Friday 19 رمضان 1445 Hijri | 29/03/2024 A.D. - 03:50 PM - Time of Mecca

FREE ROHINGYAS FROM GENOCIDE
Friday | 05/04/2013 - 10:35 AM
FREE ROHINGYAS FROM GENOCIDE

PRESS STATEMENT
FREE ROHINGYAS FROM GENOCIDE

Dear Chief Editors, ‎

Myanmar Ethnic Rohingyas Human Rights Organization Malaysia ‎‎(MERHROM) received numerous urgent calls from Rohingyas in ‎Arakan State of Myanmar. On 2nd April 2013 at 2.45 am in Maung ‎Nifara Village of Maungdaw Township, Rohingyas villagers saw 35 ‎Rakhines Buddhist gathered near the mosques in the village. The ‎Rakhines brought petrol, matches and lethal weapon with them. The ‎Rohingyas immediately reported to the security forces namely Nasaka ‎and  Police. The security forces brought the 35 Rakhines to other place ‎and question them. The Nasaka and the Police then told the Rohingyas ‎to return home without explaining the intention of the Rakhines gathered ‎near the mosque. The Rohingyas believe that they were planning to burn ‎the mosque. However there is no action taken against the Rakhines ‎group who clearly has a plan to burn down the mosque. ‎

On 3rd April 2013, at about 3.00am in Butthidaung main city, a group ‎of Rakhines trying to enter the main mosque. They have petrol, matches, ‎long knife and other weapons with them. Due to the noise some ‎Rohingyas residents who stays near the mosque realized that a group of ‎people trying to enter the mosque. They immediately called the police. ‎The police questioned them what are they doing early morning in that ‎area. The Rakhines told the police that they were looking for frog. ‎According to the Rohingyas resident who stays in the area there is no ‎frog in that area. The Rakhines actually have an intention to burn the ‎main Mosque in the city. The Rohingyas told the police that the ‎Rakhines tried to burn the Mosque but the police got angry. Police ‎ordered the Rohingyas and Rakhines to return home. The police warns ‎the Rohingyas not to prolong the story otherwise the police will put ‎them into the jail.‎

On 3rd April 2013, at about 6:30am, the police and Border Guard ‎Bangladesh (BGB) arrested two Rakhines Buddhist with two pistols at ‎Ramu fish market under the Cox’s Bazar district. They were arrested on ‎suspicion as they were wondering from place to place and the police and ‎BGB found foreign made two 0.32 pistols with 22 bullets from them. ‎The guns and bullets are in two separate packets.”‎

The two Rakhines claimed, were new comers from Arakan, but police ‎found their wristwatches are set as Bangladesh Standard Time (BST). ‎One of them said he was a carrier and will get taka 200,000, if he ‎reached Arakan with guns. He is not the owner of the guns, according to ‎Altaf, an aide of BGB.‎

After the arrest, they were brought to Ramu Police station for further ‎interrogations. Some shopkeepers of Ramu market believe that they are ‎the members of Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) who are appointed to do ‎a special job in Bangladesh. Some local villagers said, “They came here ‎to kill people in Bangladesh and we heard that recently a group of ‎Rakhine people had been sent to Bangladesh from Arakan.”‎

Today 4th April 2013, two Rakhines from Bangladesh who entered ‎Maungdaw Township were arrested by Nasaka as they were holding two ‎AK-47 guns. The Rohingyas do not know what happen to them and if ‎there is any action taken on them for holding guns.  The Rohingyas ‎villagers feel really unsafe as there are already several incidents in the ‎recent months the security forces found the Rakhines groups with petrol, ‎matches and arms but we do not know what actions taken to them. ‎

On the same day, 14 Rohingyas Richmen in Tung Bazar Village, ‎Buthidaung Township were arrested by Nasaka and all of them taken to ‎Nasaka camp. The Nasaka forced them to hold different arms, guns and ‎lethal weapons. Nasaka then took pictures of the Rohingyas holding ‎arms and guns. Then they were beaten and tortured by Nasaka. The ‎Nasaka forced the 14 Rohingyas to admit that they were from Rohingyas ‎Solidarity Organization (RSO) and the weapons belong to them. They ‎were still detain by Nasaka. We do not know their fate as the allegation ‎puts to them is very heavy. ‎

MERHROM strongly emphasized that the Rohingyas Solidarity ‎Organization (RSO) has stop very long time ago. Since the violence ‎started in June 2012, the Rohingyas in Arakan State are highly ‎monitored and controlled by the Security forces. Further to that, the ‎curfew was impose to the Rohingyas until now. In this very tight and ‎highly controlled situation, how could the Rohingyas involved in RSO. ‎

The humanitarian crisis in Arakan State is not over yet. Currently there ‎are more than 125,000 Rohingyas living in the temporary camps with ‎severe lack of food, water, medical, clothes and other basic needs. Day ‎by day the Rohingyas children, women, elderly and men died in the ‎camps due to starvation, malnutrition and diseases. Many more will die ‎as the rainy season already started in Arakan State. ‎

The situation in the camp is worsening as the Myanmar government is ‎systematically restricting humanitarian aid and imposing discriminatory ‎policies on Rohingya Muslims in Arakan State as revealed by the ‎Human Rights Watch. ‎

While the humanitarian crisis for the Rohingyas continues in Arakan ‎State, we were shock to hear the riot started in Meiktila which claims ‎more lives of minority Muslim and destroyed more houses, mosques and ‎Muslim properties. The few days riot has spread quickly to the other ‎Towns and more houses, mosques and properties were destroyed. ‎

Recently the International Community was shocked to hear 13 teenage ‎boys at a Muslim school in Yangon were killed in a blazed. The ‎Myanmar government put blame on electrical fault while the teacher and ‎the student said they could smell of fuel during the blazed. Further to this ‎they were slipping on an oily liquid on the ground floor while escaping. ‎

MERHROM strongly emphasized that all of these incidents proves the ‎continuous attacks against Muslims across Myanmar by the Myanmar ‎government. They are attacking top Muslim businesses, Mosques, ‎Muslim houses and Properties and recently young generations. These are ‎Genocide towards Muslim across Myanmar. We do not know what next ‎by the Myanmar government. The Myanmar government is using all its ‎Security forces together with Buddhist population to clean Muslim from ‎Myanmar. ‎

MERHROM urgently call for the United Nations Security Council to ‎send their Peace Keeping Mission to Arakan State, Meiktila and other ‎affected area Urgently to stop the Genocide towards Minority Muslim in ‎Myanmar. ‎

MERHROM urgently call for World Leaders, OIC, ASEAN and to the ‎International Communities to stop the economic and political ‎relationship with Myanmar until they resolve the conflict and protect ‎Muslims in Myanmar with equal rights.‎

MERHROM urgently urge the World Leaders and International ‎Communities to prosecute the President Thien Sein and former General ‎Thein Shwe for Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. They must be ‎brought to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for killing, raping, ‎torturing, detaining and abusing Minority Muslims and other ethnics.‎

We thank you for your Urgent Intervention to resolve the conflict and ‎Save the minority Muslims from the state sponsored ethnic cleansing ‎and GENOCIDE.‎

Thank you. ‎
Yours sincerely,‎

Mr. Zafar Ahmad Bin Abdul Ghani
President
Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization Malaysia ‎‎(MERHROM)‎
Tel: +6016-6827287‎
Email : [email protected]
Blog : www.http://merhrom.wordpress.com






التعليـــقات 
Comments published does not reflect the opinion of the agency, but reflect the opinion of their owners

Articles
Books
Mailing List
subscribe to our newsletter to receive our latest and top news
Search