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The “Boat People” Deserve to Live: Rohingya

Ramzy Baroud Onislam.net March 4, 2013 One fails to understand the unperturbed attitude with which regional and international leaders and organizations are treating the unrelenting onslaught against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, formally known as Burma. Numbers speak of atrocities where every violent act is prelude to greater violence and ethnic cleansing. Yet, western governments’ normalization with the Myanmar regime continues unabated, regional leaders are as gutless as ever and even human rights organizations seem compelled by habitual urges to issue statements lacking meaningful, decisive and coordinated calls for action. Meanwhile the ‘boat people’ remain on their own. On February 26, fishermen discovered a rickety wooden boat floating randomly at sea, nearly 25 kilometers (16 miles) off the coast of Indonesia’s Northern Province of Aceh. The Associated Press and other media reported there were 121 people on board including children who were extremely weak, dehydrate...

Rohingya Muslims Tempt Fate on Sea

A Muslim Rohingya woman feeding her child at their tent at the Dabang Internally Displaced Persons (AFP) OnIslam & Newspapers February 12, 2013 CAIRO – Surviving on handouts and unable to look for work outside refugee camps, Rohingya Muslims are forced by Burmese authorities to take hazardous journeys by sea to flee persecution in their country. “There are no opportunities here for us, no hope,” Abu Kassim, a Rohingya Muslim, told The Washington Post on Tuesday, February 12. “We are prisoners.” Like thousands of fellow Rohingya, Abu Kassim lives in a refugee camp in western Burma after fleeing his home in Rakhine after attacks by Buddhist mobs in June. The 26-year-old Muslim was neither able to return to his home, fearing attacks by Buddhists, nor work outside the camp. This has left him with no other option but to try to cross the Bay of Bengal by sea to look for a better life outside Burma. Estimates show that several thousands of Rohingya M...