Rohingya demonstration front of European Union House Dublin,Ireland

Rohingya Community Speech Delivered on 23 August 2012

     Assalamualaikum and Very Good afternoon

I am Mohammed Rafique, one of the Rohingya who were settled down here by the Irish government who have supported us so much so that we are very thankful. I was born in Burma but I have grown up in Bangladesh Refugee camp for more than 18 years and my family have taken refuged in Bangladesh from persecutions on Rohingya in Arakan state during another Rohingya ethnic cleans.

I have memory of what I have seen when I was young in Burma and what my family had suffered while we were in Burma which was very similar with what I had in the refugee camps for more than 18 years. Regardless of what I had suffered and my family had suffered, the current suffering of Rohingya in Burma is much more worse than the recent ones and has opened my eyes more how we have been suffering.

Rohingya in Burma have been suffering countless of organized crimes for more than two months behind the closed door, behind the eyes of everyone. A crime which is targeted to all Rohingya community in Burma to completely wipe out Rohingya from Arakan state. A crime which is handled by all Budddhist Rakhine, Rakhine police, boarder security and riot police. A crime which is increasing day by day even there are so many protests or campaigns raising voices to stop the killing of Rohingya. A crime which is supported by even so called democratic activists and Buddhist Monks neglecting the human rights and the respects for it. 

A crime that should be highly condemned by any people of any background for the sake of humanity and justice.

Sadly, the world, the west and the democratic icon, Aung San Suu Kyi have been acting as hypocrites towards the human rights and the protections for Rohingya in Burma where we have been for hundreds of years and a place where we were born, my parents were born, my grandparents were born, my great-greatparents were born.

We urge all international communities including all NGOs, all governments and all human beings to call to stop the killings of Rohingya. We specially urge European Commission office to raise their strong voice for the protection of Rohingya. Please don’t look at us as a race or a different religious group but as human beings.

I would like to thank all honourable members who join here today, especially from Burma Action Ireland, Am’nes’ty International, Irish , Bangladesh Community, and Muslim Communities from Ireland. Without your supports and your stands for human rights, this will never be happened to raise our voice for the suffering of Rohingya. and the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya.

Many thanks.

Speech From Mohammed Eliyas

Dearest friends, honourable ladies and gentlemen

Voicing for the voiceless, supporting for the supportless, standing for the stateless, daring against the oppression need a great heart to show how you feel and how you respect for the human rights and stands against the oppression of any kinds.

I, personally from Rohingya community Ireland, very thankful to all of you to come forward to this event to show the support you have against one of the most oppressed people of the world, Rohingya.

As you all know, Rohingya are a Muslim minority from western part of Burma where we have settled down for centuries of years. We have our own culture. We speak our own language. We have our own history. We have been a part of Burma. But our rights have been taken away. Our dignity has been stained. Our culture has been disrespected. Our history has been insulted with various organized campaigns from the dictator Ne Win to current so called Democratic president Thein Sein.

Although we have profound history of being honest citizens of Burma and we have many high profile Rohingya in parliaments across the history and served in various public sectors of Burma with honour and dignity, now we have been called as illegal immigrant or extremists without realizing who are illegal immigrants or extremists.

Are we extremists who have been systematically persecuted for more than 50 years? Are we illegal immigrants when our more than half of population is wiped out from the native land despite the history?

In the recent years, Burmese media, Burmese extremists and Burmese Government have taken steps to increase persecution and hatred against Rohingya. Its result is seen in the ongoing Rohingya ethnic cleansing. 

It has started on 3rd of June killing 10 Muslims for no reasons and lead to widespread killing across Arakan state which is home to majority of Rohingya.

Burmese media is constantly fabricating news and spreading anti-Rohingya propaganda in Burmese societies while Burmese extremist and Government are continuously killing innocent Rohingya with putting state of emergency and curfew since June.

It has caused thousands of Rohingya being killed, thousands of Rohingya houses being burnt and houseless, thousands of Rohingya youth and educated being disappeared, thousands of Rohingya women and girls being raped, thousands of Rohingya shops and properties being looted and countless of Rohingya monuments and mosques being destroyed and closed.

Buddhist Monks blocked all the humanitarian aids group reaching to Rohingya and also called not to communicate with Rohingya.

Democratic activists like Ko Ko Gyi also called to remove all Rohingya from Burma with any means possible.

Also Human Rights Champion Aung San Suu Kyi is still silent simply watching killings of Rohingya.

Not to forget this, so called democratic president Thein Sein has called to deport all Rohingya to third country or made concentration camps for Rohingya, and also said Rohingya will never be citizen of Burma.

If Rohingya are not citizen of Burma, why his government elected Members of Parliament and get votes from Rohingya people?

If Rohingya are not citizen of Burma, why the second prime minister of Burma declared Rohingya as citizen and have equal right in 1950's?

If Rohingya are not citizen of Burma, why the first prime minister allowed Rohingya Language program on National TV as part of Burmese Ethnic Language Program?

Dearest Friends, Honourable Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is just a simple anti-religious persecution. It is just an ethnic cleansing. It is just a harted towards defenseless people Rohingya.It is just an intolerance towards a distinct race.

We don't want any more persecution. We want the ethnic cleansing to be stopped right now. We want our dignity.  We want our rights. We want justice.

Stop Killing of Rohingya.

Stop Killing of Rohingya.

Stop Killing of Rohingya.

We want Justice.

We want Justice.

We want Justice.

Bring Killers to Justice.

Bring Killers to Justice.

Bring Killers to Justice.

Wake up the West.

Wake up the West.

Wake up the West.

Stop biased internal Commision.

Stop biased internal Commision.

Stop biased internal Commision.

Thank you.

                   Speech form  Carlow Muslim community

     Ahamed  from Carlow Muslim community

 Abdul Hakim from carlow Muslim community 

Assalamualaikum

Silence gives the perpetrators to perpetrate more, negligence adds more to persecutions and forgetting provides the more atrocities to commit. These are the things that is currently happening on Rohingya community of Burma.

The silence, the negligence and the forgetfulness of world communities have intensified the ethnic cleansing on Rohingya by Burmese Government in the couples of months. We are still silent, our world power are still silent and our human rights repected comrades inside Burma and outside Burma are still silent while Burmese government is commiting crimes against Humanity, crimes against defenseless, crimes against voiceless and crimes against the stateless.

We are busy doing business and the world powers are doing business with Burmese government on top of the ethnic cleansing and valued business more than human lives, human lives and human dignity. We call ourselves that we respect all human beings and repect all human rights, but when it comes to Rohingya, we tend to behave strange that the world powers have been treating Rohingya not as human beings and completely neglected.

Although we have experienced so many ethnic cleansings, genocides and massacres in the 20^th century, we still allow to commit further ethnic cleansing on Rohingya in 21^st Century despite it is a duty as a human being and as a responsible community to save a group of people being vanished from the continous atrocities committed by Burmese government and Buddhist mobs.

It is a shame for the people of Burma who themselves called Buddhists and neglecting the teachings and principles of Buddhism which taught to have compassion on all human beings and even to an ant. Despite teachings, Buddhist monks and followers of Buddhism are constantly creating poisonous hatred another race, motivating crimes to be committed towards the defenseless Rohingya.

It is a shame for the government of Bangladesh who themselves called a good neighbour of Burma for treating Rohingya who have been trying to take refuge in the land temporarily from discriminations, persecutions and ethnic cleansing in Burma. In spite of being their duties to allow and treat Rohingya, Bangladesh government is continously violating the international laws, moral codes, and Islamic principles of protecting Rohingya from being cleansed in their home land.

It is a shame for Aung San Suu Kyi who is claimed as most repected and best example of braveness against oppressions. She has been comfortably sitting in the parliamentary seat watching the ethnic cleansing on Rohingya and as an human rights activist, she doen't utter a single word for Rohingya or for the human rights. Her silence and her negligence has empowered the Burmese government to commit more and more atrocities against Rohingya, burning, killing, raping, prisoning Rohingya and destroying religious place of worship.

It is a moral responsibility for any human beings who respect the human rights and who aware of the right to live with honour and dignity, to support this kind of ethnic cleansing anywhere in the world. Now it is the time for all of us, Christianity, Muslim, Hindism, Buddhism and all to stand together to come closer to stop killing of Rohingya community in Burma.

Therefore, we urge European Commision and all international communities to condemn and to protect Rohingya and to solve the long time plight of Rohingya with hand in hand, voice with voice and finding permenant solutions and bring back the lost rights of Rohingya.

 Speech from Bangladeshi Community Ireland

Dear Friends

We are here today to show our solidarity, our concern and our support against the ongoing atrocities commiting by Burmese Government on the defenseless and voiceless Rohingya community.

It is in the state of being urgent and insistent necessity for international communities regardless of who you are and how you stand against the grave policy of ethinic cleansing in Arakan state of Burma.

We are here today in front of European Comission Office in Dublin and we would like to call you not to sit back but to raise your voice for the human rights abuses and the grave concerns of Rohingya community in defense of the international declaration of human rights which have been violated by the Burmese Government who have systematically practising the discriminations against the Rohingya Community in Burma since 1978 from rising of general Ne Win of Burma who again taken away all the human rights that Rohingya deserve as the birth rights by implementing 1982 citizenship law of Burma. The law was condemned by the United Nations that violated international standards and the basis human rights.

Today, this law has make Rohingya being stateless and being one the most persecuted ethnic minorities in the world. The Burmese government has taken advantage of the law in order to clear Rohingya from Arakan state where they have long history of existence.

Today's ethnic cleansing of Rohingya is aggrevated not only by the polices of Burmese government and also for the neglience of international communities. The world powers have been neglecting the grave concern and the disgrace on human rights. The world powers have been watching the crimes commiting by the Burmese government and local Buddhists.

As a member of Bangladesh Community in Ireland, we, Banglash public are strongly standing for you, Rohingya, and condemn the atrocities committed on you. We also urge Bangladesh government to respect the human rights and treat Rohingya as human from the perspective of a neighbour rather than pushing back into the hostile sea where countless of Rohingya have been disappeared. We also urge Bangladesh government to allow the humanitarian aids for fleeing Rohingya as well as finding a permenant solution for Rohingya with the mutual dialogue with Burmese Government placing Rohingya as human beings not as a business deal.

We also request all the communities specifically European Commission to protect the human rights of Rohingya and to take steps to stop Rohingya ethnic cleansing.

Amnesty International Ireland showing Solidarity on Rohingya ethnic cleansing