Recently, President Thein Sein claimed “the riot in the region is not
religious but communal. International community and media are
politicizing the matter,” while they have been instigating violence
against Rohingya and propagating racial hatred among general Burmese
people and to turn them against Rohingyas by using Buddhism as a tool.
Government and Rakhine extremists accuse Rohingyas to be threats and
dangers to Buddhism. Therefore, Rohingyas need to be cleansed.
Moreover, President Thein Sein recently in an interview to VOA said
“Bengalis (his own term for Rohingyas) have been living there for
generations. We have been considering modifying 1982 citizenship law.”
Is it not contradictory to his earlier statement to UNHCR Chief Antonio
Gutterres “they are recent Bengali Immigrants and the only solution to
the problem is to settle them in third countries?” Burmese government
and Rakhine extremist in home and abroad are leaving no stone unturned
to deceive the world. They are forcefully or by other means using
members of Hindu society (who look like Rohingyas) and taking pictures
and making video showing their daily activities to portray that the
situation in Arakan has become peaceful and come to normality. Hence, no
investigations are needed, no observers and media to sent and not even
humanitarian assistances, at a time when they continuously committing
crimes against Rohingyas.
When UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, Mr. Tomas Ojea Quintana
visited Arakan, Burmese authorities organized some Hindus and few of
their puppets from Rohingya community to meet and lie to him. Besides,
he was not given free access to meet Rohingya people. The similar case
happened with Turkish Foreign Misnister Ahmet Davutglo when he visited
Sittwe, Arakan. The government vetted translator mistranslated and
omitted the important words of a Rohingya victim in the translation.
On 17th August 2012, Thein Sein released an 18-paged statement in which
he said “some political parties, monks and individuals incited extreme
racial hatred and encouraged people to commit irrational racial attacks
against Bengali Muslims (his own term for Rohingya Muslims).” What is
this? Is it not contradictory to his earlier statements? Is not he an
oxymoron?
By the time Human Rights Watch (HRW) exposed the involvement of the
government in the crimes, President Thein Sein has rather hastily set up
an inquiry commission by himself to investigate the ongoing crises in
Arakan. How can one expect impartial investigations when the culprits
who started this ugly racism and committed all these crimes themselves
have taken charge of the investigations? One should wonder who will be
the ultimate sufferers as a result of this investigation when the people
in the government itself are criminals. The commission visited violence
hit regions and went back. But they could not meet the real victims,
Rohingyas. When some Rohingyas invited the commission (on phone) to come
to their places and see their actual situation, a member of the
commission replied “we don’t have any authority to go to wherever we
wish and we can only visit the places that the government wishes. In
fact, cheating is not new to the Burmese government. They are famous for
that even among Burmese community. But international community should
not fall into their traps.
Conclusion
Though the situation in Arakan now is externally portrayed as it calmed
down, the atrocities against Rohingyas and the holocaust in the Burmese
version of Eichmann’s hell are still on. Yet, sadly, their plights can
hardly draw any international attention as especially Western Powers who
claim to be Human Rights champions are quiet.
After all, why are they carrying out all atrocities against Rohingyas?
It is particularly because of political gains of both Burmese regimes
and Rakhine extremist leaders. As for the regime, they have successfully
diverted public attentions from the poltical and economic crises they
were having, depopularized Daw Aung San Suu Kyi among some segments of
Burmese society and international communtiy, gained much required
public supports, discredited international media and convinced general
Burmese that only Military can protect the country. As for the Rakhine
extremists, they are on their way to successfully root out Rohingyas who
have become the major hindrance to their achieving an independent
Arakan.
Pro-fascists segment of Burmese society hate Rohingyas generally for two
reasons: they look different from the mainstream Mongoloid people and
practice a different religion. Rohingyas are of Indo-Arayan descendents
known as one of the earliest settlers of Arakan and practice Islam. The
Burmese Regime is heavily influenced by Nazi ideology of racial
purification. And the regime brainwashed most members of Burmese society
with their racist ideology. Hitler tried to wipe out Jews who are
racially, religiously and ideologically different from Nazi German.
Burmese regime is on their effort to wipe out Rohingyas because they
(Rohingyas) are racially, religiously and ideologically different from
them. And Adolf Eichmann was the in charge of the Exterminations Camps
for Jews known as Eichmann’s Hell. Thein Sein and his ally, Dr. Aye
Maung, the chairman of Rakhine National Development Party (RNDP) are the
in-charges of Extermination Camps for Rohingyas, the Burmese version of
Eichmann’s Hell.
It is up to International Community and all the concerned quarters to
let this continue until Rohingyas are wiped out or to stop the crimes
against humanity. It is the high time for all of us to realize the
crimes of these generation criminals and Neo-Fascists and to bring them
into international criminal court of justice (ICCJ) in an effort to stop
the crimes on the earth forever.
Mohammed Sheikh Anwar is an activist studying Bachelor of Arts in
Business Studies at Westminster International College, Malaysia
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