Rohingya human rights abuse drumbeat is maddening
Posted by Ann Corcoran on July 20, 2012
Update July 21: Here is a piece that makes my point—check out this Saudi academic talking about how Rohingya children are being grilled naked and alive in Burma by Buddhists. Meanwhile, we still have no explanation for reports of Rohingya immigrants imprisoned in Saudi Arabia a country which takes no refugees! What a bunch of lying sacks….
Readers, I know you might be getting sick of my Rohingya rants, but believe me what is going on in Burma (Myanmar) affects you where ever you are in the US, Europe, Canada, or Australia because the human rights grievance industry is building a case (beating the drum) for the West to take Rohingya refugees.
We weren’t paying attention when the same cabal pushed for the widespread dissemination of Somalis to unsuspecting and unprepared towns and cities, but they are doing it now (again!) with the Rohingya, so we must pay attention.
Of course first they are pressuring the Burmese government to recognize the Rohingya Muslims as a legitimate part of that country’s ethnic makeup. (That is their business not ours!) If the human rights cadres and their media toadies fail, then get ready for the wholesale movement of Rohingya to the West.
When I first started our category Rohingya Reports almost 5 years ago, I would once in awhile get an alert about the Rohingya and what was happening as they (mostly boatloads of men) tried to gain illegal entry into places like Australia. Now, the alerts are filled with one story after another of the abuse they are supposedly suffering at the hands of Buddhists. (Never mind that Muslim Bangladesh doesn’t want them either).
The Washington Post got in on the drumbeat today with a slanted story.
* Remember as you read this that the latest round of violence began when three Rohingya men raped and murdered a young Buddhist girl back in June. Then Buddhists killed a group of Muslim “pilgrims” (Islamic agitators???) on a bus and Rohingya rioted and burned and pillaged some villages.
* Remember as you read this that the US State Department has removed from its website any reference to Rohingya connections to Islamic extremists.
* Remember that we stalled for years (fearing the extremist element) in admitting Rohingya “refugees” to the US, but at the recent (May 1) State Department meeting, several NGOs said we need to be bringing more to the US.
So here is the WaPo today:
Every story in my alerts is now like this one—the majority Buddhists are bad, Rohingya minority are abused.
BANGKOK — Communal violence is grinding on in western Myanmar six weeks after the government declared a state of emergency there, and Muslim Rohingyas are increasingly being hit with targeted attacks that have included killings, rape and physical abuse, Amnesty International said Friday.
A government spokesman for coastal Rakhine state, which was engulfed by a wave of bloody unrest in June, called the allegations groundless and biased. Amnesty’s claims are “totally opposite of what is happening on the ground,” spokesman Win Myaing said, adding that the region was calm.
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Amnesty accused both security forces and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists of carrying out new attacks against Rohingyas, who are seen as foreigners by the ethnic majority and denied citizenship by the government because it considers them illegal settlers from neighboring Bangladesh.
No mention of what started the latest round of violence. Both sides have equal damage, but who cares about the facts! The Rohingya are being abused according to Amnesty.
After a series of isolated killings starting in late May that left victims on both sides, bloody skirmishes quickly spread across much of Myanmar’s coastal Rakhine state. The government declared a state of emergency June 10, deploying troops to quell the unrest and protect both mosques and monasteries. Authorities said at least 78 people were killed and thousands of homes were burned down or destroyed — with damages roughly split evenly between Buddhists and Muslims.
The worst of the violence subsided late last month, but communal violence has ground on. Now, Amnesty said, it is mostly being directed at the Rohingya population.
Here then is one bit of this article that should make us all pause and wonder what is the truth.
Win Myaing said security forces have arrested at least 100 Muslims in the northern Rakhine state town of Maungdaw, but he said the arrests were not discriminatory. Muslims account for more than 95 percent of the population in the town, he said, and it is natural they would comprise most of the arrests there.
The town is 95% Muslim, could the 5% who are not Muslims be persecuting the 95%? I doubt it.
No matter! Let’s send them millions (of your tax dollars) in aid!
Also Friday, the new U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar announced a donation of $3 million in food aid to northern areas of the country affected by fighting between government troops and ethnic militias.
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Imagine, You live in a Country, your Neighbor is a Buddhist Racist called Ko Ko Gyi: Which Country is this?
Abid Bahar
Which Country is this? If you live in this country through generations and you are a Muslim Rohingya, you might be one of the unlucky persons on earth, because you have your neighbor, a racist named Ko Ko Gyi, who travels to the West but keeps his hoodlums in his neighborhood in Arakan to drive you and your family out of your ancestral home. The hoodlums already destroyed the ancient mosque in your neighborhood built in the 14th century. After living for centuries on this land, they think you are a person who have entered their country illegally. Your neighbor Ko Ko Gyi and his buddy Ko Myo Thein (whose wife is a Buddhist convert) claims they are all democrats, but in Ko Ko Gyi’s speech he informs his followers: “…it has been a long-standing problem; this isn’t a problem that exists only recently. For decades, the illegal immigrants have been flowing into Myanmar, …the rate these Bengalis give birth, the rate of giving birth is massive and overtime the local Rakhines feel threaten by the sky-rocketed birthrate of these Bengalis. With these birthrates, it’s only the Rakhines who feel threaten.” Another racist named Aye Chan who became a Japanese citizen came to Arakan to say to his Rakhiine people: “These So-called Rohingyas are illegal people and are influx Viruses” needed to be exterminated. The police, security force, NaSaKa (the border guard) and the military, all are there to help them destroy you, and your family. This is all in the name of you being a “foreigner.” Over a million Rohingyas were driven out of Arakan. They still think, you are a “foreigner” in your country of birth.” So you realized that it is not because you have entered the country illegally, but that these people are Buddhist racists and working on ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya.
More alarming is that lately, you have been observing young people distributing leaflets, and hoodlums gather in street corners with machetes, sticks and with them security forces with revolvers. Among them you also see some monks. Being a Rohingya Muslim you realize that this is a religiously motivated racism.
At night suddenly you hear in your Rohingya neighbor’s house the cry of a woman asking for help. Followed by a group of Rakhine young people in short pants setting fire on your Rohingya neighbor’s house and next is yours. You have no time to spare, you leave behind your possessions. You took your family in your boat anchored on the river and you found out you are the luckiest ones, you got shelter in the neighboring country. You came to tell people what happened. On your way though you saw many man and women especially children dead, especially a dead child you couldn’t forget who couldn’t get up from the mud to catch up with her parents, during the stampede, the unfortunate Rohingya will not have her stories told to her future generation. (Please see the references for details).
This seems like a story of Hitler’s Germany in the last century. No, it is in Asia, in a Buddhist country, in the remote corner of Arakan, of Burma.
You are a peace loving Buddhist. You don’t approve of this inhumanity especially after you heard Chris Lewa saying:
“Nationality in Burma should not be based on race, but rather on descent and birthplace.” You heard Lewa saying: State-sponsored abuse of the Rohingya started on June 25, and she accused the army, thenasaka (border security forces), police officers and riot police of conducting mass arrests of Rohingyas, and raids that involved looting, robbery, rapes, beatings, torture and killings.”
You heard Lewa saying: “Hundreds have died, many more have been injured, thousands of properties have been destroyed and an estimated 100,000 people have been displaced.
She adds that “There have been many attempts to block aid from UN agencies and international NGOs, said Lewa, even by Buddhist monks who are playing a leading role in rejecting aid and exhorting their communities not to do business with the Rohingya.”
But as a democrat, and a peace-loving Buddhist,you realized, these Rakhine ultra nationalists also have hijacked the peace-loving Burmese people through anti Rohingya hate propaganda. To your utter surprise , Thein Sein, the President of the country who was a former military General declared: “We will take responsibility of our ethnic nationals but it is impossible to accept those Rohingyas who are not our ethnic nationals who had entered the country illegally. The only solution is to hand those illegal Rohingyas to the UNHCR or to send them to any third country that would accept them.” You realized the President to be an old military wolf in the civilian sheep’s skin. You wonder, whether the President is in his right mind to be a reformer because his statement shows he is an out-ride racist.
You know you are a democrat Bumar, you see the West is watching Thein Sein whether he will really favor the Western business in Burma or else what? In the mean time, you see many human rights groups in the West observing the recent “June 2012 machete massacre of the Rohingyas” now are supporting Rohingya’s citizenship and strongly opine, “Enough is enough,” ” Burma is Rohingya’s ancestral home and it is about time that the President and his local provocateurs should be brought to the International Criminal Court in the Hague for justice especially after his open acknowledgement of his direct link in the ethnic cleansing and the crime against humanity.
References:
http://www.rohingyablogger.com/2012/07/rohingya-dictators-and-democracy-in.html
Tell Me What is Rohingya Genocide.
https://danyawadi.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/tell-me-what-is-rohingya-genocide-in-burma-by-abid-bahar-phd/
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=144253442377579&set=a.135378839931706.25621.100003787733026&type=1&theater
http://tv.yahoo.com/photos/myanmar-riots-slideshow/buddhist-man-holds-machete-other-members-community-guard-photo-170141758.html
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=506837352666726&set=a.255960174421113.81353.100000213983716&type=1&theater
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jack-healey/western-burma-in-conflict_b_1676863.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email+Notifications
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http://danyawadi.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/%E1%81%83%E1%81%85%E1%81%85%E1%81%8B-burmese-invasion-of-arakan-and-the-rise-of-non-bengali-settlements-in-bangladesh/
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=506837352666726&set=a.255960174421113.81353.100000213983716&type=1&theater