Date: 23rd
August 2012
Time: 14:00 to 15:30
Location:
European
Union House,
18 Dawson Street,
Dublin 2
18 Dawson Street,
Dublin 2
Rohingya
Community Ireland would like to invite you for the upcoming event taking place
in front of European Union House in Dublin to raise the voice together against
the killings of Rohingya in Burma.
Rohingya
are a Muslim minority from western part of Burma or Myanmar where they have
been living for hundreds of thousands of years with profound history. Rohingya
have been subjected to various persecution and discrimination from the state
and the state-backed Buddhist ethnic group of Arakan state since 1942. Rohingya
have lost their rights of being citizens of Burma when a new citizenship law
was passed in 1982 by the former dictator Ne Win making them stateless.
The
United Nations have described Rohingya as one of the most oppressed or persecuted
people in the world.
The
ongoing killings or cleansings of Rohingya from their home land started on 8th
of June when a group of Rohingya were heading towards mosque to pray for 10
Muslims who were brutally killed by Buddhist mob on 3rd of June. It
has soon triggered the organized campaign to kill or cleanse Rohingya across
Arakan state. The police, the border security force, the riot force and the
local Buddhist community have started committing atrocities, killing thousands
of Rohingya Muslim, burning of villages, looting of properties, destroying of
Mosques, raping of Rohingya girls and abducting of educated Rohingya and youths
while blocking of aids reaching to Rohingya by Buddhist monks and pushing back
of fleeing Rohingya into the sea by Bangladesh government.
At the
same time, the president of Burma, Thein Sein has announced to deport all
Rohingya to third country when he himself believes that he has been taking
democratic reforms, as well as the noble peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi
and the major powers of the world have kept silent.
The
killings will not be reduced or stopped when we too keep silent like hypocrites
of Human Rights are doing. Thus, we would like you to come together and voice
together to make the thousand voices to wake up the silence of killings of
Rohingya.
Stop the
killings, Treat Rohingya as Human, Respect the Human Rights.
For more information please contact Mohammed Rafique 0860391625 or 0899520085
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