URGING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO TAKE URGENT AND EFFECTIVE ACTIONS TOPREVENT THE FURTHER ATROCITIES AGAINST ROHINGYAS AND KAMANS
Date. 23.02.2013
PRESS RELEASE
URGING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO TAKE URGENT AND
EFFECTIVE ACTIONS TOPREVENT THE FURTHER ATROCITIES AGAINST ROHINGYAS AND KAMANS
Atrocities against the Rohingya and Kaman
minorities have become the daily and leisure activities of Rakhine extremists
and government apparatus in Arakan, Burma (Myanmar). Killing, arbitrary arrest,
rapes, extortion and disappearance under detention has been going on in daily
basis but these have been going on unnoticed by international community’s
because of the blockades and restrictions imposed on aid organizations and
observers by both central and local authorities. Besides aid organizations are
being harassed and threaten by local extremist militia.
However, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights to
Burma, Mr. Tomas Ojea Quintana, who visited Burma from February 11, 2012 to
February 16, 2012, could see some of the ongoing atrocities despite various
travel restrictions and limited access during his visit to the country. He
visited some parts of the violence hit Arakan state and War-Torn Kachin State.
Before departing the country, he held a press
conference at Yangon International Airport. In the press conference, he said
“around 120,000 Internally Displaced people are living in camps lacking
adequate healthcare and the conditions are worse in the camps sheltering
Rohingyas and other Muslims. Besides, humanitarian workers to Muslim IDP camps
are harassed and threatened by Rakhine Buddhist Extremists.” Commenting on the
Muslim IDP camps in MyayBun, he said “he felt them more like prisons than the
camps.” He is expected to submit his full reports on the rights situation in
Burma to UN next month.
Whatsoever he commented on the human rights
situation in Arakan, he had seen less than 20% of the atrocities being carried
out against Rohingyas and Kamans. There were travel restrictions, deceptions by
the Rakhine authority and detentions of the Rohingya activists prior to his
visit. In the most of parts of Arakan (especially in northern part), the
atrocities against Rohingyas are increasing day by day but no international
attentions are given towards the region. All kinds of atrocities are being
carried out against Rohingyas silently.
However, even a few comments by him on the
situation of Rohingyas and Kamans are enough for the international governments
and international communities to realize the actual situation of the Rohingya
on the ground. Despite ample evidences, no immediate and effective actions to
prevent the ongoing atrocities are taken yet. What is the point in sending him
to observe the human rights
Condition in Burma if no actions are taken against
the tyrants and state-sponsored ethnic cleansing against these minorities?
Besides, now, the voice and the initiatives to
cause more terror against Rohingyas and Kamans have reached to the upper house
of Parliament in Burma where Dr. Aye Maung, the chairman of Rakhine National
Development Party (RNDP) and one of the masterminds behind the GENOCIDE of
Rohingyas, submitted a racist and fascist proposal to the upper house of Parliament
on February 7, 2013 and in which, he foretold that there would be one more
violence (against Rohingyas) in Arakan soon if his proposal was (is) not
approved.
Everything is obvious and it is not difficult to
know who the real criminals behind these crimes are and what their agendas are.
In spite of all these evidences, international government bodies and
communities are only trying to give some humanitarian assistance without
solving the causes that are displacing these people and where a whole community
is being exterminated. Sadly, even the assistance, provided only in Sittwe
region doesn’t adequately reaches to the needies because of the authority’s
interference. This is causing death of many innocent Rohingyas on daily basis.
Therefore, it is high time for international
communities to take effective actions against the criminals and solve the
problems rather than just focusing on Aids. We plead to UN Security Council,
European Union, US State of Department, ASEAN and OIC etc. to make every
possible humanitarian intervention and other effective measures to stop the
genocide and find the root causes to the problems before it becomes a regional
problem. We request all the concerned quarters to try the criminals against
Rohingyas in particular and humanity in general at the International Criminal
Court of Justice and punish them respectively and provide the Rohingyas with
remedies to protect themselves if international community cannot protect them.
On behalf of European Rohingya Council (ERC)
Sincerely,
Zakaria Abdul Rahim
General Secretary
gs@theerc.net
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