(Translated into English by M.S. Anwar)
There are so many students, in Maung Daw District, who passed the
University Entrance Examination in 2012 with outstanding 3-4
distinctions and other flying colors. They applied for their respective
interested courses for their tertiary education as per their examination
results. According to the reports coming out, the announcement list and
offers for their tertiary education had come out but none of the
outstanding Rohingya students were offered the professional courses they
deserve and applied for but offered those ordinary courses which they
did not apply for.
Once upon a time, Rohingya students used to get opportunities to study
their university education in the fields of their interests with no
discriminations. However, from 2001 onwards, the Burmese
ultranationalist dictatorship government and the current pseudo-civilian
fascist government of Burma have been discriminatorily seizing all the
opportunities of higher education of the outstanding Rohingya students.
As a result, the lives of these stupendous students ruin and sometimes
they meet their untimely demises.
“My son passed University Entrance Examination with three distinctions
in 2004. He was offered no course for his university study even after
one year of his application and eventually he got into depression and
left his home for Malaysia. Nevertheless, unfortunately, their engine
boat sank in the Bay of Bengal on its way to Malaysia and I lost my son”
said to RB News by his mourning mother from Maung Daw.
“A younger brother of mine passed his university entrance examination
with four distinctions in 2008. He was not offered any of the
professional courses he deserved. As a result, he got into depression
and is mentally sick now” said an extremely anxious man from
Buthidaung.
“My son got three distinctions in the entrance examination in 2012.
Since he achieved good grades, he applied for any of five professional
courses of his interests. Shockingly, he was offered none of the courses
he had applied for but Mathematics, a subject he had not applied for,
was offered to him. Being a hardworking student with ambition, he is now
extremely depressed and trying to commit suicide. The hearts of us,
parents, bleed when we look at his situation” said a man from
Buthidaung.
In 1988, a Rakhine (Magh) extremist group called “Maung Daw AmmyoTha
SaungChauk Ye Apphwe” (loosely translated into English as “Organization
to Protect the National in Maung Daw”) demanded the then newly formed
government by coup d’état to ban Rohingya Students from joining the
universities for professional studies. The former dictator and
ultranationalist general Khin Nyunt fulfilled the malicious wish of
Rakhine (Magh) extremists by directing the Department for Higher
Education not to give any Rohingya student from Maung Daw district
admission to the Universities with Professional Studies. This is one of
the many Ethnic Cleansing Policies of Myanmar’s Nazi Government
implementing against Rohingyas. Such policies are still being
implemented against Rohingyas by the President, U Thein Sein, who claims
for Democratic Changes and Respects for Human Rights. Even though
Rohingyas pleaded the government of U Thein Sein to stop such human
rights violations, he is still continuing the violations. Such
continuous violation of their human rights is clearly contradicting the
recent statement of U Thein Sein “to Upgrade Rohingyas’ Education.”
Thein Sein has proven that he is nothing an oxymoron and sociopath.
[(Please Note:
Maung Daw district consisting Maung Daw Tsp and Buthidaung Tsp can be
called one of the most undeveloped and backward areas in Burma. There
are no ample number of schools, good teachers, necessary study materials
such as books, computers, internet services and so forth.
Therefore, even merely passing the university entrance examinations in
this area is not an easy task.
And let me tell you that I was one of the victims of the same
Institutional Discrimination on Education of Rohingyas. There are
countless similar tragedies.
I have deleted some writings of the original writer and added some new
in order to adjust the article and make it easily understandable in
English.)
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