Obama says Myanmar needs to end discrimination of Rohingya to succeed

[Shan-e-ibrahim]

This is exactly what Obama said in India to RSSvadis. Dhinchaaaakkk

 

[Aung Zaya]

lack of funds eh? Whose the govt who isnt giving the fund? Can I hear it out

LOL.. we already said we 're poor.. Not only in arakan state but also around the country , Hospitals can be available on cities.. not in village...!! mr.nut..!! u should do some googling to know about Myanmar before u talking anything..!! our country still need to fill the infrastructure gap.. not only these people but also other native people around the Myanmar also suffer consequences of lacking infrastructure.. why we need to pour all fund into those people who still not sure even a citizen or from Bangladesh while pure citizens (including Muslims) need as well..!? we must fill full our citizen's need 1st like other counties..

If u feel upset about those people , u can donate all ur money through UNHCR.. we will built a world class hospital for them with that money.. !!

 

[UKBengali]

LOL.. we already said we 're poor.. Not only in arakan state but also around the country , Hospitals can be available on cities.. not in village...!! mr.nut..!! u should do some googling to know about Myanmar before u talking anything..!! our country still need to fill the infrastructure gap.. not only these people but also other native people around the Myanmar also suffer consequences of lacking infrastructure.. why we need to pour all fund into those people who still not sure even a citizen or from Bangladesh while pure citizens (including Muslims) need as well..!? we must fill full our citizen's need 1st like other counties..

If u feel upset about those people , u can donate all ur money through UNHCR.. we will built a world class hospital for them with that money.. !!

They are YOUR citizen as they have been living in Myanmar for generations.

 

[Aung Zaya]

The Rohingya: A history of persecution

The UNHCR estimates that at the moment there could be as many as 500,000 unregistered Rohingya refugees inside Bangladesh. This number is in excess to the 25,000 that are registered refugees and are living in two of the camps provided by the UNHCR. What it means is that half a million people are living on Bangladeshi soil without any legal rights or provisions. They exist like ghosts in the wind because the government of Bangladesh does not recognise their presence.
The real problem, though, starts in Myanmar, where Thein Sein's military backed government fails to acknowledge their presence as well, often turning a blind eye to the massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine and the crimes against humanity being committed on Myanmar land. On March 29, the Myanmar government banned the word 'Rohingya' and insisted that the Muslim community register as 'Bengalis.' Critics will point to the fact that it is a political ploy to gain Buddhist votes before elections but it is just another move in a series of oppressive ones that can be seen to span across the best part of the last three centuries. Today, the Rohingyas are the most persecuted minority in the world, according to UNHCR reports. Their presence inside Myanmar continues to be widely contentious issue and, for the Myanmar government, mum's the word is the policy that has served them best for the past century.
The topic of debate centres on the belief that the Rohingyas are not people of Myanmar but an ethnicity that migrated into Myanmar from Chittagong. Proponents of this school of thought point to the fact that the Rohingya dialect and the Chittagonian dialect are very similar to each other. The truth is, though, that the Rohingya dialect of the people of Arakan developed sometime during the 8th century with the confluence of Arabic, Persian, Portuguese and Sanskrit. In fact, the ethnicity now referred to as Rohingya existed in Myanmar's land for longer than the last millennium. The free mixing of populations on both sides of the Naf river led to the similarities in dialects of the two regions. It was only in 1785 that the first instance of displacement of the Rohingyas occurred. Burmese king Bodapawpaya's conquest of Arakan led to the mass migration of the Mogh and the Rohingya to Chittagong. The Muslim population of Arakan was tortured indiscriminately and they had no choice but to flee. Fast forward to the three Anglo-Burmese wars stretching from 1824 to 1885 and we can see that the British occupation of Burma led to the reentry of Rohingyas into their homeland after decades in exile. Little were they to know of the nightmare that awaited them in the coming years.
With the rise of ultra nationalist movements throughout Burma, British India was finally separated from Myanmar in 1935, at a time when the Rohingyas fought to break away from the shackles of Imperialism. But this was the time when the communal flames of the Buddhist-Muslim dichotomy started spreading throughout Arakan, now renamed by the Mogh Buddhists as Rakhine. 1938 saw the first serious Buddhist-Muslim riots in Rakhine, and it was only about to get worse. Things came to a head in 1942, when Japanese occupation forces moved into Burma and colluded with Burmese ultra nationalists to massacre the many minorities of Myanmar, including the Rohingyas, who were now termed as Chittagonians, in-line with the anti-India sentiment that made the people of Myanmar averse to anything or anyone that came in contact with British India. The British, however, reoccupied Burma in 1945 and the Rohingyas were again allowed to settle back into Rakhine, albeit in acrimonious circumstances.
In 1948 came the independence of Burma and the implementation of parliamentary democracy. In Aung San's mandate, the Rohingyas were recognised as citizens of independent Myanmar. Even though Aung San was assassinated, his work towards peaceful coexistence was carried forward to some extent by U Nu, under whose rule Rohingyas were allowed to vote and enjoy basic rights. But it was to be the calm before a violent storm as General Ne Win came to power through a military coup and the systematic Rohingya genocide began in earnest from 1962. They were denied the right to vote and lost their status as citizens. That was when the exodus of Rohingyas to Bangladesh started. An estimated 207,172 refugees sought shelter in Bangladesh in 1978. Repatriation occurred in small bursts but another large wave of refugees came to Bangladeshi shores in 1992, this time almost 250,000 of them. The Bangladeshi government stopped registering Rohingya refugees in 1992 but the influx has not abated since then. Repatriation is a thorny topic as movement of the Rohingyas back into Rakhine puts them back into the scene of horrific persecution.
The situation hardly gives any reasons for us to be optimistic. Aung San Suu Kyi remains mysteriously mum on this topic while communal hatred spurs on in Rakhine. The Constitution of Myanmar states that any ethnic group that has lived within Burmese territory before 1823 are natives. It is strange, then, that Rohingyas are not included in this definition. In one of the most blatant instances of genocide in recent history, the government of Myanmar has decided to turn a blind eye to the fate of its people. And what of the hopeless community living in peril on both sides of an increasingly lawless border? They are often left with no choice but to turn to drug trafficking and militancy to gain their place back in their homeland.
The recent rise of militant organisations such as the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) should hardly be surprising. Reports published in The Myanmar Times say that infiltrators from Bangladesh (presumably RSO) shot and killed four police officers in Myanmar on May 17. It might just have been the tipping point that resulted in the shootout on May 28 that killed Mizanur Rahman. The situation now has become too glaring to ignore. The government of Myanmar can no longer sit and watch as hundreds burn everyday in Rakhine. It's time for them to accept the fact that the Rohingya belong in Myanmar as much as anyone else. It's time for them to step out of the tactic of using religious bigotry for political expediency.


The Rohingya: A history of persecution | The Daily Star



Go get educated before embarrassing yourself

a History copy from Daliy Star...........that's what A NEWS PAPER SAY...
any other prove for this fact rather than newspaper..

They are YOUR citizen as they have been living in Myanmar for generations.

Shouting like a blind..!! where's prove the fact they have been living in Myanmar for generations..?

 

[UKBengali]

Shouting like a blind..!! where's prove the fact they have been living in Myanmar for generations..?

Where is your proof that they have not been living in Myanmar for generations?

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Not everyone is as blood thirsty child like you!

I stopped reading after that ....Apparently you never grew up....good luck!

Then I wish you happy posting in PDF.

 

[Dubious]

a History copy from Daliy Star...........that's what A NEWS PAPER SAY...
any other prove for this fact rather than newspaper..

And a history copied from blogspot.com is what?

 

[HariPrasad]

Obama should first of all stop investigating Muslims like criminals for hours before advising to others.

 

[Dubious]

why we need to pour all fund into those people who still not sure even a citizen or from Bangladesh while pure citizens (including Muslims) need as well..!? we must fill full our citizen's need 1st like other counties..

They are citizens of that land you people colonized...They have been on that land and no one can disprove that....THEY are equal citizens as most of you migrated from neighbourhood as well (Thailand/ China/ Moguls/ Indians) So you all originated from someplace....Calling yourself citizens and those who have been on that piece of land as NON CITIZENS after already granting them citizens ....is pure signs of blind hatred!


WHO ARE THE ROHINGYA?

Their history dates back to the early seventh century when Arab Muslim traders settled in the area. The UN estimates that there are about 800,000 Rohingya in Myanmar, including people of Bengali heritage who settled centuries ago as well as those who entered the country in recent decades. But the law in Myanmar considers as citizens only those who settled in the country before independence in 1948. Post-independence immigrants are officially considered illegal. Adding to the confusion over who is an illegal immigrant is the large exodus of Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh in the 1980s and 1990s because of persecution.


So confused people like your president who summed up people who have been there from 7th century + people who settled centuries ago with those who came in recent decades is just pathetic!:
"We will take responsibility for ethnic nationalities but it is not at all possible to recognise the illegal border-crossing Rohingya who are not of our ethnicity," he said.

Why is the world ignoring Myanmar's Rohingya? - Al Jazeera English

By you guys burying truth it is not going to hide your pathetic nature!

Even though not their problem nor their land:

Officially, Bangladeshi authorities do not recognise their existence, but in reality they are tolerated and are known as unregistered refugees.

Rohingya: The world's most forgotten people - Al Jazeera English


So shame on you people for taking their land and claiming it yours but not giving them citizenship....Release their land if you dont want them as your citizen! SIMPLE!

How many websites are you going to hush?

The first Muslims to settle in Arakan were in the area by the 1400s CE. Many served in the court of the Buddhist King Narameikhla (Min Saw Mun), who ruled Arakan in the 1430s, and who welcomed Muslim advisers and courtiers into his capital. Arakan is on the western border of Burma, near what is now Bangladesh, and the later Arakanese kings modeled themselves after the Mughal emperors, even using Muslim titles for their military and court officials.

In 1785, Buddhist Burmese from the south of the country conquered Arakan. They drove out or executed all of the Muslim Rohingya men they could find; some 35,000 of Arakan's people likely fled into Bengal, then part of the British Raj in India.

As of 1826, the British took control of Arakan after the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-26). They encouraged farmers from Bengal to move to the depopulated area of Arakan, both Rohingyas originally from the area and native Bengalis. The sudden influx of immigrants from British India sparked a strong reaction from the mostly-Buddhist Rakhine people living in Arakan at the time, sowing the seeds of ethnic tension that remain to this day.

When World War II broke out, Britain abandoned Arakan in the face of Japanese expansion into Southeast Asia. In the chaos of Britain's withdrawal, both Muslim and Buddhist forces took the opportunity to inflict massacres on one another. Many Rohingya still looked to Britain for protection, and served as spies behind Japanese lines for the Allied Powers. When the Japanese discovered this connection, they embarked on a hideous program of torture, rape and murder against the Rohingyas in Arakan. Tens of thousands of Arakanese Rohingyas once again fled into Bengal.

Between the end of World War II and General Ne Win's coup d'etat in 1962, the Rohingyas advocated for a separate Rohingya nation in Arakan. When the military junta took power in Yangon, however, it cracked down hard on Rohingyas, separatists and non-political people alike. It also denied Burmese citizenship to the Rohingya people, defining them instead as stateless Bengalis.

Since that time, the Rohingya in Myanmar have lived in limbo. In recent years, they have faced increasing persecution and attacks, even in some cases from Buddhist monks. Those who escape out to sea, as thousands have done, face an uncertain fate; the governments of Muslim nations around Southeast Asia including Malaysia and Indonesia have refused to accept them as refugees. Some of those who turn up in Thailand have been victimized by human traffickers, or even set adrift again on the sea by Thai military forces. Australia has adamantly refused to accept any Rohingya on its shores, as well.

In May of 2015, the Philippines pledged to create camps to house 3,000 of the Rohingya boat-people. Working with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR), the Philippines' government will temporarily shelter refugees and provide for their basic needs, while a more permanent solution is sought. It is a start, but with perhaps as many as 6,000 to 9,000 people adrift on the sea right now, much more needs to be done.

Who Are the Rohingya of Myanmar (Burma)?


Now you shameless brat with Japanese WW2 legacy of mass murder....You drove them off their land MORE THAN ONCE....and stop acting as an angel...You guys inflicted them equally since centuries ago! From 1785, then again during WW2...basically every chance you barbarians got!

just coz some JUNTA leader 1962 took away their citizenship doesnt mean they are alien to their land! Shame on you...Buddhism doesnt teach to become a blind hater! And you guys want to hail democracy

Obama should first of all stop investigating Muslims like criminals for hours before advising to others.

At least he isnt ethnically cleansing them from his land! So your point is invalid We are not talking about 1 person, 1 religion...We are talking about a group of people prosecuted due to their looks and religion....A group which is being mass murdered equal to a genocide in the 21st century shame on you people for bringing up shit and not having the balls to condemn a genocide!

 

[Aung Zaya]

They are citizens of that land you people colonized...They have been on that land and no one can disprove that....THEY are equal citizens as most of you migrated from neighbourhood as well (Thailand/ China/ Moguls/ Indians) So you all originated from someplace....Calling yourself citizens and those who have been on that piece of land as NON CITIZENS after already granting them citizens ....is pure signs of blind hatred!


WHO ARE THE ROHINGYA?

Their history dates back to the early seventh century when Arab Muslim traders settled in the area. The UN estimates that there are about 800,000 Rohingya in Myanmar, including people of Bengali heritage who settled centuries ago as well as those who entered the country in recent decades. But the law in Myanmar considers as citizens only those who settled in the country before independence in 1948. Post-independence immigrants are officially considered illegal. Adding to the confusion over who is an illegal immigrant is the large exodus of Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh in the 1980s and 1990s because of persecution.


So confused people like your president who summed up people who have been there from 7th century + people who settled centuries ago with those who came in recent decades is just pathetic!:
"We will take responsibility for ethnic nationalities but it is not at all possible to recognise the illegal border-crossing Rohingya who are not of our ethnicity," he said.

Why is the world ignoring Myanmar's Rohingya? - Al Jazeera English

By you guys burying truth it is not going to hide your pathetic nature!

Even though not their problem nor their land:

Officially, Bangladeshi authorities do not recognise their existence, but in reality they are tolerated and are known as unregistered refugees.

Rohingya: The world's most forgotten people - Al Jazeera English


So shame on you people for taking their land and claiming it yours but not giving them citizenship....Release their land if you dont want them as your citizen! SIMPLE!

How many websites are you going to hush?

The first Muslims to settle in Arakan were in the area by the 1400s CE. Many served in the court of the Buddhist King Narameikhla (Min Saw Mun), who ruled Arakan in the 1430s, and who welcomed Muslim advisers and courtiers into his capital. Arakan is on the western border of Burma, near what is now Bangladesh, and the later Arakanese kings modeled themselves after the Mughal emperors, even using Muslim titles for their military and court officials.

In 1785, Buddhist Burmese from the south of the country conquered Arakan. They drove out or executed all of the Muslim Rohingya men they could find; some 35,000 of Arakan's people likely fled into Bengal, then part of the British Raj in India.

As of 1826, the British took control of Arakan after the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-26). They encouraged farmers from Bengal to move to the depopulated area of Arakan, both Rohingyas originally from the area and native Bengalis. The sudden influx of immigrants from British India sparked a strong reaction from the mostly-Buddhist Rakhine people living in Arakan at the time, sowing the seeds of ethnic tension that remain to this day.

When World War II broke out, Britain abandoned Arakan in the face of Japanese expansion into Southeast Asia. In the chaos of Britain's withdrawal, both Muslim and Buddhist forces took the opportunity to inflict massacres on one another. Many Rohingya still looked to Britain for protection, and served as spies behind Japanese lines for the Allied Powers. When the Japanese discovered this connection, they embarked on a hideous program of torture, rape and murder against the Rohingyas in Arakan. Tens of thousands of Arakanese Rohingyas once again fled into Bengal.

Between the end of World War II and General Ne Win's coup d'etat in 1962, the Rohingyas advocated for a separate Rohingya nation in Arakan. When the military junta took power in Yangon, however, it cracked down hard on Rohingyas, separatists and non-political people alike. It also denied Burmese citizenship to the Rohingya people, defining them instead as stateless Bengalis.

Since that time, the Rohingya in Myanmar have lived in limbo. In recent years, they have faced increasing persecution and attacks, even in some cases from Buddhist monks. Those who escape out to sea, as thousands have done, face an uncertain fate; the governments of Muslim nations around Southeast Asia including Malaysia and Indonesia have refused to accept them as refugees. Some of those who turn up in Thailand have been victimized by human traffickers, or even set adrift again on the sea by Thai military forces. Australia has adamantly refused to accept any Rohingya on its shores, as well.

In May of 2015, the Philippines pledged to create camps to house 3,000 of the Rohingya boat-people. Working with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR), the Philippines' government will temporarily shelter refugees and provide for their basic needs, while a more permanent solution is sought. It is a start, but with perhaps as many as 6,000 to 9,000 people adrift on the sea right now, much more needs to be done.

Who Are the Rohingya of Myanmar (Burma)?


Now you shameless brat with Japanese WW2 legacy of mass murder....You drove them off their land MORE THAN ONCE....and stop acting as an angel...You guys inflicted them equally since centuries ago! From 1785, then again during WW2...basically every chance you barbarians got!

just coz some JUNTA leader 1962 took away their citizenship doesnt mean they are alien to their land! Shame on you...Buddhism doesnt teach to become a blind hater! And you guys want to hail democracy


At least he isnt ethnically cleansing them from his land! So your point is invalid We are not talking about 1 person, 1 religion...We are talking about a group of people prosecuted due to their looks and religion....A group which is being mass murdered equal to a genocide in the 21st century shame on you people for bringing up shit and not having the balls to condemn a genocide!

Again now from Al Jazeera English..!! do u have any trusted historian's book or research paper..

 

[Dubious]

Again now from Al Jazeera English..!! do u have any trusted historian's book or research paper..

I prefer something in news over someone's blog in blogspot.com

At least you can sue the news for misinformation no one is gonna peer review your blogspot or sue it for misinformation

shame on you people for not having the balls to condemn a genocide!

 

[ito]

It is good that US is willing to take some Rohinyas. Any Rohinya in Burma will be killed so it is better they are all relocated.

 

[Zabaniyah]

Myanmar has solved the Islamism problem in a way they deemed necessary. The remnants are on boats - denied refuge in other countries.

That wasn't at all the point I made.

Ciao.

 

[Aung Zaya]

Their history dates back to the early seventh century when Arab Muslim traders settled in the area.

then u means they become rohingya...
Do u know what they become later..?

Arab merchants also not only arakan but also arrived Martaban, Margue. Arab also settlement in the present Meik's mid-western quarters. All these people called Pathi muslim... derived from the persi ( persian )....they're already granted as full citizenships...

by Collis, Maurice (1953). Into Hidden Burma, an Autobiography. London: Faber.

 

[Dubious]

Arab merchants also not only arakan but also arrived Martaban, Margue. Arab also settlement in the present Meik's mid-western quarters. All these people called Pathi muslim... derived from the persi ( persian )....they're already granted as full citizenships...

Then what is the problem with those who came in from Bangladesh? Selective genocide is called ethnic cleansing!