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Secret document shows Myanmar recognised Rohingyas as citizens
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Published at 06:34 PM September 03, 2017
Last updated at 06:38 PM September 03, 2017
Myanmar justifies its persecution of the Rohingya community by claiming that they have no legal residence in the countryMahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune
There are allegations that the Myanmar military used forced eviction, rape and murder to terrorise the Rohingyas
The Buddhist government of Myanmar is systematically terrorising the minority-Muslim Rohingya population, forcing them to flee to Bangladesh with their lives.
Myanmar justifies its persecution of the minority community by claiming that the Rohingya have no legal residence in the country.
In an attempt to erase the Rohingya’s historical ties to Rakhine state that date to the 8th century AD, the Myanmar government even asked the international community to stop using the term “Rohingya.”
However, a report published by Forbes claims that a “Repatriation Agreement” with Bangladesh in 1978 constitutes evidence that Myanmar acknowledged that the Rohingya had legal residence in the country. The document, which is marked “Secret,” was published by the Princeton University in 2014.
Myanmar (then known as Burma) began repressing the Rohingyas from 1962. The country started registering its citizens to screen out “foreigners,” namely the Rohingya population, in 1977.
There are allegations that the Myanmar military used forced eviction, rape and murder to terrorise the Rohingyas. Approximately 200,000 Rohingya refugees entered Bangladesh and settled into 13 UN refugee camps near the border by May 1978.
The Burmese authorities claimed that the fleeing refugees are illegal residents, the report said.
However, Bangladesh urged Burma to accept the refugees back and managed to enter into an agreement with the then Burmese government regarding the refugee crisis with the help of United Nations.
Passage 1(a) of the “Repatriation Agreement” states: “The Government of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma agrees to the repatriation at the earliest of the lawful residents of Burma who are now sheltered in the camps in Bangladesh on the presentation of Burmese National Registration Cards…”
Mistreatment and religious persecution caused another 250,000 Rohingya refugees to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh from 1991 to 1992. An agreement between Myanmar and Bangladesh made in 1992 similarly acknowledged the lawful residency of the Rohingya in Burma. The document is titled the “Joint statement by the foreign ministers of Bangladesh & Myanmar issued at the conclusion of the official visit of the Myanmar Foreign Minister to Bangladesh 23-28 April 1992.”
The international community must acknowledge Myanmar’s violations of its past agreements and the human rights of the Rohingya, and should increase economic and diplomatic pressure on the country to resolve the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/south-asia/2017/09/03/secret-document-myanmar-rohingyas-citizens/
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Published at 06:34 PM September 03, 2017
Last updated at 06:38 PM September 03, 2017
Myanmar justifies its persecution of the Rohingya community by claiming that they have no legal residence in the countryMahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune
There are allegations that the Myanmar military used forced eviction, rape and murder to terrorise the Rohingyas
The Buddhist government of Myanmar is systematically terrorising the minority-Muslim Rohingya population, forcing them to flee to Bangladesh with their lives.
Myanmar justifies its persecution of the minority community by claiming that the Rohingya have no legal residence in the country.
In an attempt to erase the Rohingya’s historical ties to Rakhine state that date to the 8th century AD, the Myanmar government even asked the international community to stop using the term “Rohingya.”
However, a report published by Forbes claims that a “Repatriation Agreement” with Bangladesh in 1978 constitutes evidence that Myanmar acknowledged that the Rohingya had legal residence in the country. The document, which is marked “Secret,” was published by the Princeton University in 2014.
Myanmar (then known as Burma) began repressing the Rohingyas from 1962. The country started registering its citizens to screen out “foreigners,” namely the Rohingya population, in 1977.
There are allegations that the Myanmar military used forced eviction, rape and murder to terrorise the Rohingyas. Approximately 200,000 Rohingya refugees entered Bangladesh and settled into 13 UN refugee camps near the border by May 1978.
The Burmese authorities claimed that the fleeing refugees are illegal residents, the report said.
However, Bangladesh urged Burma to accept the refugees back and managed to enter into an agreement with the then Burmese government regarding the refugee crisis with the help of United Nations.
Passage 1(a) of the “Repatriation Agreement” states: “The Government of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma agrees to the repatriation at the earliest of the lawful residents of Burma who are now sheltered in the camps in Bangladesh on the presentation of Burmese National Registration Cards…”
Mistreatment and religious persecution caused another 250,000 Rohingya refugees to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh from 1991 to 1992. An agreement between Myanmar and Bangladesh made in 1992 similarly acknowledged the lawful residency of the Rohingya in Burma. The document is titled the “Joint statement by the foreign ministers of Bangladesh & Myanmar issued at the conclusion of the official visit of the Myanmar Foreign Minister to Bangladesh 23-28 April 1992.”
The international community must acknowledge Myanmar’s violations of its past agreements and the human rights of the Rohingya, and should increase economic and diplomatic pressure on the country to resolve the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/south-asia/2017/09/03/secret-document-myanmar-rohingyas-citizens/
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The Real History of the Rohingyas
জেনে রাখুন: রোহিঙ্গা ইতিহাস নিয়ে সাতটি বিচিত্র তথ্য
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Image caption টেকনাফের অস্থায়ী শিবিরে রোহিঙ্গা শরণার্থী
মিয়ানমারের রাখাইন রাজ্যে সংখ্যালঘু মুসলমান রোহিঙ্গাদের ওপর নির্যাতন এখন বিশ্ব সংবাদ মাধ্যমগুলোর শিরোনাম।
কিন্তু রোহিঙ্গাদের ইতিহাস সম্পর্কে আমরা কতটুকু জানি? এখানে রোহিঙ্গা জাতির প্রায় ভুলে যাওয়া ইতিহাসের কিছু তুথ্য তুলে ধরা হলো:
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জেনে রাখুন: রোহিঙ্গা ইতিহাস নিয়ে সাতটি বিচিত্র তথ্য
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মিয়ানমারের রাখাইন রাজ্যে সংখ্যালঘু মুসলমান রোহিঙ্গাদের ওপর নির্যাতন এখন বিশ্ব সংবাদ মাধ্যমগুলোর শিরোনাম।
কিন্তু রোহিঙ্গাদের ইতিহাস সম্পর্কে আমরা কতটুকু জানি? এখানে রোহিঙ্গা জাতির প্রায় ভুলে যাওয়া ইতিহাসের কিছু তুথ্য তুলে ধরা হলো:
- রোহিঙ্গাদের আবাসভূমি আরাকান ছিল স্বাধীন রাজ্য। ১৭৮৪ সালে বার্মার রাজা বোডপায়া এটি দখল করে বার্মার অধীন করদ রাজ্যে পরিণত করেন।
- আরাকান রাজ্যের রাজা বৌদ্ধ হলেও তিনি মুসলমান উপাধি গ্রহণ করতেন। তার মুদ্রাতে ফার্সি ভাষায় লেখা থাকতো কালেমা।
- আরাকান রাজ দরবারে কাজ করতেন অনেক বাঙালি মুসলমান। বাংলার সাথে আরাকানের ছিল গভীর রাজনৈতিক ও অর্থনৈতিক সম্পর্ক।
- ধারণা করা হয় রোহিঙ্গা নামটি এসেছে আরাকানের রাজধানীর নাম ম্রোহং থেকে: ম্রোহং>রোয়াং>রোয়াইঙ্গিয়া>রোহিঙ্গা। তবে মধ্য যুগের বাংলা সাহিত্যে আরাকানকে ডাকা হতো রোসাং নামে।
- ১৪০৬ সালে আরাকানের ম্রাউক-উ রাজবংশের প্রতিষ্ঠাতা নরমিখলা ক্ষমতাচ্যুত হয়ে বাংলার তৎকালীন রাজধানী গৌড়ে পলায়ন করেন। গৌড়ের শাসক জালালুদ্দিন শাহ্ নরমিখলার সাহায্যে ৩০ হাজার সৈন্য পাঠিয়ে বর্মী রাজাকে উৎখাতে সহায়তা করেন। নরমিখলা মোহাম্মদ সোলায়মান শাহ্ নাম নিয়ে আরাকানের সিংহাসনে বসেন। ম্রাউক-উ রাজবংশ ১০০ বছর আরাকান শাসন করেছে।
- মধ্যযুগে বাংলা সাহিত্যচর্চ্চার একটি গুরুত্বপূর্ণ কেন্দ্র ছিল রোসাং রাজ দরবার। মহাকবি আলাওল রোসাং দরবারের রাজ কবি ছিলেন। তিনি লিখেছিলেন মহাকাব্য পদ্মাবতী। এছাড়া সতী ময়না ও লোর-চন্দ্রানী, সয়ফুল মুল্ক, জঙ্গনামা প্রভৃতি কাব্যগ্রন্থ রচিত হয়েছিল রোসাং রাজদরবারের আনুকূল্যে।
- ভাই আওরঙ্গজেবের সাথে ক্ষমতার দ্বন্দ্বে পরাজিত হয়ে মোগল যুবরাজ শাহ্ সুজা ১৬৬০ সালে সড়ক পথে চট্টগ্রাম-কক্সবাজার হয়ে আরাকানে পলায়ন করেন। তৎকালীন রোসাং রাজা চন্দ্র সুধর্মা বিশ্বাসঘাতকতা করে শাহ্ সুজা এবং তার পরিবারকে নির্মমভাবে হত্যা করেন। এর পর আরাকানে যে দীর্ঘমেয়াদী অরাজকতা সৃষ্টি হয় তার অবসান ঘটে বার্মার হাতে আরাকানের স্বাধীনতা হরণের মধ্য দিয়ে।
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Nearly 90,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh in past month
Rohingya people take shelter at the Aju Khaiya village after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border at Amtoli Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune
Hundreds of Rohingya milled beside the road while others slung tarpaulins over bamboo frames to make rickety shelters against the monsoon rains
Nearly 90,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar in August, pressuring scarce resources of aid agencies and communities already helping hundreds of thousands of refugees from previous spasms of violence in Myanmar.
The violence in Myanmar was set off by a coordinated attack on August 25 on dozens of police posts and an army base by Rohingya insurgents. The ensuing clashes and a major military counter-offensive have killed at least 400 people.
Myanmar officials blamed the Rohingya militants for the burning of homes and civilian deaths but rights monitors and Rohingya fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh say a campaign of arson and killings by the Myanmar army aims to force them out.
The treatment of Buddhist-majority Myanmar’s roughly 1.1 million Muslim Rohingya is the biggest challenge facing leader Aung San Suu Kyi, accused by Western critics of not speaking out for the minority that has long complained of persecution.
The number of those crossing the border – 87,000 – surpassed the total of Rohingya who escaped Myanmar after a much smaller insurgent attack in October that set off a military operation beset by accusations of serious human rights abuses.
The newest estimate, based on the calculations of United Nations’ aid workers in the Bangladeshi border district of Cox’s Bazar, takes to nearly 150,000 the total number of Rohingya who have sought refuge in Bangladesh since October.
“We are trying to build houses here, but there isn’t enough space,” said Mohammed Hussein, 25, who is still looking for a place to stay after fleeing Myanmar four days ago.
“No non-government organisations came here. We have no food. Some women gave birth on the roadside. Sick children have no treatment here.”
An unofficial camp for Rohingya refugees that sprang up at Balukhali after the October attacks is being dramatically expanded. Hundreds of Rohingya milled beside the road while others slung tarpaulins over bamboo frames to make rickety shelters against the monsoon rains.
More than 11,700 “ethnic residents” had been evacuated from northern Rakhine, the government has said, referring to non-Muslims.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who said on Friday that violence against Muslims amounted to genocide, last week called Bangladesh’s President Abdul Hamid to offer help in sheltering the fleeing Rohingya, the south Asian nation’s foreign ministry said.
The statement did not clarify if financial assistance was offered.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi will meet Suu Kyi and other officials in Myanmar on Monday, to urge a halt to the violence after a petrol bomb was thrown at the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta over the weekend.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/s...e-myanmar-violence-humanitarian-crisis-looms/
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- Published at 12:22 PM September 04, 2017
- Last updated at 01:07 PM September 04, 2017
Rohingya people take shelter at the Aju Khaiya village after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border at Amtoli Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune
Hundreds of Rohingya milled beside the road while others slung tarpaulins over bamboo frames to make rickety shelters against the monsoon rains
Nearly 90,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar in August, pressuring scarce resources of aid agencies and communities already helping hundreds of thousands of refugees from previous spasms of violence in Myanmar.
The violence in Myanmar was set off by a coordinated attack on August 25 on dozens of police posts and an army base by Rohingya insurgents. The ensuing clashes and a major military counter-offensive have killed at least 400 people.
Myanmar officials blamed the Rohingya militants for the burning of homes and civilian deaths but rights monitors and Rohingya fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh say a campaign of arson and killings by the Myanmar army aims to force them out.
The treatment of Buddhist-majority Myanmar’s roughly 1.1 million Muslim Rohingya is the biggest challenge facing leader Aung San Suu Kyi, accused by Western critics of not speaking out for the minority that has long complained of persecution.
The number of those crossing the border – 87,000 – surpassed the total of Rohingya who escaped Myanmar after a much smaller insurgent attack in October that set off a military operation beset by accusations of serious human rights abuses.
The newest estimate, based on the calculations of United Nations’ aid workers in the Bangladeshi border district of Cox’s Bazar, takes to nearly 150,000 the total number of Rohingya who have sought refuge in Bangladesh since October.
“We are trying to build houses here, but there isn’t enough space,” said Mohammed Hussein, 25, who is still looking for a place to stay after fleeing Myanmar four days ago.
“No non-government organisations came here. We have no food. Some women gave birth on the roadside. Sick children have no treatment here.”
An unofficial camp for Rohingya refugees that sprang up at Balukhali after the October attacks is being dramatically expanded. Hundreds of Rohingya milled beside the road while others slung tarpaulins over bamboo frames to make rickety shelters against the monsoon rains.
More than 11,700 “ethnic residents” had been evacuated from northern Rakhine, the government has said, referring to non-Muslims.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who said on Friday that violence against Muslims amounted to genocide, last week called Bangladesh’s President Abdul Hamid to offer help in sheltering the fleeing Rohingya, the south Asian nation’s foreign ministry said.
The statement did not clarify if financial assistance was offered.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi will meet Suu Kyi and other officials in Myanmar on Monday, to urge a halt to the violence after a petrol bomb was thrown at the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta over the weekend.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/s...e-myanmar-violence-humanitarian-crisis-looms/
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Myanmar govt blocks UN aid to northern Rakhine
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Published at 02:03 PM September 04, 2017
The Guardian reports that 16 major non-governmental aid organisations, including Oxfam and Save the Children, have also complained that the Myanmar government has restricted access to the conflict zone.
The Myanmar government has barred United Nations aid agencies from delivering vital supplies of food, water and medicine to thousands of desperate civilians in violence-torn northern Rakhine state.
According to a report published by The Guardian, the UN halted all aid distributions, after militants reportedly attacked government forces on August 25, prompting the army to respond with a counteroffensive that has killed hundreds.
“The security situation and government field-visit restrictions rendered us unable to distribute assistance there. Aid was being delivered to other parts of Rakhine state,” the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Myanmar said in a statement.
Staff from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), could not conduct any field work in northern Rakhine since last week. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said it also had to suspend distributions of aid to other parts of the state, leaving a quarter of a million civilians without access to food.
The Guardian reports that 16 major non-governmental aid organisations, including Oxfam and Save the Children, have also complained that the Myanmar government has restricted access to the conflict zone.
More than 100,000 Rohingya, who have lived in displacement camps in Rakhine since 2012, also stopped receiving assistance last week. Authorities have also denied international staff access by holding up visa approvals, The Guardian reports.
The country’s military is being accused of atrocities against the persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority, causing thousands of them to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh. Many refugees received severe injuries, including bullet wounds, while escaping the army crackdown.
“Humanitarian organisations are deeply concerned about the fate of thousands of people affected by the ongoing violence in northern Rakhine,” said Pierre Peron, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Myanmar.
Refugees who fled to Bangladesh last week have spoken of horrific stories of massacres in the villages, allegedly committed by soldiers. Thick black smoke was seen rising from small settlements near the Bangladesh border. The Myanmar government, on the other hand, has blamed the so-called rebels for burning down their own homes, and has accused them of killing Buddhists and Hindus.
The Rohingya have suffered oppression for decades. However, the recent spike in violence is being seen as a dangerous escalation by the international community, as it was likely sparked by a new Rohingya militant group called the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army. The military says 400 people have been killed, and have labelled the vast majority of them as terrorists.
However, a government block on access to Rakhine makes it impossible to verify official figures.
Hardline leaders in the Buddhist majority Myanmar have fuelled anti-Muslim sentiments and have accused relief workers of a pro-Rohingya bias. Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has also forged an increasingly antagonistic relationship with humanitarian organisations.
Her office accused aid workers in Myanmar of helping “terrorists” last week.
Pierre Peron, spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said: “There is an urgent need to ensure that displaced people and other civilians affected by the violence are protected and are given safe access to humanitarian assistance including food, water, shelter, and health services.”
An estimated 1.1 million Rohingya live in Myanmar. The country’s government is refusing to grant them citizenship and has been internationally condemned for its treatment of the ethnic minority.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/2017/09/04/myanmar-blocks-un-aid-northern-rakhine/
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Published at 02:03 PM September 04, 2017
The Guardian reports that 16 major non-governmental aid organisations, including Oxfam and Save the Children, have also complained that the Myanmar government has restricted access to the conflict zone.
The Myanmar government has barred United Nations aid agencies from delivering vital supplies of food, water and medicine to thousands of desperate civilians in violence-torn northern Rakhine state.
According to a report published by The Guardian, the UN halted all aid distributions, after militants reportedly attacked government forces on August 25, prompting the army to respond with a counteroffensive that has killed hundreds.
“The security situation and government field-visit restrictions rendered us unable to distribute assistance there. Aid was being delivered to other parts of Rakhine state,” the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Myanmar said in a statement.
Staff from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), could not conduct any field work in northern Rakhine since last week. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said it also had to suspend distributions of aid to other parts of the state, leaving a quarter of a million civilians without access to food.
The Guardian reports that 16 major non-governmental aid organisations, including Oxfam and Save the Children, have also complained that the Myanmar government has restricted access to the conflict zone.
More than 100,000 Rohingya, who have lived in displacement camps in Rakhine since 2012, also stopped receiving assistance last week. Authorities have also denied international staff access by holding up visa approvals, The Guardian reports.
The country’s military is being accused of atrocities against the persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority, causing thousands of them to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh. Many refugees received severe injuries, including bullet wounds, while escaping the army crackdown.
“Humanitarian organisations are deeply concerned about the fate of thousands of people affected by the ongoing violence in northern Rakhine,” said Pierre Peron, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Myanmar.
Refugees who fled to Bangladesh last week have spoken of horrific stories of massacres in the villages, allegedly committed by soldiers. Thick black smoke was seen rising from small settlements near the Bangladesh border. The Myanmar government, on the other hand, has blamed the so-called rebels for burning down their own homes, and has accused them of killing Buddhists and Hindus.
The Rohingya have suffered oppression for decades. However, the recent spike in violence is being seen as a dangerous escalation by the international community, as it was likely sparked by a new Rohingya militant group called the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army. The military says 400 people have been killed, and have labelled the vast majority of them as terrorists.
However, a government block on access to Rakhine makes it impossible to verify official figures.
Hardline leaders in the Buddhist majority Myanmar have fuelled anti-Muslim sentiments and have accused relief workers of a pro-Rohingya bias. Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has also forged an increasingly antagonistic relationship with humanitarian organisations.
Her office accused aid workers in Myanmar of helping “terrorists” last week.
Pierre Peron, spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said: “There is an urgent need to ensure that displaced people and other civilians affected by the violence are protected and are given safe access to humanitarian assistance including food, water, shelter, and health services.”
An estimated 1.1 million Rohingya live in Myanmar. The country’s government is refusing to grant them citizenship and has been internationally condemned for its treatment of the ethnic minority.
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Live: PM Modi visits Ananda Temple In Bagan, India, Myanmar ink 11 deals
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Myanmar comes amid a spike in ethnic violence against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine. Here are the latest updates and developments
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Presented Daw Aung San Suu Kyi a special reproduction of original research proposal she submitted for fellowship at IIAS, Shimla in May 1986
■ Suu Kyi has a strong connection with India. She studied political science from the Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi and graduated in 1964. She was also a fellow in Shimla at the prestigious Indian Institute of Advanced Studies. Suu Kyi had also spent time with her husband Michael Aris and two sons Kim and Alexander in the former summer capital of the British India. (PTI)
■ India said on Wednesday that it shares Myanmar’s concerns over the “extremist violence” in the Rakhine state and urged all stakeholders to find a solution that respects the country’s unity. The two leaders also vowed to combat terror and boost security cooperation with Modi emphasising that it was important to maintain stability along the long land and maritime borders of the two countries.
Modi’s first bilateral visit here comes at a time when the Myanmarese government led by Nobel laureate Suu Kyi is facing international pressure over the 125,000 Rohingya refugees that have poured across the Bangladeshi border in just two weeks after Myanmar’s military launched a crackdown in the Rakhine state.
Modi, in his joint press statement with Suu Kyi after the talks, said India understands the problems being faced by Myanmar. He said India shares Myanmar’s concerns over the “extremist violence” in the Rakhine state, especially the loss of innocent lives of the people and the military personnel.
“When it comes to a big peace process or finding a solution to a problem, we hope that all stakeholders can work together towards finding a solution which respects the unity and territorial integrity of Myanmar,” Modi said. At the same time, the solution can bring about peace, justice, dignity and democratic values for all, he said. (PTI)
■ Read full text of Prime Minister’s statement during the joint media briefing with State Councillor of Myanmar in Naypyidaw.
■ India and Myanmar today signed 11 agreements in a range of sectors, including one on maritime security cooperation, to further strengthen their multifaceted partnership. The MoUs were signed after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held wide-ranging talks with Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
— India and Myanmar signed an MoU to strengthen maritime security cooperation.
— The two sides also signed an agreement for sharing white shipping information to improve data sharing on non-classified merchant navy ships or cargo ships.
— The MoUs include one between the Election Commission and Union Election of Myanmar, the national level electoral commission of Myanmar.
— An MoU was also signed to organise cultural exchange programme for the period 2017-2020, according to a statement issued by Ministry of External Affairs.
— India and Myanmar also signed agreements on cooperation between Myanmar Press Council and Press Council of India, extension of agreement on the establishment of India-Myanmar Centre for Enhancement of IT skill.
— The two countries also signed agreement to cooperate in ‘Medical Products Regulation’ and in the field of health and medicine.
— They also signed MoU on enhancing the cooperation on upgradation of the women’s police training centre at Yamethin in Myanmar.
List of MoUs/Agreements signed during State visit of Prime Minister to Myanmar.
■ Together we can ensure that terrorism is not allowed to take root on our soil or on the soil of neighbouring countries: Suu Kyi.
■ Would like to thank India for taking a strong stand on the terror threat that Myanmar faced recently: State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
■ We want all stake holders to work towards preserving Myanmar’s unity and territorial integrity: PM after talks with Aung San Suu Kyi.
Earlier, AFP reported Suu Kyi as saying on Wednesday that a “huge iceberg of misinformation” was distorting the picture of the Rohingya crisis, which has forced 125,000 of the Muslim minority to flee to Bangladesh. In her first comments since Rohingya militant attacks sparked unrest on 25 August, Suu Kyi said fake news was “calculated to create a lot of problems between different communities” and to promote “the interest of the terrorists”.
■ It is important to maintain security and stability along the long land and maritime borders of India and Myanmar: PM Modi.
#IndiaMyanmar - Strengthening a multifaceted partnership. pic.twitter.com/Ke6O4aVzHV
Raveesh Kumar (@MEAIndia) September 6, 2017
■ India stands with Myanmar over the issue of violence in the Rakhine state which has led to loss of innocent lives: PM Modi.
■ Citizens of Myanmar who wish to visit India will be given gratis visas, and 40 Myanmarese citizens in Indian jails will be released: PM Modi (ANI)
■ Your (Aung San Suu Kyi) courageous leadership to the Myanmar peace process needs to be lauded: PM Modi. (ANI)
■ PM Narendra Modi : Deepening relationship with Myanmar is a priority for India, as a neighbour and also in the context of ‘Act East Policy’.
■ PM Narendra Modi: We would like to contribute to Myanmar’s development efforts as part of our ‘Sabka saath sabka vikaas’ initiative.
Meeting a valued friend. PM @narendramodi with the State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi
■ “Meeting a valued friend. PM @narendramodi with the State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi,” external affairs ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted.
■ Prime Minister Modi on Tuesday presented Myanmar President Htin Kyaw a sculpture of Bodhi tree.
■ The prime minister’s visit to Myanmar comes amid a spike in ethnic violence against Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine state. He is expected to raise the issue of the exodus of the ethnic Rohingyas into neighbouring countries.
The Indian government is also concerned about Rohingya immigrants in the country, and has been considering to deport them. Around 40,000 Rohingyas are said to be staying illegally in India.
■ India and Myanmar were also looking at strengthening existing cooperation in areas of security and counter- terrorism, trade and investment, infrastructure and energy, and culture, Modi had said ahead of his visit.
■ Modi arrived in Myanmar on the second leg of his two-nation trip during which he travelled to southeastern Chinese city Xiamen where he attended the annual Brics summit and held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders.
This is Modi’s first bilateral visit to Myanmar. He had visited the country in 2014 to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)-India summit. Myanmar is one of India’s strategic neighbours and shares a 1,640-km-long border with a number of northeastern states including militancy-hit Nagaland and Manipur.
Agencies contributed to the live updates
First Published: Wed, Sep 06 2017. 10 19 AM IST
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/cH...s-Myanmars-state-counsellor-Aung-San-Suu.html
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Myanmar comes amid a spike in ethnic violence against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine. Here are the latest updates and developments
Livemint
✔@narendramodi
Presented Daw Aung San Suu Kyi a special reproduction of original research proposal she submitted for fellowship at IIAS, Shimla in May 1986
■ Suu Kyi has a strong connection with India. She studied political science from the Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi and graduated in 1964. She was also a fellow in Shimla at the prestigious Indian Institute of Advanced Studies. Suu Kyi had also spent time with her husband Michael Aris and two sons Kim and Alexander in the former summer capital of the British India. (PTI)
■ India said on Wednesday that it shares Myanmar’s concerns over the “extremist violence” in the Rakhine state and urged all stakeholders to find a solution that respects the country’s unity. The two leaders also vowed to combat terror and boost security cooperation with Modi emphasising that it was important to maintain stability along the long land and maritime borders of the two countries.
Modi’s first bilateral visit here comes at a time when the Myanmarese government led by Nobel laureate Suu Kyi is facing international pressure over the 125,000 Rohingya refugees that have poured across the Bangladeshi border in just two weeks after Myanmar’s military launched a crackdown in the Rakhine state.
Modi, in his joint press statement with Suu Kyi after the talks, said India understands the problems being faced by Myanmar. He said India shares Myanmar’s concerns over the “extremist violence” in the Rakhine state, especially the loss of innocent lives of the people and the military personnel.
“When it comes to a big peace process or finding a solution to a problem, we hope that all stakeholders can work together towards finding a solution which respects the unity and territorial integrity of Myanmar,” Modi said. At the same time, the solution can bring about peace, justice, dignity and democratic values for all, he said. (PTI)
■ Read full text of Prime Minister’s statement during the joint media briefing with State Councillor of Myanmar in Naypyidaw.
■ India and Myanmar today signed 11 agreements in a range of sectors, including one on maritime security cooperation, to further strengthen their multifaceted partnership. The MoUs were signed after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held wide-ranging talks with Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
— India and Myanmar signed an MoU to strengthen maritime security cooperation.
— The two sides also signed an agreement for sharing white shipping information to improve data sharing on non-classified merchant navy ships or cargo ships.
— The MoUs include one between the Election Commission and Union Election of Myanmar, the national level electoral commission of Myanmar.
— An MoU was also signed to organise cultural exchange programme for the period 2017-2020, according to a statement issued by Ministry of External Affairs.
— India and Myanmar also signed agreements on cooperation between Myanmar Press Council and Press Council of India, extension of agreement on the establishment of India-Myanmar Centre for Enhancement of IT skill.
— The two countries also signed agreement to cooperate in ‘Medical Products Regulation’ and in the field of health and medicine.
— They also signed MoU on enhancing the cooperation on upgradation of the women’s police training centre at Yamethin in Myanmar.
List of MoUs/Agreements signed during State visit of Prime Minister to Myanmar.
■ Together we can ensure that terrorism is not allowed to take root on our soil or on the soil of neighbouring countries: Suu Kyi.
■ Would like to thank India for taking a strong stand on the terror threat that Myanmar faced recently: State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
■ We want all stake holders to work towards preserving Myanmar’s unity and territorial integrity: PM after talks with Aung San Suu Kyi.
Earlier, AFP reported Suu Kyi as saying on Wednesday that a “huge iceberg of misinformation” was distorting the picture of the Rohingya crisis, which has forced 125,000 of the Muslim minority to flee to Bangladesh. In her first comments since Rohingya militant attacks sparked unrest on 25 August, Suu Kyi said fake news was “calculated to create a lot of problems between different communities” and to promote “the interest of the terrorists”.
■ It is important to maintain security and stability along the long land and maritime borders of India and Myanmar: PM Modi.
#IndiaMyanmar - Strengthening a multifaceted partnership. pic.twitter.com/Ke6O4aVzHV
Raveesh Kumar (@MEAIndia) September 6, 2017
■ India stands with Myanmar over the issue of violence in the Rakhine state which has led to loss of innocent lives: PM Modi.
■ Citizens of Myanmar who wish to visit India will be given gratis visas, and 40 Myanmarese citizens in Indian jails will be released: PM Modi (ANI)
■ Your (Aung San Suu Kyi) courageous leadership to the Myanmar peace process needs to be lauded: PM Modi. (ANI)
■ PM Narendra Modi : Deepening relationship with Myanmar is a priority for India, as a neighbour and also in the context of ‘Act East Policy’.
■ PM Narendra Modi: We would like to contribute to Myanmar’s development efforts as part of our ‘Sabka saath sabka vikaas’ initiative.
Meeting a valued friend. PM @narendramodi with the State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi
■ “Meeting a valued friend. PM @narendramodi with the State Councillor Aung San Suu Kyi,” external affairs ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted.
■ Prime Minister Modi on Tuesday presented Myanmar President Htin Kyaw a sculpture of Bodhi tree.
■ The prime minister’s visit to Myanmar comes amid a spike in ethnic violence against Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine state. He is expected to raise the issue of the exodus of the ethnic Rohingyas into neighbouring countries.
The Indian government is also concerned about Rohingya immigrants in the country, and has been considering to deport them. Around 40,000 Rohingyas are said to be staying illegally in India.
■ India and Myanmar were also looking at strengthening existing cooperation in areas of security and counter- terrorism, trade and investment, infrastructure and energy, and culture, Modi had said ahead of his visit.
■ Modi arrived in Myanmar on the second leg of his two-nation trip during which he travelled to southeastern Chinese city Xiamen where he attended the annual Brics summit and held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders.
This is Modi’s first bilateral visit to Myanmar. He had visited the country in 2014 to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)-India summit. Myanmar is one of India’s strategic neighbours and shares a 1,640-km-long border with a number of northeastern states including militancy-hit Nagaland and Manipur.
Agencies contributed to the live updates
First Published: Wed, Sep 06 2017. 10 19 AM IST
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Rohingya crisis: A concern for the region
Mahfuz Anam
Reacting to the insurgent attacks on some police outposts and an army camp on August 25, the Myanmar security forces have unleashed a "war" of sorts against the Rohingya—an ethnic minority group living for centuries in the Rakhine state of Myanmar—burning down their villages, killing their men and raping their women, committing what can be termed as "crimes against humanity" that has resulted in nearly 500 dead and nearly 200,000 taking shelter in Bangladesh, which has hosted Rohingya refugees for more than three decades in varying numbers depending on the level of oppression across the border.
Myanmar, then called Burma, became independent in 1948 from the British, a year after the latter's withdrawal from the Indian subcontinent in 1947. Geographically Rakhine state, where the current conflict is taking place, is separated from the rest of Myanmar by barren mountain range. Ancient history gives the area its own separate past with a distinct Rakhine Kingdom being established in 1430 with its capital in Mrauk U located as a link between Buddhist and Muslim Asia with close ties with the Sultanate of Bengal.
After 350 years of independent existence Rakhine State was conquered by the Burmese in 1784. This annexation was short lived as the territory was occupied by the British in 1824 and made a part of the British Indian Empire. Today the Rohingyas are about 1.1 million Muslim citizens of the Rakhine state but are not recognised legally as one of the 135 ethnic groups constituting a part of the citizenry of Myanmar.
It is perhaps not just a coincidence that the current attack on the Rohingyas follows on the heels of the report of the Rakhine Advisory Commission led by the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
This Commission was set up with active participation of the Myanmar government, albeit under severe pressure from the international community, and whose findings it had earlier pledged to implement. Now with the latest spate of violence the prospect of implementation of the Rakhine Commission appears remote and the possibility of a peaceful resolution of the Rohingya crisis may elude us once more.
The Commission has correctly identified the central questions to be “citizenship verification, documentation, rights and equality before the law” and goes on to say that “… if they are left to fester, the future of the Rakhine state-and indeed of Myanmar as a whole-will be irretrievably jeopardised.”
As we see it from Bangladesh, it is not only the future of Myanmar which will be jeopardised but that of this region itself as the Secretary General of the UN warned last Wednesday (September 6) China, given its historical links, will take more than a passing interest in this affair, an effort in which it will be supported by Russia the indications of which is discernible in their pattern of voting at the UN Security Council on recent resolutions on the Rohingya issue.
The block of Arab and Muslim countries will naturally be drawn into this fray as fellow Muslims are being slaughtered. Already there is sufficient reason for concern at the flow of Middle Eastern money in the region with distinct fundamentalist overtones. We all know about Rohingyas finding their way into various Arab and Muslim countries with stories of atrocities invoking a natural reaction for seeking justice and fighting a future of fear and intimidation by building up some sort of resistance including armed. These are but natural outcomes of prolonged oppression to which the Annan Report clearly alludes to.
The US is likely to be more interested than usual given its deteriorating relationship with both China and Russia and the rising tiff in the South China Sea, not to speak of tension with North Korea and its unpredictable and dangerous consequences.
India has completely surprised Bangladesh by its all out endorsement of Myanmar's position. We, naively as it now appears, were hoping that Prime Minister Modi's visit to Myanmar would help, if not to solve issue but at least to stop the violence and ebb the flow of refugees. PM Modi's support to the Myanmar's position and the absence of any substantive reference to the refugee issue and the consequent humanitarian disaster has greatly disappointed Bangladesh.
The rising terrorism that both Prime Minister Modi and the Aung San Suu Kyi have pledged to fight is created and sustained by oppression and ignoring the rights of a minority group. That has been the experience everywhere. For the so-called “Jihadists”, the oppression of the Rohingyas fits the bill completely as a cause they will espouse to gain credibility in the Muslim world whose natural support for this oppressed group of Muslims is only obvious.
In this regard the emergence of ARSA (Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army) is something that should concern all. In the early hours of August 25 this group, whose Arabic name is Harakah al-Yaqin, simultaneously attacked 30 police posts and an army base in the northern side of the Rakhine state. Twelve Myanmar troops and officials and 77 insurgents were killed. This is by far the most audacious and damaging attack by the insurgents who are mostly equipped with machetes, few small arms and hand held explosives. The emergence of such an armed group cannot be welcomed by any country wanting peace and stability in this region.
The International Crisis Group (ICG) termed this as the most serious escalation in the conflict. Obviously the biggest losers from the escalation and continuation of this conflict will be the two countries directly affected—Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has not yet taken any hard-line against its only other neighbour save India and has tried, over the years to reach an understanding with Myanmar. It has internationalised the issue only to the extent of seeking humanitarian aid and nothing more. It first received about 300,000 Rohingya refugees in 1978. Through negotiations about 210,000 were repatriated with the rest continuing to live in Bangladesh.
However, the latest situation has changed everything. Bangladesh will now be under severe pressure from the Arab and Muslim world to internationalise the issue and take a tougher stance than it has hitherto taken. The visits of the Indonesian and Turkish foreign ministers are indications of that. If there is no change in the situation on the ground Bangladesh will be left with little option but to take a more stringent approach that would further complicate the situation.
Myanmar, on its part must, realise that blaming all the current atrocities on the so-called terrorists and claiming that its security forces had nothing to do with the crimes committed, in spite of unvarying accounts of thousands of refugees to the contrary, is neither credible nor helpful in solving the situation.
The Kofi Annan Commission has painstakingly worked out what international experts say to be a realistic path towards peaceful resolution of a conflict that left to itself may become a dangerous crisis. Myanmar must pay heed to the recommendations of that report.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar needs to remember what she herself said in her Nobel Prize acceptance speech that “Whenever suffering is ignored, there will be seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages”.
Myanmar needs to remember what she herself said in her Nobel Prize acceptance speech that “Whenever suffering is ignored, there will be seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages”.
Mahfuz Anam is Editor and Publisher, The Daily Star.
This is a series of columns on global affairs written by top editors and columnists from members of the Asia News Network and published in newspapers and websites across the region.
http://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/asian-editors-circle/rohingya-crisis-concern-the-region-1459393
Rohingya crisis: A concern for the region
Mahfuz Anam
Reacting to the insurgent attacks on some police outposts and an army camp on August 25, the Myanmar security forces have unleashed a "war" of sorts against the Rohingya—an ethnic minority group living for centuries in the Rakhine state of Myanmar—burning down their villages, killing their men and raping their women, committing what can be termed as "crimes against humanity" that has resulted in nearly 500 dead and nearly 200,000 taking shelter in Bangladesh, which has hosted Rohingya refugees for more than three decades in varying numbers depending on the level of oppression across the border.
Myanmar, then called Burma, became independent in 1948 from the British, a year after the latter's withdrawal from the Indian subcontinent in 1947. Geographically Rakhine state, where the current conflict is taking place, is separated from the rest of Myanmar by barren mountain range. Ancient history gives the area its own separate past with a distinct Rakhine Kingdom being established in 1430 with its capital in Mrauk U located as a link between Buddhist and Muslim Asia with close ties with the Sultanate of Bengal.
After 350 years of independent existence Rakhine State was conquered by the Burmese in 1784. This annexation was short lived as the territory was occupied by the British in 1824 and made a part of the British Indian Empire. Today the Rohingyas are about 1.1 million Muslim citizens of the Rakhine state but are not recognised legally as one of the 135 ethnic groups constituting a part of the citizenry of Myanmar.
It is perhaps not just a coincidence that the current attack on the Rohingyas follows on the heels of the report of the Rakhine Advisory Commission led by the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
This Commission was set up with active participation of the Myanmar government, albeit under severe pressure from the international community, and whose findings it had earlier pledged to implement. Now with the latest spate of violence the prospect of implementation of the Rakhine Commission appears remote and the possibility of a peaceful resolution of the Rohingya crisis may elude us once more.
The Commission has correctly identified the central questions to be “citizenship verification, documentation, rights and equality before the law” and goes on to say that “… if they are left to fester, the future of the Rakhine state-and indeed of Myanmar as a whole-will be irretrievably jeopardised.”
As we see it from Bangladesh, it is not only the future of Myanmar which will be jeopardised but that of this region itself as the Secretary General of the UN warned last Wednesday (September 6) China, given its historical links, will take more than a passing interest in this affair, an effort in which it will be supported by Russia the indications of which is discernible in their pattern of voting at the UN Security Council on recent resolutions on the Rohingya issue.
The block of Arab and Muslim countries will naturally be drawn into this fray as fellow Muslims are being slaughtered. Already there is sufficient reason for concern at the flow of Middle Eastern money in the region with distinct fundamentalist overtones. We all know about Rohingyas finding their way into various Arab and Muslim countries with stories of atrocities invoking a natural reaction for seeking justice and fighting a future of fear and intimidation by building up some sort of resistance including armed. These are but natural outcomes of prolonged oppression to which the Annan Report clearly alludes to.
The US is likely to be more interested than usual given its deteriorating relationship with both China and Russia and the rising tiff in the South China Sea, not to speak of tension with North Korea and its unpredictable and dangerous consequences.
India has completely surprised Bangladesh by its all out endorsement of Myanmar's position. We, naively as it now appears, were hoping that Prime Minister Modi's visit to Myanmar would help, if not to solve issue but at least to stop the violence and ebb the flow of refugees. PM Modi's support to the Myanmar's position and the absence of any substantive reference to the refugee issue and the consequent humanitarian disaster has greatly disappointed Bangladesh.
The rising terrorism that both Prime Minister Modi and the Aung San Suu Kyi have pledged to fight is created and sustained by oppression and ignoring the rights of a minority group. That has been the experience everywhere. For the so-called “Jihadists”, the oppression of the Rohingyas fits the bill completely as a cause they will espouse to gain credibility in the Muslim world whose natural support for this oppressed group of Muslims is only obvious.
In this regard the emergence of ARSA (Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army) is something that should concern all. In the early hours of August 25 this group, whose Arabic name is Harakah al-Yaqin, simultaneously attacked 30 police posts and an army base in the northern side of the Rakhine state. Twelve Myanmar troops and officials and 77 insurgents were killed. This is by far the most audacious and damaging attack by the insurgents who are mostly equipped with machetes, few small arms and hand held explosives. The emergence of such an armed group cannot be welcomed by any country wanting peace and stability in this region.
The International Crisis Group (ICG) termed this as the most serious escalation in the conflict. Obviously the biggest losers from the escalation and continuation of this conflict will be the two countries directly affected—Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has not yet taken any hard-line against its only other neighbour save India and has tried, over the years to reach an understanding with Myanmar. It has internationalised the issue only to the extent of seeking humanitarian aid and nothing more. It first received about 300,000 Rohingya refugees in 1978. Through negotiations about 210,000 were repatriated with the rest continuing to live in Bangladesh.
However, the latest situation has changed everything. Bangladesh will now be under severe pressure from the Arab and Muslim world to internationalise the issue and take a tougher stance than it has hitherto taken. The visits of the Indonesian and Turkish foreign ministers are indications of that. If there is no change in the situation on the ground Bangladesh will be left with little option but to take a more stringent approach that would further complicate the situation.
Myanmar, on its part must, realise that blaming all the current atrocities on the so-called terrorists and claiming that its security forces had nothing to do with the crimes committed, in spite of unvarying accounts of thousands of refugees to the contrary, is neither credible nor helpful in solving the situation.
The Kofi Annan Commission has painstakingly worked out what international experts say to be a realistic path towards peaceful resolution of a conflict that left to itself may become a dangerous crisis. Myanmar must pay heed to the recommendations of that report.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar needs to remember what she herself said in her Nobel Prize acceptance speech that “Whenever suffering is ignored, there will be seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages”.
Myanmar needs to remember what she herself said in her Nobel Prize acceptance speech that “Whenever suffering is ignored, there will be seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages”.
Mahfuz Anam is Editor and Publisher, The Daily Star.
This is a series of columns on global affairs written by top editors and columnists from members of the Asia News Network and published in newspapers and websites across the region.
http://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/asian-editors-circle/rohingya-crisis-concern-the-region-1459393
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A crisis out of hand
Tribune Editorial
Published at 04:30 PM September 08, 2017
Photo: MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU
The ceaseless persecution of the Rohingya runs the risk of empowering extremist elements
Repeated calls to the international community regarding the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar appear to be falling on deaf ears.
But if the world is unwilling to take action on the humanitarian grounds to help these unfortunate souls, there is another reason that should incline us all to pay attention to the crisis.
The ceaseless persecution of the Rohingya runs the risk of empowering extremist elements into seizing their plight as an opportunity, and, in turn, widening the conflict to trans-national terror groups.
The greater the inaction of the international community regarding this issue, the greater the space for extremist groups to swoop in and gain a foothold in a region they have thus far been unable to penetrate.
History teaches us that extremism thrives where there is a breakdown of the state. If what we are witnessing in Rakhine State gets mutated into a full-blown insurgency, it leaves the region open to terror networks to conduct operations in.
It is in the interests of both Bangladesh and Myanmar, the whole world in fact, to avoid such circumstances. But if the world continues to let the Myanmar army burn the Rohingya out of their villages, that is where we may all end up.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/editorial/2017/09/08/a-crisis-out-of-hand/
Tribune Editorial
Published at 04:30 PM September 08, 2017
Photo: MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU
The ceaseless persecution of the Rohingya runs the risk of empowering extremist elements
Repeated calls to the international community regarding the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar appear to be falling on deaf ears.
But if the world is unwilling to take action on the humanitarian grounds to help these unfortunate souls, there is another reason that should incline us all to pay attention to the crisis.
The ceaseless persecution of the Rohingya runs the risk of empowering extremist elements into seizing their plight as an opportunity, and, in turn, widening the conflict to trans-national terror groups.
The greater the inaction of the international community regarding this issue, the greater the space for extremist groups to swoop in and gain a foothold in a region they have thus far been unable to penetrate.
History teaches us that extremism thrives where there is a breakdown of the state. If what we are witnessing in Rakhine State gets mutated into a full-blown insurgency, it leaves the region open to terror networks to conduct operations in.
It is in the interests of both Bangladesh and Myanmar, the whole world in fact, to avoid such circumstances. But if the world continues to let the Myanmar army burn the Rohingya out of their villages, that is where we may all end up.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/editorial/2017/09/08/a-crisis-out-of-hand/
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