma’s independence, fleeing racial and religious persecution not just at the hands of their Buddhist countrymen, the Buddhist Rakhines, but also the Burmese national authorities.
Rakhine state was once independent. Burma annexed it in 1784, when the British had barely set foot in the Irrawaddy delta. At the time the conquering Burmese induced Buddhist Rakhines to seek shelter in Bengal, to the west. There they established the town of Cox’s Bazaar, with the help of a British East India Company official, Hiram Cox.
In 1977, almost two centuries later, the independent government of Burma conducted a notorious military operation, codenamed Nagar Min (“Dragon King”), which forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas to flee across the border to the part of Bengal that had become Bangladesh. One of the victims of that putsch, now resident of Khutapalong camp near Cox’s Bazaar, told this correspondent that she fled only after Burmese soldiers butchered her eight-month-old child, on the grounds that she could not produce a permit.
Rakhine state’s tensions have a long history. They were on the simmer earlier this month. The statewide police presence had been increased since the massacre of the bus passengers at Taungkok. On June 8th, as Rohingya gathered for prayers, an incident between a Rohingya boy on a bicycle and a Rakhine on a motorbike turned ugly and attracted the police’s attention. Soon they turned to riot gear, and the angry street turned to stone-throwing. The police force that moved in with reinforcements already had a reputation for the near-genocidal purges against the Rohingya.
After Friday’s violence the government declared a Section 144 criminal order and by Saturday it was a curfew. According to Chris Lewa, an expert on regional affairs, the order to stay in doors applied only to Rohingyas. It did nothing to stop Buddhist Rakhine mobs looting and pillaging. They were filmed burning Rohingya villages, apparently with impunity; they were happy to speak before video cameras while houses burned in the background. The mobs seemed to rage without any fear of police action. At least one Rohingya woman was raped in the mayhem.
Fearing a new influx of refugees, Bangladesh meanwhile tightened security on its border. As many as 1,500 fleeing Rohingyas were stranded, left waiting on boats that idled in the Naf river, unable to land. Bangladesh is already home to perhaps 250,000 Rohingya refugees. Their presence in that crowded country has long been a cause of political bickering.
By Sunday Thein Sein had declared a state of military emergency under Section 413 of the country’s 2008 constitution: the first since its nominally democratic government took office in March 2011. The previous criminal order was deemed to weak, so once again the army rules in Rakhine. The UN pulled out the small staff it keeps in the area, which were held to be the last neutral observers on the ground.
Rioting spread quickly to Sittwe, the state capital. Local reports describe Rakhine and Rohingya mobs torching houses and being dispersed by armed police.
Tin Soe, the editor of the Rohingya-run Kaladan news network, welcomes the military state of emergency; he lacks faith entirely in the civilian police force. On the road between the main Rohingya urban centres, Buthidaung and Maungdaw, Tin Soe claims, the streams were clogged with dead bodies. He asserts the mobs’ killing of Rohingyas was done in concert with the police, who were Buddhists siding with their co-religionists.
Tin Soe once petitioned for the end of military rule and the release of all political prisoners. But now one of the most prominent of the former political prisoners, Ko Ko Gyi, a member of “the ’88 generation students”, has blamed the violence in Rakhine state on elements coming from “across the border”. The implication, as ever, is that the Rohingya are not a legitimate people of Myanmar. Indeed, Ko Ko Gyi made it explicit: the Rohingya are not an “ethnic group” of the country, he says, and so somehow they must be to blame. The same rationale is not applied Myanmar’s other ethnic groups, many of whom have a “more Burmese” racial appearance (ie, they look less like South Asians).
Ko Ko Gyi’s sentiments were echoed by the popular press, which has taken to calling Rohingyas “Bengalis”, and publishing vile comments on pictures of refugees. Many of the comments posted online call for ethnic cleansing. One thing shared across the spectrum of religious and political hues is a sense of deep foreboding. Leading activist from among the ethnic Chin minority expressed the fear that in Myanmar “we might go back to the dark age before we have even stepped into the path of light.”
(Picture credit: Joseph Allchin)
THIDAR HTWE’s short life was not much older than Myanmar’s democracy movement. After a quarter-century of struggle the movement has scented victory of a kind, taking seats in parliament just this year. But now the untimely death of Miss Thidar Htwe, a 26-year-old from Thapraychaung village, has ignited a tinderbox of ethnic tensions. Violence is flaring around the western state of Rakhine. The president, Thein Sein, warned in a televised address that it could hinder the nascent reforms. As one of the worst episodes of communal violence the country has seen in decades, it also raises hard questions about the rights of minorities in a new Myanmar.
On May 28th, Miss Thidar Htwe, a Buddhist of the Rakhine ethnic group, was raped and killed, allegedly by three young Rohingya Muslims, as she made her way home from a nearby village. Six days later a mob of 300 Buddhist-Rakhine vigilantes stopped a bus carrying Muslim pilgrims was stopped in the town of Taungkok. The passengers were taken off the vehicle and ten of them were clubbed to death, and one of the women was sexually assaulted. The mob then poured alcohol on the corpses, in desecration. According to some accounts, one of the victims was a Buddhist, mistaken for a Muslim.
The local authorities in Thapraychaung had claimed to have detained the three rapists several days before the bus incident. The victims of the bus attack were not from Rakhine state, and were returning home to Yangon, the country’s commercial capital. Soon gruesome pictures of the victims were circulating the internet and small protests erupted within Yangon’s Muslim community.
This was not to prompt a moment of national soul-searching. Rather it marked the first salvo of fresh bigotry, unleashed against Myanmar’s Muslim minority on the internet and beyond. Discrimination against the Rohingyas has never been subtle. They are not allowed to travel within Myanmar, nor to serve in the police—technically, they do not even have citizenship (though this has been questioned in parliament). But their persecution has suddenly turned fervid.
It was evident in the state-run press. The Myanmar Alin, a newspaper, referred to the murdered Muslims with the derogatory term kalar, a word derived from Sanskrit which means “black”. In Myanmar it is used as an epithet for people with South Asian appearances, such as the Rohingya. More surprisingly, dozens of Burmese human-rights activists (many whom are themselves granted status as asylum-seekers by the West) have rounded on the country’s loosely defined community of Muslims—which includes plenty of ethnic Burmese, as well as Rohingyas and the descendants of South Asians.
Regarded by activists as the “most persecuted ethnic group in Asia”, the Rohingya inhabit the impoverished borderlands between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Much like their Buddhist-Rakhine neighbours they traverse both sides of the border. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh since Burma’s independence, fleeing racial and religious persecution not just at the hands of their Buddhist countrymen, the Buddhist Rakhines, but also the Burmese national authorities.
Rakhine state was once independent. Burma annexed it in 1784, when the British had barely set foot in the Irrawaddy delta. At the time the conquering Burmese induced Buddhist Rakhines to seek shelter in Bengal, to the west. There they established the town of Cox’s Bazaar, with the help of a British East India Company official, Hiram Cox.
In 1977, almost two centuries later, the independent government of Burma conducted a notorious military operation, codenamed Nagar Min (“Dragon King”), which forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas to flee across the border to the part of Bengal that had become Bangladesh. One of the victims of that putsch, now resident of Khutapalong camp near Cox’s Bazaar, told this correspondent that she fled only after Burmese soldiers butchered her eight-month-old child, on the grounds that she could not produce a permit.
Rakhine state’s tensions have a long history. They were on the simmer earlier this month. The statewide police presence had been increased since the massacre of the bus passengers at Taungkok. On June 8th, as Rohingya gathered for prayers, an incident between a Rohingya boy on a bicycle and a Rakhine on a motorbike turned ugly and attracted the police’s attention. Soon they turned to riot gear, and the angry street turned to stone-throwing. The police force that moved in with reinforcements already had a reputation for the near-genocidal purges against the Rohingya.
After Friday’s violence the government declared a Section 144 criminal order and by Saturday it was a curfew. According to Chris Lewa, an expert on regional affairs, the order to stay in doors applied only to Rohingyas. It did nothing to stop Buddhist Rakhine mobs looting and pillaging. They were filmed burning Rohingya villages, apparently with impunity; they were happy to speak before video cameras while houses burned in the background. The mobs seemed to rage without any fear of police action. At least one Rohingya woman was raped in the mayhem.
Fearing a new influx of refugees, Bangladesh meanwhile tightened security on its border. As many as 1,500 fleeing Rohingyas were stranded, left waiting on boats that idled in the Naf river, unable to land. Bangladesh is already home to perhaps 250,000 Rohingya refugees. Their presence in that crowded country has long been a cause of political bickering.
By Sunday Thein Sein had declared a state of military emergency under Section 413 of the country’s 2008 constitution: the first since its nominally democratic government took office in March 2011. The previous criminal order was deemed to weak, so once again the army rules in Rakhine. The UN pulled out the small staff it keeps in the area, which were held to be the last neutral observers on the ground.
Rioting spread quickly to Sittwe, the state capital. Local reports describe Rakhine and Rohingya mobs torching houses and being dispersed by armed police.
Tin Soe, the editor of the Rohingya-run Kaladan news network, welcomes the military state of emergency; he lacks faith entirely in the civilian police force. On the road between the main Rohingya urban centres, Buthidaung and Maungdaw, Tin Soe claims, the streams were clogged with dead bodies. He asserts the mobs’ killing of Rohingyas was done in concert with the police, who were Buddhists siding with their co-religionists.
Tin Soe once petitioned for the end of military rule and the release of all political prisoners. But now one of the most prominent of the former political prisoners, Ko Ko Gyi, a member of “the ’88 generation students”, has blamed the violence in Rakhine state on elements coming from “across the border”. The implication, as ever, is that the Rohingya are not a legitimate people of Myanmar. Indeed, Ko Ko Gyi made it explicit: the Rohingya are not an “ethnic group” of the country, he says, and so somehow they must be to blame. The same rationale is not applied Myanmar’s other ethnic groups, many of whom have a “more Burmese” racial appearance (ie, they look less like South Asians).
Ko Ko Gyi’s sentiments were echoed by the popular press, which has taken to calling Rohingyas “Bengalis”, and publishing vile comments on pictures of refugees. Many of the comments posted online call for ethnic cleansing. One thing shared across the spectrum of religious and political hues is a sense of deep foreboding. Leading activist from among the ethnic Chin minority expressed the fear that in Myanmar “we might go back to the dark age before we have even stepped into the path of light.”
(Picture credit: Joseph Allchin)
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“It is not in our interest that new refugees come from Myanmar,” Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dipu Moni told reporters in Dhaka, the capital, on Tuesday.
Border guards “foiled two separate attempts of Rohingyas to enter” Bangladesh on Wednesday, the national news agency reported, sending 70 people back to Myanmar. About 1,500 Rohingya fleeing Myanmar in boats have been turned back since the weekend, when clashes broke out with the majority Rakhine Buddhist population, the Associated Press reported.
“It is not in our interest that new refugees come from Myanmar,” Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni told reporters in Dhaka on Tuesday. She reiterated that position Wednesday, the national news agency said.
The United Nations' refugee agency has called on Bangladesh to provide a haven for people fleeing the fighting in coastal Rakhine state, where rival mobs of Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims have burned homes and at least a dozen people have died. The violence in western Myanmar erupted after the lynching of 10 Muslims in retaliation for the rape and murder of a Buddhist girl, allegedly at the hands of three Muslims.
The Rohingya minority, estimated by the U.N. to number about 800,000, lack official acceptance from both Bangladesh and Myanmar, leaving them in effect stateless as the violence explodes. Bangladesh's Foreign Ministry has stressed that it is working with Myanmar “to ensure that developments in the Rakhine state do not have any trans-boundary spillover.”
The U.S. joined the public calls on Bangladesh on Wednesday, with State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland urging the country to ensure refugees aren't turned back to their persecutors, Agence France-Presse reported.
“By closing its border when violence in Arakan state is out of control, Bangladesh is putting lives at grave risk,” Human Rights Watch refugee program director Bill Frelick said Tuesday. “Bangladesh has an obligation under international law to keep its border open to people fleeing threats to their lives.”
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NEW DELHI -- Security forces struggled to contain clashes in western Myanmar on Tuesday after days of ethnic and religious violence left at least a dozen people killed and thousands displaced.
The fighting between majority Rakhine Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims is posing a serious challenge for the national government and its reform agenda as it seeks to end decades of isolation and military rule.
President Thein Sein declared a state of emergency in coastal Rakhine state Sunday night and ordered troops into the area to restore calm, but reports of violence continue and the United Nations announced it is evacuating staff from the area.
Police fired rounds into the air Tuesday to disperse Rohingya as houses burned in a neighborhood of the regional capital of Sittwe, the Associated Press reported.
In a refugee camp on the outskirts of New Delhi, Hafiz Ahmed, 42, said he was worried sick about the situation. "My parents are in Rakhine, I can't sleep at night," said Ahmed, who came to India three years ago to escape persecution in Myanmar. "Every three or four hours, I call them. I think the violence should stop now."
The unrest was sparked Friday following last month's rape and murder of a Buddhist girl, allegedly by three Muslims, and the lynching of 10 Muslims in retaliation. The weekend saw rival Muslim and Buddhist mobs burn houses. The government said about 4,100 people have lost their homes, many taking refuge in schools and Buddhist monasteries.
Analysts said that while the problem surfaced over the past week, the underlying conditions have developed over decades. A longstanding narrative of the military junta that had ruled the country for more than half a century was the preeminence of the ethnic Burman majority, which makes up about 68% of the population of Myanmar, also known as Burma.
"The rest, the non-Burmans, were pretty much persecuted," said Jan Zalewski, a London-based South Asia analyst with IHS Global Insight, a forecasting firm. "As you reform and open up the media, people have an opportunity to vent their anger over everything that's sitting quite deep. So you increase the polarization between groups."
"The rest, the non-Burmans, were pretty much persecuted," said Jan Zalewski, a London-based South Asia analyst with IHS Global Insight, a forecasting firm. "As you reform and open up the media, people have an opportunity to vent their anger over everything that's sitting quite deep. So you increase the polarization between groups."
Even among Myanmar's ethnic communities, however, the Rohingya are often discriminated against. Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh officially refuse to accept them. In recent days, Bangladesh has turned back several boats filled with Rohingya, rendering them essentially stateless.
The U.N., which estimates that 800,000 Rohingya live in mountainous Rakhine state bordering Bangladesh, lists them as among the most discriminated communities in the world. Also driving prejudices, analysts said, is concern among Rakhine Buddhists that Rohingya will take scarce jobs.
The U.N., which estimates that 800,000 Rohingya live in mountainous Rakhine state bordering Bangladesh, lists them as among the most discriminated communities in the world. Also driving prejudices, analysts said, is concern among Rakhine Buddhists that Rohingya will take scarce jobs.
Mohammad Sadek, an activist with Malaysia's Rohingya Arakanese Refugee Committee, is bracing for more refugees into that country, which already has some 40,000 Rohingya living in camps or awaiting U.N. recognition.
"We are trying to call on the international community, especially the U.N., to send peacekeeping forces to mediate," he said. "Thousands of Rohingya are displaced, the wounded can't get medication, it's a crisis."
Though Myanmar's military-backed government has introduced a series of reforms in recent months, some analysts expressed concern that it could use the current crisis as a pretext to tighten control.
In recent weeks, the government has faced growing dissent across the country, including broad-based protests over endemic power cuts, demonstrations in Shan state over a destroyed market and angry workers blocking access to 12 gold mines in Mandalay Division over job cuts and labor conditions.
"As the government starts to see that things could get out of control, they're trying to divert attention, and gain popularity through [Burman] nationalism," said Khin Ohmar, a Thailand-based coordinator with Burma Partnership, a pro-democracy civic group. "It's the same old trick."
The European Union said Monday it was satisfied with Myanmar's "measured" response to the Muslim-Buddhist violence, while the United States called on all ethnic groups to work toward reconciliation.
"We urge the people of Burma to work together toward a peaceful, prosperous and democratic country that respects the rights of all its diverse peoples," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a statement Monday.
"We are trying to call on the international community, especially the U.N., to send peacekeeping forces to mediate," he said. "Thousands of Rohingya are displaced, the wounded can't get medication, it's a crisis."
Though Myanmar's military-backed government has introduced a series of reforms in recent months, some analysts expressed concern that it could use the current crisis as a pretext to tighten control.
In recent weeks, the government has faced growing dissent across the country, including broad-based protests over endemic power cuts, demonstrations in Shan state over a destroyed market and angry workers blocking access to 12 gold mines in Mandalay Division over job cuts and labor conditions.
"As the government starts to see that things could get out of control, they're trying to divert attention, and gain popularity through [Burman] nationalism," said Khin Ohmar, a Thailand-based coordinator with Burma Partnership, a pro-democracy civic group. "It's the same old trick."
The European Union said Monday it was satisfied with Myanmar's "measured" response to the Muslim-Buddhist violence, while the United States called on all ethnic groups to work toward reconciliation.
"We urge the people of Burma to work together toward a peaceful, prosperous and democratic country that respects the rights of all its diverse peoples," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a statement Monday.
TEKNAF, Bangladesh (AFP) - Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar living in refugee camps in Bangladesh called on Wednesday for democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi to speak up for them and help end their persecution.
Bangladesh, which shares a 200-kilometre (125-mile) border with Myanmar, is home to an estimated 300,000 Rohingya refugees, about a tenth of whom live in squalid conditions in UN-assisted camps.
Around 25 people have been killed and a further 41 wounded in five days of unrest between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state, a Myanmar official told AFP on Tuesday.
"Our appeal is to the UN, foreign nations, the Myanmar government and especially to Suu Kyi," Mohammad Islam, leader of Rohingya refugees living in Nayapara camp in the Bangladesh border town of Teknaf, told AFP.
"Aung San Suu Kyi hasn't done or said anything for us, yet the Rohingyas including my parents campaigned for her in the 1990 elections. Like most other Burmese people, she is silent about the rights of Rohingya," he added.
In her first visit outside Myanmar in 24 years, Suu Kyi last month met thousands of Myanmar refugees now living in a Thai border camp. She promised to try as much as she could to help them return home, vowing not to forget them.
Islam said that while she had highlighted the plight of other Myanmar refugees, mostly Karen people, there had been no words of hope for the Rohingya.
"We heard the relations between the government and Suu Kyi have mended and there are now reforms sweeping the country. But for Rohingya, these changes mean nothing," Islam said.
Speaking a Bengali dialect similar to one in southeast Bangladesh, the Rohingya have long been treated as "foreign" by the Myanmar government and many Burmese, a situation activists say has fostered rifts with Rakhine's Buddhists.
Islam said that reports were filtering into the camps of new clashes targeting Rohingya people in Rakhine state.
He said that Buddhists and Myanmar security forces had besieged a mosque in Maidanpara village south of the town of Maungdaw.
"Many people were killed," he said.
In Sittwe, he claimed people had been confined to a cinema hall which was then set ablaze.
"It is all part of a masterplan to eliminate Rohingya from Myanmar. Security forces have joined hands with Rakhines in the slaughter," he said.
The allegations could not be independently verified by AFP.
Suu Kyi left Myanmar on Wednesday on her first trip to Europe since 1988 to formally accept the Nobel Peace Prize that thrust her into the global limelight two decades ago."I would like to do my best for the interests of the people," Suu Kyi told reporters before her plane left Yangon airport.
Bangladesh, which shares a 200-kilometre (125-mile) border with Myanmar, is home to an estimated 300,000 Rohingya refugees, about a tenth of whom live in squalid conditions in UN-assisted camps.
Around 25 people have been killed and a further 41 wounded in five days of unrest between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state, a Myanmar official told AFP on Tuesday.
"Our appeal is to the UN, foreign nations, the Myanmar government and especially to Suu Kyi," Mohammad Islam, leader of Rohingya refugees living in Nayapara camp in the Bangladesh border town of Teknaf, told AFP.
"Aung San Suu Kyi hasn't done or said anything for us, yet the Rohingyas including my parents campaigned for her in the 1990 elections. Like most other Burmese people, she is silent about the rights of Rohingya," he added.
In her first visit outside Myanmar in 24 years, Suu Kyi last month met thousands of Myanmar refugees now living in a Thai border camp. She promised to try as much as she could to help them return home, vowing not to forget them.
Islam said that while she had highlighted the plight of other Myanmar refugees, mostly Karen people, there had been no words of hope for the Rohingya.
"We heard the relations between the government and Suu Kyi have mended and there are now reforms sweeping the country. But for Rohingya, these changes mean nothing," Islam said.
Speaking a Bengali dialect similar to one in southeast Bangladesh, the Rohingya have long been treated as "foreign" by the Myanmar government and many Burmese, a situation activists say has fostered rifts with Rakhine's Buddhists.
Islam said that reports were filtering into the camps of new clashes targeting Rohingya people in Rakhine state.
He said that Buddhists and Myanmar security forces had besieged a mosque in Maidanpara village south of the town of Maungdaw.
"Many people were killed," he said.
In Sittwe, he claimed people had been confined to a cinema hall which was then set ablaze.
"It is all part of a masterplan to eliminate Rohingya from Myanmar. Security forces have joined hands with Rakhines in the slaughter," he said.
The allegations could not be independently verified by AFP.
Suu Kyi left Myanmar on Wednesday on her first trip to Europe since 1988 to formally accept the Nobel Peace Prize that thrust her into the global limelight two decades ago."I would like to do my best for the interests of the people," Suu Kyi told reporters before her plane left Yangon airport.
AFP
The coastal state of Rakhine saw Buddhists once again fighting Muslims including Rohingya migrants, most of whom are stateless. They are described by the United Nations as one of the world's most persecuted minorities.
The violence and burning seems to have started after a Buddhist woman was raped and murdered last month. The Rohingya -- who are a minority Muslim group - were blamed and since then, more people have been killed on both sides of the religious divide.
In response, the government has imposed a state of emergency in the area and the UN is relocating its staff.
credit : Al Jazeera
14th June 2012
Burmese Time 6.00pm
In Akyab (Sittwe), over 20 Rakhine have been arrested by the authorities today with weapons. Estimated 8-9000 Rohingya refugees were in the remote area of Akyab (Sittwe) without shelter, Food and Medical assistance.
Last night, 8 No. of Rakhine were arrested with weapon Near Nga Pu Ra village in Maungdaw Township. This evening Near Nga Pu Ra village and Nine Shung village of Maungdaw a large group of Rakhine Rebel fighters with arm were rounded by the Burmese army at the time of receiving report. People have been warned not perform Juma prayer in Masjid tomorrow in many areas of Maungdaw township by the authority. Many Rohingyas were arrested during day time.
Riot starting in New Area,
In Rathedaung Township (4th largest Rohingya population Arakan), over 1000 Rakhine were gathered yesterday evening and torched many Rohingya villages jointly with police and Hlun Tin. Numbers of Dead were unknown.
13th June 2012 (Wednesday)
Burmese Time 4.00am – Several Rohingyas were arrested in Maungdaw Township during the night. Unconfirmed reports are coming that there are clashes between military and Police in Shwe Za village Maungdaw Township during looting from the shop by the police together with Rakhine.
No news of burning houses during the night in Maungdaw but bullets firing noise are almost everywhere according to the reliable source.
Humanitarian assistance such as Food, shelters and Medical assistance are seriously in need ASAP to those where effected.
In Akyab (Sittwe), Rohingyas were arrested over the night (Unknown numbers but many according to the witness). Looting and shooting are still taking place in many areas. Police and Hlun Tin were collecting dead bodies from the road and burned houses and taking away to the unknown areas. Some villages in Akyab are completely Rohingya free now due to the killing and burned down their houses. Exact quantities of dead are still unknown.
12th June 2012 (Tuesday)
Burmese Time 4.00pm- Eye witness report from Akayab (Sittwe) - Nazi villiage, Amala Villiage and Aung Min Gala Villiage are burning now. People who were escaping were shot dead by the jointly Police, Hluntin and Rakhine, Military are not taking any action.
Local authority together with Hluntin and Police approach to the remaining Rohingya in the city centre and demanding to give signature in the pre written documents that agreeing voluntarily escaping from the scene to the remote area of (Akayab) Sittwe. Rohingya refused to do so. They have warned that they will next in target. Situation is very bad and if it is continue like this, it may be few days to clean up Rohingya from Akayab (Sittwe).
Several houses are burning in the Bomu Village and Shwe Za Village. Authority giving warning with loud speaker that whoever accommodating refuges and injured person they will be arrested.
12th June 2012 (Tuesday)
Latest 11:30- Police, Paramilitary and Rakhines set fire on 3 houses of Rohingyas in Ward (2) (Bomu Para).Three Rohingya houses are setting fire now in Maungdaw. Police officer Aung Kyaw Khant is leading to set fire with the cooperation
Police and Paravillge arrested many Rohingya men and youth in Maungdaw and forced them to wear Indian-dresses (or something similar to a molvi). And put each a gun on their shoulders and a backpack on their back as if they are Taliban or Mujahid fighters. This piece will be circulated in the media soon.
11th June 2012 (Monday)
23:00-Source said there are three Burmese Navy cargo vessels arrived near Ale Than Kyaw coastal reef to unload ammunition and weapons. Rohingyas in Ale Than Kyaw are worrying.
22:15- Many Rohingyas are leaving from the Buthidaung Town. Our reliable sources said there about 500 Rakhine brought from Taunggote.
22:00- Police shot one Noor Alam a Rohingya who is living in Maraung Village, Buthidaung Town.
21:00- Burning Pauk Taw Town- Many houses were burnt..
20:00- Sources from Rangoon said someone non-muslims were ordered 500 kurta (Muslims relious teacher dress ) at a tailor. Many Kurtas. Rakhines Were seen today in Maungdaw with Kurta.They changed Kurta in Monastery (which is located City Centre).
19:00-Shabok fara village, Sittwe was also burnt down. About 100 houses were destroyed. Several Rohingyas were killed.
18:30- Huge crowd came to Santoli village ,Sittwe .Source mention that many police are from No.1 Police Station Sittwe. The security forces fires in the air first. Then setting fire on rohingyas’ houses. While the rohingyas were trying to escape the security forces shot them. More than 250 houses were burnt down. The dead bodies were taken to the Hospital .Reliable Source said -authorities poured acid on the face of dead bodies, shaved the heads, dressed them as Buddhist monks to take the pictures so that they can use the pictures in making mis-propaganda against Rohingya people. Pictures were taken by Wekkly Eleven Journal.In fact none of the Rakhine or monk was killed in the whole Sittwe(Akyab) by Rohingya people.
15:30-Rakhine set fire on pozu bazaar near to sittwe Markaz. Blaze of fire was seen from long distance, eye-witness said. More than 200 houses were burnt down. Estimated 350 to 400 Rohingya people were shot dead while they were escaping from the burning houses. Eye-witness said dead bodies were taken about 20 Trucks.More than 500 Rohingya are still missing from the village (assumed most of them are children ).
15:00 - Eye-Witness said Rakhine are coming from the Monastery (located Maungdaw City Central) with Islamic religious dressed. Taken about 10 young Rohingya girls.
14.30- Donpyin village set on fire by Lon-Tain and Rakhine . Initially, there were six trucks full of Lon-Tain (Paramilitary Forces ) surrounded the village. And they escorted the Rakhine to enter the village. Paramilitary Forces supported while Rakhine are setting fire on the villagers houses. Many Rohingyas were shot dead by the security forces. Eye-witness described it was so horrible that even the stomach organs burst out from some bodies.
14:15- Destroying Sittwe Central Mosque.
14:10 – Just destroyed remaining shops from Sittwe central Market
14:00- Received mail from reliable source
Current situation of Maungdaw is going worst and worst, Ward (2- Bo Mu para ) is burning by the Na Sa Ka and local Rakhine youth with Uniform of Na Sa Ka and Police. Taking information is difficult but any how they are sending some mentioned below :
(1) Master Sham SHu's house---- arrest and took away all Family members
(2) MD. Ali's house'''''............arrest and took away all Family members
(3) Dalal Roshid's house''''''''' arrest and took away all Family members
(5) Mosjeed. building
(6) Shopkeeper.. Sayed husson's house..... arrest and took away all Family members
Killing and destroying the houses are uncountable. All the dead bodies were taken away by trucks.
22:00- Police shot one Noor Alam a Rohingya who is living in Maraung Village, Buthidaung Town.
21:00- Burning Pauk Taw Town- Many houses were burnt..
20:00- Sources from Rangoon said someone non-muslims were ordered 500 kurta (Muslims relious teacher dress ) at a tailor. Many Kurtas. Rakhines Were seen today in Maungdaw with Kurta.They changed Kurta in Monastery (which is located City Centre).
19:00-Shabok fara village, Sittwe was also burnt down. About 100 houses were destroyed. Several Rohingyas were killed.
18:30- Huge crowd came to Santoli village ,Sittwe .Source mention that many police are from No.1 Police Station Sittwe. The security forces fires in the air first. Then setting fire on rohingyas’ houses. While the rohingyas were trying to escape the security forces shot them. More than 250 houses were burnt down. The dead bodies were taken to the Hospital .Reliable Source said -authorities poured acid on the face of dead bodies, shaved the heads, dressed them as Buddhist monks to take the pictures so that they can use the pictures in making mis-propaganda against Rohingya people. Pictures were taken by Wekkly Eleven Journal.In fact none of the Rakhine or monk was killed in the whole Sittwe(Akyab) by Rohingya people.
15:30-Rakhine set fire on pozu bazaar near to sittwe Markaz. Blaze of fire was seen from long distance, eye-witness said. More than 200 houses were burnt down. Estimated 350 to 400 Rohingya people were shot dead while they were escaping from the burning houses. Eye-witness said dead bodies were taken about 20 Trucks.More than 500 Rohingya are still missing from the village (assumed most of them are children ).
15:00 - Eye-Witness said Rakhine are coming from the Monastery (located Maungdaw City Central) with Islamic religious dressed. Taken about 10 young Rohingya girls.
14.30- Donpyin village set on fire by Lon-Tain and Rakhine . Initially, there were six trucks full of Lon-Tain (Paramilitary Forces ) surrounded the village. And they escorted the Rakhine to enter the village. Paramilitary Forces supported while Rakhine are setting fire on the villagers houses. Many Rohingyas were shot dead by the security forces. Eye-witness described it was so horrible that even the stomach organs burst out from some bodies.
14:15- Destroying Sittwe Central Mosque.
14:10 – Just destroyed remaining shops from Sittwe central Market
14:00- Received mail from reliable source
Current situation of Maungdaw is going worst and worst, Ward (2- Bo Mu para ) is burning by the Na Sa Ka and local Rakhine youth with Uniform of Na Sa Ka and Police. Taking information is difficult but any how they are sending some mentioned below :
(1) Master Sham SHu's house---- arrest and took away all Family members
(2) MD. Ali's house'''''............arrest and took away all Family members
(3) Dalal Roshid's house''''''''' arrest and took away all Family members
(5) Mosjeed. building
(6) Shopkeeper.. Sayed husson's house..... arrest and took away all Family members
Killing and destroying the houses are uncountable. All the dead bodies were taken away by trucks.
13:30- Harr Ree Fara (Har Ree village), Maungdaw is burning. Whoever tried to come out from the house paramilitary forces shooting them in front of families.
13:10 –Estimated 3000 Rakhines enterd to Mawleik Village, Sittwe
12:00- Rakhines are preparing to attack Nazi Village. One of the Rakhine Extremist Ba La Gyi (RNDP member)is shouting with loud speaker coming towards Mawleik village .
10:00- In Sanpya Village (Sittwe) many Rohingya houses were fired. Estimated like 200 people killed by Police while they tried to defend.
09 :30- Maung daw Quarter (4) 4 houses burnt down .
7:15 – U Ba Than Military Office (Camp no.378) shot two Rohingyas in Buthidaung .
10th June (Sunday )
19:35-Some Rohingya’s dead bodies were dressed up with monk dress and put acid on the Face.
After State Emergency announced Some of Rakhine groups went to Rohingya’s small villages and killed some people.
19:35- Than Taw Lee village is burning .
19:20- Saying 62 houses were burnt down and Rohingyas were taken out from the house and slaughtered 4 people.
13:10 –Estimated 3000 Rakhines enterd to Mawleik Village, Sittwe
12:00- Rakhines are preparing to attack Nazi Village. One of the Rakhine Extremist Ba La Gyi (RNDP member)is shouting with loud speaker coming towards Mawleik village .
10:00- In Sanpya Village (Sittwe) many Rohingya houses were fired. Estimated like 200 people killed by Police while they tried to defend.
09 :30- Maung daw Quarter (4) 4 houses burnt down .
7:15 – U Ba Than Military Office (Camp no.378) shot two Rohingyas in Buthidaung .
10th June (Sunday )
19:35-Some Rohingya’s dead bodies were dressed up with monk dress and put acid on the Face.
After State Emergency announced Some of Rakhine groups went to Rohingya’s small villages and killed some people.
19:35- Than Taw Lee village is burning .
19:20- Saying 62 houses were burnt down and Rohingyas were taken out from the house and slaughtered 4 people.
19:00- 16 people slaughtered in Zay Haung Mawleik . Rakhines are intruding Rohingyas houses and killing everyone.
18:30- Three Rohingya dead body was found nearby Myo Thu Gyi village.
18:20- There are a few hundreds of Rakhine with knives at the mountain of Southside of Maungdaw .Our sources said that Rakhine prepared to kill many Rohingyas tonight with the help of Police and Military. It is estimated about 300 killed only in Maungdaw Township.
17:55 -There are about 3 trucks of dead bodies were carried to Maungdaw Quarter to bury in Buddhist Cemetery. 3 trucks were fully escorted.
17:45- Many dead bodies (Estimated about 20-25) were seen in Pai Thay Ywa Village (0.5 mile to Sittwe Market) while people jumped to the river (close to Sittwe Port) when Rakhine were killing with cooperation of Police.
17:00- Someone told me from Maungdaw We would like to appeal international community to provide humanitarian assistance to Rohingyas as many Rohingyas are direly in need of food besides full security which can be given by International Community.
16 :00-Rakhines came the support of police to Aung Min Ga Lar Quarter (where I grown up ) Sittwe and brought petrol with them. My source told me doesn’t know what time they will set fire. The situation is very worrying.
14:00- Curfew was imposed only for Rohingyas. Rakhine are burning Rohingya’s houses.
12:00 - Set fire Zay Haung Mawleik Village (which was know as Rohingya Para) .about 40 houses burnt 12:30 - Set fire all Rohingya's house Yanpyay Township ( Rohingyas are like 5to 10% there) 12:55 - Narzeer Para Village set fire (1 mile from Sittwe Airport ) and Burning now. 13:00- Some sources saying that government announced Marshall Law in Sittwe (unconfirmed)
09:30am- Bu May village (Wayalis) ,Sittwe Township is burning till now.
18:30- Three Rohingya dead body was found nearby Myo Thu Gyi village.
18:20- There are a few hundreds of Rakhine with knives at the mountain of Southside of Maungdaw .Our sources said that Rakhine prepared to kill many Rohingyas tonight with the help of Police and Military. It is estimated about 300 killed only in Maungdaw Township.
17:55 -There are about 3 trucks of dead bodies were carried to Maungdaw Quarter to bury in Buddhist Cemetery. 3 trucks were fully escorted.
17:45- Many dead bodies (Estimated about 20-25) were seen in Pai Thay Ywa Village (0.5 mile to Sittwe Market) while people jumped to the river (close to Sittwe Port) when Rakhine were killing with cooperation of Police.
17:00- Someone told me from Maungdaw We would like to appeal international community to provide humanitarian assistance to Rohingyas as many Rohingyas are direly in need of food besides full security which can be given by International Community.
16 :00-Rakhines came the support of police to Aung Min Ga Lar Quarter (where I grown up ) Sittwe and brought petrol with them. My source told me doesn’t know what time they will set fire. The situation is very worrying.
14:00- Curfew was imposed only for Rohingyas. Rakhine are burning Rohingya’s houses.
12:00 - Set fire Zay Haung Mawleik Village (which was know as Rohingya Para) .about 40 houses burnt 12:30 - Set fire all Rohingya's house Yanpyay Township ( Rohingyas are like 5to 10% there) 12:55 - Narzeer Para Village set fire (1 mile from Sittwe Airport ) and Burning now. 13:00- Some sources saying that government announced Marshall Law in Sittwe (unconfirmed)
09:30am- Bu May village (Wayalis) ,Sittwe Township is burning till now.
09:15 am- Police Officer Than Htin killed innocent one Rohingya girl (Ramzaan- 12yrs ) Rohingya boy (Name –Abdu Rahaman-10yrs ) and her brother injured. Dead body was taken by Paramilitary Forces.
9:00am- Government ordered to leave all the NGOs from Northern Arakan State (confirmed).
9:00am- Government ordered to leave all the NGOs from Northern Arakan State (confirmed).
4:00am- Harzamya village from Sittwe was burnt- 13 Rohingyas were shot dead by Police and Paramilitary Forces. 4 injured. Reliable sources said dead bodies were collected and buried.
03:00 am- Some Rohingya youths were carried away by NaSaKa Border Security Forces. The number of youths was unknown. At least 70 Rohingyas were killed from Myothugyi village (Kaindapara) alone. A total of about 300 Rohingyas were believed to have been killed in the Maungdaw township. It is very hard to ascertain the exact figures as the dead bodies have not been handed over to their relatives or villagers yet.
01:30 am - The Akyab Airport Mosque is being burnt .It has been reported that the riot have been supervised by Aung Myat Kyaw an MP at State Parliament. It is reported that the house of one Mohammed Hussein was killed and his house was burnt down. For this destruction, Aung Myat Kyaw is using Aung Tun Sein (Olympic group) and Pho Sein(Danyawadi group) .Another source reported that a mosque in Magyi Myaing Village (1mile from Sittwe Airport) at quarter8 was also destroyed.
Nur Begum from Myi Gyi Myaing village Sittwe was chopped and packed in a Jute bag at Mayu Road. The dead body was said to have been hidden by the police.
01:-00 am- In Sittwe, Rakhine in Islamic attire wearing caps were seen roaming in the streets of Akyab trying to pretend Muslims. The following racist Medias are engaged in anti-Rohingya propaganda
00:35am - Buthidaung Township (16 mile from Maungdaw) : Half an hour ago two boatloads of Rakhine were brought in to the town of Buthidaung from other places under the programme of the authorities.
00.30am-Tensions increased in Arakan according to some sources.
9th June 2012 (Saturday)
Armed security forces with Rakhine extremist equipped with lethal arms were roaming Maungdaw towns and surrounding villages. This morning 4 Rohingyas were carried away from Fayazi village of Maungdaw. Their whereabouts is known.
03:00 am- Some Rohingya youths were carried away by NaSaKa Border Security Forces. The number of youths was unknown. At least 70 Rohingyas were killed from Myothugyi village (Kaindapara) alone. A total of about 300 Rohingyas were believed to have been killed in the Maungdaw township. It is very hard to ascertain the exact figures as the dead bodies have not been handed over to their relatives or villagers yet.
01:30 am - The Akyab Airport Mosque is being burnt .It has been reported that the riot have been supervised by Aung Myat Kyaw an MP at State Parliament. It is reported that the house of one Mohammed Hussein was killed and his house was burnt down. For this destruction, Aung Myat Kyaw is using Aung Tun Sein (Olympic group) and Pho Sein(Danyawadi group) .Another source reported that a mosque in Magyi Myaing Village (1mile from Sittwe Airport) at quarter8 was also destroyed.
Nur Begum from Myi Gyi Myaing village Sittwe was chopped and packed in a Jute bag at Mayu Road. The dead body was said to have been hidden by the police.
01:-00 am- In Sittwe, Rakhine in Islamic attire wearing caps were seen roaming in the streets of Akyab trying to pretend Muslims. The following racist Medias are engaged in anti-Rohingya propaganda
00:35am - Buthidaung Township (16 mile from Maungdaw) : Half an hour ago two boatloads of Rakhine were brought in to the town of Buthidaung from other places under the programme of the authorities.
00.30am-Tensions increased in Arakan according to some sources.
9th June 2012 (Saturday)
Armed security forces with Rakhine extremist equipped with lethal arms were roaming Maungdaw towns and surrounding villages. This morning 4 Rohingyas were carried away from Fayazi village of Maungdaw. Their whereabouts is known.
According to a report, “Nasaka security forces and police are the killers. The Rakhine extremists joined them and reining hell on Rohingya. Because of the curfew no one dares to go out, and at the absence of witness Rakhine extremists set fire on houses, village after village. If anyone comes out from the fire, he/she gets a bullet or two or more. No witness, no proof. Natala villagers and Rakhine extremists have been supplied guns as well, but no one may prove it. In the mean time, racist monks are busy with media supplying fabricated news. These tragic events have been well planned in advance.”
At midnight (8/6/12) the Hlun Htein forces from Ngakura village accompanied by the extremists from the Rakhine village of San Oo Rwa (Hatipra) attacked the Rohingya villagers of the same village killing one person injuring 3 others. The dead body was carried away by the killers.
Last night groups of armed forces with Buddhist Rakhine extremists went to the Rohingya villages. They opened fire to the Muslim houses. When the inmates left their homes the Rakhine extremists set on fire. Many houses in several villagers have been reported burnt into ashes. Many people were killed and several others injured. The villages of Hatalia, Sommonia, Razarbil, Kayandan and San Oo are among those which were attacked.
Since yesterday the Buddhist monks and Rakhine extremists escorted by security forces were announcing ‘War on Kalas, (war on Rohingyas) along the street of Maungdaw. This message was spread like a wild fire all over Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships.
Many security forces dressed in civil clothes but with arms are firing the Rohingyas.
An estimated 100 Rohingyas were killed. As dead bodies were not handed over to the relatives or villagers. Exact number of death could not be confirmed. Some estimate that the number of death could exceed 200 Rohingyas.
Hundreds of injured Rohingyas are lack of treatment. Thousands of people were deprived of food and water as Police, military, and Hlon Htin block them.
At about 12: 25 P.M. Deputy Home Minister accompanied by U Aung Zaw Win (USDP- MP) arrived at Maungdaw. They are reportedly discussing with local leaders on the situation. The details of the discussion are still not known.
8th June 2012 (Friday)
After Friday congregation, at about 2 pm. while a group of Muslims were trying to join a payer at Kayandan Islamic propagation centre (Tabligh Centre) for those 10 Muslims who were murdered by Rakhine extremists at Taunggup on 3 June 2011, the security forces tried to stop them and then started firing at the crowd killing at least two people and injuring many others.
At 2:30 p.m. two young Rohingyas who were returning home after Friday prayer from Maungdaw Central Mosque were seriously beaten by police. One of them whose hand was broken was released after sometime while the other who received head injury was still in police custody. His condition is still unknown.
ေအာက္က စာပုိဒ္ႏွစ္ပုိဒ္ႏွင့္ လက္ခုပ္သံေတြကုိ ဖတ္ၾကည့့္ပါ။ တစ္ခုခုေတာ့ မွားေနျပီလုိ႔ မထင္ဘူးလားဗ်ာ။
ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ကိစၥႏွင့္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ရွင္းလင္းတဲ့ေနရာမွာ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ရဲ့ ျပည္ေထာင္စု သမၼတျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ့ အေနာက္တံခါး က်ိဳးျပီလုိ႔ က်ေနာ္က ေျပာခ်င္ပါတယ္။
ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း
ရခုိင္အမ်ိုဳးသားေတြ ကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေနတဲ့ အေနာက္တံခါးႀကီး က်ိဳးျပီ။ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ရခုိင္တုိင္းရင္းသားမ်ားျဖစ္တဲ့ ျမိဳ၊ ကမီး၊ သက္ေတြ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေနတဲ့ ေနထုိင္ေနတဲ့ အေနာက္တံခါးႀကီး က်ိဳးသြားပါျပီ ခင္ဗ်။
ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း
တစ္ခုခု မွားေနျပီလို႔ မထင္ေသးရင္ ေအာက္မွာ ဥပမာ သုံးခုကုိ ဆက္ဖတ္ေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။
၁။ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ အမိျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ႀကီး ထီးက်ိဳး စည္ေပါက္ ကၽြန္သေဘာက္ဘဝ ေရာက္ခဲ့ရတယ္။
ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း
၂။ က်ဳပ္တုိ႔ မြန္ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ႀကီး ပ်က္သုဥ္းခဲ့ရတယ္။
ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း
၃။ ငါတုိ႔ အဖရခုိင္ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ႀကီး က်ဆုံးခဲ့ရတယ္။
ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း ေျဖာင္း
ဒါေတြကေတာ့ လက္ခုပ္တီးစရာ မဟုတ္ဘူးဆိုတာ ရွင္းလွပါတယ္။
တစ္ကယ္ေတာ့ အေနာက္တံခါးႀကီး က်ိဳးသြားပါျပီလုိ႔ ရခုိင္ဒီမုိကေရစီအဖဲြ႕က ဦးလွျမင့္က ၂၀၁၂ခု ဇြန္လ(၁၁)ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ရခုိင္ဒီမုိကေရစီအဖဲြ႕ခ်ဳပ္က ေရႊဂုံတုိင္ ဒုိ႔ရုိးရာစားေသာက္ဆုိင္မွာ ႀကီးမွဴးက်င္းပေသာ လက္ရွိရခုိင္ျပည္အေျခအေန သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပဲြမွာ ေျပာၾကားလုိက္တဲ့အခါမွာ တက္ေရာက္တဲ့ ပရိသတ္က ဝမ္းနည္း ေၾကကြဲၾကသင့္ပါတယ္။ ဘာေၾကာင့္ တံခါးႀကီးက်ိဳးသြားတာကုိ ပရိသတ္က လက္ခုပ္ၾသဘာ ေပးေနၾကတာလဲ။ အထူးသျဖင့္ ရခုိင္ရြာေတြ မီးရႈိ႕ခံ၊ ရခုိင္ေတြ အသတ္ျဖတ္ခံ၊ အႏုိင္က်င့္ခံ၊ ရခုိင္ေတြ ေသာင္းႏွင့္ခ်ီ ဒုကၡသည္အျဖစ္ ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီးေက်ာင္းေတြမွာ ခုိလႈံဆင္းရဲဒုကၡေရာက္ေနျပီး ျပည္တြင္း၊ ျပည္ပက အလွဴေငြမ်ား ေကာက္ခံေထာက္ပ့ံေနရတဲ့ အခါမ်ိဳးမွာ တံခါးႀကီး က်ိဳးသြားတာကုိ လက္ခုပ္သံ တစ္ေျဖာင္းေျဖာင္းႏွင့္ ၿကုိဆုိလုိက္တာက တစ္ခုခုေတာ့ မွားေနျပီလုိ႔ အခမ္းအနားသုိ႔ တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ၾကေသာ ဦးေအးသာေအာင္၊ ဦးခြန္ထြန္းဦး၊ ဦးကုိကုိႀကီးအပါအဝင္ တက္ေရာက္ၾကတဲ့ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ႀကီးမ်ား မထင္မိၾကဘူးလားဗ်ာလုိ႔ ေမးလုိက္ခ်င္ပါတယ္။
ရွင္းရွင္းေျပာရရင္ အခု ရခုိင္ျပည္မွာ ဘဂၤါလီေတြ အစုလုိက္ အျပံဳလုိက္ ခုိးဝင္ေနတာေၾကာင့္ တားဆီးရင္းျဖစ္ရတာပါဆုိတဲ့ ဥပေဒမဲ့ အဓိကရုဏ္းေတြကုိ လုံးဝ ဘဝင္မက်ပါ။ GDP ဘီလွ်ံတစ္ရာေက်ာ္ရွိျပီး ျမန္မာျပည္ထက္ အပုံႀကီး ပုိတည္ျငိမ္တဲ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီႏုိင္ငံတစ္ခုျဖစ္တဲ့ ဘဂၤလားဒက္ရွ္က ဘဂၤါလီေတြက GDP ဘီလွ်ံငါးဆယ္ေက်ာ္သာရွိျပီး ျပည္တြင္းစစ္ေတြအျပင္ မတည္မျငိမ္ျဖစ္ေနဆဲျဖစ္တဲ့ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကုိ ေပၚတာဆဲြခံ၊ အရုိက္ခံ၊ အဆဲအႏွိမ္ခံဖုိ႔၊ သူ႔သမီး၊ သူ႔မယား အႏုိင္က်င့္ခံရဖုိ႔ ခုိးဝင္လာေနၾကတယ္ဆုိတာက သဘာဝ က်ပါရဲ့လား။
အရင္ကာလကတည္းက တရားမဝင္ ဝင္ေနခဲ့တဲ့ ဘဂၤါလီေတြရွိရင္ စိစစ္အေရးယူျပီး ျပန္ေမာင္းထုတ္လုိက္ပါ။ အခုဝင္လာေနတာရွိရင္လည္း တားဆီးပါ။ ဖမ္းပါ။ ေမာင္းထုတ္ပါ။ ေနာင္ဝင္လာမွာကုိလည္း အခုတည္းက ၿကုိတင္စီစဥ္ ကာကြယ္ပါ။ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ျမန္မာတုိင္းရင္းသားေတြအျပင္ ဘယ္ႏုိင္ငံျခားသားမွ လႊမ္းမုိးလာမွာကုိ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔လည္း မၿကုိက္တာမုိ႔ အေနာက္ဖက္တံခါးႀကီးကုိ ကာကြယ္ေနတဲ့ ရခုိင္အမ်ိဳးသားမ်ားကုိ အေလးအျမတ္ျပဳပါတယ္။ ပူေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ဖုိ႔ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ျမန္မာမြတ္စလင္မ်ားက အခ်ိန္မေရြး အဆင္သင့္ရွိပါတယ္။ သို႕ေသာ္ ဘဂၤလားဒက္ရွ္ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွာရွိတဲ့ ရခုိင္ျပည္က မြတ္စလင္ေတြေတာင္ ကုိယ့္ရပ္ေျမျဖစ္တဲ့ ျမန္မာျပည္ကုိ လုံျခဳံမႈမရွိလုိ႔ မျပန္ရဲပါဘူးဆုိျပီး UNHCRႏွင့္ ဘဂၤလားဒက္အစုိးရကုိ အာခံျငင္းဆန္ေနတဲ့ အခ်ိန္မ်ိဳးမွာ ဘဂၤလာဒက္ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံသား ဘဂၤါလီေတြက ေပၚတာအဆဲြခံဖုိ႔ ျမန္မာျပည္ထဲ အစုလုိက္ အျပဳံလုိက္ တရားမဝင္ ခုိးဝင္ေနပါတယ္ဆုိတဲ့ အေျခအျမစ္မရွိတဲ့ စြပ္စြဲခ်က္ကုိ အကာအကြယ္(Pretext)ယူျပီး ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ လက္ရွိ တရားဝင္ေနထုိင္တဲ့ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသား မြတ္စလင္ေတြကုိ မိ်ဳးျဖဳတ္ဖုိ႔ အကြက္ဆင္လာျခင္း ျဖစ္တယ္ဆုိရင္ေတာ့ . . . .
ဦးေအးသာေအာင္၊ ဦးခြန္ထြန္းဦး၊ ဦးကုိကုိႀကီး၊ ဦလွျမင့္၊ ဦးေက်ာ္ျမင့္တုိ႔ ခင္ဗ်ာ။ တစ္ခုခုေတာ့ အႀကီးအက်ယ္ လဲြေနပါျပီ။
ေမလ (၂၈)ရက္ မသီတာေထြးကုိ ဘဂၤါလီ မြတ္စလင္ သုံးေယာက္က မုဒိန္းက်င့္ သတ္တဲ့ ေနာက္ေန႔ (၂၉)ရက္မွာ နစကက အရာရွိက ေမာင္းေတာမွာ မြတ္စလင္အမိ်ဳးသမီးတစ္ဦးကုိ မုဒိန္းက်င့္မႈ ျဖစ္ပြါးခဲ့တယ္။ သြားတုိင္တာေတာင္ အေရးယူဟန္ မတူပါဘူး။ ဘယ္မီဒီယာကမွလည္း ဗုဒၶဘာသာ နစကက မြတ္စလင္အမ်ိဳးသမီးကုိ မုဒိန္းက်င့္တယ္လုိ႔ မေဖၚျပပါဘူး။ ဂ်ာမဏီမွာ တစ္ခ်ိန္က ဂ်ဴးေတြကုိ တိရစၦာန္လုိ သေဘာထားသလုိ သေဘာထားေနၾကျပီ တူပါတယ္။ ျပစ္မႈက်ဴးလြန္သူကုိ လူမ်ိဳး မေရြး၊ ဘာသာ မေရြး ဥပေဒအရ ထိေရာက္စြာ အေရးယူရမွာပါ။ လူမ်ိဳးေရး အဓိကရုဏ္းေတြျဖစ္ေအာင္ ဖန္တီးသူမ်ားကုိ ဘယ္လူမ်ိဳးျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ ဘယ္သူဘဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ထိေရာက္စြာ အေရးယူရပါမယ္။
ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ တုိင္းရင္းသား (၁၄၄)မ်ိဳးလုိ႔ သတ္မွတ္ခဲ့ဘူးတယ္။ ေနာက္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီး ေစာေမာင္က သူျဖဳတ္ခ်င္တာ ျဖဳတ္ျပီး ဒီမုိကေရစီ အစုိးရအဆက္ဆက္ႏွင့္ မဆလ(၂၆)ႏွစ္လုံးလုံး ႏုိင္ငံျခားသားေတြလုိ႔ဆုိခဲ့တဲ့ ကုိးကန္႔တရုပ္ေတြကုိ တုိင္းရင္းသားျဖစ္ေစသတည္းဆုိျပီး တုိင္းရင္းသား (၁၃၅)မ်ိဳး သတ္မွတ္လုိက္တယ္။ အခု ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြ ေကာ္မရွင္က ဇုိမီးအပါအဝင္ ျဖဳတ္ခ်င္တာ ျဖဳတ္ျပီး တုိင္းရင္းသား (၁၀၁)မ်ိဳး ျဖစ္ေစသတည္း လုပ္ျပန္တယ္။ ဇုိမီးေတြက ကန္႔ကြက္ေတာ့ တုိင္းရင္းသား (၁၀၂)မ်ိဳး ျဖစ္ေစသတည္းဆုိျပီး ဇုိမီးကုိ ျပန္ထည့္ျပန္တယ္။ ေနာက္ကန္႔ကြက္သူေတြ ေပၚလာရင္လည္း ေပၚလာသလုိ ထပ္ျပင္အုံးမဲ့သေဘာ ျဖစ္ေနတယ္။ ဘယ္မွာလဲ မူ။ ရွက္ရမွန္းလည္း သိၾကဟန္ မတူဘူး။
တုိင္းရင္းသား သတ္မွတ္မႈေတြ မွန္သမွ်ကုိ အစုိးရေတြကသာ မိမိသေဘာႏွင့္ တစ္ဖက္သတ္ ထင္သလုိ သတ္မွတ္ခဲ့တာခ်ည္းျဖစ္ျပီး ျပည္သူလူထု၏ သေဘာထား ေတာင္းခံမႈ တစ္ခါဘူးမွ မရွိခဲ့ဘူး။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ အင္မတန္နည္းတဲ့ လူနည္းစုျဖစ္တဲ့ ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသား တစ္မ်ိဳးထဲကုိ လူမ်ိဳးကဲြ ငါးဆယ္ေက်ာ္ျဖစ္ခဲ့ရတယ္။ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာ တုိင္းရင္းသားျဖစ္ မျဖစ္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ျမန္မာမြတ္စလင္ေတြရဲ့ သေဘာထားက ရခုိင္အပါအဝင္ တုိင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစုံ၏ သေဘာထားႏွင့္ ထပ္တူဘဲ ျဖစ္တယ္။ သုိ႔ေသာ္ အစုိးရလုပ္သူက သူထင္သလုိ တုိင္းရင္းသား ျဖစ္ေစဆုိ ျဖစ္လုိက္၊ ပယ္ေစဆုိ ပယ္လုိက္ဆုိတာမ်ိဳး မျဖစ္ဖုိ႔ လုိပါတယ္။ ဒါဟာ အမ်ိဳးသားေရး၊ တုိင္းျပည္ အခ်ဳပ္အျခာ၊ လုံျခံဳေရး၊ တုိင္းျပည္အနာဂတ္ႏွင့္ တုိက္ရုိက္ဆက္စပ္ေနတာမုိ႔ သမုိင္းပညာရွင္မ်ား၊ ႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားအပါအဝင္ တုိင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစုံ ျပည္သူလူထုရဲ့ ညွိႏႈိင္းဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္အရသာ ျဖစ္သင့္တယ္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ စစ္အာဏာရွင္ (သုိ႔မဟုတ္) စစ္အာဏာရွင္တစ္ပုိင္း အစုိးရမ်ားက ျဖစ္ေစ၊ ပယ္ေစဆုိတုိင္း ျဖစ္လုိက္၊ ပယ္လုိက္ မျဖစ္သင့္ဘူး။
တစ္ဖန္ လူမ်ိဳး (၁၀၁)မ်ိဳးလုိ႔ ဘာလုိ႔ သတ္မွတ္ရတာလည္းဆုိတာကုိ ဆန္းစစ္ဖုိ႔လုိျပန္ပါတယ္။ (၁၀၁)ပါးေသာ ထီးေဆာင္းမင္းတုိ႔က ပ႑ာၿကုိ႔ရတဲ့ မဟာသမၼတမင္း၊ စၾကာဝေဋးမင္း လုပ္ခ်င္လုိ႔ တမင္ ပုံစံသြင္းေနတာလားဆုိတာ သံသယျဖစ္စရာပါ။ ဒီလုိစီမံခ်က္မ်ိဳးႏွင့္ မဟာလူမ်ိဳးႀကီးဝါဒကုိ အသက္သြင္းဖုိ႔ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္က ေနာက္ကြယ္မွာရွိေနရင္ေတာ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီျပည္ေထာင္စုႏုိင္ငံ တည္ေဆာက္ေရးအတြက္ အင္မတန္အႏၱရာယ္ႀကီးပါတယ္။
ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတရုံး ညႊန္ၾကားေရးမွဴး ဗုိလ္မွဴးေဇာ္ဦး(မွဴးေဇာ္)က ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာအၾကမ္းဖက္သမားေတြ လက္နက္ကုိင္ က်ဴးေက်ာ္ဖုိ႔ လာေနျပီလုိ႔ သူ႕ေဖ့စ္ဘြတ္ကေနျပီး ဖြလုိက္ပါတယ္။ ဘဂၤလားဒက္ႏွင့္ ဒီေလာက္ဆက္ဆံေရး ေကာင္းေနတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ ဒီသတင္း မွန္ မမွန္၊ မွန္ရင္လည္း ဘဂၤလားဒက္အစုိးရႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္းကုိင္တြယ္ရမည့္အစား မွဴးေဇာ္က လူသားခ်င္း စာနာမႈေတြ၊ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရးေတြ လာမေျပာနဲ႔လုိ႔ဆုိျပီး လူထုကုိ တာဝန္မဲ့ ေသြးထုိးလႈံ႕ေဆာ္ေပးခဲ့တယ္။ ဒီမုိကေရစီႏုိင္ငံလုိ႔ ေၾကြးေက်ာ္ေနတဲ့ သမၼရုံးက ညႊန္ၾကားေရးမွဴးဆုိတဲ့ ႀကီးမားတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံ့ဂုဏ္ေဆာင္ တာဝန္ႀကီးကုိ ဂရုမထားဘဲ သူ႕ကုိယ္သူ ေမာ္စကုိမွာ ေက်ာင္းတက္ေနတဲ့ ေက်ာင္းသားစစ္ဗုိလ္ကေလးလုိ ထင္ရာေရးျပီး ကုိယ္လြတ္ရုံးလုိ႔ ရမယ္လုိ႔ ထင္ေနဟန္တူတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ေခါင္းေဆာင္အခ်ိဳ႕ကလည္း ျပသနာကုိ ျမင္တဲ့အခါ တစ္ကြက္၊ ႏွစ္ကြက္၊ အလြန္ဆုံး ငါးကြက္ေလာက္ဘဲ ၿကုိျမင္တတ္သူေတြျဖစ္ျပီး ဆယ္ကြက္ အကြက္ႏွစ္ဆယ္ကုိ မျမင္တတ္ေတာ့ သူတုိ႔ဆင္တဲ့ အကြက္ထဲဝင္ျပီး ေသြးဆူကာ ေဆာ္ၾက၊ ခ်ၾက၊ သတ္ၾကျဖစ္ကုန္တယ္။ ရခုိင္ျပည္သားေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ ရခုိင္ႏွင့္ မြတ္စလင္ေတြ အခ်င္းခ်င္းခ်ၾကေတာ့ ႏွစ္ဖက္စလုံး အထိနာၾကတဲ့အျပင္ ရခုိင္ျပည္ရဲ့ ဂုဏ္သတင္း၊ လုံျခဳံေရး၊ စီးပြါးေရး လာေရာက္ျမွဳပ္ႏွံမႈ၊ ဖြ႕ံျဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈ ေရွ႕အလားအလာေတြကုိ အႀကီးအက်ယ္ ထိခုိက္ေစပါတယ္။
အႏွစ္ႏွစ္ဆယ္ေက်ာ္ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းခဲ့တဲ့ ကခ်င္မွာလည္း ဒီမုိကေရစီအစုိးရဆုိသူ တက္လာမွဘဲ တစ္ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္ၾကာ စစ္ျဖစ္ေနျပီး ဒုကၡသည္က သိန္းဂဏန္းေတာင္ ေက်ာ္ျပီဆုိေတာ့ တုိင္းျပည္မတည္ျငိမ္ေအာင္၊ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြ ဆက္မျဖစ္လာေအာင္ ေသြးထုိးလႈံ႕ေဆာ္ေနသူမ်ား ရွိေနသလားလုိ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ေမးခြန္းထုတ္ခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဘန္ေကာက္ ကမၻာ့စီးပြါးေရးညီလာခံမွာ Reckless Optimism လို႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ဘာေၾကာင့္ သတိေပးခဲ့ပါသလဲ။ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအေျပာင္းအလဲေတြကုိ လုပ္ခဲ့တယ္ဆုိတဲ့ ရုရွား၊ အင္ဒုိနီးရွား၊ ဗီယက္နမ္အပါအဝင္ အာဖရိကႏုိင္ငံအမ်ားအျပားမွာ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈရဲ့ အက်ိဳးအျမတ္ကုိ လူထုက အရုိးအရင္းေတာင္ အႏုိင္ႏုိင္ စုပ္ ဆင္းရဲတြင္း နက္ေနဆဲျဖစ္ျပီး၊ ဖိႏွိပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္တဲ့ ဥပေဒေတြကုိ ဆက္လက္ထားရွိကာ Cronyism လုိ႔ေခၚတဲ့ လက္တစ္ဆုပ္စာ လူလည္အုပ္စုသစ္တစ္ခုႏွင့္ အစုိးရေဟာင္း၊ စနစ္ေဟာင္းကလူေတြ ပူးေပါင္းျပီး ခံစား၊ စံစား၊ ခြစားသြားမွာကုိ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ၿကုိျမင္လုိ႔ျဖစ္တယ္။ အခုဆုိရင္ ကခ်င္ကိစၥ၊ ျပည္တြင္းျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကိစၥ၊ အလုပ္သမားကိစၥ၊ လယ္ေျမအသိမ္းခံရမႈေတြ၊ မီဒီယာ လြတ္လပ္မႈ၊ တရားဥပေဒစုိးမုိးမႈ၊ ဒီမုိကေရစီေရး၊ က်န္ေနေသးတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးစတဲ့ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး လုပ္ငန္းေတြအကုန္ ေနာက္တန္းကုိေရာက္သြားျပီး ဒီမုိကေရစီစနစ္မွာ မလုိလားအပ္ဆုံးျဖစ္တဲ့ မာရွယ္ေလာကုိေတာင္ လူထုက ေတာင့္တေပးရတဲ့ ဘဝမ်ိဳးကုိ ေရာက္သြားပါျပီ။ စာရင္းခ်ဳပ္ရင္ ေဒၚစုရဲ့ ကမၻာ့ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးဆု လက္ခံမဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံျခားခရီးစဥ္ကုိပါ ထိခုိက္ႏုိင္တဲ့ ခဲတစ္လုံးႏွင့္ ငွက္အေကာင္ႏွစ္ဆယ္ေလာက္ရသြားသလို ၾကက္ေတြပန္းေတာ့ ယာလည္းညက္ျပီး ဒုိင္က ျပန္စားမဲ့ ဇာတ္ကြက္ကုိ ကုိယ္က အလုိတူအလုိပါ ဝင္ကေပးေနသလုိ ျဖစ္ေနပါျပီ။
တုိင္းရင္းသား သတ္မွတ္မႈေတြ မွန္သမွ်ကုိ အစုိးရေတြကသာ မိမိသေဘာႏွင့္ တစ္ဖက္သတ္ ထင္သလုိ သတ္မွတ္ခဲ့တာခ်ည္းျဖစ္ျပီး ျပည္သူလူထု၏ သေဘာထား ေတာင္းခံမႈ တစ္ခါဘူးမွ မရွိခဲ့ဘူး။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ အင္မတန္နည္းတဲ့ လူနည္းစုျဖစ္တဲ့ ခ်င္းအမ်ိဳးသား တစ္မ်ိဳးထဲကုိ လူမ်ိဳးကဲြ ငါးဆယ္ေက်ာ္ျဖစ္ခဲ့ရတယ္။ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာ တုိင္းရင္းသားျဖစ္ မျဖစ္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ျမန္မာမြတ္စလင္ေတြရဲ့ သေဘာထားက ရခုိင္အပါအဝင္ တုိင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစုံ၏ သေဘာထားႏွင့္ ထပ္တူဘဲ ျဖစ္တယ္။ သုိ႔ေသာ္ အစုိးရလုပ္သူက သူထင္သလုိ တုိင္းရင္းသား ျဖစ္ေစဆုိ ျဖစ္လုိက္၊ ပယ္ေစဆုိ ပယ္လုိက္ဆုိတာမ်ိဳး မျဖစ္ဖုိ႔ လုိပါတယ္။ ဒါဟာ အမ်ိဳးသားေရး၊ တုိင္းျပည္ အခ်ဳပ္အျခာ၊ လုံျခံဳေရး၊ တုိင္းျပည္အနာဂတ္ႏွင့္ တုိက္ရုိက္ဆက္စပ္ေနတာမုိ႔ သမုိင္းပညာရွင္မ်ား၊ ႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားအပါအဝင္ တုိင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစုံ ျပည္သူလူထုရဲ့ ညွိႏႈိင္းဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္အရသာ ျဖစ္သင့္တယ္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ စစ္အာဏာရွင္ (သုိ႔မဟုတ္) စစ္အာဏာရွင္တစ္ပုိင္း အစုိးရမ်ားက ျဖစ္ေစ၊ ပယ္ေစဆုိတုိင္း ျဖစ္လုိက္၊ ပယ္လုိက္ မျဖစ္သင့္ဘူး။
တစ္ဖန္ လူမ်ိဳး (၁၀၁)မ်ိဳးလုိ႔ ဘာလုိ႔ သတ္မွတ္ရတာလည္းဆုိတာကုိ ဆန္းစစ္ဖုိ႔လုိျပန္ပါတယ္။ (၁၀၁)ပါးေသာ ထီးေဆာင္းမင္းတုိ႔က ပ႑ာၿကုိ႔ရတဲ့ မဟာသမၼတမင္း၊ စၾကာဝေဋးမင္း လုပ္ခ်င္လုိ႔ တမင္ ပုံစံသြင္းေနတာလားဆုိတာ သံသယျဖစ္စရာပါ။ ဒီလုိစီမံခ်က္မ်ိဳးႏွင့္ မဟာလူမ်ိဳးႀကီးဝါဒကုိ အသက္သြင္းဖုိ႔ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္က ေနာက္ကြယ္မွာရွိေနရင္ေတာ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီျပည္ေထာင္စုႏုိင္ငံ တည္ေဆာက္ေရးအတြက္ အင္မတန္အႏၱရာယ္ႀကီးပါတယ္။
ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတရုံး ညႊန္ၾကားေရးမွဴး ဗုိလ္မွဴးေဇာ္ဦး(မွဴးေဇာ္)က ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာအၾကမ္းဖက္သမားေတြ လက္နက္ကုိင္ က်ဴးေက်ာ္ဖုိ႔ လာေနျပီလုိ႔ သူ႕ေဖ့စ္ဘြတ္ကေနျပီး ဖြလုိက္ပါတယ္။ ဘဂၤလားဒက္ႏွင့္ ဒီေလာက္ဆက္ဆံေရး ေကာင္းေနတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ ဒီသတင္း မွန္ မမွန္၊ မွန္ရင္လည္း ဘဂၤလားဒက္အစုိးရႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္းကုိင္တြယ္ရမည့္အစား မွဴးေဇာ္က လူသားခ်င္း စာနာမႈေတြ၊ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရးေတြ လာမေျပာနဲ႔လုိ႔ဆုိျပီး လူထုကုိ တာဝန္မဲ့ ေသြးထုိးလႈံ႕ေဆာ္ေပးခဲ့တယ္။ ဒီမုိကေရစီႏုိင္ငံလုိ႔ ေၾကြးေက်ာ္ေနတဲ့ သမၼရုံးက ညႊန္ၾကားေရးမွဴးဆုိတဲ့ ႀကီးမားတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံ့ဂုဏ္ေဆာင္ တာဝန္ႀကီးကုိ ဂရုမထားဘဲ သူ႕ကုိယ္သူ ေမာ္စကုိမွာ ေက်ာင္းတက္ေနတဲ့ ေက်ာင္းသားစစ္ဗုိလ္ကေလးလုိ ထင္ရာေရးျပီး ကုိယ္လြတ္ရုံးလုိ႔ ရမယ္လုိ႔ ထင္ေနဟန္တူတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ေခါင္းေဆာင္အခ်ိဳ႕ကလည္း ျပသနာကုိ ျမင္တဲ့အခါ တစ္ကြက္၊ ႏွစ္ကြက္၊ အလြန္ဆုံး ငါးကြက္ေလာက္ဘဲ ၿကုိျမင္တတ္သူေတြျဖစ္ျပီး ဆယ္ကြက္ အကြက္ႏွစ္ဆယ္ကုိ မျမင္တတ္ေတာ့ သူတုိ႔ဆင္တဲ့ အကြက္ထဲဝင္ျပီး ေသြးဆူကာ ေဆာ္ၾက၊ ခ်ၾက၊ သတ္ၾကျဖစ္ကုန္တယ္။ ရခုိင္ျပည္သားေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ ရခုိင္ႏွင့္ မြတ္စလင္ေတြ အခ်င္းခ်င္းခ်ၾကေတာ့ ႏွစ္ဖက္စလုံး အထိနာၾကတဲ့အျပင္ ရခုိင္ျပည္ရဲ့ ဂုဏ္သတင္း၊ လုံျခဳံေရး၊ စီးပြါးေရး လာေရာက္ျမွဳပ္ႏွံမႈ၊ ဖြ႕ံျဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈ ေရွ႕အလားအလာေတြကုိ အႀကီးအက်ယ္ ထိခုိက္ေစပါတယ္။
အႏွစ္ႏွစ္ဆယ္ေက်ာ္ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းခဲ့တဲ့ ကခ်င္မွာလည္း ဒီမုိကေရစီအစုိးရဆုိသူ တက္လာမွဘဲ တစ္ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္ၾကာ စစ္ျဖစ္ေနျပီး ဒုကၡသည္က သိန္းဂဏန္းေတာင္ ေက်ာ္ျပီဆုိေတာ့ တုိင္းျပည္မတည္ျငိမ္ေအာင္၊ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြ ဆက္မျဖစ္လာေအာင္ ေသြးထုိးလႈံ႕ေဆာ္ေနသူမ်ား ရွိေနသလားလုိ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ေမးခြန္းထုတ္ခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဘန္ေကာက္ ကမၻာ့စီးပြါးေရးညီလာခံမွာ Reckless Optimism လို႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ဘာေၾကာင့္ သတိေပးခဲ့ပါသလဲ။ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအေျပာင္းအလဲေတြကုိ လုပ္ခဲ့တယ္ဆုိတဲ့ ရုရွား၊ အင္ဒုိနီးရွား၊ ဗီယက္နမ္အပါအဝင္ အာဖရိကႏုိင္ငံအမ်ားအျပားမွာ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈရဲ့ အက်ိဳးအျမတ္ကုိ လူထုက အရုိးအရင္းေတာင္ အႏုိင္ႏုိင္ စုပ္ ဆင္းရဲတြင္း နက္ေနဆဲျဖစ္ျပီး၊ ဖိႏွိပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္တဲ့ ဥပေဒေတြကုိ ဆက္လက္ထားရွိကာ Cronyism လုိ႔ေခၚတဲ့ လက္တစ္ဆုပ္စာ လူလည္အုပ္စုသစ္တစ္ခုႏွင့္ အစုိးရေဟာင္း၊ စနစ္ေဟာင္းကလူေတြ ပူးေပါင္းျပီး ခံစား၊ စံစား၊ ခြစားသြားမွာကုိ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ၿကုိျမင္လုိ႔ျဖစ္တယ္။ အခုဆုိရင္ ကခ်င္ကိစၥ၊ ျပည္တြင္းျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကိစၥ၊ အလုပ္သမားကိစၥ၊ လယ္ေျမအသိမ္းခံရမႈေတြ၊ မီဒီယာ လြတ္လပ္မႈ၊ တရားဥပေဒစုိးမုိးမႈ၊ ဒီမုိကေရစီေရး၊ က်န္ေနေသးတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးစတဲ့ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး လုပ္ငန္းေတြအကုန္ ေနာက္တန္းကုိေရာက္သြားျပီး ဒီမုိကေရစီစနစ္မွာ မလုိလားအပ္ဆုံးျဖစ္တဲ့ မာရွယ္ေလာကုိေတာင္ လူထုက ေတာင့္တေပးရတဲ့ ဘဝမ်ိဳးကုိ ေရာက္သြားပါျပီ။ စာရင္းခ်ဳပ္ရင္ ေဒၚစုရဲ့ ကမၻာ့ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးဆု လက္ခံမဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံျခားခရီးစဥ္ကုိပါ ထိခုိက္ႏုိင္တဲ့ ခဲတစ္လုံးႏွင့္ ငွက္အေကာင္ႏွစ္ဆယ္ေလာက္ရသြားသလို ၾကက္ေတြပန္းေတာ့ ယာလည္းညက္ျပီး ဒုိင္က ျပန္စားမဲ့ ဇာတ္ကြက္ကုိ ကုိယ္က အလုိတူအလုိပါ ဝင္ကေပးေနသလုိ ျဖစ္ေနပါျပီ။
အေျခအေနေတြ ျပန္တည္ျငိမ္လာျပီဆုိရင္ မွဴးေဇာ္အေနႏွင့္ လက္နက္ကုိင္ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာအၾကမ္းဖက္သမားေတြ အစုလုိက္ အျပံဳလုိက္ ဝင္လာေနပါတယ္ဆုိျပီး လူထုကို လႈံ႔ေဆာ္ခဲ့တဲ့ မိမိစြပ္စဲြခ်က္ကုိ မွန္ကန္ေၾကာင္း သက္ေသျပဖုိ႔ လုိပါလိမ့္မယ္။ မျပႏုိင္ရင္ လူမ်ိဳးေရး၊ ဘာသာေရး အဓိကရုဏ္းျဖစ္ေအာင္ ေသြးထုိးမႈေၾကာင့္ သူေကာ၊ သူ႕ေဖ့စ္ဘြတ္ေကာ ေသြးစြန္းသြားျပီ ျဖစ္တယ္။ သမၼတရုံး ညႊြန္ၾကားေရးမွဴးကုိယ္တုိင္က တုိင္းျပည္ မတည္ျငိမ္ေအာင္ လႈံ႕ေဆာ္မႈႀကီးလည္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အခုလုိ ကုိယ့္တုိင္းသူျပည္သားအခ်င္းခ်င္း အျပန္အလွန္ မီးရႈိ႕၊ အျပန္အလွန္ သတ္ျဖတ္မႈေတြျဖစ္လာေအာင္ လႈံ႕ေဆာ္ေပးေနတဲ့ ေနာက္ကြယ္က (Mastermind)အင္အားစုေတြဟာ အသုံးခ်ခံ လက္ေတြ႕ျပစ္မႈ က်ဴးလြန္ေနသူေတြထက္ ပိုအျပစ္ႀကီးပါတယ္။
တရားဥပေဒစုိးမိုးေရးဆုိတာ တုိင္းျပည္ကုိ လူက အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္တာ မဟုတ္ရပါဘူး။ မူက အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ရမွာပါ။ ပါတီစုံျဖစ္တုိင္း ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြေတြရွိတုိင္း ဒီမုိကေရစီႏုိင္ငံ မျဖစ္လာပါဘူး။ ပါတီစုံ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြေတြ မွန္မွန္က်င္းပေနတဲ့ အာဏာရွင္ႏုိင္ငံေတြ ရုိက္သတ္လုိ႔ေတာင္ မကုန္ပါဘူး။ မူ(Principle) ေပၚမွာ မရပ္ဘဲ လူၿကုိက္မ်ားေရးကို ေနရာအတြက္ ေလွ်ာက္လုပ္မဲ့သူေတြ မ်ားလာရင္ေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ႏုိင္ငံဟာ တုိင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစုံ ျပည္သူလူထု ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေနတဲ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီႏုိင္ငံ ျဖစ္မလာဘဲ ဒီမုိကေရစီ အေရျခဳံထားတဲ့ အာဏာရွင္ႏုိင္ငံသာ ျဖစ္သြားပါလိမ့္မယ္။
တရားဥပေဒစုိးမိုးေရးဆုိတာ တုိင္းျပည္ကုိ လူက အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္တာ မဟုတ္ရပါဘူး။ မူက အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ရမွာပါ။ ပါတီစုံျဖစ္တုိင္း ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြေတြရွိတုိင္း ဒီမုိကေရစီႏုိင္ငံ မျဖစ္လာပါဘူး။ ပါတီစုံ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြေတြ မွန္မွန္က်င္းပေနတဲ့ အာဏာရွင္ႏုိင္ငံေတြ ရုိက္သတ္လုိ႔ေတာင္ မကုန္ပါဘူး။ မူ(Principle) ေပၚမွာ မရပ္ဘဲ လူၿကုိက္မ်ားေရးကို ေနရာအတြက္ ေလွ်ာက္လုပ္မဲ့သူေတြ မ်ားလာရင္ေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ႏုိင္ငံဟာ တုိင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစုံ ျပည္သူလူထု ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေနတဲ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီႏုိင္ငံ ျဖစ္မလာဘဲ ဒီမုိကေရစီ အေရျခဳံထားတဲ့ အာဏာရွင္ႏုိင္ငံသာ ျဖစ္သြားပါလိမ့္မယ္။
လက္ရွိေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားသည္ မူေပၚမွာ ၿက့ံၿက့ံခံ ရပ္မလား။ လူၿကုိက္မ်ားတာ လုိက္လုပ္မလားဆုိတာ မိမိဖာသာ ေမးခြန္းထုတ္ၾကဖုိ႔ လုိပါျပီ။
ျပည္သူ႕လြႊတ္ေတာ္ ဥကၳဌႀကီး သူရဦးေရႊမန္းက က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ထဲမွာ မေျပာင္းလဲလုိသူေတြ ရွိေနပါတယ္။ သူတုိ႔အင္အားက အင္မတန္ ႀကီးပါတယ္လုိ႔ ဝန္ခံခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ဒီမုိကေရစီ တုိက္ပဲြဝင္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားအေနႏွင့္ မူေပၚမွာ ၿက့ံၿကံ့ခံရပ္ျပီး ဒီမုိကေရစီအုတ္ျမစ္ကုိ အခုိင္အမာ ခ်မွတ္မလား။ ငါးပြက္ရာ ငါးစာခ်၊ လူၿကုိက္မ်ား ေပၚျပဴလာျဖစ္မဲ့လမ္းကုိ ေလွ်ာက္ရင္းနွင့္ သေဘာထားတင္းမာသူမ်ားႏွင့္ လက္တဲြမိျပီး အာဏာရွင္တစ္ပုိင္း ဒီမုိကေရစီႏုိင္ငံတည္ေထာင္ျပီး တုိင္းျပည္ကုိ လမ္းလႊဲ ေခ်ာက္ခ်လုိက္ၾကမလားဆုိတာက ယေန႔ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔အားလုံးအတြက္ စိန္ေခၚခ်က္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ရဲ့ အနာဂတ္ လမ္းေၾကာင္းကုိ ပုံေဖၚျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ျပည္သူ႕လြႊတ္ေတာ္ ဥကၳဌႀကီး သူရဦးေရႊမန္းက က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ထဲမွာ မေျပာင္းလဲလုိသူေတြ ရွိေနပါတယ္။ သူတုိ႔အင္အားက အင္မတန္ ႀကီးပါတယ္လုိ႔ ဝန္ခံခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ဒီမုိကေရစီ တုိက္ပဲြဝင္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားအေနႏွင့္ မူေပၚမွာ ၿက့ံၿကံ့ခံရပ္ျပီး ဒီမုိကေရစီအုတ္ျမစ္ကုိ အခုိင္အမာ ခ်မွတ္မလား။ ငါးပြက္ရာ ငါးစာခ်၊ လူၿကုိက္မ်ား ေပၚျပဴလာျဖစ္မဲ့လမ္းကုိ ေလွ်ာက္ရင္းနွင့္ သေဘာထားတင္းမာသူမ်ားႏွင့္ လက္တဲြမိျပီး အာဏာရွင္တစ္ပုိင္း ဒီမုိကေရစီႏုိင္ငံတည္ေထာင္ျပီး တုိင္းျပည္ကုိ လမ္းလႊဲ ေခ်ာက္ခ်လုိက္ၾကမလားဆုိတာက ယေန႔ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔အားလုံးအတြက္ စိန္ေခၚခ်က္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ရဲ့ အနာဂတ္ လမ္းေၾကာင္းကုိ ပုံေဖၚျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
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မွတ္ခ်က္။ ။ ဒီစာေရးတဲ့အခါ ခင္ဗ်ားကုိ ဘက္ေပါင္းစုံက ဝုိင္းတုိက္ၾကမယ္ဆုိျပီး မိတ္ေဆြအခ်ိဳ႕က မေရးဖုိ႔ တားတယ္။ က်ေနာ္လည္း သိပ္ေရးခ်င္လွလုိ႔ေတာ့ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ ဗုိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းက “လူၿကုိက္မ်ားတုိင္း တုိင္းျပည္ ေခ်ာက္ထဲက်မဲ့လမ္းကုိ လုိက္မလုပ္ႏုိင္ဘူး” ဆုိတဲ့ စကားကုိ ဦးထိပ္ထားျပီး တုိင္းျပည္အတြက္၊ တိုင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစုံ ျပည္သူလူထုအတြက္ အင္မတန္ ေရးသင့္တယ္ ေထာက္ျပသင့္တယ္လုိ႔ ယုံၾကည္လုိ႔ မွားေနတဲ့ လမ္းေခ်ာကုိ မလုိက္ဘဲ ၾကမ္းျပီး အႏၱရာယ္မ်ားႏုိင္တဲ့ လမ္းမွန္၊ လမ္းၾကမ္းကုိ ေရြးလုိက္ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အခ်က္အလက္ႏွင့္ ဆင္ျခင္တုန္တရားကုိ အေျခခံတဲ့ တုန္႔ျပန္ ေဆြးေႏြးမႈမ်ားကုိ ၿကိုဆုိပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္ မေရးတာကုိ အေရးလုပ္၊ က်ေနာ္ မေျပာတာကုိ အေျပာလုပ္ျပီး ရုိင္းျပစြာ ေဆြးေႏြးတာမ်ိဳးကုိေတာ့ မၿကုိဆုိပါ။
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| UN Envoy at Sitwe Airport , Arakan |
visiting the western Burmese state of Rakhine, hit by deadly communal clashes.
The area has seen clashes between Buddhists and Muslims, leaving 21 dead and hundreds of homes torched over the past week.
Vijay Nambiar, UN chief Ban Ki-moon's special adviser on Burma, arrived just two days after the UN announced that it was moving some staff out of the area.
Meanwhile, reports say that unrest continues in the state.
According to state media, 21 people have been killed since Friday, but one report puts the number of dead at 25.
Mr Nambiar is accompanied by Muslim religious leaders from Rangoon and Burma's Border Affairs Minister General Thein Htay, an AFP report said.
"We're here to observe and assess how we can continue to provide support to Rakhine," Ashok Nigam, UN resident and humanitarian coordinator told AFP.
On Monday, the UN released a statement saying it had decided "to temporarily relocate, on a voluntary basis, non-essential international and national" UN staff, affiliated organisations and their families.Refugees turned back
What sparked the latest violence?
The rape and murder of a young Buddhist woman in Rakhine in May set off a chain of deadly sectarian clashes.
Why has a state of emergency been declared and what does it mean?
A state of emergency allows the introduction of martial law, which means the military can take over administrative control of the region.
Who are the Rohingyas?
The United Nations describes Rohingya as a persecuted religious and linguistic minority from western Burma. The Burmese government, on the other hand, says they are relatively recent migrants from the Indian sub-continent.
Is there a risk this might escalate further?
Analysts say that communal tensions with a religious and sectarian tinge have the potential to spark wider unrest, which will worry the government.
The unrest has led to refugees fleeing Burma being turned away by Bangladesh coast guards and border security.
On Tuesday, three boats carrying refugees were turned back, reports say. Officials say they had earlier turned away another 11 boats.
Reports on the number of Muslim Rohingya refugees fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh vary, but as many as 1,500 are said to have been turned back in recent days.
One man reportedly died in a hospital in Chittagong after he was allegedly shot by Burma forces while fleeing.
The UN Refugee Agency has appealed to Dhaka to keep its border open and provide humanitarian aid. However, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said it was not in the country's interest to accept new refugees.
An estimated 300,000 Rohingya refugees are already living in Bangladesh.State of emergency
The recent violence in Rakhine state flared after the murder of a Buddhist woman last month, followed by an attack on a bus carrying Muslims.
According to reports, it began on Friday in the town of Maungdaw, spreading to state capital Sittwe and neighbouring villages. President Thein Sein declared a state of emergency there late on Sunday night.
Rakhine state is named after the ethnic Rakhine Buddhist majority, but also has a sizeable Muslim population, including the Rohingyas.
The area has seen clashes between Buddhists and Muslims, leaving 21 dead and hundreds of homes torched over the past week.
Vijay Nambiar, UN chief Ban Ki-moon's special adviser on Burma, arrived just two days after the UN announced that it was moving some staff out of the area.
Meanwhile, reports say that unrest continues in the state.
According to state media, 21 people have been killed since Friday, but one report puts the number of dead at 25.
Mr Nambiar is accompanied by Muslim religious leaders from Rangoon and Burma's Border Affairs Minister General Thein Htay, an AFP report said.
"We're here to observe and assess how we can continue to provide support to Rakhine," Ashok Nigam, UN resident and humanitarian coordinator told AFP.
On Monday, the UN released a statement saying it had decided "to temporarily relocate, on a voluntary basis, non-essential international and national" UN staff, affiliated organisations and their families.Refugees turned back
What sparked the latest violence?
The rape and murder of a young Buddhist woman in Rakhine in May set off a chain of deadly sectarian clashes.
Why has a state of emergency been declared and what does it mean?
A state of emergency allows the introduction of martial law, which means the military can take over administrative control of the region.
Who are the Rohingyas?
The United Nations describes Rohingya as a persecuted religious and linguistic minority from western Burma. The Burmese government, on the other hand, says they are relatively recent migrants from the Indian sub-continent.
Is there a risk this might escalate further?
Analysts say that communal tensions with a religious and sectarian tinge have the potential to spark wider unrest, which will worry the government.
The unrest has led to refugees fleeing Burma being turned away by Bangladesh coast guards and border security.
On Tuesday, three boats carrying refugees were turned back, reports say. Officials say they had earlier turned away another 11 boats.
Reports on the number of Muslim Rohingya refugees fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh vary, but as many as 1,500 are said to have been turned back in recent days.
One man reportedly died in a hospital in Chittagong after he was allegedly shot by Burma forces while fleeing.
The UN Refugee Agency has appealed to Dhaka to keep its border open and provide humanitarian aid. However, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said it was not in the country's interest to accept new refugees.
An estimated 300,000 Rohingya refugees are already living in Bangladesh.State of emergency
The recent violence in Rakhine state flared after the murder of a Buddhist woman last month, followed by an attack on a bus carrying Muslims.
According to reports, it began on Friday in the town of Maungdaw, spreading to state capital Sittwe and neighbouring villages. President Thein Sein declared a state of emergency there late on Sunday night.
Rakhine state is named after the ethnic Rakhine Buddhist majority, but also has a sizeable Muslim population, including the Rohingyas.
The Rohingyas are a Muslim group and are stateless, as Burma considers them to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
Activists have criticised Burma's government for imposing a state of emergency, which paves the way for troops to take control of the western state.
The pressure group Human Rights Watch has accused the Burmese government of, in effect, handing over control of Rakhine state to the military, which it says has a history of brutality against both Buddhists and Muslims.
Activists have asked that journalists, aid workers and diplomats be allowed into the area.
A nominally civilian government was elected in Burma in 2010 and, in April this year, opposition politicians led by Aung San Suu Kyi entered Burma's parliament following historic by-elections.
However, the government is still dominated by the military and concerns over political repression and human rights abuses continue.
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By ဗီြအိုေအ(ျမန္မာဌာန)
ကုလသမဂၢအထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ျမန္မာျပည္ေရာက္ေနတဲ့ သတင္းကိုလည္း ေျပာျပေပးခ်င္ပါတယ္။
ကုလသမဂၢအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ရဲ႕ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ အထူးအႀကံေပး Vijay Nambia ကျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ မွာ ေရာက္ေနၿပီး မေန႔ကပဲ သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္နဲ႔ ေနျပည္ေတာ္မွာ ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအေနာက္ဘက္ျခမ္း ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္မွာ ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ လူမ်ဳိးေရးပဋိပကၡေတြေၾကာင့္ အေရးေပၚ အေျခအေန ေၾကျငာထားခဲ့ရတဲ့ကိစၥရဲ႕ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈသံသရာထဲ ေမ်ာမေနၾကဘဲ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ရဲ႕ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ကိုလည္း မထိခိုက္ေစဖို႔ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ မိန္႔ခြန္းေျပာၾကားခဲ့တဲ့ အတိုင္း ျမန္မာအစိုးရက ထင္သာျမင္သာရွိဖို႔နဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကို တန္ဖိုးထားေလးစားၿပီး ဆက္လက္လုပ္ေဆာင္ဖို႔ လိုအပ္ေၾကာင္းေတြကို မစၥတာ Nambia နဲ႔ သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္တို႔ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကတယ္လို႔ ကုလသမဂၢ ေျပာခြင့္ရသူ Martin Nersky က ေျပာပါတယ္။
မစၥတာ နမ္ဘီယား ဟာ သမၼတအျပင္ တျခား အစိုးရေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြနဲ႔ လည္း ေဆြးေႏြးမႈေတြ ျပဳ လုပ္ဖို႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို ေရာက္လာခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
တခ်ိန္တည္းမွာပဲ ကုလသမဂၢ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားဆိုင္ရာ မဟာမင္းႀကီး႐ံုးကလည္း ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္က ပဋိပကၡေတြေၾကာင့္ ထြက္ေျပးလာၾကတဲ့ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြအတြက္ နယ္စပ္ဖြင့္ေပးထားဖို႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ အစိုးရကို တိုက္တြန္းလုိက္ပါတယ္။
12 June 2012
CSW URGES BURMESE GOVERNMENT TO STOP VIOLENCE IN WESTERN BURMA
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) today called on the Government of Burma to end sectarian violence in Arakan State, western Burma immediately and take steps to address the underlying causes.
In the past week, horrific violence has erupted between the majority Buddhist Rakhine (or Arakanese) people, and the predominantly Muslim Rohingyas in northern Arakan State, leaving hundreds of homes burned and many people dead.
According to Rohingya sources, mosques have been burned, homes destroyed, women raped and people killed. Many Rohingyas have reportedly been shot dead by the security forces and by Rakhine militias. The precise death toll is unknown, but is rising daily. Rohingyas have issued urgent appeals for international intervention to prevent “genocide”.
On Sunday, President Thein Sein declared a State of Emergency in Arakan State, and yesterday the United Nations announced it was withdrawing its staff from the area. The British government issued a travel warning.
Benedict Rogers, CSW’s East Asia Team Leader, said, “The reports coming in on a daily basis in recent days are shocking and horrific. The scale of the tragedy is only just becoming apparent, and has not been properly reported by the media. This appears to be a racially and religiously motivated pogrom against the Rohingyas, although it is clear that Rakhine communities are also suffering from the eruption in violence. We have grave concerns about the UN’s decision to withdraw its staff – now is the time for international monitors and aid organisations to be on the ground, to provide independent reporting and verification and provide much-needed humanitarian assistance to the communities devastated by this violence. We urge the international community, including the UN, the European Union, the United States, the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and neighbouring countries such as Bangladesh and India to take this crisis extremely seriously and to pursue every possible action to prevent further killings and destruction. Steps towards inter-faith and inter-ethnic dialogue and reconciliation will be needed to address the underlying factors, but for now the priority has to be to end this spiralling cycle of devastating violence.”
For further information or to arrange interviews please contact Kiri Kankhwende, Press Officer at Christian Solidarity Worldwide on +44 (0)20 8329 0045 / +44 (0) 78 2332 9663, email kiri@csw.org.uk or visitwww.csw.org.uk.
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is a Christian organisation working for religious freedom through advocacy and human rights, in the pursuit of justice.
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Danielle Bernstein
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BANGKOK - Northwest Burma’s Rakhine state remains tense after President Thein Sein dispatched troops to try to end religious and ethnic violence. The riots began after 10 ethnic-Rohingya Muslims were mobbed and murdered by ethnic Rakhines, in retaliation for the gang-rape of a Rakhine girl.
Local witnesses in villages in Burma’s western Rakhine state said fires continued to burn Monday, even after President Thein Sein declared a state of emergency and sent in troops to bring the riots under control.
The clashes that began on June 8 are the most severe in a string of violent attacks between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, the state’s largest minority group, and ethnic Rohingya Muslims, who are denied citizenship in both Burma and Bangladesh.
“In the morning after leaving the army from the Maungdaw today morning, the police and the riot police they and the Rakhine people are trying to burn to loot and to kill the Rohingya people," said Tin Soe is the editor of Kaladan Press Network, a Rohingya news agency, which has been reporting on the riots. "Ethnic problem or religious problem, we don’t know which one we can say.”
Both minority groups in the region claim to be under attack, but the Rohingya have a history of being a target of racism. Although many Rohingya communities have lived in Burma for decades, the government refuses to grant them citizenship - a position that has broad support among other Burmese nationals.
Even democracy leader and former political prisoner Ko Ko Gyi recently said he believed "so-called Rohingya" not to be one of the recognized Burmese ethnic groups.
Nicholas Farelly, Burma analyst of Australia National University, says the Rohingya’s statelessness between Burma and Bangladesh is partially to blame for the conflict's escalation.
“The Rohingya, they fit somewhat awkwardly in that borderland between the two different political systems, they have nowhere to call home and, as a result from time to time, there are these episodes of conflict," said Farelly. "We have seen one of those very recently and it has in this case taken the form of Buddhist and Muslim mobs of varying sizes coming to blows.”
On Sunday, Thein Sein’s national address referenced what he called Burma’s “checkered” history of peaceful co-existence of among the country’s diverse ethnic groups. He condemned racial and religiously-based violence, which he said could jeopardize the country’s democratic reforms.
In Bangkok Monday, Maung Kyaw Nu of the Burmese Rohingya Association of Thailand asked the United Nations to intervene.
"Today, I am coming here to express, to hand over the letter to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations," said Maung Kyaw Nu. "I would like his intervention, U.N. intervention to save my people who are killed. Genocide is there. I'm coming here to ask his help, intervention as well as the global civil society's help."
The U.S. embassy issued a statement urging all parties to stop violent attacks and the government to hold a transparent investigation.
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BANGKOK - Northwest Burma’s Rakhine state remains tense after President Thein Sein dispatched troops to try to end religious and ethnic violence. The riots began after 10 ethnic-Rohingya Muslims were mobbed and murdered by ethnic Rakhines, in retaliation for the gang-rape of a Rakhine girl.
Local witnesses in villages in Burma’s western Rakhine state said fires continued to burn Monday, even after President Thein Sein declared a state of emergency and sent in troops to bring the riots under control.
The clashes that began on June 8 are the most severe in a string of violent attacks between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, the state’s largest minority group, and ethnic Rohingya Muslims, who are denied citizenship in both Burma and Bangladesh.
“In the morning after leaving the army from the Maungdaw today morning, the police and the riot police they and the Rakhine people are trying to burn to loot and to kill the Rohingya people," said Tin Soe is the editor of Kaladan Press Network, a Rohingya news agency, which has been reporting on the riots. "Ethnic problem or religious problem, we don’t know which one we can say.”
Both minority groups in the region claim to be under attack, but the Rohingya have a history of being a target of racism. Although many Rohingya communities have lived in Burma for decades, the government refuses to grant them citizenship - a position that has broad support among other Burmese nationals.
Even democracy leader and former political prisoner Ko Ko Gyi recently said he believed "so-called Rohingya" not to be one of the recognized Burmese ethnic groups.
Nicholas Farelly, Burma analyst of Australia National University, says the Rohingya’s statelessness between Burma and Bangladesh is partially to blame for the conflict's escalation.
“The Rohingya, they fit somewhat awkwardly in that borderland between the two different political systems, they have nowhere to call home and, as a result from time to time, there are these episodes of conflict," said Farelly. "We have seen one of those very recently and it has in this case taken the form of Buddhist and Muslim mobs of varying sizes coming to blows.”
On Sunday, Thein Sein’s national address referenced what he called Burma’s “checkered” history of peaceful co-existence of among the country’s diverse ethnic groups. He condemned racial and religiously-based violence, which he said could jeopardize the country’s democratic reforms.
In Bangkok Monday, Maung Kyaw Nu of the Burmese Rohingya Association of Thailand asked the United Nations to intervene.
"Today, I am coming here to express, to hand over the letter to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations," said Maung Kyaw Nu. "I would like his intervention, U.N. intervention to save my people who are killed. Genocide is there. I'm coming here to ask his help, intervention as well as the global civil society's help."
The U.S. embassy issued a statement urging all parties to stop violent attacks and the government to hold a transparent investigation.
by reuters
JEDDAH: FOUZIA KHAN
Sectarian violence has gripped western Myanmar after 10 Muslim scholars were killed by a Buddhist mob on June 3. The Rohingya Muslims living in the Kingdom are worried about their homes and families in the state of Rakhine.
Rakhine is home to Buddhist ethnic population and a large Muslim group. This includes the Rohingya, a stateless people described by the UN as one of the world’s most persecuted minorities.
The Myanmar government considers the Rohingya as foreigners and not one of the nation’s ethnic groups, while many citizens see them as illegal immigrants and view them with hostility. For the past 60 years they were not given their rights.
Almost 500,000 Rohingya are living in the Kingdom at the moment and they have appealed to the United Nations (UN), the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the organization for human rights, the Red Crescent, the Saudi government and others to interfere in the matter and protect the Rohingya.
“We are worried about our Muslim brothers and sisters in Rahkine. We, Rohingya, never shared the same rights as Myanmar nationals. We’ve lived our lives as refugees in countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia,” said Mohammad Noor-ul-Islam a scholar and teacher, who has been living in the Kingdom for the past 25 years.
The situation is very critical and not favorable to Muslims in Rakhine. “The Myanmar government sent troops after the clashes, but we fear they will not provide any security to Muslim homes and families. The soldiers are also Buddhist Magh and will side with the Magh in the area,” said Noor-ul-Islam.
He pleaded with world leaders to put pressure on the Myanmar government to send Burmese soldiers from Yangon and remove the Magh soldiers from the area if they want peace and prosperity. Noor-ul-Islam also appealed to the UN to open an office in the area to monitor the situation.
“We request that the Saudi government and all the world organizations to put pressure on the Myanmar government for the security of the Rohingya, facilitating them with food and security on the basis of humanitarian rights.
We would also like for human right departments and military camps to have direct contact with the Myanmar government instead of going through the Maghs,” said Maulana Mohammed Younus Al-Arakani, another Rohingya living in the Kingdom.
“We want justice for our people, who have been suffering for the past 60 years,” he added.
Hafeezur Rahman has lived in the Kingdom for the past 20 years. He has an elder brother and sister living in Rakhine state and said the situation is becoming worse every moment.
“There is no communication system, no electricity and food. People fear death and hunger. Mobs are killing and looting the shops and Muslims are not allowed to go out, because of a curfew,” said Hafeezur Rahman.
Maulana Saleh Ahmed Akther Zaman said the media could go anywhere in the world but not to the Rakhine Muslim area. There is no TV station, nor are journalists allowed to report here.
The Rohingya people in Saudi Arabia also appealed to the world organizations to send independent journalists to the area, so the Myanmar government could not censor any information.
According to the UN, about 750,000 Rohingya live in Myanmar, mainly in Rakhine. Another one million or more are thought to live in other countries.
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By Francis Wade
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Several key elements of the spiraling sectarian violence in western Burma are not getting picked up on by media. There is of course an issue with verification, particularly in a situation like this where emotions can fuel propaganda, where communication is very difficult and where the conflict is so inflammatory. But nevertheless it’s worth bringing them to the table.
Burma policemen walk towards burning buildings in Sittwe, capital of Rakhine state Tuesday. Pic: AP.
One thing people seem loath to report is the blatantly racist element to the unrest, which Buddhist Burmese and Arakanese must take the bulk of responsibility for (perhaps however it is because they have greater access to media in which to vent opinions).
This is even apparent among Burma’s pro-democracy leaders, the so-called “forces for change” in the country. Prominent activist Ko Ko Gyi said that the presence of Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority which has born the brunt of the rioting, is “infringing on Burma’s sovereignty”. A friend told me today that he’d received an email from a former political prisoner stating that, “if western nations really believed in human rights, they would take the Rohingya from us.”
The role of security forces in the violence has also been underreported, which contributes to statements like this one yesterday from an EU spokesperson: “We believe that the security forces are handling this difficult intercommunal violence in an appropriate way.” That does not marry with reports from locals on the ground.
At least four people have told me that police are acting alongside Arakanese in torching homes of Muslims, while several reports have emerged of police opening fire on crowds of Muslims (NB: Muslims are forbidden from entering Burma’s police force or army – this does carry significance when violence is of this nature). An NGO worker said last night that her family friend, a former politician from Sittwe, has been killed after being arrested over the weekend, while AFP reports that a Rohingya shot by Burmese police has died in Bangladesh.
The UN is unlikely to act unless there is clear complicity in the violence by state agents. The trouble is however that with few journalists or observers on the ground, those responsible for the deaths (which could well be in the hundreds by now) are hard to pinpoint. The UN has withdrawn staff from the region, but Human Rights Watch has urged the government to allow observers in.
There also seems to be something of a PR campaign to cast Muslims as those behind the killings (to make clear, Muslim groups are not innocent bystanders, but have also been involved in arson attacks across the state). One such example is the shaving of the heads of dead victims, often Muslims, and dressing them in monks robes – “and they (media) will take photos of this fake monk corpse to show to the world that these dead bodies were murdered by Muslim [sic]”, one source wrote.
In keeping with past instances of anti-Muslim fever in Burma, the internet has been awash with vitriol. A piece I published on Al Jazeera only yesterday has already attracted 150 comments – they’re a pretty good window into how the debate runs. What is conspicuously absent in all this is any rational debate – indeed most comments, even from the veterans of unrest in Burma, do not tackle the unfolding crisis, but instead exploit it as a means to vent their own bigotry.
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Several key elements of the spiraling sectarian violence in western Burma are not getting picked up on by media. There is of course an issue with verification, particularly in a situation like this where emotions can fuel propaganda, where communication is very difficult and where the conflict is so inflammatory. But nevertheless it’s worth bringing them to the table.
Burma policemen walk towards burning buildings in Sittwe, capital of Rakhine state Tuesday. Pic: AP.
One thing people seem loath to report is the blatantly racist element to the unrest, which Buddhist Burmese and Arakanese must take the bulk of responsibility for (perhaps however it is because they have greater access to media in which to vent opinions).
This is even apparent among Burma’s pro-democracy leaders, the so-called “forces for change” in the country. Prominent activist Ko Ko Gyi said that the presence of Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority which has born the brunt of the rioting, is “infringing on Burma’s sovereignty”. A friend told me today that he’d received an email from a former political prisoner stating that, “if western nations really believed in human rights, they would take the Rohingya from us.”
The role of security forces in the violence has also been underreported, which contributes to statements like this one yesterday from an EU spokesperson: “We believe that the security forces are handling this difficult intercommunal violence in an appropriate way.” That does not marry with reports from locals on the ground.
At least four people have told me that police are acting alongside Arakanese in torching homes of Muslims, while several reports have emerged of police opening fire on crowds of Muslims (NB: Muslims are forbidden from entering Burma’s police force or army – this does carry significance when violence is of this nature). An NGO worker said last night that her family friend, a former politician from Sittwe, has been killed after being arrested over the weekend, while AFP reports that a Rohingya shot by Burmese police has died in Bangladesh.
The UN is unlikely to act unless there is clear complicity in the violence by state agents. The trouble is however that with few journalists or observers on the ground, those responsible for the deaths (which could well be in the hundreds by now) are hard to pinpoint. The UN has withdrawn staff from the region, but Human Rights Watch has urged the government to allow observers in.
There also seems to be something of a PR campaign to cast Muslims as those behind the killings (to make clear, Muslim groups are not innocent bystanders, but have also been involved in arson attacks across the state). One such example is the shaving of the heads of dead victims, often Muslims, and dressing them in monks robes – “and they (media) will take photos of this fake monk corpse to show to the world that these dead bodies were murdered by Muslim [sic]”, one source wrote.
In keeping with past instances of anti-Muslim fever in Burma, the internet has been awash with vitriol. A piece I published on Al Jazeera only yesterday has already attracted 150 comments – they’re a pretty good window into how the debate runs. What is conspicuously absent in all this is any rational debate – indeed most comments, even from the veterans of unrest in Burma, do not tackle the unfolding crisis, but instead exploit it as a means to vent their own bigotry.
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(Reuters) - Homes burned, gunshots rang out and witnesses reported many dead as sectarian violence raged for a fifth day between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in northwest Myanmar on Tuesday, threatening the country's nascent democracy.
Security forces struggled to stem the worst communal violence since Myanmar's reformist government replaced an oppressive junta last year and vowed to forge unity in one of Asia's most ethnically diverse countries.Hundreds of Rohingyas have been turned away by authorities in neighboring Bangladesh after attempting to flee the fighting in boats, say officials and witnesses.
The fighting in Sittwe, capital of Myanmar's Rakhine State, has prompting President Thein Sein to declare a state of emergency, impose dawn-to-dusk curfews and warn that "vengeance and anarchy" could jeopardize the country's fledgling transition to democracy after nearly 50 years of army rule.
"Almost all of the shops have closed. We only have a little bit to eat because the market is also closed," said a worker at a hotel in the centre of Sittwe.
Witnesses reported black smoke over Sittwe, a port town riven by tensions between Buddhists and Muslims. Some Buddhists have been seen carrying bamboo stakes, machetes and sling-shots. Muslims and Buddhists were seen setting houses on fire.
The United States and European Union urged calm to prevent a derailing of Myanmar's fragile reforms.
"Violence between each group is still continuing and is getting worse today in Sittwe. One Rakhine man died in the rioting this morning," said Aung Myat Kyaw, a member of the Rakhine state parliament.
He said about 5,000 people had taken refuge in Buddhist monasteries and schools in Sittwe.
Shwe Maung, a Muslim lower house representative in the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party for the town of Buthidaung, urged the army to intervene and accused police of allowing Buddhists to break the curfew and burn Muslim houses.
"Sittwe is like a war zone," he said, putting the death toll at 50 in the village of Narzi, not far from Sittwe.
Already, the unrest is undermining the image of ethnic unity and stability that helped persuade the United States and Europe to suspend economic sanctions this year.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN ADRIFT
The violence, which first erupted on Friday in the town of Maungdaw, could also force the government to confront a long-festering question of how to resolve the plight of thousands of stateless Rohingya Muslims on Myanmar's border with Bangladesh.
Many toil in abject poverty, often despised by ethnic Rakhine, members of Myanmar's Buddhist majority.
Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres suspended its operations in the area on Tuesday, a day after the U.N. refugee agency pulled out its staff. More than 4,000 people driven from their homes are in six shelters, Myanmar state media said.
The official death toll remains eight people killed over several days, but witnesses said the number was substantially higher, although that this could not be independently confirmed.
Amid the violence, Bangladeshi paramilitaries, police and coastguard pushed back 12 wooden boats on Monday carrying 300 Rohingyas, mostly women and children, and witnesses said three more with some 150 people on board were drifting in waters close to the border.
Witnesses said they saw just 20 Rohingyas who had made it into Bangladesh, about half of whom were injured, but their whereabouts were not known. A Bangladeshi official on St Martin's island said the remaining boats had tried to reach the shore but were turned back.
"The boats moved around for a couple of days trying to land on this island but eventually were driven out of our water this morning," Mohammed Nurul Amin, head of a district council, told Reuters by telephone.
"Islanders are also keeping an eye out for any further crossing attempts," he said.
Buddhist-majority Myanmar's government regards the estimated 800,000 Muslim Rohingyas in the country as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and denies them citizenship. Bangladesh has refused to grant Rohingyas refugee status since 1992.
Bangladesh's Foreign Ministry said it supported Myanmar's efforts to restore order and said it was acting in the best interests of both countries by ensuring developments in Myanmar "do not have any trans-boundary spill-over". The countries are separated by a river flowing into the Bay of Bengal.
Rohingya activists have demanded recognition as a Myanmar ethnic group, claiming a centuries-old lineage to Rakhine.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday echoed Thein Sein's warning the unrest threatened to endanger democratic and economic reforms in the former Burma if it spiraled out of control."The situation in Rakhine state underscores the critical need for mutual respect among all ethnic and religious groups and for serious efforts to achieve national reconciliation," Clinton said in a statement.
"SPIRALLING OUT OF CONTROL"
U.S.-based Human Rights Watch called for diplomats and foreign journalists to be given access to the area and criticized Thein Sein for handing power to security forces. It said troops had opened fire on Rohingyas in Rakhine State, also known by its former name Arakan.
"Deadly violence in Arakan State is spiraling out of control under the government's watch," the group's deputy Asia director, Elaine Pearson, said in a statement.
What sparked the rioting is not known, but it came as tension between Buddhists and Muslims simmered in the wake of reports of a gang rape and murder of a Buddhist woman, widely blamed on Muslims.
That led to the killing of 10 Muslims on June 3, when a Buddhist mob stopped a bus they were travelling on. The dead bus passengers had no connection to the murdered woman; state media says three Muslims are on trial for the woman's death.
Curfews are in place in three Myanmar towns, including Thandwe, the gateway to tourist beaches, and Kyaukphyu, where China is building a port complex.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin urged Chinese citizens and companies to boost safety precautions and said China "supports Myanmar's efforts in maintaining stability and ethnic harmony".
(Additional reporting by; Nurul Islam in Cox's Bazar, Andrew R.C. Marshall in Bangkok, Sui-Lee Wee in Beijing; Writing by Martin Petty and Jason Szep; Editing by Alan Raybould and Ed Lane)
Rohingya activists have demanded recognition as a Myanmar ethnic group, claiming a centuries-old lineage to Rakhine.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday echoed Thein Sein's warning the unrest threatened to endanger democratic and economic reforms in the former Burma if it spiraled out of control."The situation in Rakhine state underscores the critical need for mutual respect among all ethnic and religious groups and for serious efforts to achieve national reconciliation," Clinton said in a statement.
"SPIRALLING OUT OF CONTROL"
U.S.-based Human Rights Watch called for diplomats and foreign journalists to be given access to the area and criticized Thein Sein for handing power to security forces. It said troops had opened fire on Rohingyas in Rakhine State, also known by its former name Arakan.
"Deadly violence in Arakan State is spiraling out of control under the government's watch," the group's deputy Asia director, Elaine Pearson, said in a statement.
What sparked the rioting is not known, but it came as tension between Buddhists and Muslims simmered in the wake of reports of a gang rape and murder of a Buddhist woman, widely blamed on Muslims.
That led to the killing of 10 Muslims on June 3, when a Buddhist mob stopped a bus they were travelling on. The dead bus passengers had no connection to the murdered woman; state media says three Muslims are on trial for the woman's death.
Curfews are in place in three Myanmar towns, including Thandwe, the gateway to tourist beaches, and Kyaukphyu, where China is building a port complex.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin urged Chinese citizens and companies to boost safety precautions and said China "supports Myanmar's efforts in maintaining stability and ethnic harmony".
(Additional reporting by; Nurul Islam in Cox's Bazar, Andrew R.C. Marshall in Bangkok, Sui-Lee Wee in Beijing; Writing by Martin Petty and Jason Szep; Editing by Alan Raybould and Ed Lane)
Akyab (Sittwe), Arakan State: Killing, torching houses and looting the properties of the Rohingyas have been continued in Sittwe and Maungdaw by police, Hluntin and a group of Rakhine racists, said a trader from Sittwe.
“Today at about 11:30 am, the villages of Moliek, Hoshai Para, Amla Para, and Kun Dan Ward of Sittwe were torched by a group of Rakhine racists with the cooperation of police and Hluntin. Police and Hluntin fired on to the villages while the Rakhines set on fire to the Rohingya villages.
Some of the houses were burnt down into ashes and some people were killed and wounded by the firing of police and Hluntin.
According to different sources, Nur Jahan (70), daughter of Kader, Thura Shwe (8), son of U Tin Shwe and his twin sister Ma Ni Ni, Daw Lun Lun (29), daughter of Nuru Uddin and her sister Sajida (23), Daw Hla Thein (53), daughter of U Maung Pru, Maung Tu Shay were killed. They all are from Padi Like village.
Besides, from Rohingya village, Moluvi, Noor Hussain (32), son of Saley Ahamed, Imam (religious leader), Jalal (56), son of U Maung Bra, Khalu Maung (a) Aye Tun, son of Md. Ali. They are one family members and belong to Saccay Pyin village. They whole family members of advocate U Kyaw Myint were also killed by police and Hluntin.
In addition, Majibur Rahaman (24) son of Abdur Rahaman was shot dead by police and Tasmin Juhar (28) son of Anwar, Sadek Hussain (18) son of Kader (student) and Younus (14) son of Abdur Rahaman were wounded. They all belong to Kun Dan Ward of Sittwe.”
Yesteday, 21 Rohingyas from Sittwe were wounded by police and sent to Sittwe General Hospital for medical treatment, but all were dead for critical wounded, said a villager.
Amla Para Madrassa, Mosque of Kyaung Gyi Lan, Mosque and Madrassa of Kun Dan Ward, Mosque of Moliek, Mosque of Buhar Para, Mosque of Santawli, Mosque of Hoshai Para village, Mosque of Rohingya Para and Mosque of Bowmay Para were destroyed by police, Hluntin and Rakhines. The Nazir Para market was also burnt down.
According to sources, two police personnel and eight Rakhines were killed by army while they were firing to Rohingya villages and torching houses. The reason is that an army was killed by firing of police accidentally.
After the accident, Rohingya villages are under the control of army. However, the dead bodies of Rohingyas and the villagers of Nazir Para are brought to Thee Chaung village which is situated nearby the ocean.
Rohingyas are now in panic-stricken as well as they have no food, no rations, no medical access, said a villager who didn’t mention his name.
Recently, more than 11 engine boats with over 500 Rohingyas including women and children were floating in the Naff River. They try to land on Bangladesh soil but the authorities of Bangladesh don’t allow them. They are suffering from crisis of food, water and medicine.
In Maungdaw, Md. Zinna (50), son of Kasim, Jamil Hassan (25), son of Deen Mohamed, Azizul Hassan (20), Younus, Zahir Ahamed, Nurul Alam and four others were taken away by police and kept in police station where they were not provided adequate food, said an elder from Maungdaw.
Yesterday, an older woman accompanied by her daughter was shot dead by army while they were crossing from one house to another at about 7:00 pm. They belong to Honsara village of Zaw Mathet village tract, Maungdaw Township.
One youth named Hussain Ahamed 25 son of Nazir Hussain of north Ngakura village of Maundaw township was stabbed to death by Rakhine villagers while returning from his father-in-law’s house at 5:00 pm. He was newly married.
In Maungdaw south, Natala villagers tried to arson attack to a Rohingya village named Aley Than Kyaw. But, they were caught by army on the way and sent to the Nasaka camp. The Natala villagers are from Senda Para village, said a villager
Md. Khan, Hasina, wife of Md. Ali and Nurul Islam were picked up by police at night. They all belong to Bomu Para.
Jamil Ahmed and his son Yasin and another two villagers were also picked up by police in the evening today. They belong to Ward No. 5.
Another five villagers from Ward No. 4 were picked up by police today evening and four other Rohingya villagers were also brought to Maundaw town from the southern side Maungdaw. They all were sent to Maundaw police station, but reason is unknown, sources said.
Two Rakhine youths dressed with army uniforms entered the Rohingya Bagguna village and looted ornaments from Ms. Morina Khatun, Ms. Laruni and Ms. Toyuba Khatun and ran way.
KNP“Today at about 11:30 am, the villages of Moliek, Hoshai Para, Amla Para, and Kun Dan Ward of Sittwe were torched by a group of Rakhine racists with the cooperation of police and Hluntin. Police and Hluntin fired on to the villages while the Rakhines set on fire to the Rohingya villages.
Some of the houses were burnt down into ashes and some people were killed and wounded by the firing of police and Hluntin.
According to different sources, Nur Jahan (70), daughter of Kader, Thura Shwe (8), son of U Tin Shwe and his twin sister Ma Ni Ni, Daw Lun Lun (29), daughter of Nuru Uddin and her sister Sajida (23), Daw Hla Thein (53), daughter of U Maung Pru, Maung Tu Shay were killed. They all are from Padi Like village.
Besides, from Rohingya village, Moluvi, Noor Hussain (32), son of Saley Ahamed, Imam (religious leader), Jalal (56), son of U Maung Bra, Khalu Maung (a) Aye Tun, son of Md. Ali. They are one family members and belong to Saccay Pyin village. They whole family members of advocate U Kyaw Myint were also killed by police and Hluntin.
In addition, Majibur Rahaman (24) son of Abdur Rahaman was shot dead by police and Tasmin Juhar (28) son of Anwar, Sadek Hussain (18) son of Kader (student) and Younus (14) son of Abdur Rahaman were wounded. They all belong to Kun Dan Ward of Sittwe.”
Yesteday, 21 Rohingyas from Sittwe were wounded by police and sent to Sittwe General Hospital for medical treatment, but all were dead for critical wounded, said a villager.
Amla Para Madrassa, Mosque of Kyaung Gyi Lan, Mosque and Madrassa of Kun Dan Ward, Mosque of Moliek, Mosque of Buhar Para, Mosque of Santawli, Mosque of Hoshai Para village, Mosque of Rohingya Para and Mosque of Bowmay Para were destroyed by police, Hluntin and Rakhines. The Nazir Para market was also burnt down.
According to sources, two police personnel and eight Rakhines were killed by army while they were firing to Rohingya villages and torching houses. The reason is that an army was killed by firing of police accidentally.
After the accident, Rohingya villages are under the control of army. However, the dead bodies of Rohingyas and the villagers of Nazir Para are brought to Thee Chaung village which is situated nearby the ocean.
Rohingyas are now in panic-stricken as well as they have no food, no rations, no medical access, said a villager who didn’t mention his name.
Recently, more than 11 engine boats with over 500 Rohingyas including women and children were floating in the Naff River. They try to land on Bangladesh soil but the authorities of Bangladesh don’t allow them. They are suffering from crisis of food, water and medicine.
In Maungdaw, Md. Zinna (50), son of Kasim, Jamil Hassan (25), son of Deen Mohamed, Azizul Hassan (20), Younus, Zahir Ahamed, Nurul Alam and four others were taken away by police and kept in police station where they were not provided adequate food, said an elder from Maungdaw.
Yesterday, an older woman accompanied by her daughter was shot dead by army while they were crossing from one house to another at about 7:00 pm. They belong to Honsara village of Zaw Mathet village tract, Maungdaw Township.
One youth named Hussain Ahamed 25 son of Nazir Hussain of north Ngakura village of Maundaw township was stabbed to death by Rakhine villagers while returning from his father-in-law’s house at 5:00 pm. He was newly married.
In Maungdaw south, Natala villagers tried to arson attack to a Rohingya village named Aley Than Kyaw. But, they were caught by army on the way and sent to the Nasaka camp. The Natala villagers are from Senda Para village, said a villager
Md. Khan, Hasina, wife of Md. Ali and Nurul Islam were picked up by police at night. They all belong to Bomu Para.
Jamil Ahmed and his son Yasin and another two villagers were also picked up by police in the evening today. They belong to Ward No. 5.
Another five villagers from Ward No. 4 were picked up by police today evening and four other Rohingya villagers were also brought to Maundaw town from the southern side Maungdaw. They all were sent to Maundaw police station, but reason is unknown, sources said.
Two Rakhine youths dressed with army uniforms entered the Rohingya Bagguna village and looted ornaments from Ms. Morina Khatun, Ms. Laruni and Ms. Toyuba Khatun and ran way.
အယ္ခုိင္ဒါႏွင့္ဆက္သြယ္မႈရွိေၾကာင္း မသကၤာမႈျဖင့္ ဖမ္းဆီးထားသည့္ UNHCR မွ ေဒၚျမနႏၵာေအာင္ ကုိ ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးလိုက္ျပီ
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UNHCR ေမာင္းေတာရုံးမွ အၾကီးတန္းလက္ေထာက္ ေဒၚျမနႏၵာေအာင္ ကုိ
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ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ့သို့ ယေန့ေန့လည္ ေလေၾကာင္းခရီးျဖင့္ ျပန္လည္လိုက္ပါလာမည္ဟုလည္း
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သြားဆရာ၀န္တဦးသာျဖစ္ျပီး ခုအခါ ေမာင္းေတာ န.စ.ကမွ ထိန္းသိမ္းကာ ဆက္လက္
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UNHCR ေမာင္းေတာရုံးမွ အၾကီးတန္းလက္ေထာက္ ေဒၚျမနႏၵာေအာင္
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သြားဆရာ၀န္တဦးသာျဖစ္ျပီး ခုအခါ ေမာင္းေတာ န.စ.ကမွ ထိန္းသိမ္းကာ ဆက္လက္
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Sectarian violence has engulfed Myanmar's frontier state of Rakhine in recent days, with clashes between Buddhist and Muslim ethnic groups. Tension between the two groups is not new and there are few solutions in sight.
The cycle of revenge attacks between ethnic groups in the border state of Rakhine is posing a new challenge to Myanmar's reformist government, with the repercussions now rippling across the border into neighboring Bangladesh.
The latest surge in sectarian unrest began with the rape and murder of a Rakhine Buddhist woman, allegedly by three Muslims, late last month. Within days, the response had turned more brutal, with at least 10 Muslims killed when they were pulled off a bus in the Taungup township.
Last Friday, Muslims belonging to the Rohingya ethnic minority are alleged to have run amok in the town of Maung Taw, burning down hundreds of houses and killing seven people.
By Monday, many Rohingya were taking flight, with groups of men - apparently ethnic Rakhine Buddhists - roaming the streets of the state capital Sittwe carrying sticks and knives.
Announcing a state of emergency in the region on Sunday, President Thein Sein warned of the possible terrible outcome, with security forces drafted into the area.
Attacks 'well-planned and organized'
However, the president of the British-based Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO), Nurul Islam, said he believed that the attacks had in part been orchestrated by the security forces themselves.
He claimed Muslim residents had been fired upon for breaking a curfew when they fled homes that Rakhine extremists had set alight.
"All of this is well planned and organized. The leading Rakhine political organization is behind this," he told Deutsche Welle.
Under Myanmar law, the Rohingya are denied citizenship, with many of the Buddhist majority in the state describing them as illegal immigrants. Many Rohingya travel between Myanmar and Bangladesh and the government says their presence in Myanmar does not date back to 1814 - a requirement that needs to be met under the country's citizenship laws. Bangladesh claims the Rohingya are from Myanmar.
On Monday, the Bangladeshi authorities turned away boats carrying more than 300 Rohingya away.
Meanwhile, about 100 Rohingyas demonstrated at the UN's regional headquarters in Thailand calling for the organization to intervene to prevent "genocide."
"There's a humanitarian crisis looming," said Islam. "All the Muslim shops have been looted and food including rice has been seized and carried away. People are already starving."
"I blame the central government, as well," he added. "They could send armed forces and control the situation within minutes. They want to ethnically cleanse Arakhan state, if they don't, why don't they control the situation?"
'A familiar pattern'
However, Hans-Bernd Zöllner, an expert on Myanmar at Hamburg University, was skeptical. "The government's power is a little bit overestimated," he said. "They don't have the power to do whatever they might like to do. This is something that applies in many border regions where ethnic problems appear, not only Rakhine."
Security forces have been sent in to the areaAccording to the UN, there are nearly 800,000 Rohingya living in Myanmar. Zöllner says the current crisis represents a fresh resurfacing of an old feud, in just one of a myriad of ethnic conflicts in the country. The latest events, he said, follow a typical pattern where sexual violence - or allegations of it - sparks ethnic conflict.
"There is a long tradition of Buddhist-Muslim tension in the country that goes back to the colonial period and the nationalist movement in the 1930s, when Muslim Indians were always scapegoated instead of the British because they were seen as weak. The British could not be attacked," said Zöllner. "From time to time, something will flare up."
"It seems to be a neverending story," he said. "It depends on so many factors. Unless the government in Myanmar can find a solution that satisfies the Rakhine people and come to terms with Bangladesh so that there might be some progress, there appears to be no solution in the pipeline."
Author: Richard Connor
Editor: Anne Thomas
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The latest surge in sectarian unrest began with the rape and murder of a Rakhine Buddhist woman, allegedly by three Muslims, late last month. Within days, the response had turned more brutal, with at least 10 Muslims killed when they were pulled off a bus in the Taungup township.
Last Friday, Muslims belonging to the Rohingya ethnic minority are alleged to have run amok in the town of Maung Taw, burning down hundreds of houses and killing seven people.
By Monday, many Rohingya were taking flight, with groups of men - apparently ethnic Rakhine Buddhists - roaming the streets of the state capital Sittwe carrying sticks and knives.
Announcing a state of emergency in the region on Sunday, President Thein Sein warned of the possible terrible outcome, with security forces drafted into the area.
Thein Sein has warned that the violence might spread
"The situation could deteriorate and could extend beyond Rakhine state if we are killing each other with such sectarianism, endless hatred, the desire for vengeance and anarchy," Thein Sein said.Attacks 'well-planned and organized'
However, the president of the British-based Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO), Nurul Islam, said he believed that the attacks had in part been orchestrated by the security forces themselves.
He claimed Muslim residents had been fired upon for breaking a curfew when they fled homes that Rakhine extremists had set alight.
"All of this is well planned and organized. The leading Rakhine political organization is behind this," he told Deutsche Welle.
Under Myanmar law, the Rohingya are denied citizenship, with many of the Buddhist majority in the state describing them as illegal immigrants. Many Rohingya travel between Myanmar and Bangladesh and the government says their presence in Myanmar does not date back to 1814 - a requirement that needs to be met under the country's citizenship laws. Bangladesh claims the Rohingya are from Myanmar.
On Monday, the Bangladeshi authorities turned away boats carrying more than 300 Rohingya away.
Meanwhile, about 100 Rohingyas demonstrated at the UN's regional headquarters in Thailand calling for the organization to intervene to prevent "genocide."
"There's a humanitarian crisis looming," said Islam. "All the Muslim shops have been looted and food including rice has been seized and carried away. People are already starving."
"I blame the central government, as well," he added. "They could send armed forces and control the situation within minutes. They want to ethnically cleanse Arakhan state, if they don't, why don't they control the situation?"
'A familiar pattern'
However, Hans-Bernd Zöllner, an expert on Myanmar at Hamburg University, was skeptical. "The government's power is a little bit overestimated," he said. "They don't have the power to do whatever they might like to do. This is something that applies in many border regions where ethnic problems appear, not only Rakhine."
Security forces have been sent in to the area"There is a long tradition of Buddhist-Muslim tension in the country that goes back to the colonial period and the nationalist movement in the 1930s, when Muslim Indians were always scapegoated instead of the British because they were seen as weak. The British could not be attacked," said Zöllner. "From time to time, something will flare up."
"It seems to be a neverending story," he said. "It depends on so many factors. Unless the government in Myanmar can find a solution that satisfies the Rakhine people and come to terms with Bangladesh so that there might be some progress, there appears to be no solution in the pipeline."
Author: Richard Connor
Editor: Anne Thomas
Sources Here :
(New York) – The government of Burma should take all necessary steps to protect communities at risk in Arakan State after violence between Buddhists and Muslims in western Burma left an unknown number dead. The government has taken inadequate steps to stop sectarian-violence between Arakan Buddhists and ethnic Rohingya Muslims, or to bring those responsible to justice.Human Rights Watch urged the government to permit prompt access to international journalists, aid workers, and diplomats.
“Deadly violence in Arakan State is spiraling out of control under the government’s watch,” said Elaine Pearson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Opening the area to independent international observers would put all sides on notice that they were being closely watched.”
Brutal violence in Arakan State in western Burma erupted on June 3, 2012, when an estimated 300 Arakan Buddhists attacked a bus of traveling Muslims, killing 10 passengers. The angry mob was reacting to information that an Arakan girl was allegedly raped and murdered in late May by three Rohingya suspects. At the time of the attack, the suspects were reportedly in police custody. Clashes have intensified since, spreading to the state’s largest town, Sittwe, with Rohingya mobs burning Arakan homes and businesses, and the army opening fire and allegedly killing Rohingyas. Mobs of Rohingya and Arakanese, armed with sticks and swords, have reportedly committed violence that resulted in a number of deaths.
On June 7, the Burmese government announced an investigation into the violence. As clashes worsened, on June 10, President Thein Sein issued a state of emergency in the area, ceding complete authority to the Burmese army.
For decades, the Rohingya have routinely suffered abuses by the Burmese army, including extrajudicial killings, forced labor, land confiscation, and restricted freedom of movement. Arakan people have also faced human rights violations by the army. Using the army to restore order risks arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, and torture, Human Rights Watch said.
“Given the Burmese army’s brutal record of abuses in Arakan State, putting the military in charge of law enforcement could make matters worse,” Pearson said. “The government needs to be protecting threatened communities, but without any international presence there, there’s a real fear that won’t happen.”
Where security permits, international agencies such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees should maintain an on-the-ground presence in Arakan State to provide assistance and protection as possible.
For decades the Rohingya have borne the brunt of the earlier military government’s brutal state-building policies. The Rohingya have been formally denied citizenship and were excluded from the last census in 1983. They are widely regarded within Burma as “Bengalis” – people of Bangladesh nationality. Since the 1960s there have been multiple campaigns led by the Burmese authorities to expel the Rohingya from Burma, resulting in a litany of human rights violations. There are an estimated 800,000 Rohingya in Burma, and about 200,000 live in Bangladesh, of which 30,000 live in squalid refugee camps.
“The Burmese government’s policies of exclusion have fostered resentment against the Rohingya,” said Pearson. “Longer-term, the government should be thinking about how to address the years of discrimination and neglect that the Rohingya have faced, provide some mechanism for accountability, and ensure the rights of Rohingya equally with other Burmese.”
The ongoing violence in Arakan State shows that despite the democratic progress of recent months, there are still formidable challenges for human rights in Burma, Human Rights Watch said. Many areas populated by ethnic minorities have seen few benefits from the reform process. International journalists and aid workers still face restricted access to large parts of the country.
Influential governments such as the US, Japan, Australia, and members of the European Union should continue to press for full civilian control over the military and building the rule of law, instead of giving up all its leverage at a moment when the reform process has barely begun.
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