Monday 5 November 2012

Envoys visit Maungdaw


Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Three ambassadors from – USA, United Kingdom and Australia – visited Maungdaw Township by helicopter today in the morning, said a local youth from Khadir Bill ( Nyung Chaung village) on condition of anonymity.
“The helicopter only landed at Khadir Bill village near Maungdaw town to see the Natala villages, where some of the Natala villagers and some Rakhine brought from other side of Maungdaw, have been gathering since June after the clashes between Rakhine and Rohingya.”
The government is insincere because, it only arranges to visit Natala villages excluding the Rohinggya refugees who have been kept in their house since June after imposing Act of 144 and state of emergency, according to a village elder.
Earlier, when the delegations from inside and outside of Burma visited the Maungdaw Township, the authorities concerned only arranged to show the Natala villages excluding Rohingya villages, which were destroyed by security forces and Rakine mobs, the elder added.
Today, at night,  the police of Maungdaw Town went to the Kadir Bill  and surrounded the whole village and are  not allowed  villagers to go out of the village because to avoid from the delegation. The Khadir Bill village is very close to the Natala villages where the helicopter landed.
The authorities’ fear of exposing their real cruelties against the Rohingya people during the riot period, if the Rohingys meet with the delegation, said a schoolteacher from Maungdaw Town.
After visiting the Natala villages, Maungdaw, the delegation flew to Mrauk-U and other towns to see the situation.
The envoys are ; Derek Mitchell from USA ; Andrew Heyn from United Kingdom and Ms. Bronte Moules from Australia , who are visiting the Arakan State  to find out why the riot occurred again and how to help  two communities, according  VOA report.

One killed, two seriously wounded in Maungdaw South


Maungdaw, Arakan State: One Rohingya villagers was killed and  a woman and a man ( Rohingya community)  were seriously wounded by military, today, at about 3:00 pm in Maungdaw south, according to a relative of the victim.
“The villagers are identified as Hafizullah (40), Ali Johar, sons of Jaffar Ahmed and Arafa, wife of Botu -a pregnant woman – hailed from Tharyai Gonedan ( Knonena para) village, under the Nasaka area No.7 of Maungdaw Township.”
Today, a group of army and Nasaka went to Thayai Gonedan village to arrest the villagers, who burnt down the house of ex- village Chairman Enous – a collaborator of Nasaka. Enous and his two sons are harassing villagers with the help of Nasaka and military. Villagers do not like the behaviors of ex-village Chairman and his two sons, but, no one known who burned his home, said a village elder who did not say his name.
“Enous and his sons are accusing the villagers with allegation of set on fire his house where most of the villagers are not able to stay in their homes.”
When the Nasaka tried to arrest Hafezullah, he tried to flee and kicked one of the Nasaka personnel. As a result, military open fired to Enous where other two Arafa and Joher were hit also bullet. Enous  died on the spot and other two were seriously wounded, said a close relative of victims
“Arafa may be die soon as her condition was critical and very serious and Joher also serious condition.”
“It is clear that the military, Nasaka, and police do not care to kill Rohingya people,” according to a businessman from the village.

Dead body found on the road-side at Maungdaw


Maungdaw, Arakan State:  A slaughtered Rohingya dead body was found on the roadside of Powet Chaung village of Maungdaw north, Arakan State, on November 1, in the morning, said a neighbor on condition of anonymity.
“The dead body was identified as—Noor Hashim (38), son of Hakim Ali, hailed from Powet Chaung village of Maungdaw Township.”
“In the morning, on that day, the slaughtered body was found by the villagers on the roadside, nearby Rakhine village.”
On that day night, at around 1:00 AM, he was called by someone from his house, went out of his home and he did not return to his home on that night. Curfew is imposed from 10 pm to 4am. He is the head of ten houses in the village administration council, according to his wife.
Being informed, a group of Nasaka nearby camp came to the spot and observed the situation. Afterwards, the dead body was sent to Maungdaw general hospital for postmortem, said a trader from the locality.
On November 2, at about 3:00pm, the dead body was returned to the relatives, later, it was buried in his village cemetery.
Regarding the event, the present administration officer of village was called by local police for interrogation. It is a chance for police to extort money from villagers by implicating the villagers to murder case, said a village elder who denied to be named.
The Rakhine village is only half mile away from the Rohingya village. Most of the villagers believe that whether he was killed by his enemy or Rakahine villagers, said a close relative of the victim.
Regarding the event, when asked a Nasaka person, but he did not make any comment

Who are behind arms shifting and pogrom

Since five months back there have been continued massacres in entire Arakan by Rakhines terrorists with the full backings of Myanmar regime which is still in International forums about ethnic Rohingya Muslims' unending sufferings.
Though brutalities on Rohingyas are unexplainable by language, World communities are taking lesser degrees focus to impose effective pressures. So we are appealing to all concerned to act as human beings to make relieve their sufferings by supporting them with every possible means.
Behind these there are some more crucial problems created by several parties. Nowadays you can find in many news medias about secret hidings and transporting of arms and ammunitions . Concerned parties have to survey who are behind those transactions for the sake of regional peace and stability.
Chittagong hill tribes or Shanti Bahini of Bangladesh and Rakhine ( Mogh) terrorists of Arakan are the real culprits of the problems. They have their greater Arakan projects to create an Arakan Independence state with the support of neighboring India by annihilating Rohingya Muslims from Arakan an Bangali Muslims from the area by connecting the Chittagong hill- tract and proper Arakan. Bangladesh authority is trying to hide the arms shifting from the media because of Indian agents' pressure. Present Bangladeshi regime is doing for only their permanent governmental seats instead of peace and stability and sovereignty of the country.
Arson attacks and razing temples(monasteries) in Bangladesh are their own hands to legalize the pogroms against Muslims in both Bangladesh and Burma. The culprits are getting regime's shelter. Arms ceased in Bay of Bengal and Dhaka city are ample proof of the matter to which India backed Bangladesh government is trying to hide them from the media. Members from Shanty Bahini who are only Bangalese educated and not knowing a single Burmese reading and writing are taking parts in massacring Muslims in Arakan.
Though it is claiming peace in Arakan , the pogrom is still running secretly by those Rakhine terrorists from both sides.
Hence all concerned Bangladeshi peoples and peace loving people of the region are obliged to take care of it so as the greater loses have not be faced and peace be hampered. 
N B: : Bangladesh Authority's negligence with deaf ears and keeping silence at this crucial period of genocide in Arakan is them to face blames and non cooperation from the Muslims world and International communities.
Analyzed by ARAKAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC)

Genocide of the Rohingyas of Myanmar – Part 1 | Dr. Habib Siddiqui

Myanmar’s western state of Arakan (Rakhine) is again burning. In Mrauk-U, the former capital of the independent kingdom of Arakan, hundreds of young Rakhine Buddhist men were on the march: packed on the backs of pickups, on motorcycles, on trishaws, tuk-tuks and bicycles, but mostly on foot.
They carried spears, swords, cleavers, bamboo staves, slingshots, crossbows and the occasional petrol bomb. Their target: the unarmed Rohingya Muslims. As the Economist (dated Nov. 3, 2012) of the UK noted, one Buddhist terrorist tugged at an imaginary beard and made a grisly throat-cutting gesture.
Sadly, Mrauk-U is not the only town where Rohingya Muslims are facing a genocidal campaign at the hands of Rakhine terrorists. From the reports collected inside Myanmar, there is little doubt that the Rakhine Buddhist terrorists, aided by local and central government politicians, police and security forces, are carrying out a pre-meditated genocidal campaign to exterminate and drive out every Rohingya of Burma (Myanmar). So atrocious and criminal this campaign is even the president of Myanmar, who had previously tried to hide such targeted violence, had to admit on Friday, October 26 (as reported in the pro-government newspaper the New Light of Myanmar) that eight mosques (Muslim houses of worship) and 2,000 of Rohingya homes were torched to completely destroy these. His spokesman told the BBC this weekend that "there have been incidents of whole villages and parts of the towns being burnt down in Rakhine state." The actual facts and figures, however, are much worse!
It is feared that in the last week of October at least 5,000 Rohingya homes were burned to ashes. Satellite imagery shows the utter destruction of a Muslim quarter of the coastal town of Kyaukphyu, from where oil-and-gas pipelines are to cross Myanmar to China. In this latest genocidal campaign, the Muslim villages and localities in townships are cordoned off and fire bombed. Anyone trying to escape from their burned homes is shot dead by the Rakhine Buddhist terrorists and their patrons within the government. Racist Rakhine politicians and monks are creating an environment of racial/religious hatred and intolerance which justifies all types of violence against the unarmed Rohingya population. Many Rohingyas have, therefore, tried to escape to the forest or the open seas, only to be hunted down there, too. Last week, dozens died when their boats sank in the Bay of Bengal. Others are forced to sneak out to Bangladesh.
Denied entry, many have ended up in squalid camps in Sittwe (Akyab) to join others who have been confined there since early June. Dozens of Rohingya girls were also kidnapped by the Rakhine terrorists to use rape and kidnap as weapons of war to terrorize the Rohingya populace.
It is an all out extermination campaign against the Rohingyas of Myanmar. In a statement dated Thursday, October 25, Ashok Nigam, a United Nations official in Myanmar, said, "The UN is alarmed by reports of displacements and destruction.” He said that access to all affected people is critical and appealed for immediate and unconditional access to all communities in accordance with humanitarian principles.
As I have pointed out earlier in my speeches and writings, the Myanmar government wants to hide its heinous crimes against the Rohingya people and, thus, have not allowed access of the international media, NGOs, aid groups and even the UN to the troubled region to investigate, monitor and assess the scale of the violence. Since the elimination of the Rohingya people one way or another is the declared state objective, no aid has reached from the Myanmar government agencies to the Muslim victims. And what is worse, even the relief materials sent from the OIC and the Islamic Relief have not reached the intended Rohingya victims. Less than 10% of such aids have trickled down to the victims. The Myanmar government, thanks to the state-managed protests and demonstrations in October by racist Buddhists that included monks, has also barred the OIC and Muslim relief agencies from opening offices inside the Rakhine state to help the Rohingya victims.
Not a single Buddhist terrorist has been punished for the gruesome murder of Muslims, not then and not now. All what we heard from the Thein Sein government was that it had identified the instigators behind the violence and pledged to bring them to justice. But as we have witnessed earlier with the June 3 lynching death of 10 Burmese Muslims, such promises have not translated into justice, let alone created an atmosphere that protects the lives and properties of the affected Rohingya minority.
It is obvious that the Thein Sein government is playing the cat-and-mouse game with the world community with false promises made to divert attention away when the satellite pictures are too obvious and difficult to hide such crimes, and once the outside pressure is low to encourage and participate in this heinous crime. As such the pogroms that started in June 3 with nearly a hundred thousand internally displaced Rohingyas have only worsened with extra tens of thousands that are now without any shelter. The once thriving Muslim localities now look like bombed-out territories. No Rohingya has been allowed back in to rebuild those properties. They have been caged in camps that look like the Nazi concentration camps from which they can’t venture out to fetch their livelihood without risking being shot by the Rakhine Buddhist security forces. They have been placed there to slowly die.
Terrorizing the unarmed Rohingya population has become a Rakhine national passion. The Border Security Force (NASAKA) continues to remind the Roingya people that Arakan is a Rakhine place where there is no place for the Roingya Muslims and that they must leave or will be killed. Newer territories are added to the list of ethnically cleansed ones to terrorize Rohingya Muslims and exterminate them. The Section 144, which prohibits an assembly of more than five people in an area, is only applied against the Rohingya. They cannot go out to protect their homes, shops, mosques, schools and villages from being looted and set on fire by the Rakhine terrorists who are not stopped from committing such crimes by the security forces.
In most cases, these criminal Rakhines are aided by the government. There have been cases, e.g., as in Kyauk Pyu Township, in which instead of dousing the fire with water, the Buddhist firemen sprayed gasoline into the fire to complete the destruction! "The firemen threw petrol on the flames, as if it was water! The authorities are one-sided. We can never trust them," said a local teacher to Pete Pattisson, a journalist working for the Independent (UK). Last Wednesday, the entire Muslim community in Kyauk Pyu decided to flee in their fishing boats, joining thousands of others trying to escape from being killed or burned alive. Former Muslim residents of Pauk Taw told the Independent that a government ferryboat had rammed their fishing boats at sea, resulting in drowning deaths of dozens. Those who had fled and made it ashore have been prevented by government authorities from landing on the coast.
Satellite images of Kyauk Pyu and its coastal surroundings, released by the Human Rights Watch at the weekend, show the extent of the devastation. Where once there were houseboats and floating barges moored along a harbor town packed with houses, now there is charred desolation, with 811 homes and other structures destroyed.
All the victims in recent months have also been Muslims and yet the Thein Sein government tries to portray the violence in the Rakhine state as an interracial or communal riot.
What is going on inside the Rakhine state is simply a purposeful policy designed by the Myanmar government in which the members of the majority Rakhine ethnic group, which is Buddhist by faith, are willing executioners to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of the Rohingya ethnic community, which are Muslims, from the geographic areas of Arakan and Myanmar. The United Nations define such activities as ethnic cleansing. No hog-washing by the murderous regime and its supporters at home and abroad will succeed to hide such monumental crimes.
The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people is a text book case. It has become a national project that is led by the Myanmar state at the central level and the Rakhine state at the local level, supported by a good percentage of the Buddhist nation and its dominant Burman and Rakhine ethnic groups, and which employs large institutional and material resources. The local Rakhine politicians and terrorists, the Buddhist monks and mobs, and the entire state apparatus from the local to the central government level are enthusiastic partners in this project towards final solution of the Rohingya problem.
It was no accident, therefore, to witness demonstrations of monks, esp. those organized by Young Monks Association, supporting Thein Sein’s plan to expel the Rohingyas from Myanmar. The largest such demonstration was led by Wirathu, considered a venerable teacher by many Buddhists. He is a criminal who was imprisoned in 2003 for inciting violence against the Muslims. It is no accident that Suu Kyi spoke with forked tongues and that her NLD party has actually been supporting the national project towards elimination of the Rohingya people. Many of the so-called ‘democracy’ leaders have proven to be no better than fascists and are actually worse than the KKK members.
The worst criminals in this extermination campaign are, however, the fellow Rakine Buddhists, whose ancestors settled in Arakan beginning in the 11th century, i.e., centuries after the darker complexioned Indo-Bengali ancestors of the Rohingya people had already settled in this coastal territory once ruled by the Hindu Chandra dynasty, which had closer ties with Bengal (today’s Bangladesh).
With that intrusion, albeit a violent one, of the Tibeto-Burman people, the forefathers of today’s Rakhine race, who professed Buddhism, the original inhabitant Hindus and Muslims gradually became minority religious groups. However, in 1430 when two contingents of Muslim Army from Bengal, comprising of more than 50,000 soldiers, restored the fleeing Arakanese king Narameikhla (Maung Saw Mawn) to the throne of Arakan, and a great many of them were asked to protect the regime against any future Burmese invasion, the new settlements of the Muslim garrison around the new capital city of Mrohang (Mrauk-U) greatly added to the size of the minority Muslim community.
The Arakanese rulers of Mrauk-U dynasty adopted superior Islamic culture from nearby Muslim Bengal/India, and issued coins with Islamic inscriptions. They patronized Bengali literature. They also adopted Muslim names, a practice that was to continue for generations well into the 16th century. Muslims played major roles in administration, courts and defense of this multi-ethnic kingdom that maintained its independence for centuries until its annexation by the Burmese king Bodawpaya in 1784.
Bodawpaya was a Buddhist religious fanatic who tried to demolish everything Islamic. He introduced racism and bigotry into this multi-religious region. He destroyed mosques that once dotted the shorelines of Arakan and patronized building Buddhist monasteries and pagodas. He massacred tens of thousands of Muslims, and took another 20,000 as prisoners during his annexation of Arakan. During his tyrannical rule, some 200,000 Arakanese also fled to Bengal (today’s Bangladesh), which by then was under the British rule. After 40-years of Burmese rule (1784-1824), Arakan was occupied by the English East India Company who ruled the territory until Burma won its independence on January 4, 1948.
During the Second World War, taking advantage of the Japanese occupation of Burma, the Buddhist forces which had allied themselves with the Fascist Japanese Imperial Army against the British Raj, targeted the Indian and Muslim population and their homes and businesses. Even the Rohingya Muslims who lived in the western territories did not escape the extermination campaign. Nearly a hundred thousand of them were killed in that joint campaign. They were pushed out of the southern parts of the Arakan state; and many managed to survive by living in northern territories, closer to the Bengal, where they were a solid majority. Another 80,000 settled permanently in Bengal to save their lives. Two hundred and ninety four Muslim villages were totally destroyed.
Even after Burma achieved its independence, sadly, the mass elimination and targeted violence against the Rohingya and other Muslims continued. To the best of my knowledge, at least two dozen campaigns have been directed against them to ethnically cleanse them.
These are:
01. Military Operation (5th Burma Regiment) - November 1948
02. Burma Territorial Force (BTF) - Operation 1949-50
03. Military Operation (2nd Emergency Chin regiment) - March 1951-52
04. Mayu Operation - October 1952-53
05. Mone-thone Operation - October 1954
06. Combined Immigration and Army Operation - January 1955
07. Union Military Police (UMP) Operation - 1955-58
08. Captain Htin Kyaw Operation - 1959
09. Shwe Kyi Operation - October 1966
10. Kyi Gan Operation - October-December 1966
11. Ngazinka Operation - 1967-69
12. Myat Mon Operation - February 1969-71
13. Major Aung Than Operation - 1973
14. Sabe Operation February - 1974-78
15. Naga-Min (King Dragon) Operation - February 1978-79 (resulting in exodus of some 300,000 Rohingyas to Bangladesh; 40,000 died)
16. Shwe Hintha Operation - August 1978-80
17. Galone Operation - 1979
18. 1984 Pogrom in Taunggok
19. Anti-Muslim riots - Taunggyi (western Burma), Pyay and many other parts of Burma including Rangoon - 1987-88
20. Pyi Thaya Operation – July 1991-92 (resulting in exodus of some 268,000 Rohingyas to Bangladesh)
21. Na-Sa-Ka Operation – since 1992
22. Race riot against Muslims – March 1997 (Mandalay)
23. Anti-Muslim riot in Sittwe – February 2001
24. Anti-Muslim full-scale riot in Central Burma – May 2001
25. Anti-Muslim violence throughout central Burma (especially in the cities of Pyay/Prome, Bago/Pegu) after 9/11 – October 2001
26. Joint extermination campaign – June 3, 2012 – to date.
Every attempt has been made by the Myanmar government since the days of General Ne Win to ethnically cleanse the Rohingya people and deny them human rights. They were declared stateless, thus licensing every crime directed against them; not a single Article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was honored. Here below is a shortlist of such crimes against the Rohingya people:
• Denial of Citizenship
• Restriction of Movement or Travel
• Restriction on Education
• Restriction on Ability to work
• Forced Labor
• Land Confiscation
• Forced Eviction
*Destruction of homes, offices, schools, mosques, etc.
• Religious persecution
• Ethnic discrimination
• Restrictions on Marriage of Rohingyas
• Prevention of reproduction and forced abortion
• Arbitrary Taxation and Extortion
• Registration of births and deaths in families and even of cattle, and the associated extortion
• Arbitrary arrest, torture and extra-judicial killing
• Abuse of Rohingya Women and Elders
• Rape as a weapon of war
• Depopulation of Rohingya community
• Confiscation of residency/citizenship cards
• Internally displaced persons or undocumented refugees and statelessness
• Destruction or alteration of historical Muslim sites and shrines to erase its symbolism or Islamic identity.

Muslims fleeing violence in Burma drown as crisis deepens

People displaced by the recent violence in Pauktaw pass the time at their shelters at Owntaw refugee camp for Muslims outside Sittwe. Photograph: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
First one body appeared, floating in the waters of the Bay of Bengal, then another, and another, until those on board the little fishing boat that had gone to their rescue began to lose count.
Those bobbing lifeless among the waves had set out the night before, so desperate to escape the growing sectarian violence in Burma that they were prepared to risk boarding the dangerously overcrowded boat.
At least 130 had clambered aboard, but the boat foundered – whether it capsized because of the weight of bodies or because it struck rocks remains unclear.
The sinking last week was the worst reported incident resulting from the outbreak of violence between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in western Burma. The death toll is continuing to rise amid reports of a deepening humanitarian crisis.
"The situation is dire. The UN is doing its best, but it is trying to find more funding to help them," said Chris Lewa, director of the Arakan Project, an NGO working with the Rohingya.
With at least 32,000 people displaced by the latest violence – and at least 107,000 since trouble broke out in June – thousands have sought safety in refugee camps around the Burmese town of Sittwe. Those camps are at crisis point, according to Refugees International, which estimates that nearly a quarter of children were malnourished.
"Conditions in these camps are as bad, if not worse, than ones in eastern Congo or Sudan," said Melanie Teff, a researcher with the charity who visited Sittwe in September. "Child malnutrition rates are startlingly high. There's an urgent need for clean water and food. If further aid does not come through, there will be some unnecessary deaths."
In Baw Du Pha relief camp, where several thousand Rohingya refugees from Sittwe are surviving on rations and are severely short of medical care, Laila, 20, a mother of four, said: "I cannot give my baby rice when she needs it. We are suffering. When my daughter gets sick we have no money for medicine."
Compounding the need for essentials such as rice, water and oil, aid workers said refugees were facing a mounting psychological toll, with children bearing the brunt. "They lost their houses in the fires. Children cannot be left alone like before. So they're depressed," said Moe Thadar, a local Red Cross worker.
The death toll and fear of further violence have prompted many of the Rohingya to look for sanctuary in neighbouring Muslim countries. Many have concluded that the only realistic escape route is by sea. Thousands are reported to have been waiting for the end of the rainy season to put to sea. Those that have tried to get away have found that those countries are unwilling to accept them. Lewa said at least two boats had been turned back by Bangladesh last week and had returned to Sittwe.
"On Wednesday, we heard that about 7,000 people had arrived in Sittwe from Kyaukpyu [on the coast to the south] and Pauktaw [inland and to the east]. There were still about 900 of them sitting on the beach in Sittwe, while others had moved to camps or villages."
The UN has urged the Burmese government to tackle the causes of the conflict, prompting authorities to order people to turn in their weapons to police. It also urged Burma's neighbours to not to close their borders, but the appeal brought no immediate change of heart.
Some of those who have fled, such as the victims of last week's sinking, headed for Malaysia, where people-smugglers will take them for a fee. Others are looking closer to home – to Bangladesh and Thailand – but neither country wants them. Bangladesh is already home to around 300,000 Rohingya and is concerned about rising numbers. It has said that it will turn away boats, although people near Cox's Bazar, close to where last week's accident happened, said that some had made land and gone into hiding. Thailand does not want them and has been accused of forcing refugee boats back out to sea when they have tried to land. The latest assessment from the Burmese government – which regards the Rohingya as illegal immigrants – said 89 people had been killed in clashes between 21 and 30 October, with another 136 injured and 32,231 made homeless. At least 5,000 houses had been burned down. Activists say the true figures are likely to be higher.
"The villages have been burned down and some people have fled. A few have remained in the area, but others have tried to flee to the camps in Sittwe," said Lewa. "In some villages quite a lot of people have been killed, but we are still trying to find out how they died. Some died in the fires and some were attacked by Rakhine [Buddhists]. We also heard that the army shot at some of the Rakhine people. We heard about 170 people killed in one village alone."
Teff said the outlook for peace was grim. "There is a total lack of hope for the Rohingya. They have been rejected by many countries," she said. "The only way out is for the international community to act on the current situation."

Aung San Suu Kyi loses her gloss for failing to denounce killings


BY EDWARD LOXTON
Where is Suu Kyi's famous 'moral authority' as Muslim Rohingya homes are razed to the ground?
CHIANG MAI - The iconic international image of Burma's charismatic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is rapidly losing its lustre as she maintains her silence on the continuing violence in her country's westernmost Rakhine State.
The violence began in June, sparked by allegations that a Buddhist girl had been raped by Muslim men. After an uneasy lull, Buddhists again went on the rampage last week, killing more than 100 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority community, who have been suffering severe state persecution for decades.
Aerial photographs taken from the region show large areas of Muslim-populated towns and villages razed to the ground. About 70,000 people have so far lost their homes in the violence. 
The Rohingya policy followed by the current government differs little from the discrimination inflicted by the military junta that ruled Burma for the past 50 years. Most Rohingya are regarded as non-Burmese Bengalis and are locked out of Burma's political and social structure and denied fundamental rights guaranteed by citizenship.
"Suu Kyi has lost much of her credibility because of her silence over these appalling events," SOAS University of London researcher Guy Horton told The Week. "Her evasiveness on one of the greatest human rights tragedies in the world today has lost her the commodity she has always had in abundance - her moral authority."
Horton is the author of a report on human rights violations in eastern Burma, Dying Alive, which contributed to the UN Security Council resolution in 2007 'Burma: A Threat to the Peace'.
Veteran Swedish journalist and author Bertil Lintner explained Suu Kyi's dilemma. If she condemned the attacks on Muslims, he told The Week, "many Buddhists - her main constituency - would turn against her. But if she says nothing, she'll lose credibility in the international community.
"She appears to have chosen the latter, and, consequently, criticism against her is growing among international human rights organisations and activists. From her point of view, that may be preferable to having domestic opinion, which is fiercely anti-Rohingya, turn against her."
Lintner, author of several books on Burma, who had talks with Suu Kyi in the Burmese capital Naypyidaw earlier this month, said she was already under pressure at home. "The problem is that her silence on the clashes in Rakhine state as well as the ongoing government military offensive against the Kachins in the north have already cost her a lot of popular support."
There are few Kachins who express any sympathy for Suu Kyi these days, Lintner went on, and even the Shan leader Khun Htun Oo said in an interview while he was in the US last month that she has become "neutralised". Many young Burmese are also becoming critical of her for other reasons, arguing that she has moved far too close to the government and the military.
But does Suu Kyi have any choice, if she wants to win the 2015 election? Guy Horton believes other great leaders "would have reacted differently and grasped the nettle...
"Gandhi, for instance, went on hunger strike to try to stop exactly the kind of horror of what is being inflicted in Rakhine State today. Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King - moral leaders with whom she is compared - would have shown solidarity with the victims and called for passive resistance. Instead, she has just collected prizes - including the US Congressional Medal of Honour - from a fawning world."
In Horton's view, it's no exaggeration to say that what is happening in Rakhine State is similar to the persecution endured by the Jews in 1930s Germany.
"It should be noted that a call by President Thein Sein for the deportation of the Rohingya or their forcible transfer into camps amounts to an incitement to commit a crime against humanity, as defined in the Rome Statute," Horton told The Week.
"In addition, the destructive targeting of a racial/religious group may amount to a form of genocide. The UN Special Rapporteur on Burma should renew his call for an investigation into crimes against humanity in Burma, which are not subject to the whims of political feasibility."
However, Maung Zarni, a Burma expert and visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, has a different view, telling the Associated Press: "Politically, Aung San Suu Kyi has absolutely nothing to gain from opening her mouth on this. She is no longer a political dissident trying to stick to her principles. She's a politician and her eyes are fixed on the prize, which is the 2015 majority Buddhist vote."
Horton challenged Zarni's view: "If she adopts such a position of cynical Realpolitik the long-term consequences are that she will lose not only her moral credibility, but the support of most ethnic people and possibly the 2015 election itself."

Narcotics Lords and Terrorists Rings Unmasked | M.S. Anwar


When you look deeply into the violence against Rohingya and Kaman people in Arakan, you will find that Rakhine extremists are giving full collaboration to the Burmese regime in the killing and cleansing of these people. Rather, Rakhine extremists led by their self-centered and terrorist leaders and skinned-head fascists in saffron are rushing to kill more Rohingyas and Kamans and destroy their properties beyond and breaking the government’s instructions. That’s something that Burmese regime doesn’t want to take place because they fear that their crimes against humanity will be exposed. Above all, why is Burmese regime instigating such violence against one of the most persecuted people on the planet? Why are Rakhine extremists rushing to root out Rohingyas and Kamans sooner rather than later? The answer might be simple to those who have ample knowledge on Socio-Political nature of Burma and History of Arakan.

Burmese regime has instigated the violence to divert the attention of the people from the political problems it was facing and gain political advantage. According to many Burmese political analysts such as Dr. Maung Zarni and Prof. Kan Bawza Win, it is a deliberate attempt of the regime to militarize Arakan so that they can give protections to the foreign investments especially of China and India and forthcoming investments of US. But for Rakhine extremists, they see this initiation of the violence as the perfect opportunity to make their long-awaited dream come true. Their dream has always been “having a separate and independent Arakan.” Therefore, it is not surprising that Rakhine extremists are rushing and breaking the guidance of the regime to wipe out Rohingyas and Kamans (who are Muslims) that have become stumbling blocks to the achieving of their dream.

For this very sole purpose, Rakhine extremists and separatists have been smuggling lethal weapons through various means into Arakan for months now. According to leaked information out of a reliable source, there is a rich Rakhine man called U KYAUK TAUNG in Taung Gote, who is known as a Wood trader to many. Reports have it that he has very close-relationship with the president, U Thein Sein, too. But what many don’t know and might be the most shocking thing is he exports DRUGS and other NARCOTICS putting into the Wood-Blocks by Boats to Bangladesh and in return, he imports all the dangerous weapons necessary to fight for and separate Arakan. His trading partner (i.e. the buyer of DRUGS and NACORTICS and seller of the WEAPONS) is a famous Bangladesh MP in Cox’s Bazaar District. He is known as MP BAWDEE.

Therefore, there are no inspections of the boats of U KYAUK TAUNG docking at the Cox’s Bazaar Sea-Port although every boat docking at the port are checked up by Bangladesh authority. From there, the mentioned MP supplies the DRUGS and NARCOTICS to other various Narcotics and Drugs Lords to sell in the country and export to other parts of the world especially Western Countries. Therefore, it is a responsibility of those anti-narcotics agencies of western countries as well as of the whole world to fight against these narcotics lords to save their citizens.

President U Thein Sein might be well aware of U Kyauk Taung Drug Export Business taking his close-relationship with him into consideration. But he might not know that he is importing the dangerous weapons to separate Arakan, which is against the state-policy of the regime. By cooperating with the regime in killing Rohingyas and Kamans, Rakhine Drugs Lords cum terrorists are not working in favor of but against the state policy and rather implementing their own policy. Burmese government and their intelligence are perhaps aware of the policy of Rakhine terrorists. After all, they are finding out many illegal weapons in the hands of Rakhine terrorists and subsequently seizing them out of their hands.

Recently, in Kyauk Taw Township, the authority has seized more than 400 AK-47 from the hands of the Rakhine terrorists. But state-newspaper said they were about more than 70 guns. Therefore, the government ordered the people of Arakan to hand over all the weapons to the authority. However, the-state government is composed of Rakhines and that will not only try not to hand over the weapons that their people have but also try to manipulate and to buck up all of their blames to Rohingyas and Kamans unless the central government carries out the initiative effectively.

As I were saying, the regime led by U Thein Sein and invisibly controlled by the former head of the dictatorial government, Than Shwe has also released the former general and chief of the military intelligence, Khin Nyunt, who has the vast knowledge and experience on Arakan and how to plot certain things to create violence. Reportedly, he visited Arakan state and directed Rakhine extremists on how to begin the violence. Now, he has been closely working with a skinned-head fascist terrorist in saffron, Wirathu and conspiring to create unrest all over the country so that the regime can crawl back to the previous military dictatorship. This time, the government will claim that they have to coup the power because of the unrest in the country and people’s demand as in the case of OIC matter. China, US and other capitalist countries will keep silent because for them, doing business in Burma is above anything and precedes everything.

To the Peace-Loving Burmese Community, Rohingyas are not the enemies of the state but rather happily want to cooperate in the country’s development. They are made scapegoats on account of their different race and religion by the government and Rakhine separatists for their respective interests. In a country where the government itself has the tendency of terrorism and the links with terrorist rings, everyone will tend to behave like terrorists. If this situation in Arakan continues and general Burmese fall in the traps of these terrorists rings, not only Rakhine drug lords cum terrorists will have chances to separate Arakan but also the brutal regime will be ruling the country for next 300 years or forever. Therefore, it is the high time for all general Burmese to differentiate and understand who are working in favor of the country and who are against.

M.S. Anwar is an activist and student studying Bachelor of Arts in Business Studies at Westminster International College, Malaysia

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