Maung Auther
Narrative Article
Rohingya Blogger
May 16, 2013
During the period natural disasters, any responsible government, in any corner of the world, remains engaged in evacuation programs and taking protective steps in order to save its citizens or people from disasters. And Cyclone storm approaches Arakan coast, which is now barely around 300 miles away from the coast. But Burmese regime is up to deceiving the world with its usual cunning and apartheid methods. And of course, the domestic media in Burma are not but on par with Burmese regime in deceptions and lying. The Burmese government is telling the world that it is relocating the displaced Rohingyas to the higher places in order to protect them from the possible disasters. The domestic media are biblically spreading the news as such.
But how is the regime helping Rohingyas in moving to the safer places? All the Rohingyas in all over Arakan have the same account to say. Let’s have a look into the miserable situation that Rohingyas say they are in. “There are some camps of Rakhines on the beach besides the Sittway Hotel. They are, in actual fact, are poor Rakhines who are made to pretend as if Refugees by authority in order to hide the reality of the one-sided violence targeted Rohingyas. At the same time, they are having International assistances pretending as if Refugees. Now, those Rakhines are being moved to the monasteries and schools.
Cruelly enough, the Arakan state administration asked the displaced Rohingyas in Sittway to move to the camps at the beach being evacuated by Rakhines. There is a possibility that this place will get in the water as the water level arises. By this, it will not be difficult for one to understand that the government just wants to kill Muslims” said a displaced Rohingyas from Sittway.
Another local Rohingya from southern Maung Daw states “what we are worried of is that the only government staffs and Rakhines have been moved to the safe places such as to the mountains. Rohingyas are still in their houses. In the villages such as Kunkara Fara, Baddil and Gojjon Dia of Padin village tract, Shikda Fara (Kayin Tan) and some other villages in Maung Daw, the authority officials are gathering Rohingyas by force and shooting videos to make up a fake scenario to deceive the world that they are helping Rohingyas. In reality, it is completely opposite situation.”
The head of the Maung Daw District Adminstration, in his interview to Radio Free Asia, said on 14th May 2013 night “we are trying to move Bengalis to the safe places. But they are not willing to go.” Concerning this, a Rohingya expressed his feeling “now, tell me who wants to die? Who doesn’t want to stay alive? If they are really willing to help us, we are ready to take it with an open arm. But they are lying and rather trying to make us suffer more by taking us to the empty places with no shelter and food. What they only did was just issuing warning to us about the storm.”
According a Rohingya in Southern Maung Daw, the authority in his region did ask some Rohingyas to go to the high lands taking some food rations for three to four days. Their saying of helping Rohingyas with food ration and shelter is said to be completely false. And in Padin village tract, Military and NaSaKa did promise to help Rohingyas with food rations. But no ration has been provided yet.
In Mrebun Township, no displaced Rohingyas and Kamans have been taken to the safe places yet. In the Pauktaw Township, the displaced Rohingyas are going through some disasters. Many displaced Rohingyas from the camps of Nget Chaung are moving to the Sin Tet Maw (Sandama). However, there are no shelter and food for them over the place. One Rohingya victim cried “Authority just screamed at us to move to wherever we feel to be safe. They will not help. They are just asking us to move but do not tell us where and how to move. The places they want us to go to are more dangerous. They just want to kill us. Many of us will die if we don’t get shelter and food in time.’
On Monday night, more than 150 Rohingyas from a village called Domfara leaving for Sandama (Sin-Tet-Maw) died as their boat sunk evacuating ahead of the storm. They had been blocked by Rakhine extremists and trying to escape secretly at night. To their misfortune, many people died.
It hardly came as a surprise to Rohingyas about double standard behavior of the Burmese. Saying something to the world and doing something else. “We expected that government would lie and cheat as usual. They like to lie and feel happy in doing so. Ultimately, they can kill more Rohingyas without using their guns” exclaimed elderly Rohingya from Sittway.
“We plead the international community not to simply believe the fascist Burmese official narratives and their racist media. If you find hard to believe, please come and see our situation on the ground” he added. As the consequences of the government’s deceptions and apartheid tactics, the fear among Rohingyas escalate day by day. The Cyclone is expected to hit Arakan soon. Rohingyas were forced to the sea beaches. Just prepare your popcorn to enjoy while watching the news of another catastrophe to come TV tomorrow. Their fear is turning into a reality. The entire humanity will regret for not preventing yet another manufactured humanitarian disaster in their capability.
The writer is an activist and student. He can be reached at Dhannyawadi@gmail.com
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| Women pass their time in a Rohingya internally displaced person (IDP) camp outside of Sittwe (Reuters) |
Gianluca Mezzofiore
International Business Times
May 15, 2013
Myanmar authorities have attempted to force Rohingya refugees in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state, to move closer to beach areas as the cyclone Mahasen approaches the exposed coast.
International Business Times
May 15, 2013
Myanmar authorities have attempted to force Rohingya refugees in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state, to move closer to beach areas as the cyclone Mahasen approaches the exposed coast.
Sources speaking to IBTimes UK said that Rohingya Muslims refused any attempt to relocate as the cyclone, which has already killed at least seven people and displaced 3,881 in Sri Lanka, nears.
The Myanmar government planned to move 38,000 internally displaced people, but many refused fearing the authorities’ intentions.
Nay San Lwin, a Rohingya living in Germany with contacts in Sittwe, claimed that Rohingya “were forced to go” but only five families agreed. “100% confirmed that the authorities are forcing Rohingya refugees in Sittwe to move to the beach,” he said. “State Chief Minister warned today that will take serious action and President Office Minister Aung Min also told the same like at meeting in Yangon today.”
His report was confirmed by Aung Aung, a Rohingya living in a refugee camp in Sittwe.
In reality, they evacuated only Rakhine, not #Rohingya, Rakhine authority has been trying to send all #Rohingya to the beach
— Aung Aung (@Aungaungsittwe) May 15, 2013
Rakhne authority wants to move all #Rohingya living in the huts to Pa Lin Pyin near the seaMark Farmaner, of the Burma Campaign UK, confirmed to IBTimes UK that he heard reports of Rohingya forced closer to the beaches but was unable to confirm it. “Rohingya are still not being moved [to safety],” he said.
— Aung Aung (@Aungaungsittwe) May 15, 2013
Hla Maung said he lost his mother and two young daughters during the clashes between Muslims and Buddhists.
He told the BBC: "I lost everything ... I don't want to go anywhere. I'll stay here. If I die, I want to die here," he said.
At least 192 people were killed in June and October last year in sectarian clashes between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya. Reuters reported that people at a camp near the sea by Hmanzi Junction near Sittwe said they would rather prefer to die in the storm than evacuate.
Farmaner said he is particularly concerned about the cyclone hitting Bangladesh. There are up to 250,000 Rohingya living in southern Bangladesh, many of whom fled from Myanmar in the early 1990s complaining of abuses by the army.
UN says storm expected to make landfall in Chittagong: “In its strongest force, the cyclone will be hitting area where hundreds of thousands of refugee are stacked,” he said. “There are people very vulnerable in terrible condition and we’ve not heard any attempt by Bangladeshi government to move them.
“Refugee living in official camps are already not in a very good condition. Those who live in unofficial camps, made of makeshift shelter, are in an appalling condition,” he added.
About 140,000 people were displaced in June and a second wave of violence in October in western Rakhine state.
Burma Campaign UK says the international community “applied the most low-level diplomacy” and failed to put pressure on the Burma government, who did nothing to prevent the crisis.
“It’s already a humanitarian crisis but it will become an humanitarian disaster. Lives will be lost. If the international community had put pressure on Burma that could’ve been avoided.”
Burma Campaign UK called on the British government and international community to take action to force President Thein Sein to allow unrestricted humanitarian aid, and stop violating international humanitarian law.
At least 50 Rohingya Muslims were feared drowned on Tuesday when boats evacuating them from the path of the cyclone capsized off western Burma.
In 2008, Cyclone Nargis killed more than 130,000 people in Myanmar.
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| Refugees Camp in Pauktaw (Photo: US Embassy Rangoon) |
Maung Maung
RB News
May 15, 2013
Pauktaw, Arakan- There are 7023 displaced Rohingyas living in the camps of Nget Chaung located nearby the sea of Hantha, Pauktaw Township. Being near to the sea, it is highly dangerous and can easily be affected by the coming cyclone. On 12th May 2013, the head of the township administration and the military officials came to camps and alerted the people about coming storm.
“Though they issued warnings, they didn’t help displaced Rohingyas in moving to the safer places. They irresponsibly told the displaced Rohingyas to go to wherever they feel safe by their own means” said a displaced Rohingya in Pauktaw.
Therefore, on 13th May 2013 night, more than 1200 people left the camps of Nget Chaung by six boats.
“Our people had to leave at night because of the life danger posed by the Rakhine extremists. And a boat sunk nearby a Rakhine village not so long after it had started off” he added.
According to the displaced Rohingyas in Pauktaw, 43 people escaped alive and two dead bodies were found. Meanwhile, 79 dead bodies have not been found yet. According to the UN Humanitarian Agencies’ statement to Associate Press, 8 dead bodies were recovered, 42 people remained alive and the dead bodies of other 50s have not been found yet.
A local Rohingya in Pauktaw said “we have done our best to list it in detail” concerning the differences in the accounts of deaths.
“On 13th and 15th of May, around 4000 displaced Rohingyas arrived to the camps of Sandama (Sin-Tet-Maw). Today, the head of the township administration and the military officials came to the camps screamed at the displaced people that they don’t want to see them (displaced people) any longer and so to go to wherever they (displaced people) wish. We are worried of the coming storm. We need to be afraid of Rakhine extremists. And on the hand, the government is also scaring the people. We are living in an extremely vulnerable situation” he continued.
The displaced Rohingyas arriving to the camps of Sandama (Sin-Tet-Maw) fall extremely short of food and shelter. The government is telling the world that they are trying to relocate the displaced to Rohingyas to the safer places. In reality, the places where the government wants the displaced Rohingyas to go are more dangerous and unavoidable from the consequences of the storm. Therefore, the displaced Rohingyas are reluctant to such places.
(Translated into English by Maung Aurther)
(Translated into English by Maung Aurther)
RB News
May 15, 2013
BRCNL was invited by Miss Sophie BUSSON, Sub-Directorate of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs & Sub-Directorate of the United nations, international organizations and the francophone of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France and Miss Alexandra MIAS, Director of Southeast Asia Division of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France for a meeting in order to discuss 2 subjects. 1. Situation of Rohingya in Arakan and 2. Crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing of Rohingya in Arakan. The meeting was planned on 13th May 2013 from 15:30 pm to 16:30 pm at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris. Mr. Hla Aung, president of NDPHR in exile from Paris accompanied with the delegation of BRCNL.
In the meeting, Sazaat Ahammed, Chairman of BRCNL has discussed the present situation of Internally Displaced Rohingyas, Rohingyas in Camps, in Townships and in Villages of Arakan. And the worry of Rohingyas by the remarks of President Thein Sein; intention to deport all Rohingyas to third country and not to revise the by a group of dictators led by dictators General Nay Win imposed citizenship law of 1982 which makes Rohingyas deliberately stateless, that gives yet the Buddhist mobs the encouragement to attack not only the Rohingyas in Arakan but also all Muslims throughout Burma.
Sazaat Ahammed highlighted that killings, arbitrary arrests, torture, forcing to leave Arakan, restriction on movement, restriction on education, restriction on medication, restriction to marry, restriction to have baby, extortion of money, intimidation, rape, forcefully Bengalizing, looting, segregation and burning become the daily persecution of Extremist Rakhines and Security Forces of Burmese Government against the Internally Displaced Rohingyas, remaining Rohingyas in Townships and Villages of Arakan. Furthermore, Sazaat also discussed “cannot protect Rohingyas”, has been said by authority to Madam Melanie Teff from the Charity Refugees International who recently backed from Arakan.
With regard to the crimes against humanity, Sazaat Ahammed giving example of experts and specialists from different field said that the reports of experts and specialists are counted and taken into consideration in general. In the case of Rohingya, Professor Willem Schabas, the former president of International Association of genocide scholars said that it [persecution against Rohingyas] turns into the genocide by expressing that if peoples are forced to leave the place where they live, if peoples are restricted to move from one place to another within the place where they live, if peoples are restricted to access education, if peoples are restricted to access medication, if peoples are restricted to marry, if peoples are restricted to have baby and if peoples are restricted to daily activities those are all signs of genocide, which Rohingyas face daily in Arakan, Burma.
And discussed the report of Human Rights Watch [crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing of Rohingya in Arakan, Burma]. According to International Law, International Community has the obligation to stop crimes against humanity, particularly the obligation of France, United Kingdom and United States of America because these countries committed to humanity and Human Rights. Sazaat has on the one hand appealed France through Miss Sophie BUSSON that France being a permanent member of Security Council to bring these crimes against Humanity to the Security Council of United Nations to get a Binding Resolution so that Peace Keeping Forces of United Nations must be sent to Arakan to stop crimes against humanity. On the other hand, Sazaat has humbly requested France Government through Miss Alexandra MIAS to strongly pressure the government of Burma to end killings, arbitrary arrests, torture, forcing to leave Arakan, restriction on movement, restriction to education, restriction to medication, restriction to marry, restriction to have baby, extortion of money, intimidation, rape, forcefully Bengalizing, looting, segregation, burning, to let domestic and international aids and aids workers reach the Rohingyas, to enforce law for the security of lives, faith, places of worship and properties, to revise the discriminatory citizenship law of 1982 with the international standards so that Rohingya gets the ethnic and civil rights back.
Mr. Hla Aung, has extensively discussed the report of Rakhine investigation commission, and rejected it. Further he highlighted how Burmese government brings the Bengali Rakhines from Bangladesh and resettles them in the lands of Rohingyas. At the end of the meeting Sazaat handed over a file to Miss Alexandra MIAS in which consisted of a letter, a copy of joint statement on the official report of Rakhine Investigation Commission issued on 3rd May 2013 and a document of 51 graphic photos of Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing.
Jason Szep
May 15, 2013
A 16-year-old Muslim boy lay dying on a thin metal table. Bitten by a rabid dog a month ago, he convulsed and drooled as his parents wedged a stick between his teeth to stop him from biting off his tongue.
Swift treatment might have saved Waadulae. But there are no doctors, painkillers or vaccines in this primitive hospital near Sittwe, capital of Rakhine State in western Myanmar. It is a lonely medical outpost that serves about 85,300 displaced people, almost all of them Muslims who lost their homes in fighting with Buddhist mobs last year.
"All we can give him is sedatives," said Maung Maung Hla, a former health ministry official who, despite lacking a medical degree, treats about 150 patients a day. The two doctors who once worked there haven't been seen in a month. Medical supplies stopped when they left, said Maung Maung Hla, a Muslim.
These trash-strewn camps represent the dark side of Myanmar's celebrated transition to democracy: apartheid-like policies segregating minority Muslims from the Buddhist majority. As communal violence spreads, nowhere are these practices more brutally enforced than around Sittwe.
In an echo of what happened in the Balkans after the fall of communist Yugoslavia, the loosening of authoritarian control in Myanmar is giving freer rein to ethnic hatred.
President Thein Sein, a former general, said in a May 6 televised speech his government was committed to creating "a peaceful and harmonious society in Rakhine State."
But the sand dunes and barren paddy fields outside Sittwe hold a different story. Here, emergency shelters set up for Rohingya Muslims last year have become permanent, prison-like ghettos. Muslims are stopped from leaving at gunpoint. Aid workers are threatened. Camps seethe with anger and disease.
In central Sittwe, ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and local officials exult in what they regard as a hard-won triumph: streets almost devoid of Muslims. Before last year's violence, the city's Muslims numbered about 73,000, nearly half its population. Today, there are fewer than 5,000 left.
Myanmar's transformation from global pariah to budding democracy once seemed remarkably smooth. After nearly half a century of military dictatorship, the quasi-civilian government that took power in March 2011 astonished the world by releasing dissidents, relaxing censorship and re-engaging with the West.
Then came the worst sectarian violence for decades. Clashes between Rakhine Buddhists and stateless Rohingya Muslims in June and October 2012 killed at least 192 people and displaced 140,000. Most of the dead and homeless were Muslims.
"Rakhine State is going through a profound crisis" that "has the potential to undermine the entire reform process," said Tomás Ojea Quintana, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar.
Life here, he said, resembles junta-era Myanmar, with rampant human-rights abuses and a pervasive security apparatus. "What is happening in Rakhine State is following the pattern of what has happened in Myanmar during the military government," he said in an interview.
The crisis poses the biggest domestic challenge yet for the reformist leaders of one of Asia's most ethnically diverse countries. Muslims make up about 5 percent of its 60 million people. Minorities, such as the Kachin and the Shan, are watching closely after enduring persecution under the former junta.
As the first powerful storm of the monsoon season approached western Myanmar this week, the government and U.N. agencies began a chaotic evacuation from the camps, urging thousands of Rohingya Muslims to move to safer areas on higher ground across Rakhine State.
Some resisted, fearing they would lose all they had left: their tarpaulin tents and makeshift huts. More than 50 are believed to have drowned in a botched evacuation by sea.
"THEY ALL TELL LIES"
Sittwe's last remaining Muslim-dominated quarter, Aung Mingalar, is locked down by police and soldiers who patrol all streets leading in and out. Muslims can't leave without written permission from Buddhist local authorities, which Muslims say is almost impossible to secure.
Metal barricades, topped with razor wire, are opened only for Buddhist Rakhines. Despite a ban against foreign journalists, Reuters was able to enter Aung Mingalar. Near-deserted streets were flanked by shuttered shops. Some Muslims peered from doors or windows.
On the other side of the barricades, Rakhine Buddhists revel in the segregation.
"I don't trust them. They are not honest," said Khin Mya, 63, who owns a general store on Sittwe's main street. "Muslims are hot-headed; they like to fight, either with us or among themselves."
Ei Mon Kyaw, 19, who sells betel nut and chewing tobacco, said Muslims are "really dirty. It is better we live apart."
State spokesman Win Myaing, a Buddhist, explained why Aung Mingalar's besieged Muslims were forbidden from speaking to the media. "It's because they all tell lies," he said. He also denied the government had engaged in ethnic cleansing, a charge levelled most recently by Human Rights Watch in an April 22 report.
"How can it be ethnic cleansing? They are not an ethnic group," he said from an office on Sittwe's main street, overlooking an empty mosque guarded by soldiers and police.
His comments reflect a historic dispute over the origins of the country's estimated 800,000 Rohingya Muslims, who claim a centuries-old lineage in Rakhine State.
The government says they are Muslim migrants from northern neighbour Bangladesh who arrived during British rule from 1824. After independence in 1948, Myanmar's new rulers tried to limit citizenship to those whose roots in the country predated British rule. A 1982 Citizenship Act excluded Rohingya from the country's 135 recognized ethnic groups, denying them citizenship and rendering them stateless. Bangladesh also disowns them and has refused to grant them refugee status since 1992.
The United Nations calls them "virtually friendless" and among the world's most persecuted people.
BOAT PEOPLE EXODUS
The state government has shelved any plan to return the Rohingya Muslims to their villages on a technicality: for defying a state requirement that they identify themselves as "Bengali," a term that suggests they are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
All these factors are accelerating an exodus of Rohingya boat people emigrating in rickety fishing vessels to other Southeast Asian countries.
From October to March, between the monsoons, about 25,000 Rohingya left Myanmar on boats, according to new data from Arakan Project, a Rohingya advocacy group. That was double the previous year, turning a Rakhine problem into a region-wide one.
The cost of the one-way ticket is steep for an impoverished people - usually about 200,000 kyat, or $220 (144 pounds), often paid for by remittances from family members who have already left.
Many who survive the perilous journeys wind up in majority-Muslim Malaysia. Some end up in U.N. camps, where they are denied permanent asylum. Others find illegal work on construction sites or other subsistence jobs. Tens of thousands are held in camps in Thailand. Growing numbers have been detained in Indonesia.
MOB VIOLENCE
Rakhine State, one of the poorest regions of Southeast Asia's poorest country, had high hopes for the reform era.
In Sittwe's harbour, India is funding a $214 million port, river and road network that will carve a trade route into India's landlocked northeast. From Kyaukphyu, a city 65 miles (104 km) southeast of Sittwe, gas and oil pipelines stretch to China's energy-hungry northwest. Both projects capitalize on Myanmar's growing importance at Asia's crossroads.
That promise has been interrupted by communal tensions that flared into the open after the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman by Muslim men in May last year. Six days later, in retribution, a Buddhist mob beat 10 Muslims to death. Violence then swept Maungdaw, one of the three Rohingya-majority districts bordering Bangladesh, on June 8. Rohingya mobs destroyed homes and killed an unknown number of Rakhines.
The clashes spread to Sittwe. More than 2,500 homes and buildings went up in flames, as Rohingya and Rakhine mobs rampaged. When the smoke cleared, both suffered losses, though the official death toll for Rohingya - 57 - was nearly double that for Buddhist Rakhines. Entire Muslim districts were razed.
October saw more violence. This time, Buddhist mobs attacked Muslim villages across the state over five days, led in some cases by Rakhine nationalists tied to a powerful political party, incited by Buddhist monks and abetted at times by local security forces..
U.S. President Barack Obama, on a groundbreaking visit in November, urged reconciliation. "The Rohingya ... hold within themselves the same dignity as you do, and I do," he said. The week he visited, Thein Sein vowed to forge ethnic unity in a letter to the United Nations.
But the violence kept spreading. Anti-Muslim unrest, whipped up by Buddhist monks, killed at least 44 people in the central city of Meikhtila in March. In April and May, Buddhist mobs destroyed mosques and hundreds of Muslim homes just a few hours' drive from Yangon, the country's largest city.
Thein Sein responded by sending troops to volatile areas and setting up an independent commission into the Rakhine violence. Its recommendations, released April 27, urged meetings of Muslim and Buddhist leaders to foster tolerance, Muslims to be moved to safer ground ahead of the storm season, and the continued segregation of the two communities "until the overt emotions subside."
It sent a strong message, calling the Rohingya "Bengalis," a term that suggests they belong in Bangladesh, and backing the 1982 citizenship law that rendered stateless even those Rohingya who had lived in Myanmar for generations.
The Rohingya's rapid population growth had fuelled the clashes with Buddhists, it said, recommending voluntary family-planning education programs for them. It suggested doubling the number of soldiers and police in the region.
Rohingya responded angrily. "We completely reject this report," said Fukan Ahmed, 54, a Rohingya elder who lost his home in Sittwe.
Local government officials, however, were already moving to impose policies in line with the report.
THE HATED LIST
On the morning of April 26, a group of state officials entered the Theak Kae Pyin refugee camp. With them were three policemen and several Border Administration Force officers, known as the Nasaka, a word derived from the initials of its Burmese name. Unique to the region, the Nasaka consists of officers from the police, military, customs and immigration. They control every aspect of Rohingya life, and are much feared.
Documented human-rights abuses blamed on the Nasaka include rape, forced labour and extortion. Rohingya cannot travel or marry without the Nasaka's permission, which is never secured without paying bribes, activists allege.
State spokesman Win Myaing said the Nasaka's mission was to compile a list identifying where people had lived before the violence, a precondition for resettlement. They wanted to know who was from Sittwe and who was from more remote townships such as Pauktaw and Kyaukphyu, areas that saw a near-total expulsion of Muslims in October.
Many fled for what Win Myaing said were unregistered camps outside Sittwe, often in flood-prone areas. "We would like to move them back to where they came from in the next two months," said Win Myaing. The list was the first step towards doing that.
The list, however, also required Muslims to identify themselves as Bengali. For Fukan Ahmed and other Rohingya leaders, it sent a chilling message: If they want to be resettled, they must deny their identity.
Agitated crowds gathered as the officials tried to compile the list, witnesses said. Women and children chanted "Rohingya! Rohingya!" As the police officers were leaving, one tumbled to the ground, struck by a stone to his head, according to Win Myaing. Rohingya witnesses said the officer tripped. Seven Rohingya were arrested and charged with causing grievous hurt to a public servant, criminal intimidation and rioting.
Compiling the list is on hold, said Win Myaing. So, too, is resettlement.
"If they trust us, then (resettlement) can happen immediately. If you won't even accept us making a list, then how can we try and do other things?" he asked. The crisis could be defused if Rohingya accepted the 1982 Citizenship Law, he said.
But doing so would effectively confirm their statelessness. Official discrimination and lack of documentation meant many Rohingya have no hope of fulfilling the requirements.
Boshi Raman, 40, said he and other Rohingya would never sign a document calling themselves Bengali. "We would rather die," he said.
Win Myaing blamed the Rohingya for their misfortune. "If you look back at the events that occurred, it wasn't because the Rakhines were extreme. The problems were all started by them," the Muslims, he said.
SCORCHED EARTH
In Theak Kae Pyin camp, a sea of tarpaulin tents and fragile huts built of straw from the last rice harvest, there is an air of growing permanence. More than 11,000 live in this camp alone, according to U.N. data. Naked children bathe in a murky-brown pond and play on sewage-lined pathways.
A year ago, before the unrest, Haleda Somisian lived in Narzi, a Sittwe district of more than 10,000 people. Today, it is rubble and scorched earth. Somisian, 20, wants to return and rebuild. Her husband, she says, has started to beat her. In Narzi, he worked. Now he is jobless, restless and despondent.
"I want to leave this place," she said.
Some of those confined to the camps are Kaman Muslims, who are recognized as one of Myanmar's 135 official ethnic groups; they usually hold citizenship and can be hard to tell apart from Rakhine Buddhists. They fled after October's violence when their homes were destroyed by Rakhine mobs in remote townships such as Kyaukphyu. They, too, are prevented from leaving.
Beyond Sittwe, another 50,000 people, mostly Rohingya, live in similar camps in other parts of the state destroyed in last year's sectarian violence.
Across the state, the U.N relief agency has provided about 4,000 tents and built about 300 bamboo homes, each of which can hold eight families. Another 500 bamboo homes are planned by year-end. None are designed to be permanent, said agency spokeswoman Vivian Tan. Tents can last six months to a year; bamboo homes about two years.
The agency wants to provide the temporary shelter that is badly needed. "But we don't want in any way to create permanent shelters and to condone any kind of segregation," Tan said.
Aid group Doctors Without Borders has accused hardline nationalists of threatening its staff, impairing its ability to deliver care. Mobile clinics have appeared in some camps, but a U.N. report describes most as "insufficient."
Waadulae, suffering from rabies, was treated at Dar Paing hospital, whose lone worker, Maung Maung Hla, was overwhelmed. "We have run out of antibiotics," he said. "There is no malaria medicine. There's no medicine for tuberculosis or diabetes. No vaccines. There's no equipment to check peoples' condition. There are no drips for people suffering from acute diarrhoea."
State spokesman Win Myaing said Rakhine doctors feared entering the camps. "It's reached a stage where they say they'd quit their jobs before they would go to these places," he said.
The treatment of the Rohingya contrasts with that of some 4,080 displaced ethnic Rakhine Buddhists in central Sittwe. They can leave their camps freely, work in the city, move in with relatives in nearby villages and rebuild, helped by an outpouring of aid from Burmese business leaders.
Hset Hlaing, 33, who survives on handouts from aid agencies at Thae Chaung camp, recalls how he earned 10,000 kyat a day from a general-goods stall in Sittwe before his business and home went up in flames last June. Like other Muslims, he refuses to accept the term Bengali.
"I don't want to go to another country. I was born here," he says, sipping tea in a bamboo shack. "But if the government won't accept us, we will leave. We'll go by boat. We'll go to a country that can accept us."
(Edited by Andrew R.C. Marshall and Bill Tarrant.)
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| Thousands of people have been moved from low-lying camps to safer shelter ahead of Cyclone Mahasen [AFP] |
Al Jazeera
May 14, 2013
Vessels with 200 Rohingya Muslims evacuating camps ahead of storm sink, leaving only one survivor, say UN officials.
Boats carrying about 200 Rohingya Muslims who were evacuating ahead of a storm have capsized off western Myanmar, killing all but one person, UN officials have said.
The vessels hit trouble on Monday night after leaving Pauktaw township in Rakhine state, said a spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
"They were travelling to another camp ahead of the cyclone," the spokeswoman added.
Kirsten Mildren, who works for the same UN agency, told Al Jazeera there was only one confirmed survivor from Monday's accident.
The victims were trying to escape Cyclone Mahasen which is expected on Thursday and Friday. The UN has warned the storm could lead to "life-threatening conditions".
Myanmar state television said on Monday that thousands of people displaced by communal violence last year had been evacuated from makeshift camps to safer ground in the event of the storm.
The report said authorities had moved 5,158 people from low-lying camps in the Rakhine state capital, Sittwe, to safer shelter.
But human rights groups said that the government has been too slow to act, and ignored earlier warnings to provide shelter to displaced people.
"The Burmese government didn't heed the repeated warnings by governments and humanitarian aid groups to relocate displaced Muslims ahead of Burma’s rainy season," said Brad Adams, Human Rights Watch Asia director.
"If the government fails to evacuate those at risk, any disaster that results will not be natural, but man-made," he said.
'Extremely vulnerable'
Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay, reporting from Sittwe, said: "The eye of the storm is not expected to hit Myanmar, but the people in camps - home to more than 100,000 - are extremely vulnerable to conditions we may see over the next few days."
"These include strong winds, heavy rains and a possible surge from the ocean of up to 1.5 metres. The local government has been moving people ... but people in camps aren't trusting what they are trying to get them to do. Some say they are being asked to move to more dangerous places," our correspondent said.
The state television report said displaced people were moved in 10 other townships in western Myanmar where communal violence flared last year between Muslims and Buddhists, taking hundreds of lives and leaving more than 100,000 people homeless. It did not give the number of people evacuated in those locations.
Myanmar is a predominantly Buddhist country but about 5 percent of its 60 million people are Muslims. They face a growing anti-Muslim campaign led by radical Buddhist monks.
Preparations
Cyclone Mahasen is expected to hit neighbouring Bangladesh on Thursday or Friday.
Images taken by NASA's Aqua satellite on Monday showed the storm's centre northeast of Sri Lanka with it packing winds of up to 50 knots (92km per hour). Those winds are expected to increase to 130km per hour as the storm moves north.
The space agency said it "sees a strengthening" of the storm and forecasts an upgrade to a Cyclone 1 level by Wednesday.
"The current forecast track ... takes the centre of Mahasen just north of Chittagong early on May 17 and into northern Burma," it said.
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| Rohingya Refugees Camp in Arakan (Photo: IRIN) |
May 14, 2013
SITTWE, Myanmar — Several overcrowded boats carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims trying to escape an approaching cyclone capsized off the coast of western Myanmar, and only 42 were known to have survived, the United Nations said Tuesday.
Eight bodies have been found so far, and more than 50 other people who were aboard are feared dead, said James Munn, an official with the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The Rohingya, a long-suffering minority, had been living in camps in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after fleeing sectarian violence last year. They crowded into as many as five boats that left Pauktaw township late Monday, said Munn. Reports indicated that one of the boats was towing the others and hit a rock, causing all to capsize overnight.
The accident came amid a wider evacuation ahead of Cyclone Mahasen, which the U.N. says could swamp makeshift housing camps sheltering tens of thousands of Rohingya.
Myanmar state television reported Monday that 5,158 people were relocated from low-lying camps in Rakhine state to safer shelters. But far more people are considered vulnerable.
Around 140,000 people — mostly Rohingya — are living in flimsy tents and makeshift shelters in the region after two outbreaks of Buddhist-Muslim violence there last year, according to the U.N. humanitarian affairs office.
Ashok Nigam, the United Nations’ resident and humanitarian coordinator, said this week that nearly 70,000 of those displaced should be moved to higher ground. They are in low-lying areas along the coast that are highly susceptible to tidal surges and flooding.
Cyclone Mahasen is expected to make landfall late Thursday or early Friday. It is heading toward Chittagong, Bangladesh, but could shift northeast and deliver a more direct hit to Rakhine state, according to Myanmar’s Meteorology Department. Heavy rains and strong winds are expected to batter Rakhine in any case.
Aid groups have issued warnings for weeks that annual monsoon rains could cause flooding and spark disease outbreaks, wreaking havoc on displaced people in their camps and spark disease outbreaks.
Myanmar’s southern delta was devastated in 2008 by Cyclone Nargis, which swept away entire farming villages and killed more than 130,000 people.
A SPECIAL COMMEMORATION FOR THE ROHINGYA AND OTHER MUSLIM VICTIMS OF DEADLY VIOLENCE IN 2012-2013
From 3rd June to October 2012 waves of organized massacre and mass destruction were carried out in Arakan State against Rohingya and Kaman Muslims by the Buddhist Rakhine extremists in collaboration with the police and security forces.
Similar bloodshed and devastation against the rest of the Muslims in Burma proper were executed starting from a Central Burma town of Mekhtila on 20th March 2013, and the fire of violence spread to other towns, including the commercial capital city of Yangon.
Sporadic violence is still continuing as the government police and security forces are doing nothing to prevent and stop them.
Since June 2012:
- More than 5,000 Rohingya and other Muslims have been killed or burned to death, thousands of them missing, hundreds of women and girls raped.
- Many thousands of Muslim homes have been torched and many dozens of mosques and madrassahs destroyed.
- About 140,000 people have been forced to flee their homes facing humanitarian disaster -- starvation, mal-nutrition without education, medical care adequate food and essentials—in squalid displacement camps and villages in segregation under government’s neo-apartheid plan.
- Under extreme conditions, an estimated 20,000 Rohingya have taken the perilous voyages towards Southeast Asian countries and than 1000 boat people are missing while scores of others have drowned after several boats sank.
- In addition, hundreds of Burmese Muslims were brutally killed or burned alive, many hundreds of their homes, shops and properties destroyed, and 50,000 of them internally displaced.
BROUK is organising a special commemoration for all victims of the deadly violence and attacks as follows:
Monday 3rd June 2013 at 6 pm to 9 pm
Waterlily Hall, 69-89 Mild End Road, London E1 4TT
Stepney Green Tube Station (District line, Hammersmith & City line)
Waterlily Hall, 69-89 Mild End Road, London E1 4TT
Stepney Green Tube Station (District line, Hammersmith & City line)
May 14, 2013
A boat carrying Rohingya Muslims has capsized off western Burma, aid agencies say.
The boat, said to be carrying up to 200 passengers, was evacuating people ahead of Cyclone Mahasen, which is expected to hit the area later in the week.
It sank off Pauktaw township in Rakhine state late on Monday, leaving an unknown number of people missing.
Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims are living in temporary camps in Rakhine after violence last year.
The UN had called for an urgent evacuation ahead of the storm, warning that many areas where displaced people are now living are in low-lying coastal areas at risk of flooding or tidal surges.
Barbara Manzi, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), told the BBC from Sittwe that search-and-rescue operations were ongoing.
"It appears that this boat left the camp with the blessing of the authorities before hitting rocks," she said.
There were between 100 and 200 people on board the boat, she added, with some survivors.
Maung Aurther
Opinion Editorial
Rohingya Blogger
May 13, 2013
As a cyclone in the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal named Mahasen is looming around, Rohingyas in Arakan have caught themselves amidst the fear of double victimization. They fear the half of the danger to be inflicted by none other than the authority of Arakan, Security Forces and Rakhine extremists. After all, Burmese government, taking advantage of the instable situation expected during the occurrence of the cyclone, can go to any extent to commit more crimes against humanity in order to get rid of this unwanted community in Burma. If we see on the ground situation, we have some clues that give us rationales to consider -their fear of a catastrophe to be soon inflicted upon- reasonable.
There are Rakhine extremists who are being trained by the government on weaponry usage. There are Military who are carrying out battle exercises for days now in Southern Maung Daw. Furthermore, NaSaKa and other Security Forces, today, are regularly raiding many Rohingya villages in Maung Daw. Tortures and extortion of money are nothing new to Rohingyas. Destruction of their properties and seizure of the valuable ones by the authority are rampant now. And there are the displaced Rohingyas getting arrested for unfounded reasons in Sittwe. Rohingyas are being Bengalized by the authority by force. Random rapes and gang-rapes against Rohingya women also continue. In short, there is a strong psychological game being played against Rohingyas.
No precautionary step to protect Rohingyas from the cyclone disasters expected has been taken yet nor is it expected to be taken. As a matter of fact, majority of Rohingyas in Arakan have no clue about the coming storm. They, especially the displaced Rohingyas at the camps in the townships of Sittwe, Mrebun and Min Bra, are not being moved to the higher places. The government only gave mere instructions to the respective administrations of the Rohingya villages that there is a storm to happen soon. As most weirdly as it can be, particularly in Maung Daw, the authority ordered the respective head of the different village administrations to take photograph of each and every scene in the Rohingya villages during their announcements of the warnings regarding the cyclone. One can expect it is just an attempt by the Burmese authority to compartmentalize the international attention to the crises in order to keep space for plausible deniability in case that they commit more crimes either by ignoring the people or intentionally killing them during the storm.
On the other hand, Rakhines are being moved to the higher places and other protected areas. Worse, the vehicles such as Cars, Vans and other transports owned by Rohingyas are forcibly reserved by the authority in Maung Daw to transport Rakhines to the protected areas. That, in essence, leaves no room for and disables Rohingyas from taking their own preemptive actions to protect their people. And yet, what the cruelest and most heartless act one may think of is that Rohingyas are not yet allowed to move out of their camps or their houses making them die within their living places.
On one hand, they may become the sole victims of the cyclone and on the other hand, the Burmese security forces and Rakhine terrorists might target them taking advantage of the instable situation. Alas, there will be no reporter, NGO or anyone else during the storm. And even, satellite can hardly track and record the accounts of the violence. The brutal Neo-Fascists in Burma can buck up the blames of their own crimes to the nature. In this vulnerable situation, it will not difficult for one to expect Rohingyas to be most hardly hit by the consequences of the storm.
Therefore, it is the most critical and highest time for not only international NGOs and community but also international government bodies to pressure the Burmese regime to get rid of the discriminatory steps and to equally try to protect all the people at least for this time. Or else, the entire humanity will have to be answerable for all the catastrophes expected to occur.
RB News
May 13, 2013
Maung Daw, Arakan - Around 9pm on 11th May 2013, NaSaKa (Border Security Force) and Police raided the village of Saindar (Than Dar), Southern Maung Daw. They arrested and beat three Rohingya men. The three Rohingyas were released them after the extortion of money and some live stocks.
“At 9pm, on 11th May 2013 night, NaSaKa, Military and Police numbering around forty in total raided the village of Saindar. Thus, many Rohingya men went into hiding as they often get arbitrarily arrested. People are afraid of NaSaKa because of their (NaSaKa’s) arrests from their workplaces and while passing by and extortion of huge amount of money” said a nearby villager to RB News.
However, there were three Rohingya men in three households who didn’t go into hiding. NaSaKa arrested them and extorted money from them.
“There were three Rohingya men who didn’t escape and remained in their houses. NaSaKa, Military and Police beat them brutally. They extorted Kyat 50'000 and a Chicken from each of the arrestees and released them later” he added.
“In the houses where there were no men remained, they destroyed pots and plates. In fact, they broke everything in their sight. They are bullying Rohingyas every day with their weapon power. By their ruthless behaviours, it has become apparent that they are carrying out all the brutalities in order to drive us out from the country” he opened up.
The profiles of the three Rohinyas beaten and got their money extorted are:
(1) U Noor Amin S/o U Fazal Ahmed 47
(2) U Abdur Rashid S/o U Iman Hussain 50
(3) Hafiz Hashim Ullah S/o ? 25.
(Translated into English by Maung Aurther)
(Translated into English by Maung Aurther)
RB News
May 12, 2013
Maung Daw, Arakan - NaSaKa (Border Security Force) Commander, Major Aung Lwin Oo, of the area (7), Southern Maung Daw, is demanding Forced Labours and trying to extort money from the Rohingya community in the villagers under his commandment.
Yesterday, around 1pm, NaSaKa commander called on the administrators of the villages under his commandment for a meeting. In it, he demanded forced labours and money from all of them.
“All the administrators were called on for a meeting. The NaSaKa commander demanded the village administrators that they would have to collect money from their villagers in order to build 27 toilets and one Chicken Farm for the NaSaKa. Not only that, he demanded forced labouring from Rohingyas under his commandment area” said local Rohingya in Southern Maung Daw.
Although Myanmar government is saying that there is no more forced labouring in the country, Rohingyas are made forced labours by the authority almost every day.
“When the administrator of the village of Kayintan told the NaSaKa commander that it would be too difficult for troubled and economically crippled Rohingyas to do so at this time, the commander replied that he was not concerned with any such crises faced by Rohingya people. And then, he (the commander) issued a warning that his demand must be fulfilled by 25th May 2013. Therefore, all Rohingyas are extremely worried now” he continued.
Besides, the commander posed threats of arrests and imprisonments against the village administrators if they can’t assist him in Forced Bengalization of Rohingyas.
(Translated into English by Maung Aurther)
(Translated into English by Maung Aurther)
RB News
May 12, 2013
Sittwe (Akyab), Arakan - Today (12.05.2013), around 2pm, the district Police Commissioner of Sittwe and his group arbitrarily arrested five displaced Rohingyas from the camp of Thet Kay Pyin. The commissioner is said to have taken the responsibility of the regional security as well.
“They got arrested when they were leaving the mosque at the displaced camps after praying the afternoon prayer. Again in the evening, the said commissioner, being high on alcohol, drove his car along the displaced camps so recklessly that many displaced Rohingyas had to face risks for their lives and unnecessary nuisances.
And the profiles of the arrested displaced Rohingyas are:
(1) U Kabir Ahmed S/o U Fazal Ahmed, 45, from the quarter of Sak-Yun-Zu
(2) Mukhtar Ahmed S/o Syed Hussain, 25, from the quarter of Sak-Yun-Zu
(3) U Maung Hla S/o U Abdu Shukkor, 65, from the quarter of Kun Tan
(4) Abul Kalam S/o U Syed Ali, 25, from the quarter of Sak-Yun-Zu
(5) U Abdurrahman S/o U Kadir Hussain, 46, from the quarter of Sak-Yun-Zu
Since Sittwe Police’s arbitrary and reckless arrests in relation to the quarrel took place on 26th April 2013, many displaced Rohingyas are on the run, going into hiding and even have to leave Arakan for another country” said a local Rohingya in Sittwe.
“What the president of the country U Thein Sein actually doing is just that he is flattering international community with his hypocritically sweet speeches in order to gain their supports. In reality, the recklessness and brutality of Burmese authority against the crippled Rohingya community are not but only increasing day by day” he exclaimed.
(Translated into English by Maung Aurther)
(Translated into English by Maung Aurther)
Ibrahim Shah
RB Article
May 12, 2013
Let’s review briefly the past of the Arakan sovereign country before invaded by Burman king Maung Waing in 1784; re-named it as Rakhine state by Burman Islamophobic dictator in 1974; the main strategic purpose to change the name politically was only to suppress Rohingya. According to observation of analysts, geographers, prominent historians, well-known researchers and illustrious politicians, the main group who have ancestry-rights to claim, fundamentally, the most ancient indigenous people of Arakan territory is, mainly, Rohingya who are descendants of Indo-Aryans. The Rohingya people have their own distinguished racial appearance which is absolutely distinct if it is compared with the intruder Burmans and their settler Rakhines. Both the Burman and their sub-racial group Rakhine are fundamentally difference from Rohingya both racially and linguistically as like as the distant of sky and land i.e. hereby explained by a chart of the comparative vocabulary of the main two ethnic races and one sub-race:
Though, it is most likely similar between the dialect of Burman and Rakhines, yet, there are some more difference between dialect of them but, it is at all different from Rohingya dialect.
Thence, let’s review the historic events of ancient inhabitants of Arakan which were inscribed by, in which dialect, either Burmans’ dialect or Rohingyas’ dialect?
The stone inscription of Ananda Chandra at the end of 8th century is similar accurately to neither Burman nor Rakhine dialect but Rohingya dialect, thus, it undoubtedly verified that the existence of Rohingya into Arakan is since before 8th century.
Here, it is evidently differentiated the dialectical difference of Rohingya and Bengali as like as the distant of western country USA and eastern country China.
Apparently, what a mockery it is! The falsely accusation of Burmese Islamophobic president Thein Sein against Rohingya as illegal immigrants, in his term, Bengali or Kalar though Rohingya are the most ancient native of western part of Burma.
Since 1942 the Rohingya, who have been suffering discrimination though Rohingya are the most ancient residents of Arakan territory according to above authentic historical references. Following a book named Asiatic Researches of European traveler Buchanan which was put out in 1799, it is learnt that the Mohammedans, Rohingya themselves settled there since immemorial decades but the Mogh who are called by Burmans as Yakin said they were settled there by Burmans.
Gradually, on 2 March 1962, Ne Win again seized power in a coup d'éta and, amongst several varieties of operations imposed by the militarist officials ,the Dragon Operation in 1977-1978 forced many Rohingya to desperately flee, thus, most Rohingya was sheltered as refugee in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
The Burmese colonialists stripped of Rohingya fundamental rights, finally, imposing a black Act, Citizenship Law in 1982 that eliminated the ethnic Rohingya from officially registered national census, accusal of Burmese xenophobic officials of Rohingya as illegal Bengali immigrants who were brought into Arakan by British in 1825.
Again, in 1990 the head of military intelligence (MI) general Khin Yunt, chased all Rohingya quarters and arrested arbitrarily without any accusation of all Rohingya elites of respective fields including both theologians and politicians, however, it is too deplorable that most of the arrestees are not returned yet at home due to lively killed . In 1991, severely, made Operation of Accusation, forced to carry out the soldiers’ burdens on marching to the respective military camps inside mountains, and confined travelling, higher education, erecting religious buildings ,reproduction and marriage ,and suppressed oppressively . The martial rulers imposed double standard over the ethnic Rohingya strictly but the Rakhine Buddhist was superior and Rohingya was inferior in the same territory, Rakhine state.
Massively, in 1991, Rohingya throughout the Rakhine state fled into Bangladesh ,India,Thailand,Malaysia and Middle east due to discrimination and incrimination.
Amid the discrimination, it is to be too shocked the perpetual brutalities of militarist officials as below!
Plunderingly, most Rohingya quarters have been raped, and they have to fled desperately into uncertain destinations and their quarters were massively settled of outsiders, mixed-blooded, half Burmans who are so depraved that they are most dangerous than the educated-untamed officials. i.e. the new settlers plunder at night and abusively treat with the ethnic Rohingya in day time.
After 5 decades, repeatedly, since putting of more pressings from international government bodies and continuation of caustic reprehension from NGOs and INGOs; the dictator had to step down unwillingly in 2010.
Deceptively, to escape from more sanctions of world veto countries, the junta dramatically elected a quasi-civilian government in 2011.
Continuously, due to continual expression of deeply concerned of HRW, AI, UN, OIC, US, UK and ASEAN, over Rohingya plight crisis the genocidal civilianized president Thein Sein conspired with the chairman of RNDP vet. Aye Maung how to strip the Rohingya of the progression of democratic transition from military transition.
Chauvinistically, Buddhist ultra-nationalists of all classes including politicians, activists and monks ; mainly, the genocidal Burmese government pre-planned how to diffuse riots to lead genocide gradually across the country against Muslims,in particular, Rohingya.
Thence, since February2012 Rakhine racists collaborated with Burmese ethnocentric government put out Islamophobia magazines, spread anti-Rohingya leaflets and fixed anti-Rohingya mindsets to every Buddhist families and instigated racism of Buddhism of nationalism.
Deliberately, the state-sponsored riots led by Rakhine extremist gang RNDP were initiated by the rape and murder of a young Buddhist woman, allegedly by three Muslim men and , in reciprocation, the state-sponsored mob slaughtered 10 Muslim pilgrims .
Instantly, since June 2012 it triggered gradually throughout the Rakhine state and then the whole country. The gradual genocidal attack of Burman ultra-nationalists made tens of thousands of Rohingya distressed and it has been increasingly taking place famine in all Rohingya quarters of western Burma.
Amid the continual riots, a militant Buddhist ultra-nationalist movement familiar by the emblem 969 built up for increasingly resurgent religious animosity. Its exoteric key-mentor is monk Wirathu from central Burma, Mandalay.
Furthermore, it is too horrible that strategically, Buddhist monks, political-party operatives and government officials organized themselves to permanently change the ethnic demographics of the stat by removing every trace of the Rohingya.
--Here is the countless crimes of the Burmese pseudo reformist, sham honorary degree winner for Rohingya -Genocide, genocidal president Thein Sein:
1. He is a head of state and is familiar genuinely the ancestry of Rohingya, however, in July 2012 he proposed to UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres to deport Rohingya otherwise the entire Rohingya would be sheltered crowded in camp as refugee until any third country welcome them .
2. Due to impatience of Islamic countries to watch the slaughtering of innocent Rohingya massively, once major donations penetrate, he assured with negative attitude that he will open schools for Rohingya children but finally he implemented it negatively i.e. all the religious schools for Rohingya children are locked up and restricted completely higher education.
3. Amid the inhumanely treatment on Rohingya both officially and locally under the command of central government, he imposed curfew, Act 144; its main motive is to tremendously destroy the Rohingya both of lives and properties. And all kinds of forces were commanded for standing idly while the extremists were setting fire to targeted houses and religious buildings, looting properties, killing lively, etc.
4. Secretly ordered to armed forces to shoot whenever Rohingya comes out from the burning down houses and to refrain from tackling the forcibly attacks of Rakhine terrorists.
5. The falsely convicted victims, three Rohingya Muslims of falsified raped case of a Buddhist young woman were tortured and sentenced to death immediately without any postponement to further scrutiny.
6. However, it is out of official sense to bring into justice the approximated 300 terrorists of the mob where 10 pilgrims were dead on the spot last year.
7. Some atrocities which are continuously taking place by his sub-authorities to whom he empowered to willingly incriminate: Nasaka (border security forces) harass the people ceaselessly, threats of extremists to desperately flee to escape the lively killings, arbitrary arrest, forced Bengalization with physical threats, gangbang of immature and married women by Rakhine local terrorists and Nasaka, forcibly settlement of Bengali Rakhine in the quarters of Rohingya, incitements of Buddhist doctors officially to stop medical treatment of Rohingya patients, confinement of struggle to earn food, pillaging of any consumable goods by authorities once carrying from markets or forests, displaced people are sheltered overcrowded in camps but confined them by militaristic guards so-called security forces, mass graves, etc.
8. Amongst the perpetrators of all classes, anyone of them is not yet charged of committed crimes respectively and the exoteric key-mentor of Islamophobia, monk Wirathu is more smartly and effectively going ahead with Islamophobic movement, racism of Buddhism of nationalism.
9. Arbitrarily arrests, detain and torturing unto death demanding of a great deal of money, and imposing finally confinement of long term jails to those who are unable to afford money.
10. The current ruling quasi-civillian party, USDP is silence while the 969 emblem of Islamophobic movement led by Burmese Buddhist terrorist leader, monk Wirathu, campaigns nation-wide against Muslim.
11. Threats to media, journalists and NGOs to stop putting out information about the occurrences and to stop helping displaced Muslims. Here is a statement which proves the violation against NGOs: MSF general director Arjan Hehenkamp told a press conference in February that his organization was being intimidated by the Rakhine for working in Rohingya camps. “In pamphlets, letters and Facebook postings, [MSF] and others have been repeatedly accused of having a pro-Rohingya bias by some members of the Rakhine community. It is this intimidation, rather than formal permission for access [to the camps], that is the primary challenge,” he said in a statement.
12. He drilled Hitlerism to all his Islamophobic officials how to deceive to conceal the genocidal matter against Rohingya i.e.on March 18 2012 in a program of Australia ABC radio, Presidential spokesman U Ye Htut has told Rohingya won't be given special treatment or granted citizenship.
13. Due to flood of caustic condemnation by HRW, OIC over the atrocities against Rohingya from Burmese regime, the mastermind of Rohingya genocide, president Thein Sein appointed a 27 member investigating commission on Violence in Rakhine state last year. The included members of the commission are those who openly incites against Rohingya i.e. the prominent leader of 88 generation student Ko Ko Gyi who reportedly challenged to deport Rohingya collaborating with the armies ,who, imprisoned him falsely. As its fundamental motive is merely to accumulate falsified fact findings instead of genuine ones, he, president Thein Sein, postponed 4 times to issue the report, merely, the reason is to conceal the violence which occurred last year and which has been occurring perpetually. Though the violence occurred between Rakhine extremists and vulnerable Rohingya Muslims, any Rohingya elite did not appoint in that commission. The exclusion of Rohingya of that commission is fundamentally to report the investigation with their own desires. Finally, the mastermind of Rohingya genocide, president Thein Sein had to issue the report on 29th April 2013 due to repeated demands of international bodies but the fact findings of the report are absolutely biased and fallible as it was predicted by Rohingya intellectuals.
14. Though the current situation of the displaced Rohingya is extremely worse, there is not any better attempt to rescue them from upcoming rainy season’s flood of June 2013. But it is reported in a Rakhine nationalist site named www.narinjara.com; for the Rakhines, there is already built new houses from government.
Ethnocentrically, as the genocidal Burmese president Thein Sein is grew up with Hitlerism, he will never grant any better solutions for Rohingya. It will be president Thein Sein's positive attitude when he lifts up all confinements against Rohingya giving up such reiterative tricky assurances about Rohingya easily survival. In reality, he masterminded to accomplish hastily the Genocide against Rohingya as observed above.
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