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Can't they just revert to Buddhism so as to get accepted by other Burmese people? If Pakistani Hindus and Christians do this to save from Islamic tyrrany..why not Rohingyas?
 
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Myanmar's democracy icon on her nation's persecuted minority01:42


Is The Lady listening? Aung San Suu Kyi accused of ignoring Myanmar's Muslims

By James Griffiths, CNN

Updated 0009 GMT (0809 HKT) November 18, 2016

(CNN) Women wail in the background as the camera pans across the scene.

"Oh brothers, look at this, look," the narrator says, as he films the remnants of a burned house, bodies clearly visible sticking out of the mud and ash.

The disturbing video is one of a handful that have emerged from northern Rakhine State, in Myanmar, where human rights groups warn of widespread human rights abuses.

Hundreds of homes have been destroyed in multiple villages amid an ongoing crackdown by the Burmese military following violence last month, according to Human Rights Watch.

Burmese authorities claim the fires were set by local militant groups, and have disputed HRW's account.

Authorities in neighboring Bangladesh said dozens of people have attempted to flee across the border in recent days.

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Satellite images show destruction of Kyet Yoe Pyin village

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Violence and silence

The most recent spate of violence began in early October, when soldiers and police officers were killed by a group of 300 or so armed men, according to state media reports.

That sparked an intense crackdown by the Burmese military in which dozens of people have been killed and at least 230 arrested. Rights groups estimate the total death toll could be in the hundreds.

Rakhine State is home to a large population of Rohingya Muslims, a stateless ethnic minority that has faced discrimination and persecution for years. The Myanmar government's official position denies recognition of the term "Rohingya" and regards them as illegal Bengali migrants.

Throughout, many have looked to Myanmar's civilian government, and particularly Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, to act as a check on the military.

The National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Suu Kyi, won a landslide victory in elections late last year, ending more than two decades of brutal military rule.

However, under a constitution drafted by the former junta, the military retains 25% of the seats in parliament, and control of security matters.

The Myanmar Armed Forces, or Tatmadaw, is led by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who was handpicked by former junta strongman Than Shwe to succeed him in 2011.

While analysts did not dispute that the military is leading operations in Rakhine, they expressed disappointment with the government's lack of action.

"That the government has simply flatly denied human rights violations are taking place does not bode well for the NLD," said Matthew Smith, founder of Bangkok-based Fortify Rights.

"When these types of violations are being committed by the government it is reason for concern for everyone in the country."

Risk of instability

As violence in Rakhine has persisted, Kofi Annan -- the former United Nations secretary general who currently leads a Myanmar government commission -- warned it is "plunging the state into renewed instability."

United Nations envoy Zainab Hawa Bangura has also expressed grave concern over allegations of rape and sexual assault of women and girls in Rakhine as part of a "wider pattern of ethnically motivated violence" in the region.

In a statement this week, the Myanmar President's office, citing military information teams, "refuted the fabrications" published by foreign media and blamed violence on terrorist groups.

Presidential spokesman Zaw Htay, who previously served the country's military rulers, denied reports of troops burning houses and allegations of rape and sexual assault during a press conference Wednesday.

He promised that the government would "cooperate with the media for sensitive conflict reports in the future."

Human Rights Watch has repeatedly criticized the Burmese government's denial of access to the region for human rights monitors and journalists.

CNN has repeatedly reached out to Suu Kyi's office for comment but hasn't received a response.

Disappointment

In an interview with CNN in September, Suu Kyi said her government was having "a lot of trouble trying to bring about the kind of harmony and understanding and tolerance that we wish for."

"This is not the only problem we have to face, (but) this is one on which the international community has focused," Suu Kyi said, pointing to the establishment of Annan's commission and the lifting on some restrictions on the movement of Rohingya as actions her administration has taken.

Nevertheless, at times Suu Kyi's silence on the issue has been deafening. Smith described the current response as "deeply concerning."

"I don't have words to describe the disappointment with her government," he said.

While he was skeptical over how much power the civilian government had to influence military activity in Rakhine state, Anthony Ware, a Myanmar specialist at Australia's Deakin University, said Suu Kyi's silence was a "long term consistent trend."

"We have not seen a lot of leadership on this issue from (Suu Kyi or the NLD)," he said.

With the military in full control of security issues, and backed up by its 25% base in parliament, its unclear how much effect a more vocal NLD government could have.

There is also strong support among the country's Buddhist majority for anti-Rohingya actions and angry anti-Muslim rhetoric has increasingly become part of mainstream discourse in Myanmar, led by ultra-nationalist Buddhist monks.

"Muslims are perceived nationally, even by most of the ethnic minorities, as a threat to Buddhism and threat to national security," Ware said.

Military abuses

Before and after the country's transition to democracy, the Burmese military has been accused of torture, rape, and the systematic abuse of child soldiers.

Rights groups have documented continued widespread abuses against ethnic minorities, particularly in Rakhine and Kachin states.

"All of the key issues in Rakhine State and activities are under military control," said Ware.

"While there are armed elements in Rakhine, and while there are significant fears of a loss of control of the border and potential international Islamic terrorist influence, the military will not allow anyone else to have much of a say."

Smith said the military is carrying out a "clearance operation" against Muslims in the region, and warned that international crimes may be being committed.

"We've documented how Rakhine State authorities were talking about a plan to demolish Muslim-owned properties prior to the October attacks. It would appear that strategy is in some ways being carried out in another context," he said.

CNN's Bex Wright, Vivian Kam and Joshua Berlinger contributed reporting.

The Rohingya are fighting back?

NINE police officers were killed early on October 9th in a series of apparently co-ordinated attacks on border-guard posts in the troubled state of Rakhine in Myanmar’s west. The attackers were armed with knives, slingshots and only a few guns—and reportedly made off with dozens more guns and thousands of bullets. The Buddhist majority in Rakhine has long oppressed the state’s Muslim Rohingyas. Now the victims may be starting to fight back.

Nobody has yet claimed responsibility, but police say the attackers—at least two of whom were captured and eight killed—were Rohingyas. One local official blamed the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation, a militant group that has been dormant for decades. The two who were detained reportedly told authorities that they planned the raids with fellow locals.
The central government’s response has been reasonably level-headed. On the same day it held a press conference to appeal for caution and restraint. Two days later it dispatched high-ranking officials to talk to local leaders in the Muslim-majority townships where the attacks took place. Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s de facto leader, did not cast blame, but reiterated her commitment to “peace and stability”. “Rakhine State’s problem is Myanmar’s problem,” said the information minister.

Since the attacks in northern Rakhine, however, clashes have broken out there leaving at least a dozen people dead—including unarmed civilians, according to locals. The government has beefed up an already heavy military presence. Some worry that the stolen guns will be used in future attacks on security forces, or that in trying to retrieve the weapons, the police will target innocents.

By far the biggest concern is that unrest could spread, as it did in 2012, when communal violence between Buddhists and Muslims killed scores and displaced tens of thousands. Many outside Myanmar have criticised Miss Suu Kyi for failing to speak up for the Rohingyas. Anti-Muslim sentiment runs deep among the Burman Buddhist majority. Wirathu, a virulently nationalist monk and master of social media, posted a video on his Facebook page this week that he claims shows the attackers calling for Rohingyas to join the jihad.

In August Miss Suu Kyi invited Kofi Annan, a former UN secretary-general, to head a commission investigating human-rights abuses in Rakhine. Buddhist nationalists protested, and the Rakhine parliament passed a resolution condemning the commission. But as this week’s events have shown, efforts to bring about a just and durable peace in Rakhine are more urgent than ever.

This article appeared in the Print Edition with the headline: Sparks near tinder

From the print edition: Asia
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UN calls for probe into Myanmar crackdown on Rohingyas

AFP. Yangon | Update: 18:32, Oct 25, 2016


The United Nations has called for a probe into allegations that Myanmar troops have killed civilians and torched villages in northern Rakhine state, as fresh reports emerged of forced evictions in a security crackdown.

Aid agencies estimate more than 15,000 people have been displaced since the military took control of an area close to the Bangladesh border two weeks ago, a region which is home to the stateless Rohingya minority.

Myanmar’s government says hundreds of Rohingya fighters led by a Taliban-trained jihadist were behind deadly raids on several police posts on 9 October that sparked a major security response.

Since then the military has stopped aid deliveries to tens of thousands of people in northern Rakhine and blocked access to rights groups and journalists.

Most of the people in the locked-down area are Rohingya—a Muslim minority reviled by many in Myanmar as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

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In a statement released late Monday, the UN urged Myanmar’s government “to undertake proper and thorough investigations of alleged violations”.

“Reports of homes and mosques being burnt down and persons of a certain profile being rounded up and shot are alarming and unacceptable,” said the UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions Agnes Callamard.

“The authorities cannot justify simply shooting suspects down on the basis of the seriousness of the crime alone,” she said, referring to the assaults on border guards that sparked the clampdown.

While details of military abuses are hard to verify, the UN said it has received “repeated allegations” of arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial killings “within the context of the security operations”.

The violence has fanned fears of a repeat of the unrest that ravaged the state in 2012 and left more than 100 people dead.

Security forces have killed at least 31 people while defending themselves from attacks, according to a toll from state media and the military.

But Chris Lewa, from advocacy group the Arakan Project, says information from contacts in the area suggests the number killed is much higher.

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Residents also say the crackdown, which has been led by the military but also includes border guard police forces, is intensifying.

Over the past two days, border officials have driven thousands of Rohingya from their homes in Kyikanpyin village, according to Maung Ni, a 32-year-old Rohingya shopkeeper.

“We are staying at another village,” he told AFP. “We do not know what to do—soldiers are still stationed inside the village.”

Police sources, who asked not to be named, confirmed troops had searched the area for “terrorists” and some villagers had fled when they arrived.


Malala Speaks Out In Support Of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims

06/08/2015 03:58 pm ET

Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor

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Malala Yousafzai is calling on world leaders and officials in Myanmar to stop the persecution of the country’s Rohingya Muslims.

“The Rohingyas deserve citizenship in the country where they were born and have lived for generations. They deserve equal rights and opportunities,” the 17-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner said in a statement. “They deserve to be treated like we all deserve to be treated -– with dignity and respect.”

Stripped of citizenship and subject to violence and discrimination, the Rohingya Muslims have been fleeing Myanmar in recent months. Thousands of migrants have been rescued off the coasts of neighboring countries after escaping by boat.

Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has denied that the Rohingya are being persecuted in the majority Buddhist country.

However, multiple international human rights groups, like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have spoken out against the persecution of the Rohingya. The United Nations refugee agency has called them one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.

Yousafzai is an education campaigner and girls’ rights activist. She co-founded the Malala Fund after she was shot by the Taliban in 2012 for her progressive ideas. The organization has supported girls in Pakistan, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. Yousafzai became interested in the plight of refugees while working to secure access to education for Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon.

“Today and every day, I stand with the Rohingyas,” Yousafzai said in the statement. “And I encourage people everywhere to do so.”
 
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Can't they just revert to Buddhism so as to get accepted by other Burmese people? If Pakistani Hindus and Christians do this to save from Islamic tyrrany..why not Rohingyas?
Pakistani hindus are 21 grade Government officers or senators or serving in Pakistan army as officers as proud Pakistani hindus,Have some sense and don't talk stupid what media shows you 0.01 percent.
 
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দিনে দেখা যায় ধোঁয়া, রাতে শোনা যায় চিৎকার ও গুলির শব্দ
আবদুল আজিজ, কক্সবাজার ০৩:৫০ , নভেম্বর ১৭ , ২০১৬



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মিয়ানমারের সামরিক হেলিকপ্টারের টহল
বাংলাদেশ-মিয়ানমার সীমান্তের ওপারে রাত হলেই শোনা যাচ্ছে গুলির শব্দ ও মানুষের চিৎকার। দেখা যাচ্ছে ধোঁয়া ও আগুনের লেলিহান শিখা এবং ভেসে আসে মানুষের কান্নার আওয়াজ। কক্সবাজারের টেকনাফ উপজেলার হোয়াইক্যং ইউনিয়নের মিয়ানমার সীমান্তে বসবাসরত বাংলাদেশি অধিবাসিরা জানিয়েছেন, ‘গত সোমবার বিকালে মিয়ানমারের মুসলিম অধ্যুষিত এলাকা গুলোতে হেলিকপ্টার থেকে বোমা বা মর্টার সেল নিক্ষেপের মতো হামলার দৃশ্যও দেখা গেছে।’

এদিকে, এ কারণে সীমান্তে বর্ডার গার্ড বাংলাদেশ (বিজিবি) সদস্যরা সতর্কবস্থায় রয়েছে। যাতে করে মিয়ানমারের কোনও নাগরিক বাংলাদেশে প্রবেশ করতে না পারে।

টেকনাফ হোয়াইক্যং এলাকার মুদি দোকানদার মোহাম্মদ হোছন বাংলা ট্রিবিউনকে জানান, ‘গত এক সপ্তাহ ধরে মিয়ানমারের অভ্যন্তরে মুসলিম অধ্যুষিত বাড়ি ঘরে আগুন জ্বলার দৃশ্য ও হেলিকপ্টার থেকে বোমা ফেলার দৃশ্য দেখা যাচ্ছে।’



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বাংলাদেশ-মিয়ানমার সীমান্ত
হোয়াইক্যং ইউনিয়নের ২ নম্বর ওয়ার্ডের ইউপি মেম্বার লালু বাংলা ট্রিবিউনকে জানান, ‘মিয়ানমারের ভয়াবহ হামলার দৃশ্য দেখে চোখের পানি আটকে রাখা সম্ভব হচ্ছে না। আগুনের লেলিহান শিখায় মনে হচ্ছে একের পর এক গ্রাম জ্বালিয়ে দেওয়া হচ্ছে।’

মিয়ানমার সীমান্তের খুব কাছ থেকে রোহিঙ্গাদের ওপর চালানো নির্যাতন প্রত্যক্ষ করেছেন টেকনাফ উলুবনিয়া সীমান্তের ৫০ বছরের বৃদ্ধ নজির আহমদ। তিনি বাংলা ট্রিবিউনকে জানান, ‘দিনে বেলায় আগুনের ভয়াবহ ধোঁয়ার কুম্বলি দেখা যায়। রাতে শোনা যায় গুলি ও বোমার আওয়াজ। গভীর রাতে ভেসে আসে মানুষের আর্তনাত। এতেই বুঝা যায় মিয়ানমারের আরকান রাজ্যে চলছে ভয়াবহ নির্যাতন।’

এছাড়াও টেকনাফের হোয়ইক্যং ও হ্নীলা ইউনিয়নের বিভিন্ন সীমান্ত পয়েন্ট দিয়ে মিয়ানমারের সেনাবাহিনীর এই বর্বরতা দেখেছেন বিভিন্ন শ্রেণি পেশার মানুষ। তারা জানিয়েছেন, ‘এখনও এ হামলা চলছে। মিয়ানমার সেনাবাহিনী সেখানে বেসামরিক অধিবাসীদেরকে হত্যার পাশাপাশি ধর্ষণও করেছে এবং গ্রামের পর গ্রাম তারা জ্বালিয়ে দিচ্ছে।’



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সাধারণ মানুষকে পরামর্শ দিচ্ছেন বিজিবির টেকনাফ কোম্পানির এক সদস্য
সীমান্তের পরিস্থিতি নিয়ে জানতে চাইলে টেকনাফস্থ বিজিবির-২ ব্যাটালিয়নের অধিনায়ক লে. কর্নেল আবুজার আল জাহিদ বাংলা ট্রিবিউনকে জানান, ‘বাংলাদেশ-মিয়ানমার সীমান্তে অতিরিক্ত সতর্কতা নেওয়া হয়েছে। কেউ যাতে বাংলাদেশে অনুপ্রবেশ করতে না পারে সেজন্য সতর্কমূলক ব্যবস্থাও নেওয়া হয়েছে। এখানে আমাদের আতঙ্কিত হওয়ার কিছু নেই। এছাড়া টেকনাফ সীমান্তে বিজিবির টহল বাড়ানো হয়েছে।’

তিনি আরও বলেন, ‘সীমান্তে বসবাসরত বাংলাদেশের অধিবাসীরা যাতে আতঙ্কিত না হয়, সেজন্য বিজিবি’র সদস্যরা সীমান্তে সচেতনতামূলক সভা-সমাবেশ করছে। যে কোনও ধরনের অনাকাঙ্খিত ঘটনা এড়াতে এলাকাবাসীকে সীমান্ত এলাকা ও নাফ নদীতে না যাওয়ার পরামর্শ দেওয়া হয়েছে।’

এদিকে, সীমান্তের একটি নির্ভরযোগ্য সূত্র বাংলা ট্রিবিউনকে জানিয়েছে, ‘সীমান্ত এলাকায় মিয়ানমারের অভ্যন্তরে ঢেকিবনিয়া, কুমিরখালী, শিলখালী, বলিবাজার, নাকপুরা এলাকায় ব্যাপক ক্ষয়ক্ষতি হয়েছে। এছাড়া ২টি সামরিক হেলিকপ্টার কেয়ারি প্রাং, নাইচাপ্রু, বলি বাজার, নাকপুরা, কুমিরখালী এলাকার আকাশে হেলিকপ্টার টহল নিয়মিত টহল দিচ্ছে।

উল্লেখ্য, গত ৯ অক্টোবর বাংলাদেশ সীমান্তবর্তী মিয়ানমারে সে দেশের সীমান্তরক্ষী বাহিনীর বেশ কয়েককটি নিরাপত্তা চৌকিতে হামলার ঘটনা ঘটে। এতে সীমান্ত পুলিশের ৯ সদস্য নিহত হয়। সেই হামলার জন্য রোহিঙ্গা মুসলমানদের দায়ী করে আসছে মিয়ানমারের নিরাপত্তা বাহিনী। এরপর থেকে ওই অঞ্চলে ত্রাণকর্মী এবং সাংবাদিকের প্রবেশও নিষিদ্ধ করা হয়েছে।

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Humble appeal to the government, please open the border for the Rohingya ..

One,

I am a general citizen of this country in . As a citizen,and as a human being , my humble appeal to the government is to open our borders for the Rohingyas.All Political consideration, thoughts and philosophy-may be be a debatable However in this critical juncture, standing right between life and death, its our duty to protect the Rohingya population as well as that of our neighboring countries,
This is the moral responsibility of the Government of Bangladesh. The government of Bangladesh should overcome and rise above the narrowness for the stranded Rohingya refugees at the world stage, Bangladesh 'will turn into a. "humanitarian nation'

Two,

Why give shelter, what will we gain, it is now the time now to raise these questions?. If the border opens, all enlightened citizens out of a love for the Rohingya themselves will arrange for such. If the government requires funds amounting to millions of -crores for the Rohingyas Our. People will pay spontaneously. I speak as a citizen with a little money but will try to fund the government , as much as possible.

Three,

As a respected country in the world stage this is the special moment. I believe Bangladesh has the the golden door of opportunity. The government need not look a with a discreet glance?

Four,

Provide temporary shelter to the Rohingyas does not necessarily have to grant them permanent settlement. I do not want to see the long-term Rohingya in Bangladesh forever.
If Bangladesh government creates international lobbing , for providing temporary shelter, the world stage will react positively.I believe that in regional diplomacy , this move is to our occasion. to be a leader .

Five,

The citizens, political parties and human rights organizations of the brutal regime in Burma, have arranged a siege 'program of our embassy in Myanmar, the date will be announced soon.

Noor Mohammad

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Bangladesh-Myanmar border and 200 Rohingya trapped, at least 69 people were killed in 5 days
Foreign Desk , November 15, 2016


Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf on Tuesday, one of the leaders told the French news agency AFP, on Myanmar security forces crackdown 200 Rohingya in Rakhine state fled.and escaped to the border,along Bangladesh.
The .Bangladeshi border guards pushed them -back on Monday, he said

The Rohingya leader said 200 Rohingya, mostly women and children were trapped beside the. barbed wire fencing, finding no safe place to hide. There's no place to go back to. "

Meanwhile, Myanmar's military said in a statement, at least 69 Rohingyas have been killed in clashes with them. Meanwhile, security forces killed 17 people, the statement also said. Rohingyas killed in a "violent attack" the statement also said. Rakhine state, which began recently, as part of counter-insurgency operations conducted by the army claimed that the casualties.

Rohingya accused the army of killing civilians, as well as the inhabitants of villages were burnt and raped.

Myanmar's military said 69 people were killed, but one of the BBC's report expressed concern that the British media called "the actual number of deaths could be much higher." The information provided about the violence in Myanmar are 'inconsistent' the said in his BBC report.

Hundreds of ethnic violence in the state in 01 Rohingya Muslims were killed there in recent weeks after the tension has been high. On October 9, the internal areas of the country bordering Myanmar coordinated terrorist attacks killed nine policemen. Two days later, on Tuesday, October 11, Myanmar's state media said the death of more than 1. They claim that, about 300 people attacked the soldiers with pistols and sharp weapons, the army counter-attacked.



Myanmar's government is searching for the attackers violence "clearance operation" is called. However, according to human rights groups monitoring the state of Rakhine ethnic persecution by Myanmar's army continues. The houses were set on fire, including by rape, many women are under physical and psychological oppression.

Human Rights Watch's report on Saturday, October 10 and November in three villages in the northern district of Mangadau 430 buildings were burned. Human Rights Watchdirector Brad Adams said in a statement: "The new satellite images of Rohingya villages, vast apocalyptic sign simply did not show, but also to make sure that before we thought the situation even more serious."

The army used helicopter gunships to attack, AFP reported.

Myanmar Rohingyas are not recognized by the government. According to the AFP report, there has been printed statement that Myanmar's military, which killed Rohingyas "Bengali" is being referred to. In a Facebook post from the army in Myanmar on Monday, 234 people have been referred to the arrest of Bengalis.

Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf in Bangladesh on Monday, the 19-year-old young Mohammed Towhid told AFP on the phone, "They (the army) killed my sister in front of my eyes. I was hiding under the dung. After the that night, I fled for the border. "

The young man said, "I left my mother alone at home. If she's still alive,, I do not know. " He said the army set fire to the house of hundreds of Rohingya families.

The Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state of Myanmar government does not recognize as citizens. The majority Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims from Bangladesh where it is. They are referred to in their own country, "illegal immigrants from Bangladesh as well. Their citizenship has been revoked and movement restrictions have been diverse.

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party after coming to power with an absolute majority did not change this reality. Suu Kyi has been leaked before and after the election, but the various aspects of anti muslims agenas. The Muslims did not contest the election as. 'Rohingya' scheduled I.D cards were refused.

Meanwhile, the United Nations has already declared to the world's that Rohingyas' are the most persecuted people, "he declared.Expressing concern over the violence in Rakhine state, the UN called on all sides to be restrained.

Source: AFP, BBC.
 
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My request to Bangladesh government,pls close the border or else Myanmar might see this as a opportunity to push their people into our land.
 
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বিয়ষটি নিশ্চিত করেছেন টেকনাফ ২ বিজিবি ব্যাটালিয়নের উপ-অধিনায়ক মেজর আবু রাসেল ছিদ্দিকী।

তিনি জানান, নাফনদীর সীমান্ত অতিক্রম করে ওইদিন টেকনাফের সাবরাং ইউনিয়নের নয়াপাড়ার ৫নং সুইচ গেইট, ও হ্নীলার ওয়াব্রাং এলাকা দিয়ে নৌকা দিয়ে বাংলাদেশে অবৈধভাবে অনুপ্রবেশের সময় ৮৬ মিয়ানমারের নাগরিককে আটক করা হয়। এদের মধ্যে ২৫ শিশু, ৪০ নারী ও ২১ পুরুষ রয়েছেন। তারা সবাই মিয়ানমারের আকিয়াবের খৈয়ারচর গ্রামের বাসিন্দা।

মেজর আবু রাসেল ছিদ্দিকী বাংলা ট্রিবিউনকে জানান, আটক রোহিঙ্গা নাগরিকদের মানবিক সহযোগিতা দিয়ে দুপুর আড়াইটার দিকে স্ব স্ব সীমান্ত পয়েন্ট দিয়ে মিয়ানমারে ফেরত পাঠানো হয়েছে। আটক রোহিঙ্গারা বিভিন্ন রোগের চিকিৎসা নিতে তারা মিয়ানমার থেকে বাংলাদেশে অনুপ্রবেশ করেছিল বলে জানান এবং সীমান্তে অনুপ্রবেশ ঠেকাতে বিজিবি সতর্ক রয়েছে বলে জানিয়েছে বিজিবির ওই কর্মকর্তা।

টেকনাফ সীমান্তের জাদিমুড়ার বাসিন্দা মো. হাসান মাহমুদ জানান, মঙ্গলবার দুপুরে মিয়ানমারে হেলিকপ্টার উঠতে দেখা গেছে। কয়েকটি গুলির শব্দও শোনা গেছে। রাত হলে মিয়ানমারের গুলির শব্দ বেশি শোনা যায়। ধারণা করা হচ্ছে গত কয়েকদিন ধরে মিয়ানমারের সেনাবাহিনীর সঙ্গে রোহিঙ্গাদের সংর্ঘষের ঘটনাকে কেন্দ্র করে রোহিঙ্গারা বাংলাদেশে প্রবেশ করার চেষ্টা চালাচ্ছে।

আন্তর্জাতিক গণমাধ্যম জানিয়েছে, মিয়ানমারের রাখাইন রাজ্যে রোহিঙ্গা মুসলমানদের সঙ্গে নতুন এক সংঘর্ষে সেনাবাহিনীর গুলিতে অন্তত ৩০ ব্যক্তি নিহত হয়েছে। তবে নিহতরা রামদা জাতীয় অস্ত্র এবং লাঠিসোঁটা নিয়ে তাদের ওপর হামলা চালিয়েছিল বলে দাবি করেছে দেশটির সেনাবাহিনী। এর আগে হেলিকপ্টার গানশিপ থেকে রোহিঙ্গা মুসলমানদের গ্রামে গুলিবর্ষণ করার ঘটনা স্বীকার করে দেশটির সরকার। এ ঘটনার পর সেখানকার মানুষজন নিজেদের বাড়িঘর ছেড়ে পালাচ্ছে।

টেকনাফ উপজেলা নির্বাহী কর্মকর্তা মো. শফিউল আলম জানান, মিয়ানমারের আকাশে হেলিকপ্টার ওঠার খবরটি স্থানীয় লোকজনের কাছ থেকে শুনেছি। বিষয়টি ঊর্ধ্বতন কর্মকর্তাদের জানানো হয়েছে।

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মানবতা আজ কোথায় হারিয়ে গেল? মানবতা কাদের জন্য? মুসলিমদের জন্য সত্যিই কি মানবতা নেই? এসব প্রশ্ন শুধুই ঘুরপাক খাচ্ছে মাথার মধ্যে। তবে কোনো সমাধান পাচ্ছিনা। এসব বিষয় নিয়ে এখন লিখতেও মন চাইছে না আর! কাকে উদ্দেশ্য করে লিখবো? কী লিখবো? সবকিছু তো আমাদের চোখের সামনে ভাসছে প্রতিনিয়ত। ‘মানবতা’, ‘মানবতাবাদী’, এই শব্দগুলো যতবেশী আওড়ানো হয় তার অর্ধেকও যদি এই শব্দের অর্থের প্রতি খেয়াল রাখা যেতো? তাহলে পৃথিবীতে কাউকে মানবতার গ্যাঁড়াকলে পিষ্ট হয়ে জীবন দিতে হতো না।
মিয়ানমারের আরাকান রাজ্য যেন এক মৃত্যুপুরীর নাম। রোহিঙ্গা মুসলিমদের উপর ইতিহাসের বর্বরতম জঘন্যতম সব কায়দায় হত্যাকাণ্ড চালাচ্ছে অভিশপ্ত বৌদ্ধরা। জীব হত্যা মহাপাপ শ্লোগানধারী জালিম নরপিশাচ উগ্র বৌদ্ধ সন্ত্রাসীরা আরাকানের অসহায় মুসলিম ভাইবোনদের জীবন নিয়ে খেলছে অবিরত। তাদের কাছে সম্ভবত মুসলমান জীবের গণনায় পড়েনা। তাই তাদের হত্যা করা পুণ্যের কাজ মনে করছে! সেখানে প্রতিমুহূর্তে মরছে মানুষ পুড়ছে ঘরবাড়ী। পৃথিবীতে এমন কোনো জঘন্য কায়দার হত্যাকাণ্ড বাকী নেই যা অসহায় রোহিঙ্গা মুসলিমদের উপর চলছে না।

মুসলিম ভাইবোনদেরকে দা, কিরিচ, চাপাতি দিয়ে কচুকাটা কাটছে। স্বজনদের সামনে একেক করে গোটা পরিবারের সদস্যদের হত্যা করা হচ্ছে। ভারি অস্ত্র দিয়েও অসহায় নিরস্ত্র মুসলিমদের শহীদ করা হচ্ছে। ছোটছোট শিশুদের নানান কায়দায় শহীদ করছে এই সন্ত্রাসী জঙ্গিরা। অমানবিক সব নির্যাতনের পর নিরীহ মুসলিমদের আগুনে পুড়ে ভস্ম করা হচ্ছে। হেলিকপ্টার থেকে মুসলিম বসতীগুলোর উপর বৃষ্টির মতো গোলা বর্ষণ করা হচ্ছে। কোথাও সামান্য ঠাই পাচ্ছেনা নিরীহ নির্যাতিত এই জনপদের মুসলিমরা। এমনকি প্রতিবেশী মুসলিম দেশ বাংলাদেশেও!!

আমাদের দেশের প্রতিবাদী মানবতাবাদী ভাইয়েরা রোহিঙ্গাদের পক্ষে কেনো প্রতিবাদে ফেটে পড়ছেনা? তারা অসহায় দুর্ভাগা মুসলিমদের দুর্দিনের দুরবস্থার কথা কেনো বিশ্ববাসীর কাছে তোলে ধরছে না? ফেসবুকের প্রতিবাদী জিহাদী ভাইয়েরা কই? মাজলুম রোহিঙ্গাদের পক্ষে আপনাদের প্রতিবাদী কলম চলছেনা কেনো? শুধু একে অপরের ছিদ্রান্বেষণ করা-ই আমাদের কাজ? নিজেদের স্বার্থ উদ্ধারের লক্ষ্যে তো ফেবুপাড়ায় আগুন ধরিয়ে দিতে পারি! মতপথের বিপরীত হলেই যে কারো লুঙ্গী টেনে খুলে ফেলতে পারি! আমাদের কাজ কি শুধু এসবই?

এদেশের এতোগুলো ইসলামী রাজনৈতিক দলের কাজ কী আমার বুঝে আসেনা! প্রতিবেশী মুসলিমদের ব্যাপারে তারাও কেনো নীরবতা পালন করছে? রোহিঙ্গা মুসলিমদের হত্যা, নির্যাতন বন্ধের দাবীতে তাদের কোনো বিবৃতি, কর্মসূচী পাচ্ছিনা কেনো? বৌদ্ধ কর্তৃক রোহিঙ্গা মুসলিম নির্যাতন বন্ধের দাবীতে হাতেগণা একটি দলের কয়েকটি কর্মসূচী ব্যতীত অন্যান্য ইসলামী দল নীরব কেনো? তাদের কি কোনো দায়িত্ববোধ নেই? নাকি দেশে গণতন্ত্রের মাধ্যমে হকুমত কায়েম করাই তাদের মূল কাজ?! আরাকানের মুসলিম নির্যাতনের দৃশ্যগুলো দেখে নিজেকে নিয়ন্ত্রণ করা কঠিন হয়ে গেছে।

কেউ নেই তাদের পাশে! কেউ এগিয়ে আসছেনা তাদের সাহায্যে! কী মুসলিম কী অমুসলিম! সবাই তামাশা দেখছে! যেন রোহিঙ্গারা মানুষই নয়! তাদের জন্য যেন মানবতা শব্দটুকু বেমানান! তারা যেন বিশ্ববাসীর জন্য বোঝা! তাদের বেঁচে থাকার যেন কোনো অধিকারই নেই! মানবেতর জীবনযাপনের অভয়ারণ্য যেন আরাকান! হে মুসলিম বিশ্ব? তোমাদের কি কোনো দায়িত্ববোধ বলতে কিছু নেই? নির্যাতিতদের পাশে দাঁড়ানো প্রতিটি মুসলিমের দায়িত্ব নয় কী? কী জবাব দেবে সেদিন মহান রবের দরবারে? তোমরা কি এখনো জাগবে না? আর কতো রক্তনদী পাড়ি দিতে হবে অসহায় রোহিঙ্গা মুসলিমদের? কেনো এগিয়ে আসছে না কেউ?

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মায়ানমারে রোহিঙ্গা মুসলিমদের উপর বর্বর নির্যাতনের প্রধান আসামী !! ২০০৩ সালে ধর্মীয় বিদ্বেষ ছড়ানোর দায়ে তার২৫ বছরের জেল হয়। পরবর্তীতে ২০১০ সালে জেল থেকে মুক্তি লাভ করে সে নিজেকে মায়ানমারের ” ওসামা বিন লাদেন” হিসেবে প্রচার করে !! তখন থেকে সে ইউটিউব ও ফেসবুকের মত মিডিয়াতে ব্যাপক প্রচারনা চালাতে থাকে ।
২০০১ সালে সে মুসলিম বিদ্বেষী গোষ্ঠী “969 movement” এ যোগ দেয় । তার বিরুদ্ধে মুসলমানদের বিরুদ্ধে উৎপীড়ন চালানোর জন্য প্রচারনা চালানোর অভিযোগ থাকলেও সে নিজেকে একজন শান্তিপ্রিয় ধর্মজাজক হিসেবেই দাবি করে ! অবশ্য সে প্রকাশ্যে মুসলমানদেরকে শত্রু বলে দাবি করে !!

২০১৩ সালের জুন মাসে প্রকাশিত টাইম ম্যাগাজিনের কাভার পেজে তাকে “The Face of Buddhist Terror” হিসেবে অভিহিত করা হয় ! “ তুমি দয়ামায়া-ভালোবাসায় পরিপূর্ন হতে পারো, কিন্তু তুমি পাগলা কুত্তার পাশে ঘুমাতে পারো না” – মুসলিমদের উদ্দেশ্য করে বলা তার বচন ! সে আরো বলে যে আমরা যদি দুর্বল হয়ে যাই, তবে আমাদের ভূমি একদিন মুসলিমদের হয়ে যাবে !!
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Myanmar: UN expert warns of worsening rights situation after “lockdown” in Rakhine State
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GENEVA (18 November 2016) – A United Nations expert has called on the Government of Myanmar to take immediate action to tackle the deteriorating human rights situation in northern Rakhine State.

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THE LADY’S GOVERNMENT EXTENDS GENOCIDAL OPERATION OF REGIME
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Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and military commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing discuss regarding Rakhine state issue at President Office, Nay Pyi Taw on October 14, 2016. (Photo – MOI)


Offering a non-racist attitude, father of Aung San Suu Kyi, General Aung San laid a foundation of a democratic Burma. But notorious Ne Win destroyed the foundation and cultivated a seed of racism that became a cancerous foundation of Burma; indigenous ethnic of Taiyinthar was introduced for the fertility of racism in a diverse society of Burma by Ne Win.

He combined the socialism and fascism for his Barmanization process. The persecution of minorities based on ethnic and religion was initiated by Ne Win since 1965 and Rohingya became the most persecuted ethnic.

In 1990 military Junta established Buddhist Dhammaryun in every street and General Khin Nyunt formed NaSaKa to advance genocidal process against Rohingya and Muslims; National Identities of Rohingya were confiscated and issued White Cards for them to make them stateless or eliminate all.

Thein Sein government, proclaiming democracy process, formed 969 and MaBaTha Buddhist terror groups against Rohingya and Muslims, conducted nationwide violence against them and kept all Rohingya in the concentration camps and ghettos depriving all fundamental human rights.

Aung San Suu Kyi’s new civilian government extends genocidal operations of Myanmar generals; within 100 days of her administration, two mosques were burnt down in Hpakant and Thuye Thamin, 100s of Muslim cows were robbed by the MaBaTha terror monks and 35 Muslims from Thingangyun of Yangon were arbitrarily arrested and detained on the allegation of illegal immigrants.

Life of Rohingya in Arakan State became 100 times worse than Thein Sein government; it extends restrictions on them, blocks humanitarian aids, forces Rohingya to accept NVC cards identifying them illegal immigrants and organizes protests and violence against Rohingya.

Since 10 October 2016, the worst is happening in Maungdaw with 100s of Rohingya murdered, mutilated and tortured, more than one thousand Rohingya’s houses were torched and soldiers committed gang raped of Rohingya women at gun point. Though Human Rights Watch reported destruction of 400 Rohingya’s building on Nov-10, the number increased more than double of it.

The United Nations and World Superpowers are silent on genocidal operations of Myanmar army. State Counselor, once considered an icon of democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi has appointed a genocidaire, ex-Major Zaw Htay who spread propaganda for nationwide violence during Thein Sein administration, as a main spokesperson of new government.

State’s media and all Buddhist media in Myanmar present Rohingya as Islamic terrorists who harm State’s security and peace publishing propaganda that Rohingya burnt their own villages, killed their people and they are illegal Bengali immigrants. As the whole violent area is under the siege by the security forces, and there is no way to access for the independent observers to verify the government’s claims.

Horror inflicted on Rohingya men, women and children through the photos and short videos captured by the Rohingya on the ground. Beginning of the violence, from 10 October to 15 October , three mass graves were discovered, and from 12 November to 15 November, children being thrown into burning homes by the Myanmar military and mass burnt corpse by horrific attacks with heavy weapons of army were found.

According to Rohingya on the ground, at least 700 were killed and 450 innocent civilians were arbitrarily arrested. Assadullah aged 25 from Wa Baik of Maungdaw Said “Our whole village was burnt down, my mother was killed by the army, they ruin my life, I don’t care I will be alive or not but will take revenge”

The world knows about Rohingya Genocide but many media do not notice genocidal operation against all Muslims in Myanmar. Except Arakan, Muslims in other States and Divisions of Myanmar have national identity cards called Scrutiny Cards.

But now, in the new civilian government, 100s of restrictions are being enforced to make all Muslim stateless; during Thein Sein era, new born babies of Muslims were issued birth certificates within 1-2 weeks, now it takes 2-3 months, and ceased issuing Scrutiny Cards to those whose parents hold it.

It is against the laws of Myanmar. 100s of Muslim students who passed matriculation exam cannot attend Universities because Scrutiny Cards is a requirement of every University and government does not issue for the new generation of Muslim. 1000s of new born babies remain unregistered because of the new restrictions that can cause population of stateless increase in future.

Rohingya IDPs in Rathedaung, Mrauk U and MinPya are starving because government does not allow to send ration to them as an excuse of security purpose. In Koe Dan Kauk, Ywa Gyi, TaungNa, Chilhali, MyeikNa, and Surali villages of Rathedaung, more than 10000 Rohingya urgently need food.

In Northern Maungdaw, 26000 Rohingya need immediate help of food, shelters, cloth and medicine. General Soe Naing Oo said at Press Conference that army is following Geneva Convention. The Lady said “There is no such country on Earth which does not violate human rights recently.
 
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" মিয়ানমারে মুসলিম হত্যা বন্ধ করো "

আল্লাহু আকবার, আল্লাহু আকবার ।
এটা মুসলমানের বাংলাদেশ, আরও একবার প্রমান করে দিলো বাংলাদেশের মুসলমানেরা । এ দেশের মুসলমানেরা জেগে উঠলে তোমাদের ভাই ব্রাদারদের রক্ষা হবেনা, অতএব সাবধান আমাদের ভাই বোনদের উপর হত্যাযজ্ঞ বন্ধ করো ।

মিয়ানমারে নির্বিচারে মুসলিম হত্যা,নারী ও শিশু ধর্ষণ এবং অমানবিক নির্যাতনের প্রতিবাদে ১৮ নভেম্বর শুক্রবার বিকাল ৩টায় জাতীয় প্রেসক্লাব থেকে এক বিক্ষোভ মিছিল অনুষ্ঠিত হয়। মজলুম জনতার পক্ষে, জালিমদের বিরুদ্ধে এই বিক্ষোভ মিছিলে অংশ নেয় লক্ষ লক্ষ সাধারন জনতা ।

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UN urges Bangladesh to keep Myanmar border open


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A Myanmar citizen in tears pleads with BGB and Coast Guard personnel to be let ashore with his family on the Naf River near Teknaf. Star file photo

Star Online Report
http://www.thedailystar.net/country/un-urges-bangladesh-keep-myanmar-border-open-1316908


United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR has urged Bangladesh to keep its Myanmar border open to allow safe passage to civilians fleeing the violence in the northern Rakhine state.

UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards made the appeal at a briefing in Geneva yesterday. Joseph Tripura, an official at the UNHCR Dhaka office confirmed The Daily Star this evening about the briefing.

“UNHCR is deeply concerned about the safety and well-being of civilians in the northern part of Rakhine state, Myanmar. We are urging the government of Myanmar to ensure the protection and dignity of all civilians on its territory in accordance with the rule of law and its international obligations,” Adrian Edwards said.

“We appeal for calm and for humanitarian access to assess and meet the needs of thousands of people who have reportedly been displaced from their homes by the ongoing security operation. The affected population is believed to be in urgent need of food, shelter and medical care,” he added.

UNHCR also urged the government of Myanmar to immediately allow humanitarian actors to resume the life-saving activities they had been carrying out for some 160,000 civilians in northern Rakhine State until such activities were suspended on 9 October.

Myanmar's security forces have killed almost 70 people since taking control of northern Rakhine state last month, the army said, adding that media reports of widespread destruction in the area were "false news".

Troops have poured into a strip of land along the border with Bangladesh, an area largely home to the Muslim Rohingya minority, since deadly raids on police border posts on October 9.


Clashes escalated over the weekend when troops killed more than 30 people in two days of fighting that saw the military use helicopter gunships for the first time.

The Great Debate
Why is no one helping Myanmar’s Rohingya?
By Amy Tennery
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/06/17/why-is-no-one-helping-myanmars-rohingya/

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Migrants believed to be Rohingya rest inside a shelter after being rescued from boats at Lhoksukon in Indonesia’s Aceh Province May 11, 2015. REUTERS/Roni Bintang

Myanmar is currently in the throes of a massive humanitarian crisis. Thousands of ethnic Rohingya are fleeing persecution. Boarding overcrowded boats (and often enduring horrific conditions), they’re going to countries scarcely able to help them — or in some cases, frankly, not interested in helping them.

How did this happen?


A Reuters graphic shows where displaced Rohingyas have landed. Click image to expand.

Who are the Rohingya?

The Rohingya are an ethnic Muslim minority in the majority Buddhist Myanmar. Many of their enemies refuse to acknowledge that the Rohingya are an ethnically distinct group. They claim instead that the Rohingya are Bengali and that their presence in Myanmar is the result of illegal immigration (more on that later). The Rohingya, for their part, claim to be pre-colonial residents of Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the Middle East Institute explains, with the earliest known appearance of the term Rohingya in 1799.

SLIDESHOW: Adrift at sea, unwanted on land

Why are the Rohingya fleeing Myanmar?

The Rohingya face violence and lack basic rights such as access to healthcare, education and employment. They live in “apartheid-like conditions” due to, among other things, Myanmar’s refusal to recognize them as citizens. But this is nothing new. Between May 1991 and March 1992, more than 260,000 Rohingya fled the country over “human rights abuses committed by the Burmese military, including the confiscation of land, forced labor, rape, torture, and summary executions,” the nonprofit group Physicians for Human Rights wrote in a 2013 report.

OK, but if it’s been going on almost 25 years, why is everyone talking about it now?

While this problem isn’t new, it’s gotten demonstrably worse in recent years.

Myanmar’s 2010 transition from a military-led government to a somewhat more democratic system led to some of the worst violence against Muslims. The national government has tacitly permitted the rise of the 969 movement, a group of Buddhist monks who employ “moral justification for a wave of anti-Muslim bloodshed,” Reuters reports. Since 2012, roughly 140,000 Rohingya have fled northwestern Myanmar amid deadly fighting with the majority Buddhists.

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Rupban, a Rohingya woman, shows her ration card with pictures of her family at a refugee camp in Kutupalong May 31, 2015. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman

Why is there so much animosity toward the Rohingya?

As is the case in many modern conflicts, the current unrest in Myanmar can trace its roots to the country’s colonial past.

In 1826, Britain annexed what’s now the northwest part of the country, as well as the region that’s currently home to most of Myanmar’s remaining Rohingya Muslims. Due to the British colonial government’s lax immigration laws at the time, Bengali Muslims flooded into the region. And the British installation of South Indian chettyars (money lenders) as administrators of the new colonial territory displaced Burmese Buddhist peasants. It’s had an enduring legacy, as the Economist explains:

“Over the decades [the Rohingya], without legal or any other sort of protection, have been the victims of wanton discrimination and violence by both the virulently anti-Muslim Rakhines, a Buddhist ethnic group, and agents of the central government. One of the few things Rakhines and members of the ethnic Burmese majority have in common is a shared hatred of the ‘Bengalis,’ a label they both apply to Rohingya with contempt.”

Add to that a failed Rohingya secessionist uprising between 1948 and 1961, persistent fears of Islamic encroachment on Buddhists and a 1982 citizenship law “essentially legitimizing discrimination against the Rohingya,” according to the Middle East Institute.

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Thai fishermen (R) give some supplies to migrants on a boat drifting 10 miles off the coast of the southern island of Koh Lipe, Thailand May 14, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

Why don’t nearby countries take them in?

The obvious candidates to house displaced Rohingya have appeared unwilling or unable to provide permanent homes for them.

Malaysia and Indonesia have turned away Rohingya by the hundreds because the countries claim they are financially unable to accept them. “We have to send the right message that they are not welcome here,” Malaysia’s deputy home minister remarkedrecently. The Thai navy has similarly rebuffed the refugees.

Bangladesh, a majority Muslim nation, had informally harbored the Rohingya for years — only to order them out of border camps in recent days. That’s not surprising; it’s one of the most densely populated countries in the world, with a fragile government and economy.


Why doesn’t the Myanmar government do something about this?

Good question. It’s one that the Dalai Lama, President Barack Obama, the U.S. State Department and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have all asked. Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called the violence against Rohingya a “slow genocide.” Billionaire George Soros has compared it to Nazism.

Put simply, positioning oneself against the Buddhist majority is considered a risky political move. Myanmar President Thein Sein’s office previously issued a statement referring to the rabidly anti-Rohingya 969 movement as “just a symbol of peace.” Even Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Laureate who fought for decades for democracy and reform in Myanmar, has been conspicuously quiet on the issue.
 
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Asia's migrant crisis
The dense jungles of southern Thailand and northern Malaysia have been a major stop-off point for smugglers bringing people to Southeast Asia by boat. Most are Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar who claim to be fleeing persecution.
Trafficking routes
More than 100,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled religious violence and poverty in Myanmar since 2012.
Most of the Rohingya land on the coast of Thailand and pass through camps into Malaysia.
Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand have pushed many boats back out to sea this year, leaving some stranded at sea or forced to make landings in other areas such as Aceh.

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Current situation
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Most of Myanmar's 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims live in apartheid-like conditions in Rakhine state on the west coast of the predominantly Buddhist country, and over 140,000 are displaced after deadly clashes with ethnic Rakhine Buddhists in 2012.
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Sources: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); International Org. for Migration (IOM); Reuters

Burma’s Million-Strong Rohingya Population Faces ‘Final Stages of Genocide,’ Says Report
Oct. 28, 2015

The long-persecuted ethnicity is on the verge of "mass annihilation," say experts, with new evidence indicating government complicity
Despite the U.S.-led rolling back of economic sanctions and internationally backed national elections taking place early next month, more than a million people in Burma are facing state-sponsored genocide, according to a new report.

The Rohingya Muslim community of the military-dominated Southeast Asian nation, which is now officially known as Myanmar, has been systematically persecuted and expunged from the national narrative — often at the behest of powerful extremist groups from the country’s majority Buddhist population and even government authorities — to the point where complete extermination is a possibility, according to a damning new study by the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) at the Queen Mary University of London.

“The Rohingya face the final stages of genocide,” concludes the report.

ISCI uses noted genocide expert Daniel Feierstein’s framework of the six stages of genocide, outlined in his 2014 book Genocide as Social Practice, as a lens through which to view Burma. Through interviews with stakeholders on both sides of what it describes as ethnic cleansing, as well as media reports and leaked government documents, the report enumerates how the Rohingya have undergone the first four stages — stigmatization and dehumanization; harassment, violence and terror; isolation and segregation; systematic weakening — and are on the verge of “mass annihilation.” The sixth stage, which involves the “removal of the victim group from collective history,” is already under way in many respects, the report says.

Stricken from Burma’s 135 officially recognized ethnicities in 1982, the Rohingya have undergone decades of discrimination and disenfranchisement, albeit never to the degree they currently face. The Burmese government’s official position is that the Rohingya are interlopers from neighboring Bangladesh, despite many having lived in the country for generations, and it refuses to even acknowledge their collective name, preferring the loaded term “Bengali.” The report documents a systematic deterioration of the Rohingya’s situation since communal violence broke out in June 2012 in Burma’s Rakhine (formerly Arakan) state.

Although the Burmese government has painted the strife — which saw hundreds of people, mainly Muslims, slaughtered during two main waves of violence that June and October — as a spontaneous outbreak of long-mounting religious tensions following the reported rape of a Buddhist woman, the ISCI report presents compelling evidence that the attacks were premeditated and possibly even organized by local authorities.

Interviews with some of the perpetrators — none of whom have been prosecuted because of a supposed lack of concrete evidence — reveal that they were bused into Rakhine state’s capital city Sittwe from nearby villages, provided two free meals a day and told it was their “duty as Rakhine to participate in an attack on the Muslim population.”

There are also strong indications that the government not only allowed the violence to take place unabated for almost a week, but that police, military and other state security forces participated in the attacks themselves, the report says.

Since then, close to 140,000 Rohingya have been sequestered in squalid camps outside the state’s capital, heavily guarded and prevented from leaving by security forces. The 4,500 that remain in Sittwe reside in a run-down ghetto with similar restrictions on movement. A majority of the Rohingya, numbering about 800,000, are spread out across two townships in northern Rakhine state — another region completely blocked off from the outside world by the military.

A lot of the food rations sent by international aid organizations never make it to the Rohingya camps, and denial of access to adequate health care have turned them into hotbeds for malnutrition and disease. As a result of the apartheid-like conditions, the inhabitants of these camps are also largely prevented from receiving an education and earning any sort of livelihood.

“The abuses that the Rohingya are experiencing are at a level and scale that we have not seen elsewhere in Southeast Asia,” Matthew Smith, the founder and executive director of Bangkok-based nonprofit Fortify Rights, tells TIME. The human-rights organization has been documenting abuses in Burma, and Smith echoes the assertion that there is a strong reason to believe state-enabled ethnic cleansing is taking place in the country.

“The Rohingya don’t have to be annihilated for someone to be held responsible for the crime of genocide,” he says. “They [Burmese authorities] are creating conditions of life for over a million people that are designed to be destructive.”
 
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THE PLIGHT OF THE ROHINGYA BY JAMES NACHTWEY
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Children rest at a refugee camp in Bayeun, outside of Langsa, Indonesia, May 20. They were among the 25,000-plus Rohingya Muslim migrants who have fled reported...
general elections, a complete reversal from the last election in 2010 when Rohingya voted in large numbers and some were elected to the legislature, as the military-backed government yoked their animosity to the Rakhine to see of the challenge of ethnic parties aligned with the latter.

No political party has countered the Islamophobic national narrative, with even the liberal National League for Democracy (NLD) of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi going to the polls without a single Muslim candidate, and the Rohingya’s deplorable situation will likely endure no matter the election’s result.

“There will be no change for the Rohingya,” says Shwe Maung, a Rohingya lawmaker from northern Rakhine state who has been barred from re-election. “The government is totally denying our community, totally denying our ethnicity,” he tells TIME. “Whatever is happening is with the ultimate objective of genocide or cleansing, which is to finish these people … and to drive them out.”

In the absence of a light at the end of the tunnel, there is a growing likelihood that Rohingya will take to the seas en masse in order to flee their country — like thousands did earlier this year — in the coming months, falling pray to people-smugglers with often deadly consequences.

“Many Rohingya tell us that their options are to stay in Rakhine state and face death or flee the country,” Smith says. “Many of them know that attempting to flee the country is in itself life-threatening, and they’re willing to take those risks because the situation in Rakhine state is as bad as it is.”

The previous exodus, which reached its height this June, was not only enabled and encouraged but also enforced by government authorities, interviews conducted by al-Jazeera for its new documentary Genocide Agenda reveal.

“They said, ‘You are Muslim and you are not allowed to live in Rakhine state. Get on the boat and flee wherever you want,’” an elderly Rohingya man says, recounting the presence of members of Burma’s security forces, army and police who forced them into the vessels. When his elder brother tried to resist, Rakhine Buddhists hacked him to death with a sword on the spot, he tells al-Jazeera before breaking down in tears.

The documentary, released on Monday, is the culmination of a yearlong investigation by al-Jazeera and contains stark evidence of government intent to, at the very least, promote an anti-Muslim sentiment among the Burmese population. Classified government documents obtained by the news channel’s investigative unit warn of “countrywide communal violence between Muslims and Burmans” being planned at a mosque in Burma’s capital, Rangoon, (violence that ultimately did not take place), and a presentation given to new army recruits contains sections on the “Fear of Extinction of Race” detailing how “Bengali Muslims … infiltrate the people to propagate the religion” and aim to increase their population and wipe out the Burmese Buddhists.

The film’s findings, as well as Fortify Rights’ research, were also the subject of an eight-month analysis by the Lowenstein Clinic at Yale Law School. The clinic examined the Rohingya’s circumstances according to the 1948 International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and precedents set by international law, and concluded that “strong evidence” exists to substantiate the claim that genocide is being carried out in Burma with intent to destroy the Rohingya.

The clinic’s report, released on Thursday, calls for a commission of inquiry by the U.N. Human Rights Council to conduct an “urgent, comprehensive and independent investigation” into alleged genocidal acts perpetrated against the Rohingya.

“The international community needs to understand in a deeper way, in a clearer way, that the abuses being perpetrated against the Rohingya are widespread, systematic and a matter of state policy,” Smith tells TIME. “The international community needs to take action. These abuses have been going on for decades.”

Neither TIME nor al-Jazeera was able to obtain a response to the allegations from the Burmese government despite repeated attempts, though Deputy Information Minister Ye Htut told us last year: “We never pay attention to organizations such as Fortify Rights, which are openly lobby groups for the Bengalis.”

Such attitudes do not bode well for the Rohingya, whose plight is grimly summed up by a woman living in one of the camps interviewed by ISCI.

“If the international community can’t help us, please drop a bomb on us and kill all of us,” she says.
 
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I don't see the ASEAN partners raising any issue. Why should we? Don't we have our problems? This issue back in 2013 cannot come at a worse timing.

The one concern that Bangladesh should have are the insurgent groups operating along the Burmese border.
 
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My request to Bangladesh government,pls close the border or else Myanmar might see this as a opportunity to push their people into our land.

Let them come. They are in need. it is a work cherity.
 
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