Arakan Rohingya Union Director General, Professor Dr. Wakar Uddin, urged
the international community, including Malaysia, to be persistent in
exerting pressure on the Myanmar government to permanently cease
hostility toward the Rohingya ethnic minority in Myanmar and reinstate
their citizenship with ethnic rights.
Dr. Uddin cautioned that there are significant numbers of
ultra-nationalist hardliners in Myanmar Government; thus it is not
likely to respond to scattered messages coming from individual countries
or a few organizations. "Countries need to come together and put
concerted pressure on the Myanmar government to stop their systematic
and persistent genocide of the Rohingya people in the Rakhine state of
Myanmar”.
"We need a multi-track approach. Not only from the Organization of
Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) speaking up, but the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
and the United Nations (UN) should come forward with stronger message on
one theme – give Rohingya all their ethnic rights and cease all the
human right abuses permanently, and condemn the violence towards the
Rohingya Muslims," Dr. Uddin urged at the international conference
"Plight of the Rohingya: Solutions?" in Kuala Lumpur. He urged for a
concerted international intervention effort to save the Rohingya people
and that it should be continued and sustained until the problem is
solved.
He called for a probe by United Nations to the massacre of Rohingya, and
long term deployment of international monitoring teams and media in
Rohingya regions in Arakan State. Dr. Uddin warned that the single most
serious threat to security of Rohingya people in Arakan at this moment
is the Rakhine Police force that is arresting hundreds of Rohingya
arbitrarily and committing harsh treatments, torture, and cold blooded
murders of Rohingya. He also deplored the rapes and violence against
Rohingya women committed by Rakhine forces.
Dr. Uddin’s message to Myanmar government was “resolve the issues
through dialogue between Rohingya leadership and the Burmese government,
and other entities in Myanmar such as other political parties and
ethnic minorities - even with Rakhine elements if they are interested in
peaceful coexistence with Rohingya in Arakan”.
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