When Will Justice Be Done?

There is a violation still going on against the people called Rohingya whom were described as stateless in their own land by many. But today, they really have no homes and no foods and are living their lives under extreme sorrow due to lawlessness in their country. Besides, they are living chaotic, helpless, hopeless lives resulting from the killings and tortures of Thein Sein’s regime and its security forces in collaboration with Rakhine extremists. 

Although Thein Sein’s regime has to organize an inquiry mission into the violence in an attempt to cover up their crimes of ethnic cleansing, yet in reality on the ground, they are letting more violence be occurred against Rohingyas and other ethnic Muslims in Arakan state. Sadly, the inquiry mission team is made up with the people who themselves have committed the crimes against Rohingyas. Therefore, it is nothing but an attempt to deceive the world in general and OIC in particular. 

After all, what is this fraud inquiry mission is doing? 

Why couldn’t Thein Sein government halt the violence yet? 

In fact, what he has done so far is just beating around the bush by saying that the situation is being handled well and under control while he is neglecting what is happening on the ground. On daily basis, Rohingya elderly people and children are dying due to starvation, malnutrition and lack of medical access. Extreme weather is causing cold and floods in the places where displaced Rohingyas are living in fragile and vulnerable tents now full of mud. Rohingya youths have been being arrested by Burmese authority on lame reasons and sometimes they are abused in the custodies and prisons by Rakhine extremists. 

Above all, how can one expect from this inquiry mission that they will carry out an impartial investigation when they themselves involved in the genocide? Therefore, we invite International and OIC Inquiry Missions to Arakan to do investigation on the violence. 

Additionally, if we review why Thein Sein’s regime rejected International aids and media to the region and made Rakhine extremists protest against NGOs and INGOs etc, it is obvious that there is something they don’t want to expose or reveal. If they want justice and are not trying to cover up anything, why dare they not have such kinds of favorable international supports for the country? 

Moreover, when Malaysian Foreign Minister proposed Myanmar to offer humanitarian aids to all displaced people regardless of religion, Thein Sein’s regime refused the proposal saying that they don’t need any foreign aids and can solve their problems on their own. Contrary to this statement, Thein Sein said in his interview to VOA “we need foreign helps as we can’t alone help all the displaced people.” This trick has come after OIC’s proposal to offer humanitarian helps and to send a fact finding team to Arakan. It is another attempt to melt down the anger of International community towards Thein Sein regime concerning what he said to UNHCR Chief Antonio Guterres to put all Rohingyas into refugee camps or to deport them to third countries. 

Regarding the Rohingya issue, Thein Sein has always one-sidedly followed the desire of Rakhine National Development Party (RNDP). Like the members of RNDP, he, too, had accused Rohingyas as illegal Bengali immigrants from Bangladesh. Quite contrarily recently, he said “there are only a few Bengalis who migrated to Arakan and most of Bengalis have been living in Myanmar for decades. We need to see human as human. We need to follow human rights.” Why are there contradictions? Is not he an oxymoron? Why is he talking about human rights at this time and simultaneously continuing the genocide on the ground? Why is he so hypocritical? These are enough to prove their deception and hoax to the world. They fear that they will be punished for their crimes against humanity. That’s the reason why they are up to deceive the world again. 

When some Myanmar Buddhist Volunteer Organizations, Film Stars and 88 Generation Students Group visited the affected and affecting areas in Arakan state, they have only given aids Rakhines and neglected Rohingyas and other ethnic Muslims totally as if they are not human beings. But when Turkish Foreign Minister helped the affected people in Arakan and Saudi Arabia raised funds for all of them irrespective to race and religions, all the Buddhist racists showed their hatred and jealousy towards them and condemned their kind helps. The world should wonder how racist and extremist people they are! 

One more crucial point needs to be pointed out. 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).” But under the heading of religious affairs at point number 34, he said “Mosques, Islamic Schools and Religious scholars (Molvis) should be reduced within the boundary of law and legitimacy.” What is he trying to say? Is he indirectly saying that they will make every effort to eliminate Islam from Arakan gradually? So, at least taking this point into consideration, can we say Rohingyas are persecuted on account of their faith, Islam? Now, it has become very transparent why Rohingyas are persecuted. Besides, if one goes through this 18-paged statement, one can find many discriminatory and bigotry citations against Rohingyas. 

To sum up, by now it has become crystal clear to anyone who has humane sense that Rohingyas and other ethnic Muslims in Arakan are being tortured by administration authority, military and security forces in cooperation with Rakhine Buddhist extremists. Hence, the government itself is involving in the crimes. Therefore, we request to UN, OIC and all other international communities to send investigation teams to Arakan to find out the criminals against humanity in general and Rohingyas in particular. Or else, justice will never be done and evil doers will escape forever. And they will ignite conflicts again and again. Now, it is the high time to combat such kinds of genocides and atrocities altogether as “Injustice somewhere is the threat to justice everywhere.” 

Written by Snowy

Revised by Mohammed Sheikh Anwar

Thousands of Rohingyas dead'

Abul Kasim: Claims death toll higher than reported in mediaable

Number of growing casualties played down by authorities, says refugee

ROHINGYAS in Malaysia are claiming that media reports on the death toll in the Arakan region of Myanmar are grossly inaccurate, saying thousands of Rohingya villagers have become casualties of the growing unrest.

Contractor Abul Kasim, 34. who has been staying in Malaysia for the past 10 years, said the reported numbers were played down by the Myanmar authorities.

"This (the violence) is nothing new. It has been going on for some time, many years, in fact. All these years, there has been only discrimination, but the mass murders only started recently," said Abul Kasim, who fled Myanmar about a decade ago to escaped the mistreatment of Rohingyas by the Myanmar junta.

"They (army personnel) raped my cousin in front of me. They were hunting me down after realising I witnessed the incident. I couldn't take it any longer and decided to come to Malaysia to start a new life.

"I later learned that my cousin committed suicide." Abul Kasim was one of 30 Rohingyas who volunteered to pack supplies provided by Kelab Putera 1Malaysia, bound for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh next week.

"This is the only way I can help my fellow Rohingyas," he said. Abul Kasim said his father still lived in Yangon but had been stripped off all his property and land.

"My uncle still lives in villages near Arakan. From my last conversation with him, their homes have been burned and they are homeless," he said.

"We don't want anything from the government of Myanmar. We just want our freedom and citizenship." Abul Kasim said the Rohingyas who left Myanmar were not refugees trying to escape poverty as thought by many.

"It's not about money. We have millions worth of properties in Myanmar but they have been burnt down," he said.

"We were forced to travel all over the world, yet our hearts were never at peace because of what is happening."

He said he was hopeful that pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu-Kyi would be able to address the issue.

"We still support her. We understand her difficult situation."

Rohingyas shops owner lose their property in Maungdaw municipal market

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Rohingyas shops owner will lose their property for non-maintaining of shops by municipal office, according to a shop owner from market.

“The market was closed  by the authority since June 8 and the authority did not keep maintains the market since last year which the shop’s owners were complained for roof which was broken.”
“This year, the conflict between Rohingyas and Rakhines on June 8 and the market was totally closed and no one enter to the market and the owners were not able to control their shops while the raining. The  rain entered to the shops and destroyed all the goods inside the shops, especially the clothes shops.”
The municipal office open the market today morning from 7:00an to till noon. The shop’s owner went to the market and checked their shops. The shops were fully damaged by rain as the authority is not care the market. To save their goods, the owner try to carry some cloths to dry in their home,but the authority is not allow the goods from market. The cloths will be damaged if the cloths are  not dry on times,  said an elder from Maungdaw.
The authority only allowed the shops’ owner to carry 500,000 kyat cash from shops and the security personnel checked the owners when the go home. It is very difficult to owner for giving only 500,000 kyats to carry home.