Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire Calls for UN and International Community to End Burmese Repression Against Rohingya Muslims
The president of Burma has proposed a policy that amounts to
ethnic cleansing.
(BELFAST,
Northern Ireland)
- Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire said:
"The Stateless Rohingyas of Burma, have suffered from persecution and discrimination for decades and are now facing inter-communal violence which has evolved into large-scale state sponsored violence against them.
In July 2012 the Burma Campaign, U.K. received the following report:
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"The Stateless Rohingyas of Burma, have suffered from persecution and discrimination for decades and are now facing inter-communal violence which has evolved into large-scale state sponsored violence against them.
In July 2012 the Burma Campaign, U.K. received the following report:
- BURMESE POLICE, SECURITY FORCES AND SOLDIERS ARE RAPING, LOOTING, TORTURING AND ARBITARILY KILLING ROHINGYA PEOPLE.
- THERE HAVE BEEN MASS ARRESTS WITH ROHINGYA PEOPLE KEPT IN
DETENTION CAMPS WITHOUT TRIAL, WITHOUT FOOD OR MEDICAL SERVICES.
- AROUND 100,000 INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE ARE IN VARIOUS
LOCATIONS, THE VAST MAJORITY WITHOUT RECEIVING PROPER ASSISTANCE
BECAUSE THEY ARE ETHNIC ROHINGYA. AID IS MOSTLY BEING BLOCKED BY THE
GOVERNMENT OR WHERE ALLOWED ROHINGYA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN EXCLUDED.
- UNKNOWN THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FLED TO BANGLADESH WHERE THEY ARE
GETTING NO AID OR PROTECTION, WHILE THOUSANDS MORE ARE TURNED BACK
BY THE GOVERNMENT OF BANGLADESH, LITERALLY AT GUNPOINT, IN VIOLATION
OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.
- LOCAL AUTHORITIES ARE REFUSING TO ALLOW MANY ROHINGYA PEOPLE
BACK TO SOME VILLAGES, SHOPS AND HOMES IN A POLICY THAT APPEARS
DESIGNED TO ‘CLEANSE’ THESE AREAS OF ROHINGYA PEOPLE.
- THE PRESIDENT OF BURMA HAS PROPOSED A POLICY THAT AMOUNTS TO
ETHNIC CLEANSING ASKING THE UNITED NATIONS TO ARRANGE FOR ROHINGYA
PEOPLE TO BE REMOVED FROM BURMA AND SENT TO THIRD COUNTRIES.
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