Saturday 20 June 2015

A pregnant Rohingya woman was killed by the Rakhine nurses in Maungdaw General Hospital last Wednesday, according to the reliable sources.

 The victim is identified to be Noor Haba Sayed Anwar, 20, from ‘Wachcha’ village in southern Maungdaw.  She was admitted to the Maungdaw General Hospital for having heavy bleeding at the stage of her 8th Month Pregnancy.

“Noor Haba, preganant for eight months, was having heavy bleeding. Therefore, she was admitted to ‘Haishshu Rata (Alay Than Kyaw) Hospital on June 14 for treatment. As she was getting more serious, the hospital transferred to Maungdaw Genral Hospital around 3:00PM on June 16.

At around 3:30PM, she was taken into the emergency operation theatre. Soon, her family members waiting outside the theatre heard heavy screaming of the patient out of pain. Soon after, the nurses and the hospital authorities came out of the theatre only to hand over the dead body of the patient” said an elderly Rohingya who witnessed the incident.

“The dead body was taken back to her village afterwards. While some women were giving her shower for funeral, they found a small steel SCISSOR stuck insid her private part.

Therefore, her family members firmly believe that the doctor and the nurses carried out the surgery without giving her anaesthetic drugs and later, purportedly killed her.

The Rakhine extremists in authority are misusing their positions to serve their political interests and to commit crimes” he continued.

The doctor-in-charge of the hospital, Dr. Kyaw Maung Maung Thein, is himself a Rakhine extremist. He is notorious for killing several Rohingya patients earlier.
A Myanmar’s military truck smashed into a Rohingya man, in Maungdaw Township yesterday, killing him a few hours later, an eyewitness said.

The Rohingya man is identified to be Mv Khairul Abdur Rahim, a religious scholar, hails from ‘Dudan (Luu daing)’ village in northern Maungdaw.

The incident took place in Boli Bazaar (Kyein Chaung) village around yesterday afternoon.

He got badly injured by the truck smashing into him. All over his body! Especially, his legs got swallowed. The military admitted him to ‘Kyein Chaung’ hospital but after that, he passed away on his way while he was being taken to Bangladesh for treatment.

Please pray for him” the eyewitness said.

“This is a case of negligence and rash driving by the driver of the military truck at a public place where people always remain crowded” he continued.

He was given funeral and buried according to Islamic Law this afternoon after the Friday prayer.
As the monsoon in Myanmar has begun, the woes of the state-sponsored violence-hit Rohingyas including the internally displaced people (IDP) have started to get worse, the local reports.

Most of the Rohingyas in Arakan state nowadays are living under genocide blockage since June 2012. Most of them are rendered jobless and do not ample amount of food to eat. They hardly have access to public healthcare facilities.

On the other hand, many of them, in IDP Camps as well as in other parts of the state, find difficult to stay in their homes. They are simply unable to thatch their homes even by means of using traditional ‘Nipa Palm’ for thatching resulting in leakage of rains from the roofs. Consequently, many children are affected by coughts, heavy cold and fever etc. These kinds of cases are rampant in Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U, Minbya and Rathedaung Townships etc.

For example, many Rohingya villages in Kyauktaw Township — such as Pauktaw Palin, Haimfara or Rohingya Ywa, Apaukwa Gyi, Apaukwa Nge, Ambaari, Shwe Hlaing, Milipaung, Kaungdouk, Pisi Paikthay Ywa, Middle Yadanapun, South Radanapon, Naypukan, Pauktawli, Lasaung Kauk etc – were either partially or full burnt down by the state-sponsored extremists after June 2012. Thousands of people subsequently became internally displaced (IDP). International NGOs have provided them with make shift tents and rice.

But recently, police officers, firemen, and security forces led by the Kyauktaw Township Administrator arrived at the IDP Camps and bulldozed their camps promising that they would assist them (i.e. the IDP) Kyat 1,000,000 per family to build home. However, sadly, their hope and trust on the authorities have been shattered as the authorities have never shown a sign of fulfilling their promise. Now, they are facing a miserable situation as they have to live in their self-made fragile tents made of tarpaulin and plastics.

 Similarly, Ali Akhbar, a Rohingya living in desperate condition at Zaydi Pyin village in Rathedaung, said “we have been suffering from hunger, diseases and persecution since 2012. The World knows our situation.  We have no right to livelihood to earn money for our survival. I don’t know when we will be freed from this open jail called Arakan where even food is not provided. I wish it were hit by a horrible storm and destroy all. Indeed, for us, here, death might be easier than this life.”

In Sittwe (Akyab) as well, the daily survival for the Rohingyas are getting extremely difficult as the monsoon has started as well as the Holy Month, Ramadhan, has begun. The Rohingyas people locked within Aung Min Galar Quarter since June 2012 urgently need food rations and medical assistances. Likewise, the villagers and IDP in In Thandawli, Anauk Sanpya (Baaspara), Say Tha Mar, Ohndaw Gyi etc are urgently in need of food rations.

Of them, the internally displaced people (from Pauktaw Township) living unregistered at ‘Say Tha Mar’ IDP Camps in Sittwe are suffering from the worst form of food crisis. Almost all of them are facing starvation due to lack of access to livelihoods in the rainy season and aids from international aids agencies and organizations. 

Approximately, 400,000 people are suffering from starvation or food crisis. Some INGOs are providing assistances to them but helping such a huge number of people is simply out of their capacity. Worse, there are still many restrictions by the authorities on Humanitarian Workers, INGOs, Reporters and Journalists.

Friday 12 June 2015

KUALA LUMPUR:  It would be better for Myanmar to be excluded from Asean as genocide is unacceptable, says Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

The former prime minister urged Asean as well as the United Nations to take action against Myanmar.

"Countries like this only give a bad name to us. So, if you want to commit genocide, leave Asean," he said.

"Myanmar has not responded to requests to be more humane, instead they continue merciless killing of people, and this should not be the case," he said while delivering his keynote speech at the International Conference themed 'Plight of the Rohingya,  crime against humanity'.

He added that the United Nations should be asked to do something about it.

"Although they are not capable of doing anything, we need to push for it. I even wrote a letter to Aung Sang Suu Kyi on this matter, but there has been no response, so the fate of the people there needs to be defended from the outside," he said.

While emphasising that the boat people situation would not have existed if not for Myanmar, Dr Mahathir added that the 'no interference' policy has limitations which have now been breached by Myanmar.

"If it is a matter of political matters, then yes, it is acceptable, but there should be a limit to what constitutes non-interference.

" Although it is internal, the killing of people should not be tolerated, they should not have the right to treat people that way," he said, adding that Malaysia just stood by and did nothing when two million people were killed in Cambodia.

"These people have been a part of the country for 800 years,"  said Dr Mahathir, adding that the law prohibits countries from expelling people.

He added that he had a lot of respect for Buddhism because it preached peace.

"But here, these peace-loving people are perpetrating horrible atrocities. They burn homes and kill people.

"They are committing something that is prohibited by their religion or any religion for that matter," he said.


Monday 8 June 2015

All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Chief and former president, Pervez Musharraf, has said that it is unfortunate that the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) has become functionless and has failed completely in protecting the rights of Muslims being victimised across the globe.

In an interview on Sunday, Pervez Musharraf said that the massacre of Burmese Rohingya Muslims is condemnable but international human rights champions are playing the role of a silent spectator over their plight.

He warned that if the injustice against Muslims continued, it will result in an imbalance of power, which could be a serious threat to global peace.

Responding to a question, Musharraf said that Pakistan is capable of responding to Indian threats as it proved during the Kargil war. He said that India blames Pakistan but it itself was engaged in stopping water of Pakistan’s rivers by illegally constructing dams, which could not be ignored.

He urged those responsible to respond to the Indian allegations and threats through diplomatic channels. Resolution of Kashmir and others issues with India are in the national interest and the government of Pakistan should not prefer trade with India over these issues, the APML chief added.

Musharraf said that during his rule the country was financially strong as it refused to accept aid from World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) but now Pakistan is facing a serious economic crunch, which has weakened the position of the country in the international community.

To a question regarding lawlessness in Karachi, he said that the presence of political, religious extremists in the metropolis was the root cause of the disturbance in peace.

The APML chief claimed that during his era the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) recovered Rs 320 billion and helped poor masses to get their looted money back.


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