မင္းျပားၿမဳိ႕နယ္တြင္ရခုိင္အမ်ဳိးသားေရး၀ါဒီမ်ားႏွင့္သံဃာအတုမ်ားပူးေပါင္း၍ ေဒသခံရုိဟင္ဂ်ာမြတ္စ လင္မ်ား ကုိ  စားနပ္ရိကၡာ၀ယ္ ယူခြင့္ပိတ္ဆုိ႔ထား ေသာေၾကာင့္ အငတ္ေဘးႏွင့္ရင္ဆုိင္လ်က္ ရွိေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွိပါသည္။ 

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္း ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမြတ္စလင္ေတြကို အၾကမ္းဖက္ေနတဲ့ အေၾကာင္းနဲ႔ သူတို႔ရဲ႕ဒုကၡေတြကို အျပည္ျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာအသိုင္းအဝုိင္းက အာရုဏ္ျပဳလာေသာ္လည္း၎တို႔ဟာကမၻာ့အင္အားလြန္ဆြဲေနတဲ့ ၾကားမွာ ဓါးစာခံေတြျဖစ္ေနရတယ္လို႔ ပညာရွင္ေတြကဆိုပါတယ္။ အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွႏိုင္ငံေတြကိုပါ ရိုက္ခပ္ေစတဲ့ ဒီလိုအေျခအေနမ်ိဳးကို တိတ္ဆိတ္မေနသင့္ဘူးလို႔လည္းဆိုၾကပါတယ္။

Demir ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သလိုဘဲ ဦးထြန္းခင္ကလည္း ျမန္မာအစိုးရဟာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္ေတြနဲ႔ မြတ္စလင္ေတြျဖစ္ရတဲ့ ျပႆနအတြင္း ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္ေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ စစ္တပ္ကလည္း ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္ေတြဘက္လိုက္ျပီး မြတ္စလင္ေတြကို ႏွိပ္ကြတ္ေနပါတယ္လို႔ ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ပါတယ္။

"ျမန္မာအစိုးရ က ေသြးခြဲအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမူဝါဒကို က်င့္သံုးေနတယ္" လို႔ Demir ကဆိုပါတယ္။

တူရကီႏိုင္ငံက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာရွိတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ိဳးေတြကို ဆန္႔က်င္တိုက္ခိုက္ေနတဲ့ ကိစၥနဲ႔ ပါတ္သက္ျပီး တိတ္ဆိတ္မေနၾကဖို႔ ကုလသမဂၢအပါအဝင္ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းေတြ ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာရွိတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ လူမ်ိဳးေတြနဲ႔ ပါတ္သက္ျပီး[တူရကီ] ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ၾကီး Ahmet Davutoğlu က အစၥလာမ္ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေရးအဖြဲ႔ [အိုအိုင္စီ] အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႈခ်ဳပ္ Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu ႏွင့္ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ၾကီး Dipu Moni တို႔နဲ႕ ျပီးခဲ့တဲ့ အပါတ္ကေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့ပါတယ္။

လက္ရွိျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းမွာ ျဖစ္ပြားေနတဲ့ အေျခအေနေတြကို တူရကီႏိုင္ငံ က အနီးကပ္ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေနေၾကာင္း၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ႏိုင္ငံအေရးအေျပာင္းအလဲေတြကို အစဥ္တစိုက္ေထာက္ခံခဲ့ေၾကာင္း တူရကီ သံအမွတ္တဦးက ဆန္းေဒး ဇမာန္း သတင္းဌာနကို ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ယင္းသံအမွတ္က " တူရကီႏိုင္ငံက အခုဆိုရင္ အေျခအေနေတြနဲ႔ ပါတ္သက္ျပီး ေလ့လာစံုစမ္းေနပါတယ္။ အစၥလာမ္ပူးေပါင္းေရးအဖြဲ႕နဲ႔ ကမၻာကုလသမဂၢအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္နဲ႔ အဆက္အသြယ္ရွိေနပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာအာဏာပိုင္ေတြနဲ႔ ေရာ ဘဂၤလာေဒ့ရွ္အာဏာပိုင္ေတြနဲ႔ ပါ အဆက္အသြယ္ရွိပါတယ္။" လို႔ ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ပါတယ္။

တခ်ိန္တည္းမွာဘဲ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ အသိုင္းအဝိုင္းေတြရဲ႕ အေနအထားကို ေရွ႕ဆက္တိုးဖို႔ရာအတြက္ အိုအိုင္စီ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ İhsanoğlu ဟာ ဂၽြန္လပိုင္းေလာက္က တရုပ္ႏိုင္ငံကို သြားေရာက္တဲ့ ခရီးစဥ္မွာ အိမ္နီးခ်င္းျဖစ္တဲ့ ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ အေျခအေနေတြကိုလည္း ေလ့လာေစာင့္ၾကည့္ဖို႔နဲ႔ လိုအပ္တာေတြ လုပ္ေဆာင္သြားဖို႔အတြက္ တရုပ္ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြနဲ႔ ေျပာဆိုေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္း ျဖစ္ပြားေနတဲ့ အဓိကရုဏ္း ကို ထိန္းသိမ္းဖို႔အတြက္ ျမန္မာ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္က အေရးေပၚအေျခအေနကို ေၾကျငာခဲ့ျပီး စစ္တပ္ေတြကို ေစလြတ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ဒီအေရးေပၚအေျခအေနေၾကျငာခ်က္ဟာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္ေတြက ယင္းအေရးေပၚအေျခအေနကို မလိုက္နာဘဲ ဆက္လက္ ဖိႏွိပ္မႈေတြလုပ္ေဆာင္ေနတာေၾကာင့္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ိဳးေတြရဲ႕ေနထိုင္မႈဘဝကို ပိုမိုႏွစ္နာေစတာျဖစ္လို႔ အခုလိုအေျခအေနမ်ိဳးကို "လူမ်ိဳးေရးနဲ႔ ဘာသာေရး ကိုအေျခခံတဲ့ လူမ်ိဳးစု သုတ္သင္ရွင္းလုပ္ေရးလုပ္ေနတာပါ" လို႔ ဆိုလိုရျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အာရကန္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ယူနီယံ ဥကၠဌ ဝါကာ ဥဒင္က ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ိဳးေတြအေပၚ လြတ္လပ္စြာသြားလာမႈ၊ ေျမယာပိုင္ဆိုင္မႈ၊ နဲ႔ ပညာေရးနဲ႕ျပည္သူ႔ဝန္ေဆာင္မႈ အခြင့္အလမ္းေတြကို ျမန္မာအစိုးရကပိတ္ပင္ထားျပီး ဆယ္ရာစုႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ ခြဲျခားဆက္ဆံမႈေတြျပဳလုပ္ထားတဲ့အတြက္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ိဳးေတြ ႏိုင္ငံမဲ့ျဖစ္ေနၾကရတာပါ။ ျမန္မာအစိုးရက အေျခအေနမွန္ေတြကို ေလ့လာေစဖို႔အတြက္ သတင္းမီဒီယာဌာနေတြကိုလည္း လြတ္လြတ္လပ္လပ္ဝင္ခြင့္မေပးထားပါဘူး။

" အျပင္လူေတြ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ကိုဝင္ခြင့္မျပဳပါဘူး။ ယူအန္ ဝန္ထမ္းေတြကိုေတာင္မွ ျမန္မာအစိုးရကဖမ္းထားလိုက္ေသးတယ္။" လို႔ Demir ကဆိုပါတယ္။

ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားဆိုင္ရာ မဟာမင္းၾကီးရံုးရဲ႕ ေျပာေရးဆိုခြင့္ရွိသူ Melissa Fleming ကလည္း ယူအန္ ဝန္ထမ္း နဲ႔ လူမႈလုပ္သား ၁၀ ဦး ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ အဖမ္းခံထားရတယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ရဲ႕ ေျပာေရးဆိုခြင့္ရွိသူ Martin Nesirky ကလည္း အခုလို ယူအန္ ဝန္ထမ္းေတြကို ဖမ္းဆီးထားတဲ့ သတင္းက မွန္ကန္ေၾကာင္းနဲ႔ လက္ရွိေျခအေနေတြကို ေလ့လာစံုစမ္းေနေၾကာင္းေျပာဆိုခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္မွာ ရွိတဲ့ မြတ္စလင္ေတြ ေသဆံုးၾကတဲ့ အေရအတြက္ကလည္း မသဲမကြဲျဖစ္ေနပါေသးတယ္။

အဓိကရုဏ္းေတြျဖစ္ပြားရာေဒသအတြင္း ဝင္ခြင့္ရွိတဲ့ ကုလသမဂၢအဖြဲ႕ရဲ႕ ေျပာပံုအရဆိုရင္ အေသအေပ်ာက္ႏႈန္းဟာ ျမန္မာအစိုးရေၾကျငာခဲ့သေလာက္မနည္းသလို လႈပ္ရွားသူေတြေျပာသေလာက္လည္းမမ်ားပါဘူး လို႔ေျပာပါတယ္။

"ေသဆံုးသူအေရအတြက္ကေတြ မေသးကြဲပါဘူး။ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးေတာ့ ေျပာေနၾကတာေပါ့။ မြတ္စလင္ေတြရဲ႕ အေလာင္းေတြကို လိုက္ရွာဖို႔ကလည္း မလြယ္ကူလွဘူး။ ၁၅၀၀ ေလာက္ေပ်ာက္ဆံုးေနတယ္လို႔ ေျပာတာဘဲ" Demir ကဆိုပါတယ္။

အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈေၾကာင့္ ေထာင္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာေသာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွ မြတ္စလင္ေတြ ထြက္ေျပးတိမ္းေရွာင္ေနရေပမယ္။ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြကေတာ့ သူတို႔ႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းမွာ ဒုကၡသည့္အျဖစ္အကူအညီေတာင္းဖို႔အေရး နယ္စပ္တံခါးမွာေတာင့္ ေစာင့္ခြင့္မေပးပါဘူး။ "ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြလာမွာကို တားဆီးေနေပမယ့္ သူ႔တို႔ႏိုင္ငံမွာရွိတဲ့ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းထဲမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၁သိန္းခြဲေလာက္ရွိတယ္။" လို႔ Demir ကေျပာပါတယ္။ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရးကိစၥေၾကာင့္ဘဲ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နဲ႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအၾကားဆက္ဆံေရးကလည္း တင္းမာလာေနပါတယ္။

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ိဳးေတြဟာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားလည္းမရဘူး။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာေနထိုင္ၾကတဲ့ လူမ်ိဳးစုတစ္စုေနနဲ႔လည္း အသိအမွတ္မျပဳဘူး။ သူတို႔ိကို ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံက ခိုးဝင္လာသူေတြအေနနဲ႔ဘဲသက္မွတ္ၾကပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ သူတို႔မွာ အိမ္ယာ ပိုင္ဆိုင္ခြင့္ေတြ အလုပ္လုပ္ခြင့္ေတြကိုလည္း ပိတ္ပင္ထားပါတယ္။ တခ်ိဳ႕ မြတ္စလင္ ရြာေတြမွာဆိုရင္ လၽွပ္စစ္မီးေတာင္မရွိပါဘူး။ လို႔ Demir ေျပာပါတယ္။



ေဒသခံသတင္းေတြကေန လြန္ခဲ့ တဲ့ တနလၤာေန႔ေလာက္မွာေတာ့ အေျခအေနေတြျငိမ္သက္သြားျပီလို႔ဆိုေပမယ့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းမွာ ၉ ႏွစ္ေလာက္ အေတြ႕အၾကံဳရွိတဲ့ Demir အေနနဲ႕ကေတာ့ ဒီလို ျငိမ္သက္သြားျပီးဆိုတာ မယံုၾကည္ေၾကာင္းေျပာဆိုပါတယ္။ ပဋိပကၡၡျဖစ္တဲ့ေနရာမွာ အၾကမ္းဖက္လုပ္ေဆာင္ဖို႔အတြက္ ျမန္မာအစိုးရက စစ္တပ္ေတြ ေစတင္ေစလြတ္ေနျပီျဖစ္ပါတယ္ လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။

၂၂၊၇၊၂၀၁၂ ရက္ေန႔ Sunday's Zaman သတင္းတြင္ ေရးသားေဖာ္ျပခဲ့ေသာ Experts: Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar victims of global power struggle ကို ဘာသာျပန္ေရးသားေဖၚျပရျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။

Translate by O'Laie Manzu

Iranian professors in international laws said the government of Myanmar is an accomplice in crimes against Muslims and asked international community and NGOs to react.

In a meeting dubbed as 'Considering international and legal aspects of massacre of Muslims in Myanmar and international community responsibility', Alireza Dayhim, from Razavi University, said that a number of Muslims have been killed in Myanmar and, undoubtedly, a group has organized it, so the government of Myanmar is accused both in supporting the group as well as negligence in preventing the crimes.

He said that this incident is the same as an incident in former Yogslavia and the Myanmar government behavior has been discriminatory and provocative.

He added government behavior with Muslims as third grade citizens intensified hatred of Budhists against Muslims and this hatred was approved by the Myanmar government, so it should be said that it was a crime against humanity.

Bahram Mostaqimi, another expert from Tehran University, said the collective attack against Myanmar Hajj pilgrims showed it has been organized.

He added that perpetrators of such crimes must be punished and if the government is not able to do so, the international community should control the situation.

Mr. Tavakkol Habibzadeh, another professor from Imam Sadeq University, underlined responsibility of the government and said that when the Myanmar government does not allow Muslims to have secondry school education and makes them do forced labor and does not allow them to leave their areas and declares a number of areas as 'Non-Muslim area', it is discrimination and the government has actually taken part in the crime.

Referring to numerous international conventions such as nations rights convention and convention of 1949, he concluded that the government of Myanmar is violating human rights.

Alireza Dayhim compared the situation in Myanmar with the ones in Darfur, Sudan, and Libya and said the responsibility is not just for Human Right Commission, but the UN Security Council is responsible, too.

He added that silence of the UN Security Council indicated US support against human rights.

He said it is an ethnic cleasing in Myanmar and report of special rapporteur of the Human Right Commission signifies the issue.

Assad Ardalan, a law and international relations researcher, talked about role of international organizations in prevention of such crimes and said that Organization of Islamic Cooperation and ASEAN and such groups can take stances against human rights violation and force the Myanmar government to be countable before international community.

He also referred to role of media and continued it is necessary that media create an atmosphere to force Myanmar government to allow reporters and fact-finding groups to enter the area.

The meeting was held by Islamic Republic of Iran Islamic Human Rights Commission, which is a non-governmental organization.

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad Bar Association (IBA) passed on Saturday a resolution unanimously to condemn Myanmar Muslims’ massacre here at Islamabad District Court (IDC).

In the meeting, the legal fraternity condemned the brutalities of Myanmar government against Muslim community and appealed the Muslim countries including Pakistan to build up diplomatic pressure on Myanmar to stop its atrocities on Muslim population and protect their fundamental human rights on immediate basis. President Islamabad District Court Bar Association (IDCBA) Syed Javed Akbar Shah Mashhadi chaired the meeting and informed that 700,000 muslims were living in Myanmar and on monthly basis, Myanmar government murdered 20,000 innocent Muslims without any logical reasons.

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လာေတာ့မည္ျဖစ္သျဖင့္ လုပ္ရုိးလုပ္စဥ္အတုိင္းျပဳျပင္မြမ္းမံမႈမ်ားျပဳလုပ္လ်က္ ရွိေၾကာင္းသတင္းရရွိပါသည္။

မစၥတာေသာ္မတ္စ္ကြန္တာနာသည္ ေမာင္းေတာၿမဳိ႕နယ္ရွိရြာမ်ားသုိ႔သြားေရာက္၍ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ဳိးမ်ားအားအနီးကပ္ေလ့ လာရန္စီစဥ္ထားသည္။ ထုိအစီအစဥ္မ်ားေၾကာင့္နယ္ေျမခံနစက၊ လုံထိန္းႏွင့္လုံၿခဳံေရးတပ္ဖြဲ႕မ်ားမွျပဳလုပ္လ်က္ရွိေသာညွင္းပန္းႏွိပ္စက္မႈမ်ားကုိတခဏတာရပ္တန္႔ရန္အတြက္ေမာင္းေတာၿမဳိ႕တစ္ခုလုံးစစ္တပ္မ်ားျဖန္႔က်ဲ၍ခ်ထားပါသည္။

 ေစ်းအနီးအ၀ုိက္တြင္လည္းစစ္သားမ်ားထူထူထပ္ထပ္ရွိေၾကာင္းေဒသခံမ်ား၏ေျပာၾကားခ်က္မ်ားေၾကာင့္သိရွိရသည္။ 

ယခုအခါေစ်းမွဆန္ႏွင့္အျခားေသာပစၥည္းမ်ားကုိရုိဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ဳိးမ်ားေဘးအႏၱရာယ္ကင္းရွင္းစြာ၀ယ္ယူႏုိင္ၿပီး၊ ဆင္းရဲႏြမ္းပါးသူမ်ားဆန္အိတ္သယ္ေပးျခင္းျဖင့္စီးပြားရွာေနသူမ်ားမွာလည္းျပႆနာတစုံတရာမရွိဘဲသယ္ေပး၍ ၀င္ေငြရွာႏုိင္ေၾကာင္းသိရသည္။ သုိ႔ေသာ္လည္းနယ္ေျမခံရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္ႏွစ္ဦးသည္ ေမာင္းေတာၿမဳိ႕နာရီစင္ေရွ႕တြင္ေစာင့္ဆုိင္း၍ေစ်း၀ယ္လာသူမ်ားကုိမွတ္တမ္းတင္ျခင္းဆန္တစ္အိတ္လွ်င္အေကာက္တစ္ေထာင္က်ပ္ေကာက္ခံျခင္းမ်ားျပဳလုပ္လ်က္ရွိသည္ထုိ႔အျပင္တခါတရံတြင္လွ်ပ္စစ္စက္ရွိရာေနရာသုိ႔ေခၚေဆာင္သြားၿပီး ပါလာသမွ်အကုန္သိမ္းယူေၾကာင္းသိရသည္။

ယခုကဲ့သုိ႔ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ဳိးမ်ားေစ်း၀ယ္ရန္သြားလာလႈပ္ရွားႏုိင္ျခင္းမွာမစၥတာကြန္တာနာ၏ခရီးစဥ္ေၾကာင့္သာျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ မစၥတာကြန္တာနာျပန္သြားပါက စစ္တပ္လုံၿခဳံေရးရုတ္သိမ္းလုိက္မည္ျဖစ္ၿပီး နယ္ေျမခံနစက၊ လုံထိန္းႏွင့္ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ားသည္ နဂုိမူလအတုိင္းရုိဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ဳိးမ်ားကုိညွင္းပန္းႏွိပ္စက္ေနမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံတစ္ဦးမွ သတင္းေပးပုိ႔ပါသည္။

RB News Desk

Burma

Unfortunately, Mr. Win has not been able to shed his deplorable prejudice and racism when it comes to the ‘other’ people. And he is not alone in this serious moral failing. As I have noted many times, when push comes to shove, most of these pro-democracy leaders have either proven to be or acted like closet fascists. It is they who have often led the campaign for expulsion of the Rohingya population or to engage in genocide or to institute an apartheid system against the Rohingya. Ironical as it may seem many of these charlatans are seeking asylum in the USA, UK, Germany and Canada while they feel comfortable engaging in ethno-nationalism that might have made genocidal mass murderer Slobodan Milosevic proud.

Their narrative about the Rohingyas of Arakan starts with the British colonization of the territory in 1826 after the first Anglo-Burma War of 1824-26, as if they had no past connection to the soil of Arakan. To them, the East India Company, which had already been administering next-door Bangladesh (Bengal in British India) since 1757, lured those “Bengali inhabitants” (mostly from the district of Chittagong) to come and work as seasonable laborers. Mr. Win writes, “The arable land expanded to four and a half times between 1830 and 1852 and Akyab, became one of the major rice exporting cities in the world. Indeed, during a century of colonial rule, the Chittagonian immigrants became the numerically dominant ethnic group in the Mayu Frontier. That is the origin of the Mujahid or the Bengali Immigrants.”

I doubt if Mr. Win understands the meaning of the Arabic word Mujahid (literal meaning: a person who strives). Surely, not; otherwise, he should have avoided using such an adjective to describe the Rohingyas. They are not Bengali immigrants either that settled since the British era. Yes, some of them may look like people of Bangladesh, separated from Arakan by the Naaf River. Living in a frontier territory sandwiched between the Hindu and Muslim dominated India/Bangladesh to the west and the Buddhist dominated Burma to the east, it would be silly to say that the Rohingyas, as the original inhabitants of the land of Arakan, should have looked different. As any student of Buddhism knows, Buddha himself was an Indian (a Kala) from the state of Bihar (Magadha), neighboring Indian state to Bengal. He was not of the Mongoloid race that resembles the Rakhine and Buddhist races today. (One has to just make a trip to Bihar in India to find if the Biharis look closer to the Bangalis or the Rakhines of Arakan.)

Like many of his group of chauvinists in the so-called pro-democracy movement in Burma, suffering from selective amnesia, Mr. Win forgets to tell his readers that before the British came to Arakan there were already one Arakanese Muslims for every two Arakanese Buddhists. And this, in spite of the marauding campaign to colonize Arakan by the Buddhist zealot – Burman (Burmese) king Bodawpaya – in 1784 which witnessed slaughter of tens of thousands of Arakanese people – Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists alike. Some 20,000 inhabitants (including Muslim Arakanese) were taken as prisoners to the Burmese capital city of Ava. Afraid of their lives, many Arakanese (of all faiths) – numbering probably in excess of 200,000 — fled to Chittagong and other southern coastal territories of Bangladesh, where their descendants continue to live as citizens of Bangladesh today.

As noted by Professor Abid Bahar, who has done much field studies on the Rohingyas of Burma, when the British took control of Arakan, some of the descendants of those refugees in Bangladesh returned to their ancestral homes. But contrary to Rakhine myth or popular belief, the proportion of the returning refugees or their descendants was comparatively larger from the Rakhine (Buddhist) community than that of the Rohingya (Muslim) community in the British era.

Sadly though, simply because of their Buddhist faith, the Rakhine descendants of those returning refugees are not subjected to the same litmus test for proving their ties to the region anterior to 1823. Additionally, any Bangladeshi Rakhine can today move into Arakan and become a citizen of Burma simply because of his looks and faith while the Rohingyas are denied citizenship simply because of their race and religion. If this is not pure racism and bigotry, what is?

Mr. Win forgets to tell that since at least 1430 C.E., when the Muslim Sultan of Bengal helped to restore the fleeing Arakanese king – Narameikhla (Maung Saw Mwan) to the throne a very sizable Muslim population had thrived in Arakan, who later held important government positions. He does not tell his readers that the golden age of Bengali literature thrived in the courts of Arakan during that Mrauk-U dynasty when its kings even used Muslim names. He also does not tell that for nearly a hundred years during the Mrauk-U dynasty, taking advantage of the unrest in Mughal India, Chittagong was annexed and administered by the Arakanese kings (until 1666). He also does not tell that for hundreds of years the Arakanese Buddhists, in collaboration with Portuguese pirates, were involved in piracy, abducting tens of thousands of Muslims and Hindus from the territories of Bengal who were either sold or forced to work as slaves in Arakan. Their number accounted for 15% of the population of Arakan before Bodawpaya’s campaign.

As a Buddhist fanatic, while Bodawpaya destroyed most mosques and Islamic shrines, he could not exterminate all Muslims of Arakan (the ancestors of today’s Rohingyas of Burma). Many survived, as did the (Buddhist) Rakhines. Thus, some 30,000 Muslims survived when the British first took control of the territory. They were not planted by the British in 1826. It is not difficult to understand why over the last two centuries their number has grown to more than a million. To claim that the Rohingyas of Burma are outsiders or intruders or mujahids is not an analysis, but a paralysis of one’s wits that cannot decipher the truth from falsehood. And hatred will keep one close minded, unwilling to objectively analyze matters. That is the sad reality with most Rakhine politicians and charlatan scholars like Mr. Win who have no problem borrowing pages from the fascist Nazi era to ethnically cleanse the Rohingyas of Burma.

Mr. Win may like to read my work on “Muslim Identity and the Demography in the Arakan State of Burma (Myanmar),” available from the Amazon.com to see the utter falsity of his accusations against the Rohingyas of Burma. As children of the early settlers of Arakan, their claim to the land of Arakan precedes those of the Tibeto-Burman stock of people whom we now call the Rakhines of Arakan. To call these indigenous people of Arakan — who identify themselves as the Rohingyas in Burma — “unwanted guests” is like calling the Native Americans unwanted refugees who had settled in America after the influx of the Europeans. As much as no massacre of yesteryears and ghettoization of the Native Americans today in designated American Indian Reservation camps has been able to obliterate their genuine right, place, history and identity to America, no Myanmar government and local Rakhine sponsored pogroms can erase the rightful identity of the Rohingya people of Burma. History and justice is one their side.

As hinted above, reading Mr. Win’s win-win formula is like reading a borrowed page from Hitler’s Mein Kampf. One simply has to change the words ‘Jewish’ to ‘Muslim’ (or as Mr. Win puts it ‘Mujahid’) and ‘Communists’ to ‘Chinese’ to see the similarity with his fascistic ideas. Mr. Win feels threatened by these ‘4 million Chinese immigrants’ who are more numerous than the Rohingyas and who apparently have made Mandalay their ‘second capital after Beijing’. His solution: he wants them deported to Muslim-populated Arakan state. As to the Rohingyas – the other ‘peril’ – he wants them forcibly deported to the eastern part of Burma. He wants a special ID card issued to these two ‘alien’ groups and ‘compel them to respect the local Burmese laws and customs’. He says, “If anyone refused to go along with this order then he must be persecuted according to law and finally deported to the country of its origin. In this way it will stop the illegal immigrants entering the country by fair or foul means. Just by looking at the features of the person one can pin point that he is an illegal immigrant from China if found in the Mujahid area or Bangali in Chinese dominated area. We will have to take drastic action once caught. This will solve the problem at least for half a century until their children got married to each other or the local population.” Towards assimilation, of course, “all these aliens must become Burmese.”

As to the funding for this cross-country forced ‘mass exodus’ (relocation) project, he opines, the Burmese government won’t have to ‘spend a single Burmese pyar’ (cent or penny) since the 31 INGOs (international NGOs) will ‘gladly fund.’

Mr. Win seems genuinely concerned about Burma’s image abroad as a racist country. He says that his solution would “paint the picture that Burma accepted all these aliens both Bengalis and Chinese, mercifully and magnanimously in as much the Burmese refugees are accepted in the West in all these 50 years. It will earn credit in taking her rightful place in the family of nations.”

I don’t know whether to take him seriously; after all, his win-win solution relies on forced eviction and encampment similar to the fate that awaited the Jews and gypsies in the Nazi-era. I smell fascism there. He refuses to open his mind to the fact that the Rohingyas are not aliens to the soil of Arakan, but they are the locals who had settled before his own Rakhine/Burmese race. Simply because of their darker color (more like Buddha’s) and different religion, they cannot be called aliens. Nor can they be denied citizenship simply because the English colonial government did not record them under the name Rohingya but as Muslims (or Mohamedans). [Note; The English rulers used the terms like Mugh and Magh for the Arakanese Buddhists, who now are known by the name Rakhines.] The Rohingyas don’t need to be forcibly relocated and encamped away from their ancestral homes (and surely not murdered) but need to be integrated within the broader society by restoring their full citizenship right, as is currently enjoyed by Mr. Win’s own Rakhine Buddhist community who has no greater claim to the soil of Arakan.

He is also concerned about the image of his faith as a result of on-going pogroms directed against the Rohingyas of Burma. He says: “But most importantly of all, is that it has a very bad and negative impression on Buddhism especially the Theravada Buddhism, when Buddhism is considered to be the most compassionate religions of the world. How are the followers of Lord Buddha, Burmese Buddhist in general, and Rakhine Buddhist in particular, practice their compassion to the other human being not similar to them, when in face. Lord Buddha has showed several ways to curb their own passion and desires.”

I wish, on this note, his community – the Rakhine and Burmese Buddhists – had agreed and taken positive measures to change their bad image. With such persecution of the Rohingyas, the Rakhine Theravada Buddhists and their partners-in-crime the Burman Buddhists, have repeatedly shown that they are no better than the criminal co-religionist perpetrators of some of the worst crimes in human history in places like Cambodia and Sri Lanka.

It is, however, never too late to reform. I hope Mr. Win and his people have the inner wisdom to evaluate their past actions and reform, making our world more inclusive and tolerant of other people and their faiths and customs. And they can start that process by campaigning for renouncing the 1982 Burma Citizenship Law – which for decades has epitomized racism and bigotry in our time. Truly, if Burma is to succeed and meet its true potential, it must learn to get along with others. There is no shortcut about it. The sooner they learn this and amend their ways the sooner will be the dawning of a better future.

About the author: Dr. Siddiqui has authored 11 books, co-edited one and written a chapter for another book.

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႔ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ေရးအဖြဲ႔ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲကို ဇူလိုင္ ၂၄ ရက္ မြန္းတည့္ ၁၂ နာရီက ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ရာ သတင္းေထာက္မ်ား အေနျဖင့္ ေဒသတြင္းတည္ၿငိမ္မႈ ပ်က္ျပားေစမည့္ သတင္းမွားမ်ား ထုတ္ျပန္ျခင္း မျပဳၾကရန္ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ေရး အဖြဲ႔ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ေရွ႕ေနခ်ဳပ္ ဦးလွသိန္းက ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။ 

ေဒသသတင္းမ်ားကို ေရးသားမယ္ဆုိရင္ ေဒသခံ သတင္းေထာက္ေတြဆီက ျပန္လည္စံုစမ္းသင့္ပါတယ္။ အရပ္သတင္း၊ အရပ္စကားၾကား႐ုံႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္တိုက္ကေနၿပီး တုိက္ပိုင္သတင္းေထာက္ေတြက အမွားေရးေတာ့ ေဒသခံသတင္းေထာက္ေတြအေပၚ အထင္ေသးမႈေတြ ျဖစ္ေပၚၿပီး ဌာနေတြႏွင့္ ဆက္ဆံရာမွာ အဖုအထစ္မ်ား ျဖစ္ေပၚေစႏုိင္ပါတယ္” ဟု ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္ ဇူလိုင္လ ၃၁ ရက္ေန႔ထုတ္ News Watch Weekly ဂ်ာနယ္တြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါသည္။

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Sheikh Hasina says her country can not afford to accommodate more refugees fleeing Myanmar.

Bangladesh's prime minister has told Al Jazeera that her country cannot afford to accomodate more Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing persecution in neighbouring Myanmar.

The statement follows reports that Bangledishi authorities have been rejecting many of the asylum seekers. 

Sheikh Hasina defended the policy, saying Bangladesh is already overpopulated. There are already about 300,000 Rohingya living in refugee camps in the country. She said that it is not her country's responsibility to help all of the refugees.

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

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ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ အေပၚထားရွိတဲ႔ အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုရဲ႕ လက္ေတြ႔က် ဆက္ဆံေရး မူ၀ါဒ ဟာ ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္း လက္ရွိ ျမင္ေတြ႔ေနရတဲ႔ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ေတြနဲ႔ အေျခအေန တိုးတက္မႈအေပၚ မူတည္ၿပီး တဆင့္ၿပီး တဆင့္ တိုးျမႇင့္ လုပ္ေဆာင္သြားမွာ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ဆိုင္ရာ အေမရိကန္ သံ အမတ္ႀကီး ဒဲရက္မစ္ ခ်ဲလ္(Derek Mitchell) က ထပ္ေလာင္း ေျပာၾကား                              လို္က္ပါတယ္။

အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၀ါရွင္တန္ဒီစီၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဌာနမွာ ဗီြအိုေအျမန္မာပိုင္း အစီအစဥ္ ဌာနမႉး ဦးသန္းလြင္ထြန္းနဲ႔ သီးသန္႔ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့တာမွာ သံအမတ္ႀကီး ဒဲရက္မစ္ခ်ဲလ္က ျမန္မာျပည္ေျမာက္ပိုင္း ကခ်င္ေဒသမွာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး မရႏုိင္ေသးတဲ႔ အေျခအေနအျပင္ အေနာက္ပိုင္း ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္း ျဖစ္ပြားေနတဲ႔ ေဒသခံေတြနဲ႔ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအၾကား လူမ်ိဳးေရး၊ ဘာသာေရး ပဋိပကၡေတြကိုလည္း စိုးရိမ္တဲ႔အေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။
အထူးသျဖင့္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြရဲ႕အေရးဟာ သိမ္ေမြ႔ေလးနက္တဲ့ ျပႆနာ တစ္ခု ျဖစ္ၿပီး ေဒသတြင္းျပႆနာတစ္ခု အျဖစ္ပါ ဆိုက္ေရာက္သြားေစႏုိင္တဲ့ အေၾကာင္းလည္း ေျပာဆိုပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ထံ သံအမတ္ ခန္႔အပ္လႊာ ေပးအပ္ခဲ့အၿပီး၊ အခုေလာေလာဆယ္ ၀ါရွင္တန္ဒီစီၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ကို ေခတၱ ျပန္လည္ေရာက္ရွိေနတဲ႔ သံအမတ္ႀကီး ဒဲရက္မစ္ခ်ဲလ္နဲ႔ ဦးသန္းလြင္ထြန္း တို႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုေမးျမန္းခန္း အျပည့္အစံုကို

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ဒီလကုန္မွာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို သြားဖို႔ရွိတဲ့ ကုလသမဂၢရဲ႕ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္ မစၥတာေသာမတ္ အိုေဟး ကင္တာနားက သူ႔ရဲ႕ ခရီးစဥ္အတြင္း ရခိုင္ေဒသ မွာျဖစ္ခဲ့တဲ့ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ေလ့လာစံု စမ္းမူ ရွိမယ့္အေပၚ ရခိုင္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြနဲ႔ ရခုိင္ေဒသခံ ျပည္သူေတြက ေဒသတြင္း အျဖစ္မွန္ေတြကို ရွင္းလင္းဖို႔ ျပင္ဆင္ ေနၾကပါတယ္။ ရခိုင္ေဒသတြင္းက အျဖစ္မွန္ကို ရခိုင္ျပည္သူေတြဆီကပဲ သိနုိင္မယ္လို႔ ရခိုင္တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား တိုးတက္ေရး ပါတီ ဥကၠ႒ ေဒါက္တာေအးေမာင္က ဗီြအိုေအကို ေျပာပါတယ္။ ဒီအေၾကာင္း မဆုမြန္က တင္ျပေပးထားပါတယ္။

ရခုိင္ေဒသအေရးနဲ႔ပတ္သတ္ၿပီး ေလ့လာဖို႔ ကုလသမဂၢ အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္လာမယ့္အေပၚ ရခိုင္ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြနဲ႔ ရခုိင္ တုိင္းရင္းသားေတြ ရခုိင္ေဒသခံေတြက ႀကိဳဆိုပါတယ္လို႔ ေဒါက္ တာ ေအးေမာင္က ေျပာပါတယ္။ လက္ရွိ ျဖစ္ပ်က္ ေနတဲ့ ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္းက ရခိုင္ေဒသတြင္းက အျဖစ္မွန္ေတြကို နုိင္ငံတကာက သိေစခ်င္တယ္လို႔ ေဒသခံေတြနဲ႔ ေတြ႔တဲ့ အခါ ပိုသေဘာေပါက္ မွာ ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ေဒါက္တာေအးေမာင္က ေျပာပါတယ္။

“ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ လေတြအတြင္းက UNHCR ရဲ႕ လုပ္ငန္းေတြကို ျပန္သံုးသပ္ဖို႔ လိုပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ပိုင္းမွာ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ျပည္ တြင္းကိုပဲ ေလ့လာၾကည့္တဲ့အခါမွာ၊ ဖံြ႔ၿဖိဳးမႈ လုပ္ငန္းေတြကို ျပန္လုပ္တဲ့အခါမွာ ဘက္လုိက္မႈေတြ အေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား ရွိပါတယ္။ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္မို႔လို႔ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ကာလအထိ UNHCR အပါအဝင္ UN ရဲ႕ procedure အကုန္လံုးကို ျပန္စိစစ္ဖို႔ လိုပါတယ္။ တကယ္ သူတို႔ေပးခ်င္တဲ့ ေဒသဖံြ႔ၿဖိဳးမႈကို တကယ္ရရဲ႕လား၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးႏြယ္တဲ့ ဝန္ထမ္းေတြ ပါေနသလား၊ ဒါေတြကိုလည္း ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ ေလ့လာၿပီးကာမွ ကုလသမဂၢရဲ႕ လူသားခ်င္း စာနာတဲ့အေထာက္အထားေတြကို က်ေနာ္တို႔ လက္ခံတယ္။ အဲသလိုပဲ ျပည္တြင္းမွာရွိတဲ့ UN ဝန္ထမ္းေဟာင္းေတြကို ထဲထဲဝင္ဝင္ ဘယ္ေနရာမွာ ပါသင့္ သလဲဆိုတာကို စိစစ္ဖို႔ လိုပါလိမ့္မယ္။ အဲဒီလို ျပၿပီးခါမွပဲ လူထုရဲ႕ယံုၾကည္မႈကို ရမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ရဲ႕ ေလ့လာမႈေတြ အရဆိုရင္ လူထုရဲ႕ မယံုၾကည္မႈဟာ အဲဒါ ပါပဲ။ ကုလသမဂၢအဖဲြ႔ႀကီးဟာ တဘက္ေစာင္းေနတာကို ေတြ႔ ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီလို တဘက္ေစာင္းေအာင္လည္း ဖံြ႔ၿဖိဳးမႈ အကူအညီအားလံုးဟာ တဘက္ကိုခ်ည့္ ေရာက္ေနတာ ရွိပါတယ္။ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္ ဒီလိုမ်ဳိး ပြားမ်ားေစေအာင္လို႔ ဖန္တီးတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ ေအဂ်င္စီေတြမ်ားလား ၊ ဒီအရိပ္- ကုလသမဂၢရဲ႕ ထီးရိပ္ ေအာက္မွာ လူမ်ဳိးေရး ပဋိပကၡျဖစ္ေအာင္၊ ဖန္တီးႏိုင္ေအာင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အားျဖင့္၊ သို႔မဟုတ္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးနဲ႔ ႏွီးႏြယ္တဲ့ လုပ္ငန္းေတြကိုမ်ား ဒီအဖဲြ႔အစည္းမွာရွိတဲ့ ျပည္ တြင္း၊ ျပည္ပ ကုလဝန္ထမ္းေတြကမ်ား ခုနလို တခုခုနဲ႔ လႈံ႔ေဆာ္တာမ်ဳိး မရွိခဲ့ဘူးလို႔ က်ေနာ္တို႔က မေျပာႏိုင္ဘူး။”

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္အေရးနဲ႔ပတ္သတ္ၿပီး ကုလသမဂၢ ၀န္ထမ္းအခ်ဳိ႕ ဖမ္းဆီး ထိန္းသိမ္း ခံထားရမူေတြ လည္း ရွိခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ကုလသမဂၢအဖြဲ႔အစည္းအေနနဲ႔ ရခိုင္ေဒသတြင္းမွာ ဘာသာလူမ်ိဳးမခြဲျခားပဲ ဘက္လိုက္မူမရွိဘဲ ကူညီေထာက္ပံ့မူေတြ ရွိတယ္လို႔ ေျပာခဲ့ေပမယ့္ လက္ရွိေဒသခံျပည္သူေတြအေနနဲ႔ ဘက္လိုက္မူေတြ ရွိတယ္လို႔ ယူဆတဲ့အတြက္ ကူညီမူေတြ ကို လက္မခံခဲ့ဘူးလို႔ ေဒါက္တာေအးေမာင္ကေျပာပါတယ္။

“က်ေနာ္တို႔ကလည္း အျဖစ္မွန္ကို ကမၻာကလည္း သိေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။ ျပည္ေထာင္စုအတြင္းက တုိင္းရင္းသား အားလံုးကေတာ့ အျဖစ္မွန္ကို သိေနၾကပါၿပီ။ အဲဒီေတာ့ ျပည္ပမွာရွိတဲ့ မီဒီယာေတြကို အသံုးခ်ၿပီးကာမွ သတင္းအမွားေတြကို ထုတ္လႊင့္ေနၾကတယ္။ ထုတ္လႊင့္ၿပီးကာမွ သူတို႔ လိုခ်င္တဲ့ ဘက္ကို ရေအာင္ ဇက္ႀကိဳးႏုိင္ႏိုင္တင္းၿပီးကာမွ ကိုယ္ သြားခ်င္တဲ့ လမ္းေၾကာင္းကို ေရာက္ေအာင္ သြားေနၾကတယ္ဆိုတာ က်ေနာ္တို႔က သေဘာေပါက္ပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ကလည္းပဲ ျပည္ပမွာရွိတဲ့ မီဒီယာေတြ၊ တျခား ႏုိင္ငံတကာမွာရွိတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံအားလံုးကိုလည္း သိေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။

ကုလသမဂၢအပါအဝင္ေပါ့။ အျဖစ္မွန္ကို ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာေလ့လာတဲ့ အဖဲြ႔ရွိရင္ ပိုေကာင္းပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ လက္ခံ ပါတယ္။ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းကုန္စင္ကို တရားသျဖင့္ ျဖစ္ေအာင္၊ အမွန္တရား တခု ေပၚေပါက္လာေအာင္ေတာ့ျဖင့္ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္၊ အမ်ဳိးသားလႊတ္ေတာ္ ပူးေပါင္းၿပီးျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ သက္ဆိုင္တဲ့ အစိုးရကျဖစ္ျဖစ္ လုပ္သင့္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီလိုပဲ ႏိုင္ငံတကာက လာေရာက္ ေလ့လာမယ္ဆိုရင္လည္း က်ေနာ္တို႔ရဲ႕ ကုလသမဂၢမူေဘာင္ ရွိတယ္ေလ။ ေလ့လာတာကို က်ေနာ္တို႔က ခြင့္ျပဳရမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။”

ကုလသမဂၢ အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္ မစၥတာကင္တာနားဟာ အစိုးရရဲ့ဖိတ္ၾကားခ်က္နဲ႔ ဇူလိုင္လ ၃၀ ရက္ေန႔ ကေန ၾသဂုတ္ လ ၄ ရက္ေန႔အထိ္ ျမန္မာျပည္ကို လာေရာက္မွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ လတ္တေလာျဖစ္ပြားေနတဲ့ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္နဲ႔ ကခ်င္ျပည္ နယ္တြင္းက အၾကမ္းဖက္မူေတြနဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မူဆိုင္ရာ ကိစၥေတြကို ေလ့လာဖို႔ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ကုလသမဂၢ အထူး ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ မစၥတာကင္တာနားဟာ ျမန္မာျပည္ ခရီးစဥ္အတြင္း အစိုးရတာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြ၊ အမ်ိဳး သား လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေကာ္မရွင္နဲ႔ ေဒသခံ လူမူအေျချပဳ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြ၊ နိုင္ငံေရး အင္အားစုေတြ နဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္းက ဘာသာေရး၊ လူမ်ိဳးေရး အဓိက႐ုဏ္း ျဖစ္ပ်က္ခဲ့မူနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီးလည္း ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ စစ္ေတြနဲ႔ ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕ကို ကိုယ္တုိင္ သြားေရာက္ ေလ့လာဖို႔ လည္း ရွိပါတယ္ရွင္။

Sources Here :

1. The MP discussed according the following points.. 

a. Root causes of eruption of violence 

b. Factors contributing the escalation of violence for weeks 

c. Prevention of repetition of similar violence and peaceful coexistence 

d. Current situation of Arakan and to continue President’s 144 ( State of Emergency) in effected area 

2. The MP told that it was very unfortunate to see some MPs discussed racial and religious hatred (on Muslims) instead of containing the conflict and peace building process in the parliament earlier. He gave thanks to Mr Speaker for recalling etiquette of the parliament reminding those unruly MPs. 

3. The MP told that he has the responsibility to give real scenario to the 60 million population of Burma on ongoing propaganda against Muslim in Arakan State. Historical context: Arakan has a long history with independent kingdom. The relationship between Arakan and Chittagong had been very close until Burmese occupation (in 1785). Once, both regions were under the same rule for 200 years. Population movement form one to other (and vice versa) was a common phenomenon. In one occasion Arakan King Min Saw Mu fled Begal in fear of Burmese aggression. Arakan King was later reinstated to Arakan in Mrauk –Oo ( Myo Haung) with the help of strong Muslim army ( 30,000) led by General Sandi Khan. Despite all those solid historical facts, The Muslims were given the impression such a way that as if they came to Burma illegally yesterday or during British occupation ( as widely appears in state and local media). 

4. Population movement across the border is not limited during British occupation period only but it has been there for more than a thousand year. It is not unusual those living in North Arakan were similar physical appearance to those in Chittagong district. There are Rakhine Buddhist, Muslims, Khami, Daiknak , Mro and Thek and Chakma ethnics within Arakan ( Burma) territory. The same different ethnicities can also be found in the Chiittagong territory. During Burmese aggression, several Rakhine Buddhist took refuge to Awakyun under Chittagong. Quite recently, researchers found ancient Arakan Shipwreck in Bangladesh. The current Ambassador of Bangladesh to Burma is Chakma, descendent of Arakan. Rakhine (Buddhist) can also be found in India. The Rohingya issue is very simple but due to propaganda, it is complicated and creating instability in Arakan. The same scenario can be found in several other frontiers of Burma such as Kachin , Shan, Karen and other territories. While Muslims in Arakan are under several allegation of illegal immigration and denial of citizenship, Rakhine Buddist and other ethnics in Bangladesh side are enjoying full citizenship rights. It is very ridiculous to see Muslims are discriminated and denied rights in Arakan. Current Problem can only be solved based on true history of Arakan before British occupation and wiliness to give due share to the fellow citizens. Otherwise this problem would be repeating indefinitely. 

5. There have been several propaganda such as “illegal invasion”, “no Rohingya in Burma ”,” illegal immigrants are creating problems” etc.. It is better to focus on “those people in this region are citizens or not” instead of debating “whether there are Rohingya in Burma or not”. There were several operation to scrutinise citizenship in Northern Arakan after independence, namely Sabe, KyiKan, NagaMin, etc.. . The (Muslim) population is nothing left to be scrutinized. The authorities started replacing new “Nationality Scrutiny Cards” with older (National Identification Card” in 1990 but it was halted due to unknown reason. Now those Muslims are labelled non-citizens just because of not having identification cards. “Qualified to be citizen” and “issuing ID cards” are two separate activities. It is important to know that someone cannot be qualified as a citizen just after only having the citizenship card. Those who are qualified to be citizens are the citizens and deserved to have ID cards”. 

(Part 2: initial incident and factors contributing the escalation of violence for weeks: to be continue)

RB News Desk

Muslim groups worldwide are increasing pressure on the Burmese government to stop human rights abuses committed against ethnic Rohingya Muslims. 

The plight of the technically stateless group in Burma's western Rakhine state has long been a concern of the global Muslim community. But attention has intensified in recent weeks after longstanding tensions erupted between the Rohingya and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, leaving dozens dead and tens of thousands displaced.

Rights groups such as Amnesty International say Rohingyas are the victims of state-sanctioned violence and discrimination in a country that has a long history of mistreating ethnic minorities.

But others, including the government of Iran, have gone much further, calling the conflict a religiously inspired "genocide" and spreading what observers say are doctored photos and fabricated stories of the conflict.

Several extremist groups have also joined the conversation, including the Pakistani Taliban, which on Thursday threatened to attack Burma to avenge the abuses against the Rohingya population.

Increased attention from Muslims globally could help pressure Burma's government to give more rights to Rohingyas, says Jim Della-Giacoma of the International Crisis Group. But he adds that it could also make the situation worse.

"This is an issue around which Burmese or ethnically Burman nationals rally around, and that is part of the problem," says Della-Giacoma. "So any sort of threats from outside groups would only enforce or harden that nationalism and definitely not help the problem."

Maung Kyaw Nu, a former political prisoner turned activist who works with Burmese Rohingya Association of Thailand, says he not only doubts the threat of an attack should be taken seriously, but the message runs counter to his group's goal of a peaceful solution.

"Even we don't like it," he says. "You know my political attitude toward Burma is to restore the peace and the rule of law so that we don't like this kind of group, and we condemn them, you know, not only regarding Burma, regarding any area particular area in the world."

Despite the rejection from some prominent Rohingyas, Chris Lewa of the Arakan Project, an NGO that monitors Rohingya issues, says there may already be repercussions from the outside threats. Lewa said that Burma's military reportedly arrested 38 Muslim religious leaders in northern Rakhine state Thursday following the terror threat by the Taliban.

"It appears that [the Burmese military] has responded in arresting a number of imams and mullahs from Maungdaw and Buthidaung along the border with Bangladesh," says Lewa, who says a number of other religious leaders have been arrested recently in a crackdown seemingly aimed at preventing protests during the religiously important month of Ramadan.

The violence and discrimination against Rohingyas is not genocide or ethnic cleansing, according to Lewa, who says such exaggerations are partly the result of recent statements from Burmese President Thein Sein. The president said earlier this month that deportation or refugee camps were the only solutions for the Rohingyas, who are denied citizenship in both Burma and neighboring Bangladesh.

Benjamin Zawacki, a Burma researcher at Amnesty International, insists that it would be a mistake to view the conflict through only religious lenses, saying it should be viewed in the wider context of Burma's struggles with ethnic minority groups.

"I think that religion is clearly a part, but my assessment is that it is more secondary than it is primary in terms of why these violations and this discrimination takes place," says Zawacki.

Not only do Rohingya have a clearly different physical appearance from the majority of Burmese, says Zawacki, they have also adopted what some consider to be a "foreign" or "minority" religion.

But he says the widespread prejudice and discrimination against Rohingyas in Burmese society is partly the offspring of government policies that limit the rights of the minority group.

"If you look at the sort of discrimination that Rohingyas have faced for decades, it's very much part of the institution," says Zawacki. "The restrictions on marriage, the restriction on education, the restriction on movement - these are all systems within Myanmar [Burma] society."

Zawacki says these kinds of policies have the effect of making Burmese citizens feel they are justified in treating Rohingyas differently from other groups. Rights groups such as Amnesty International say the crisis can begin to be resolved when Burma amends its 1982 citizenship law that says Rohingyas are not citizens.

Many were encouraged that democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi this week called for laws to protect the rights of ethnic minorities. But Zawacki said she should go a step further, and clearly state that Rohingyas should receive the same rights as all other Burmese citizens.

Source : VOA News

GENEVA (27 July 2012) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday raised serious concerns about ongoing human rights violations in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after the violence between the Buddhist and Muslim communities there, urging a prompt, independent investigation.

The latest instability in Rakhine state was triggered on 28 May, when an ethnic Rakhine woman was raped and murdered. This was followed by the killing of 10 Muslims by an unidentified mob on 3 June. According to official figures, over 70,000 people have been displaced in the ensuing violence. At least 78 have died, although unofficial estimates are higher.

“We have been receiving a stream of reports from independent sources alleging discriminatory and arbitrary responses by security forces, and even their instigation of and involvement in clashes,” Pillay said. “Reports indicate that the initial swift response of the authorities to the communal violence may have turned into a crackdown targeting Muslims, in particular members of the Rohingya community."

The High Commissioner said the crisis highlighted the long-standing and systemic discrimination against the Rohingya Muslim community, who are not recognised by the State and remain stateless.

“The Government has a responsibility to prevent and punish violent acts, irrespective of which ethnic or religious group is responsible, without discrimination and in accordance with the rule of law,” Pillay said, expressing dismay at the derogatory language used against the Rohingya by state media, some independent media, and by some users of social networking websites.

She noted earlier commitments by the Government to conduct an investigation, and a recent fact-finding mission by the Myanmar Human Rights Commission.

"I also welcome the Government's decision to allow the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar access to Rakhine State during his planned mission to Myanmar next week. It is important that those affected from all communities in Rakhine are able to speak freely to the Special Rapporteur," the High Commissioner said. "But while he will be able to make an initial assessment during his one-day visit, this is no substitute for a fully-fledged independent investigation."

She also called on all national leaders to speak out against discrimination, the exclusion of minorities and racist attitudes, and in support of equal rights for all in Myanmar, and stressed that the United Nations was making an effort to protect and assist all communities in Rakhine State.

“Prejudice and violence against members of ethnic and religious minorities run the risk of dividing the country in its commendable national reconciliation efforts, undermine national solidarity, and upset prospects of peace-building," the High Commissioner said.

ENDS

Source : UN News