Date: 11 December 2015
Since the start of December, murders of Rohingya Muslims have increased suddenly creating fresh fears of large scale ethnic cleansing. The Rohingya population is small, and diminishing each day as increasing numbers of people flee Arakan. In such a small community, the murder of four people in a single week is creating panic and will hasten the exodus of the Rohingya people which serves the purposes of the military backed regime and their Buddhist nationalist allies.
The government of Myanmar has long formulated a blueprint for a Rohingya free Arakan state. Since 2012, the plans for the final solution have been finalised by Thein Sein’s government. The first involved the riots that resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent Muslims. Since then, the government had relied on a subtler approach, a means of committing slow burning genocide designed to escape international uproar.
Following the riots, the entire Muslim population has been segregated, with more than a hundred thousand forced into squalid IDP camps where living conditions have been described as among the worst in the world. All Rohingyas have been forced into their designated zones and forbidden to leave that area. As work is almost non-existent in these zones, Rohingyas have been left without an income and many have been starving. Added to this was the complete denial of medical facilities. All these measures have been adopted to force the Rohingyas to leave Arakan without creating international media attention.
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