UAE urges international community to find lasting solutions for Rohingya Muslim minority

Source WAM, 29 Sept

 

WAM NEW YORK, 28th September 2013 (WAM)-- The UAE has expressed concern over the acts of violence which target the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, and demanded the international community encourage the government of Myanmar to carry out its duty to put an end to these acts which contradict the basic principles of human rights, as well as to help the Rohingya restore their rights as a Muslim Minority in Myanmar.

The UAE also re-affirmed that it will continue to provide humanitarian aid to the victims of violence in Myanmar and to defend the legitimate rights of the Muslim minority in the country.

This came in the UAE's statement at the meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Contact Group on Rohingya, held in New York, USA, under the chairmanship of Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of OIC, on the margins of the 68th United Nations General Assembly.

The UAE's statement at the OIC meeting in New York was read out by the Assistant Foreign Minister for International Organisations Affairs, Dr. Saeed Mohammed Al Shamsi.

The UAE official also demanded a unified and practical stance in order to motivate the United Nations and human rights bodies to take the necessary practical steps towards resolving the issue of the Rohingya Muslim minority and providing humanitarian and development aid.

This includes, according to the UAE statement, discussing the issue at the Human Rights Council, setting up of a fact-finding committee, continuous reporting on the issue by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, and following up the issue by the UN Secretary General, as part of the UN's humanitarian and moral responsibilities, as well as backing all the aforementioned moves by a UN General Assembly resolution and any forms of international pressures towards finding a lasting solutions to the issue, preventing more sectarian conflicts and deterring extremists.

Thanking the OIC Secretary General for his efforts for the issue, Dr. Al Shamsi emphasised the need for coming up with practical recommendations and mechanisms to come up with a unified stance at the current UN General Assembly in order to find acceptable solutions to the issue of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar WAM/MMYS

The world is Dead Ruthless to Rohingya, Isn’t it?

Source burmatimes, 26 Sept

BurmaTimes (Ibrahim Shah) According to the history, it is evident that the Rohingya ethnic minority of Arakan, western Burma inhabit there since even before the first invasion of Burmese intruder in 1044 AD.

The Burmese imperialists have been perpetuating crimes against Humanity or Rohingya imposing discriminatory territorial Acts perpetually since 1978.

The Burmese Hitlerite generals massacred Rohingya in reiteration by "hidden genocide"–discrimination, incrimination, land confiscation, change demographics resettling eastern untamed Buddhists whose profession is only robbery and theft. The most horrible Military operations against Rohingya are in — 1977-78, 1990-92.

Due to miscarriage of various previous Hidden genocide methods, the Burmese notorious successive generals imposed horrible fresh territorial Acts .The long massacre by marriage restriction since 1990 and the most terrible massacre by a deliberate deadly violence in amid June 2012 that is triggered to deprive the fundamental rights of Rohingya amid ongoing democracy.

Amidst the deadly violence in June, More than, 140,000 Rohingya are displaced, countless are missed and buried in mass graves, women are gang-raped and the corpses are thrown into forests by armies and Rakhine extremists , kidnapped many women and are subjected to be sex-slaves, confined the internal displaced people( IDP) in concentration camps and so on.

Due to reiterative miscarriage of gradual dead eradication of Rohingya, the Burmese genocidal regime imposed a new dehumanization Act— two child policy for Rohingya amid ongoing democratic reforms.

For "Completion of Rohingya Genocide" in a vast momentum, the quasi-civilian regime led by President Thein Sein has been carrying out three last genocidal policies simultaneously— postponement of available medication for Rohingya serious patients, deadly confinement in movement until Rohingya cannot earn daily necessities and birth control as "Two-Child Policy".

As well as, neighbor country Bangladesh recently passed a law for birth control of Rohingya. The Bangladesh authorities are utterly silent to the infiltration of the well-settled Mogh of western Burma who are involved with many crimes including smuggling Yaba Tablets.

Concurrently, Rohingya have been undergoing unprecedented persecution, starvation and unexpected diseases.

Thus,  it is deadly dreadful and crucially important to pay attention corporately to the several catastrophes that Rohingya undergo in the same breath today in their ancestral place western Burma.

Today, the Rohingya people flee desperately to escape the deadly persecution of the Burmese genocidal regime whether it is convenient or inconvenient—on foot and by wooden-boat.

Here is the climax of this article – The world is dead ruthless to Rohingya, Isn't it?— whenever Rohingya reach to any part of this earth, they are pushed back to oceans or hunted by human traffickers or imprisoned lifetime or beaten to acknowledge unwillingly as other nationalities except Rohingya.

Let's observe in the turn of respective victims of other nationalities—whoever seek asylum in any part of this world, on the double, they achieve higher dignity, protection and comfort in the same breath.

But, as asylum seekers or persecuted victims, there is no country to accept the vulnerable Rohingya who have been undergoing state-sponsored discrimination or hidden genocide since 35 years. (http://www.maungzarni.com/2012/08/the-official-evidence-of-rohingya.html )

In accordance with the observations of the Burmese dissidents, Rohingya activists and international media and observers, Rohingya undergo sudden death due to lack of proper medication and adequate food.

Accordingly, the possibility of dead extinction of Rohingya is extremely high within some years unless world bodies intervene in Rohingya issue immediately.

It is expressed with grave sorrow that the world is unawarely silent on the Rohingya plight.

Will the world be densely populated if the stateless Rohingya are granted residential cards until restoration of their deprived rights in their homeland, Burma?

No home or asylum for Rohingya in this ruthless world, in fact, it is miserable!

Writer will reached at info@burmatimes.net

Sea Baby Among Rohingya Now Fleeing Indefinite Detention in Thailand

Source Phuketwan, September 17, 2013

PHUKET: A boy born on a boat off the coast of Thailand was among the Rohingya who fled a family refuge centre north of Phuket early today.

On the run: Baby born at sea Muhamad Hamid at a shelter in February

Photo by phuketwan.com/file

The group of eight women and children were in the province of Surat Thani tonight, having given themselves over to human traffickers rather than endure any longer a frustrating nine-month wait in Thailand.

The Phang Nga shelter north of Phuket, which once held more than 70 women and children, is now inhabited by a dwindling 29 Rohingya.

A 12-year-old boy, who fled Burma alone in December with no relatives awaiting him in Malaysia, cried while on the telephone to friends, telling them about his escape early today.

Unless he is able to find the 40,000 baht the traffickers will ask for his safe passage to Malaysia, he is likely to be sold onto a trawler or to a fish factory.

The previous night, another 10 Rohingya escaped from a different Thai family shelter in Prachuap Khiri Khan province.

Phuketwan has been told by usually reliable sources that human trafficking continues in Thailand in the same unrestricted way that it has flourished since the first Rohingya fled persecution in Burma many years ago.

Although there are about 1800 Rohingya still being held in government Immigration centres, police stations and family shelters, the sources say nearly twice that number are in traffickers' camps on the mainland or on islands along the Andaman Sea coast.

The scores of Rohingya who emerged from the jungle in the southern province of Songkhla on Thursday were part of a group waiting to be traded across the border to Malaysia, Phuketwan has been told.

In coming months, as the safe ''sailing season'' gets underway in earnest, more Rohingya are expected to flee Burma in unprecedented numbers, with many of them likely to pass through Thailand on their path to Malaysia.

Although several traffickers' camps were raided in January with Rohingya men, women and children taken into custody in Thailand, other camps and other victims have since taken their place.

It's perilous to sail in the monsoon season, yet many Rohingya have done so this year. Even more are expected to take to the sea between October and April, when it's safer.

Whatever point Thailand hoped to prove by ''rescuing'' from camps and boats hundreds of Rohingya who would have been in Malaysia within days has been lost. Nine months on, no practical Rohingya policy has been forthcoming.

The mass exodus from Burma is about to resume. And the level of desperation remains so high that more babies may be born at sea.

Now nine months old, Muhamad Hamid came into the world on a boat on December 24. Because his people are stateless and unwanted, there is no official record of his birth.

His mother, NuRu, 34, went into labor on the eleventh day of her voyage, so keen to flee ethnic cleansing in Burma that the possibility of giving birth at sea did not stop her.

Now on the run, she knows that Thailand offers no more hope than Burma. All she can do is hope that perhaps Malaysia will be different, if she can get there.

1st meeting of Myanmar president and top activitists

Source nationmultimedia, 15 Sept

Yangon (dpa) - Myanmar President Thein Sein met the country's top political activists for the first time this weekend, media reports said Sunday.

The meeting between the president and leaders of the 88 Generation Students occurred Saturday in Naypyitaw, The New Light of Myanmar reported.

The "cordial discussions" covered a wide range of topics including "reconciliation , mapping out of a new form of political culture, flourishing of democracy system ... inclusiveness of national race groups," the government mouthpiece said.

Leading the talks for the former dissident group were Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi, both of whom were released from lengthy prison terms in January, 2012, under an amnesty issued by Thein Sein.

Both men were key leaders of anti-military student protests in 1988, when mass demonstrations rocked the county, ending in an army crackdown that claimed up to 3,000 dead.

In 2005, after years in prison, former student leaders established the 88 Students Generation Group in Yangon. They played a key role in the "Saffron Revolution" of 2007 - street protests led by Buddhist monks - for which many received 65-year jail sentences.

No end in sight

Source Arabnews, 13 Sept

The silence of the world over the slow burning genocide of the Muslims in Myanmar is very surprising. Every now and then we read reports of the Rohingya Muslims — fleeing persecution — arriving in neighboring countries by boats. Is the world silent because the Rohingyas do not matter and amount to nothing in this capitalist world? Even the United Nations has so far done nothing to check the situation. Paying lip service won't work anymore as the situation has reached such a point where a UNintervention becomes mandatory. 

But I feel that the cries of the poor Rohingyas are falling on deaf ears and nobody will try to rescue them from Buddhist terrorists. Even the media in the Muslim world appears silent in highlighting the plight of these Arakanese Muslims. The world must act before it is too late. — Suresh Kumar, Riyadh

250 Rohingya men swim ashore in Satun

12 Sept, Source Nationmultimedia

Some 250 Rohingya men aged 15-40 swam ashore in Satun's Thung Wa district yesterday morning after their boat was hit by a monsoon storm and their 15-day supply of food ran out.

Two of the Rohingya men were seriously ill and reportedly remained on the boat.

They were taken to a public park in Tambon Khon Khlan, where locals provided them with food and basic medicines, while police and district officials conducted an inspection. An initial probe found that the men left Myanmar in the boat on August 26 bound for Malaysia. Nine days later, their supply of food and water ran out, while the boat was hit by monsoon weather, causing them to drift off course. The Rohingya told police that two men died during the journey and the bodies were buried at sea. After they spotted the coast of Satun they swam to shore to survive. The migrants were kept at the park, pending further action by Internal Security Operations Command officials.