Ref. NR/002019
Date: 1th October 2013
Press Release on Violence
against Rohingya and Kamen minority by Rakhine in Arakan
The premeditated mass-attack by the Rakhine extremists with
collaboration of Burmese authority against the defenseless minority Rohingya
and Kamen in Thandwe township of Arakan has begun since last Saturday 28th June
2013. The violence has been in full spree across Rohingya and Kamen villages
according to our sources supplied from inside Arakan. So far, 25 innocent
people including women and children have been reported dead during violence,
scores have been seriously injured, their properties and houses have been
grounded and religious sites have been burnt down at the very presence of
security forces. Rakhine extremists have been fully equipped with lethal
weapons and instruments.
Rohingya and Rakhine are two sister community living in
Arakan, present western part of Burma (Myanmar) long before Burmese annexation
in 1784. Rohingyas confess Islam while Rakhines are Buddhists by faith. The
renewed attack against minority people comes amidst of Thein Sein’s first
official visit to Arakan. It is suspected that the recent attack is carried out
upon green light from central authority to show the solidarity with the Rakhine
extremists through heinous intention of garnering full support from Rakhine
community for next general election to be held in 2015.
The military dominance quasi-democracy government led by Ex.
general Thein Sein has been continuously deceiving the international community
about the maltreatment and crime against humanity towards Rohingya minority
time and again. His cabinet member and Foreign Minister plainly mislead at UN
general assembly that there is no place for perpetrators of ethnic violence and
religious extremism while people are still openly being killed, villages are
being on arson besides many intolerable restrictions imposed on Rohingyas in
Arakan. In ground and reality, the central government is fully supporting
extremist Rakhines and covering their daily crimes since violence eruption in
June of 2012. The criticism of Time Magazines article on pioneer terrorist Wira
Thu by president office is an explicit example of support for extremism against
different race and faith.
As of Tuesday evening, government has imposed down-to-dust
curfew targeting solely Rohingya people and squared them off within its zone.
Apart from that, it surely provides extremists more leeway to continue attack
and be victorious in cleansing the Rohingya. The tactics applying by both
Rakhine and Regime in alliance here is very similar to clampdown in Maung Daw
Township of Arakan in June 2012. Rakhine mobs set the houses on fire and the
residence will be forced to come out of the houses just to get killed by the
security forces waiting outside the houses.
The European Rohingya Council (ERC) strongly denounces Thein
Sein’s plan of cleansing Rohingya and kamen minority from their soil from
Arakan State while he advocates about restoration of democracy, human rights
and peace. The ERC calls upon international communities, UN, OIC and ASEAN to
pressure Thein Sein government to immediately stop the violence against minority
Rohingya people and protect. The life of innocent people and their belonging.
Rohingyas have long been victims of violence and violation of every fundamental
right since the independence gained from British in 1948.
For more information Please contact us.
Sincerely yours,
Khairul Amin
Chairman
The European Rohingya Council (ERC)
Home: +4732856482
Mobile: +4792428989
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