Genocide is Brewing in Burma

by Kara Foran
November 14, 2012   

5:15 pm

This post is courtesy our friends at United to End Genocide, who interviewed Mr. Mohiuddin M. Yusof, President of Rohingya Concern International, to learn more about the current crisis facing Burma’s Rohingya people following the outbreak of deadly violence in Arakan State this past June. You can also take action to stand with United to End Genocide to stop the attacks on the Rohingya people.

Can you talk about what is happening right now in Burma’s Arakan State?

The displaced people and those who are not displaced, but still live in their own homes and villages, are both still suffering a lot. Actually, those law enforcement agencies, security forces and police who have the responsibility to protect the lives of the Rohingya people have become an instrument of ethnic cleansing. This is still true today.

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ပဋိပကၡစံုစမ္းေရးေကာ္မရွင္၊ သို႔ေပးစာ

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ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ပဋိပကၡစံုစမ္းေရးေကာ္မရွင္၊

ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕။                                                  အျပည့္အစံုသို႔

 

အေၾကာင္းအရာ ။ ။ ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ ပဋိပကၡႏွင့္ စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍ အႀကံျပဳ စာတမ္းေပးပို႔ျခင္း။

 

ေလးစားစြာျဖင့္

 

၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္၊ ေမလ (၂၈)ရက္ေန႕တြင္ ရမ္းၿဗဲၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ သေျပေခ်ာင္းေက်းရြာ ေနအမ်ိဳးသမီးတစ္ဦးအား အဓမၼက်င့္၊ လူသတ္၊ ပစၥည္းလုမႈျဖင့္ ေက်ာက္နီေမာ္ရြာေန လူငယ္သုံးဦး အဖမ္းခံရ သည္မွ စတင္၍ ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္း အေရးအခင္းေပၚေပါက္လာခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ ထုိျပစ္မႈႏွင့္ စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍ ႏုိင္ငံပုိင္ ေရဒီယုိ၊ သတင္းစာမ်ားမွ တရားခံမ်ားကုိ ဖမ္းဆီးၿပီး၊ ျပစ္မႈက်ဴးလြန္သူမ်ားကုိ ထိေရာက္ဟန္႕ တား သည့္ ျပစ္ဒါဏ္ခ်မွတ္ႏုိင္ရန္ တရားစဲြအဖဲြ႕အစည္းမ်ားက စိစစ္ေနေၾကာင္း ထည့္သြင္းေဖာ္ျပျခင္းမျပဳဘဲ ပ်က္ကြက္ခဲ့သျဖင့္ ေတာင္ကုတ္ၿမိဳ႕ေပၚရွိ ပါတီအဖဲြ႕အစည္းမ်ားမွ ၀ံသာႏုရကိၡတ အမည္ခံ လူငယ္ အခ်ိဳ႕ က ဘာသာလူမ်ိဳးကို အေၾကာင္းျပဳ၍ လံႈ႕ေဆာ္စာမ်ား ေရးသားခဲ့ၾကသည္။

၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဇြန္လ (၃)ရက္ေန႕ ညေနပုိင္းတြင္ သံတဲြၿမိဳ႕မွ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕သုိ႕ ထြက္ခြက္လာသည့္ ရုိးမသစၥာခရီးသည္တင္ယာဥ္ ေတာင္ကုတ္ၿမိဳ႕၊ ေအးရိပ္ၿငိမ္ကားႀကီး၀င္းအတြင္း ရပ္နားစဥ္ မြတ္ဆလင္ ကုလား မ်ားပါရွိေၾကာင္း ၀ံသာႏုရကိၡတလူငယ္မ်ား၏ သတင္းလႊင့္ခ်က္အရ ၿမိဳ႕ေနလူထုကဓါးလွံ တုတ္စသည့္ရရာ လက္နက္ကုိင္စဲြၿပီး ေရာက္လာခဲ့ၾကရာ အတူပါရွိလာေသာ လုံၿခဳံေရးတပ္ဖဲြ႕၀င္မ်ားႏွင့္ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးအဖဲြ႕တုိ႕မွ တာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ားကထိန္းသိမ္းကြပ္ကဲမႈမရွိသျဖင့္(၁၀)ေလာင္းၿပိဳင္လူသတ္မႈ ေပၚေပါက္လာခဲ့ ရသည္။

Special Report: Witnesses tell of organized killings of Myanmar Muslims

By Jason Szep and Andrew R.C. Marshall

PAIK THAY, Myanmar | Sun Nov 11, 2012 4:18pm EST

(Reuters) - On a hot Sunday night in a remote Myanmar village, Tun Naing punched his wife and unleashed hell.

1 of 13. A Muslim woman, displaced by recent violence in Kyukphyu township, cries after arriving at the Thaechaung refugee camp outside of Sittwe in this October 28, 2012 file photo. 
Credit: REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/Files

She wanted rice for their three children. He said they couldn't afford it. Apartheid-like restrictions had prevented Muslims like Tun Naing from working for Buddhists here in Rakhine State along Myanmar's western border, costing the 38-year-old metalworker his job.

Displaced and stateless Rohingyas fleeing hell and facing limbo

Displaced and stateless Rohingyas face a life of disadvantage, and a future of untold health risks.

ROHINGYA organisations worldwide have called for a global day of action today in support of human rights for the Rohingya people of Myanmar.

Stateless Rohingya children in material and environmental disadvantage
 face severe consequences on their physical and mental health in adulthood.

As a researcher examining the access of Rohingya women to maternal health services in the greater Kuala Lumpur area, I am compelled to add my voice to theirs and share my observations about the health experiences of this group as it is impacted by displacement.

Nur Farida (not her real name) was born in Malaysia. Her parents fled Rakhine state in the late 1970s. She was one of the Rohingya women in my study who delivered their babies at home because they could not afford maternal healthcare and/or lacked documents.

Nur Farida’s husband, who had been arrested several times, was in detention at the time of her recent delivery. To feed herself, her two children and unborn child, she cleaned houses and washed clothes for others, while she lived in a rundown house lacking running water and electricity.

UN calls on Myanmar to offer citizenship to Rohingya

The UN human rights chief called on Myanmar Friday to allow Muslim Rohingya to become citizens after deadly sectarian violence in recent months in the western state of Rakhine.

Ethnic Rakhine people take refugee at a relief camp, in Mrauk U,
 in Rakhine state, western Myanmar, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 (Photo: AP)

The group's statelessness is at the heart of two major outbreaks of unrest between Buddhist and Muslim communities that has left 180 dead and forced more than 110,000, mainly Rohingya, into makeshift camps since June.

The Rohingya have no legal status, with the government and many Burmese regarding them as illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay added her voice to calls for the problem to be resolved and urged a change in the law, saying the Rohingya had been excluded from the reform process.

ႏိုင္ငံအဝွမ္း မြတ္စလင္ အျမစ္ျပတ္သုတ္သင္ေရး စစ္အစိုးရ စီမံကိန္းေရးဆြဲေနသလား

ပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ရက္သတၱပတ္အတြင္း ျဖစ္ပြါးခဲ့တဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာနဲ႔ ရခိုင္ေတြအၾကား အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈေတြဟာ အခုအခ်ိန္မွာေတာ့ ဘာသာေရးစစ္ပြဲတစ္ခု အသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းလာျပီး ရခိုင္ေဒသျပင္ပကိုပါ ကူးစက္လာဖြယ္ရာ ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒီလို သုံးသပ္ဖို႕အတြက္ အဓိက အေၾကာင္းအရင္း တစ္ခုကေတာ့ ရခိုင္ေတြ၊ လုံျခဳံေရးတပ္ေတြရဲ႕ တိုင္းရင္းသား ကမန္မြတ္ဆလင္ လူမ်ိဳးေတြအေပၚ တိုက္ခိုက္ျခင္းပါဘဲ။ ယခင္က ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္ေတြနဲ႔ ဘာျပႆနာမွ မရွိခဲ့ဘူးတဲ့ ဒီတိုင္းရင္းသား ကမန္ေတြဟာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားေတြ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ (ႏိုင္ငံသား ဟုတ္-မဟုတ္ ျပႆနာသည္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအေပၚ ခြဲျခားဆက္ဆံရျခင္း၏ အဓိက အေၾကာင္းအရင္းတစ္ခု ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ရခိုင္အပါအဝင္၊ ျမန္မာအစိုးရမွ ေျဖရွင္းေျပာဆိုထား)

ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံေျမာက္ပိုင္း အေျခစိုက္ အလြတ္တန္း သတင္းေထာက္ ဖရန္႔စစ္ ေဝ့ဒ္ (Francis Wade) ၏ “Asian Correspondent” တြင္ ႏိုဝင္ဘာ (၇)ရက္ေန႕က ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့ေသာ “Burma’s potential for a nationwide religious war” ကို ဆီေလ်ာ္ေအာင္ျပန္ဆိုသည္။