Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingyas by Burma

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The Arakanese Muslims / Rohingyas must be funded and armed by freedom loving conscientious people all over the world to enable them to resist. There absolutely is no other way to deal with these Bamar beasts. The alternative is to watch this race to perish.

 

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Rohingya Blogger: 2-Minutes Speech dedicated to Rohingya victims of Myanmar's Genocide

 

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There's way knowing if funds can reach them, and arming them isn't possible. You will end up with terror charges pressed against you. This should responsibility of local nations or peoples if there is anything in their hands can be done.

So you are suggesting they should resign themselves to total annihilation. Is that what you suggest?

 

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BROUK urgently called to adopt UN Commission of Inquiry at the launch of the report “Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar”

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November 2, 2015
London -- On 29th November at the launch of the ground-breaking report Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar which was written by ISCI scholars. BROUK President Tun Khin urgently called on the UN Human rights Council to adopt a resolution mandating international Commission of Inquiry to fully asses the situation of Rohingya.
The event took place at the Hoxton Arches Central London and more than 100 people attended including human rights groups, British media and others.
The report was written by ISCI scholar Professor Penny Green, Dr Thomas McManus, and Alicia de la Cour Venning. The report provides compelling evidence of a coordinated, State-led plan of genocide against the Rohingya. The report is based on ISCI scholars’ unprecedented systematic field research in Myanmar.
The launch of the report was accompanied by a panel discussion with Penny Green, ISCI Director, Professor of Law and Globalisation, Queen Mary University of London, Tomás Ojea Quintana, Former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar ,Tun Khin, President of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK and human rights activist, Sarnata Reynolds, Senior Advisor on Human Rights at Refugees International.
In a report titled Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar researchers from the university-based International State Crime Initiative concluded that "dehumanisation and stigmatisation" techniques being used against Rohingya warrant comparisons with Germany in the 1930s and Rwanda in the early 1990s.
Researchers said they found Nazi and SS paraphernalia such as t-shirts and helmets in official documents of the Arakan National Party, a Rakhine party.
"It can be stopped but not without confronting the fact that it is, indeed, genocide," Professor Green said. Professor Penny Green also said “Myanmar’s Rohingya are being slowly annihilated through sporadic massacres, mass flight, systematic weakening and denial of identity. A genocidal process is underway in Myanmar and if it follows the path outlined in our report, it is yet to be completed. It can be stopped but not without confront" Mr Quintana said the International community has to take effective action and should support International investigation which he has proposed for a long time.
"At this point, the situation of the Rohingya cannot be understood without considering a possible genocide," Mr Quintana said in comments released with the report. "At this point, the situation of the Rohingya cannot be understood without considering a possible genocide," he said in comments released with the report. The finding is backed by Tomas Ojea Quintana, the UN's special Rapporteur of human rights in Myanmar between 2008 and 2014.
BROUK President Tun Khin expresses his personal experiences of genocidal policy against Rohingya during his life in Arakan State. Tun Khin said “he doesn’t exist that is what Burmese Government says. They Burmese government also claim the ethnic Rohingya of Burma around 1 million Rohingya never existed”.
Sarnata Reynolds mentioned the seriousness of the situation for Rohingya IDPS in Sittwe IDP camps and others. She also highlighted Rohingya refugee’s situation in Malaysia and other countries where she visited recently.







- See more at: Rohingya Blogger: BROUK urgently called to adopt UN Commission of Inquiry at the launch of the report “Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar”

 

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We Need to Prevent Genocide of Rohingya Muslims -- Before It's Too Late | Emanuel Stoakes We Need to


Prevent Genocide of Rohingya Muslims -- Before It's Too Late


Posted: 11/06/2015 9:18 am ESTUpdated: 11/06/2015 9:59 am EST

YANGON, Myanmar -- This coming Sunday, Myanmar will hold its first "free" elections for 25 years, an event set to cement the country's status as one of the world's newest democracies. If all goes to plan, the poll will complete the country's recent transition from military to (partial) civilian rule.

It is an exciting moment, not least as there is some hope that the leading opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD),could wina landslide victory and reduce the grip that Myanmar's military-backed ruling elite retain over political life. In such an event, there is some hope that the NLD could work with the military, who areallocated a quarterof the seats in Parliament by law, to build on the reform program established by current President Thein Sein.

But extremely serious allegations leveled against the state suggest all is not well in Myanmar. There is"strong evidence"that Myanmar has committed genocide against a largely Muslim minority known as the Rohingya, according to a recent report by a clinic of Yale Law School for Bangkok-based NGO Fortify Rights. Otherreportsandexpertshave warned thatgenocide may be on the horizon.

For decades, the Rohingya have enduredabuse, statelessness and apartheidin the western edge of the country. Their plight was brought to the attention of the international media in 2012 whentwo anti-Rohingya pogromsled to mass displacement and hundreds of deaths. These incidents were described by Human Rights Watch as"crimes against humanity"undertaken as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign in which state agencies were allegedly involved.The case for genocide largely rests on an analysis not just of recent violence but of the cumulative effects of decades of state policy.

Earlier this year, attention was drawn again to the Rohingya when thousands of "boat people," among them many from the minority,facedstarvation and abandonment at sea in trafficker's boats as part of what became termed " the Asian refugee crisis."

But these events are only the most high-profile agonies that the Rohingya have been subjected to. The group have endured at leastthree ethnic cleansing campaignssince the late seventies, as well asdecades of routine abusesat the hands of the state such as torture, rape and forced labor. Their basic rights have been slowly stripped away by state policy, culminating intotal disenfranchisementand new laws designed to control births inmeasures enactedthis year. Throughout this period, an unknown number of killings have taken place.

It is in reference to this history of a cumulative campaign against the group by successive governments in Myanmar, not just recent events, that the charge of genocide is most cogently being argued.

Unsurprisingly, the allegation has been challenged by state representatives. After a period of silence, spokesman Ye Htuttoldlocal publicationMizzimathat the government "rejects the accusation completely," adding that the Yale report was part of an "an intentional plot" to destabilize parts of the country before the election.Waiting for the appearance of gas chambers is precisely the mentality that has contributed to our world's repeated failures to prevent atrocities.

The claim has also been dismissed by members of the NGO community working in Myanmar, some of whom were quoted in a piecepublished byThe Straits Timesthis week, which asserted that genocide is "not the issue" for the Rohingya. The article, by veteran journalist Nirmal Ghosh, went on to cite think tank and aid agency sources who said they saw the charge as being incorrect and irresponsible.

However, the case for genocide -- either on the horizon or in the present -- largely rests on an analysis not just of recent violence but of the cumulative effects of decades of state policy. What seems to be rejected by critics is an image of the situation that assumes that, because Rwanda-style mass killings haven't occurred, the allegation is untenable.

Addressing such criticisms, Matthew Smith, Executive Director of Fortify Rights, told me, "Genocide is a crime everyone thinks they understand. We've come to realize that many diplomats, UN officials and analysts don't understand the law of genocide, and we don't necessarily hold that against them."

"We often associate gas chambers and mass killing to situations of genocide, but elevating the crime to the most extreme examples is not necessarily helpful, and it's not required by the law of genocide," he continued. "Waiting for the appearance of gas chambers is precisely the mentality that has contributed to our world's repeated failures to prevent atrocities."

The term genocide inspires political sensitivity and institutional cowardice precisely because it carries with it legal obligations that most states, in theory,have to adhere to. Myanmar has become increasingly important to the West due to its strategic location in the U.S.-led "pivot to Asia." To use the charged term "genocide" publicly could seriously damage ties with Naypyidaw.The term genocide inspires political sensitivity and institutional cowardice precisely because it carries with it legal obligations that most states, in theory, have to adhere to.

However, it's one thing to mindlessly proclaim "genocide!" and advocate the ending of all forms of quiet diplomacy with the government of Myanmar in favor of a single-track confrontational approach. It's quite another to advocate for the continuation of such engagement while calling for an international commission of inquiry to investigate the claim.

It is this latter approach that is recommended by the Yale paper. It's hard to see why it should not be adopted, unless one favors the option of simply doing nothing until the situation deteriorates into a full-blown human catastrophe.

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The elections are tomorrow, 08 Nov. Inauguration of the new govt is in Jan, '16. This is the period that the Buddhist Bamars and their Mogh Rakhine allies will use to eliminate the Rohingyas,ie, the Arakanese Muslims to a man. We BD should for receiving the last exodus of this unfortunate community whose only fault is that they are Muslims and look like Bengalis.