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Erdoğan urges Muslim countries to help Rohingya
Turkish president addresses Organisation of Islamic Cooperation summit in Kazakh capital Astana
September 10, 2017 Anadolu Agency

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Sunday urged Muslim countries to "use every means available" to stop the "cruelty" perpetrated against Myanmar's Rohingya.

"We want to work with the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh to prevent the humanitarian plight in the region," he told the opening session of an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in the Kazakh capital Astana.

Erdogan said Turkey had offered aid and said he expected that Bangladesh authorities admit and help Rohingya Muslims fleeing the violence in Myanmar.

"International organizations, and we as Muslim countries in particular, should fight together by using every means available to stop that cruelty," he said.

Erdogan had previously promised to raise the Rohingya issue at the annual meeting of UN General Assembly later this month.

Rohingya, described by the UN as the world’s most persecuted people, have faced heightened fears of attack since dozens were killed in communal violence in 2012.

Last October, following attacks on border posts in Rakhine’s Maungdaw district, Myanmar security forces launched a five-month crackdown in which, according to Rohingya groups, around 400 people were killed.

The UN documented mass gang rapes, killings -- including infants and young children -- brutal beatings and disappearances committed by security personnel.

In a report, UN investigators said the human rights violations constituted crimes against humanity.

Fresh violence erupted in Myanmar's Rakhine state nearly two weeks ago when security forces launched an operation against the Rohingya community.

Bangladesh, which already hosted around 400,000 Rohingya refugees, has faced a fresh influx of refugees since the security operation was launched.

On Saturday, the UN said at least 290,000 Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh.

Erdogan arrived in the Kazakh capital on Saturday for a two-day visit

Bodies of Rohingya children wash ashore in Bangladesh
Bodies of Rohingya children washed ashore after the boat carrying them capsized off Bangladesh's southeastern coast in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on September 6, 2017. They drowned after attempting to flee the massacre in Myanmar which has displaced approximately 150,000 people.
http://www.yenisafak.com/en/gundem/erdogan-urges-muslim-countries-to-help-rohingya-2792706

 

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https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKCN1BM0SF
#World News
September 11, 2017 / 2:18 PM / Updated an hour ago
U.N. sees "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" in Myanmar
Stephanie Nebehay
3 Min Read

GENEVA (Reuters) - The top U.N. human rights official on Monday denounced Myanmar’s “brutal security operation” against Muslim Rohingyas in Rakhine state, saying it was disproportionate to insurgent attacks carried out last month.

Communal tensions appeared to be rising across Myanmar on Monday after two weeks of violence in Rakhine state that have triggered an exodus of about 300,000 Rohingya Muslims, prompting the government to tighten security at Buddhist pagodas.

Zeid Ra‘ad al-Hussein, addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council, said that more than 270,000 people had fled to Bangladesh, with more trapped on the border, amid reports of the burning of villages and extrajudicial killings.

“We have received multiple reports and satellite imagery of security forces and local militia burning Rohingya villages, and consistent accounts of extrajudicial killings, including shooting fleeing civilians,” Zeid told the Geneva forum.

He cited reports that Myanmar authorities had begun to lay landmines along the border with Bangladesh and would require returnees to provide “proof of citizenship”.

Rohingya have been stripped of civil and political rights including citizenship rights for decades, he added.

“I call on the government to end its current cruel military operation, with accountability for all violations that have occurred, and to reverse the pattern of severe and widespread discrimination against the Rohingya population,” Zeid said.

“The situation seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”

Last year Zeid’s office issued a report, based on interviews with Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh after a previous military assault, which he said on Monday had “suggested a widespread or systematic attack against the community, possibly amounting to crimes against humanity”.

“I deplore current measures in India to deport Rohingyas at a time of such violence against them in their country,” Zeid said, noting that some 40,000 Rohingyas had settled in India, including 16,000 who have received refugee documentation.

Noting India’s obligations under international law, he said: “India cannot carry out collective expulsions, or return people to a place where they risk torture or other serious violations.”

 

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https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKCN1BM0SF
#World News
September 11, 2017 / 2:18 PM / Updated an hour ago
U.N. sees "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" in Myanmar
Stephanie Nebehay
3 Min Read

GENEVA (Reuters) - The top U.N. human rights official on Monday denounced Myanmar’s “brutal security operation” against Muslim Rohingyas in Rakhine state, saying it was disproportionate to insurgent attacks carried out last month.

Communal tensions appeared to be rising across Myanmar on Monday after two weeks of violence in Rakhine state that have triggered an exodus of about 300,000 Rohingya Muslims, prompting the government to tighten security at Buddhist pagodas.

Zeid Ra‘ad al-Hussein, addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council, said that more than 270,000 people had fled to Bangladesh, with more trapped on the border, amid reports of the burning of villages and extrajudicial killings.

“We have received multiple reports and satellite imagery of security forces and local militia burning Rohingya villages, and consistent accounts of extrajudicial killings, including shooting fleeing civilians,” Zeid told the Geneva forum.

He cited reports that Myanmar authorities had begun to lay landmines along the border with Bangladesh and would require returnees to provide “proof of citizenship”.

Rohingya have been stripped of civil and political rights including citizenship rights for decades, he added.

“I call on the government to end its current cruel military operation, with accountability for all violations that have occurred, and to reverse the pattern of severe and widespread discrimination against the Rohingya population,” Zeid said.

“The situation seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”

Last year Zeid’s office issued a report, based on interviews with Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh after a previous military assault, which he said on Monday had “suggested a widespread or systematic attack against the community, possibly amounting to crimes against humanity”.

“I deplore current measures in India to deport Rohingyas at a time of such violence against them in their country,” Zeid said, noting that some 40,000 Rohingyas had settled in India, including 16,000 who have received refugee documentation.

Noting India’s obligations under international law, he said: “India cannot carry out collective expulsions, or return people to a place where they risk torture or other serious violations.”

UN kept its eyes shut while the same 'ethnic cleansing' was/is exercised in Palestine, in Indian Occupied Kashmir, in Bosnia,in Syria, in Africa and list goes on. Sadly Muslims are on the receiving end.

 

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Rohingya crisis: UN sees 'ethnic cleansing' in Myanmar

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Image captionAlmost 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have poured out of Myanmar since 25 August
The security operation targeting Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing", the UN human rights chief says.

Zeid Raad Al Hussein urged Myanmar to end the "cruel military operation" in Rakhine state.

More than 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted there late last month.

The military says it is responding to attacks by Rohingya militants and denies it is targeting civilians.

The violence began on 25 August when the Rohingya militants attacked police posts in northern Rakhine, killing 12 security personnel.

Rohingyas who have fled Myanmar since then say the military responded with a brutal campaign, burning villages and attacking civilians in a bid to drive them out.

The Rohingya, a stateless mostly Muslim minority in Buddhist-majority Rakhine, have long experienced persecution in Myanmar, which says they are illegal immigrants.

Media captionWho is burning down Rohingya villages?
Mr Zeid, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the current operation in Rakhine was "clearly disproportionate".

He noted that the situation could not be fully assessed because Myanmar had refused access to human rights investigators, but said the UN had received "multiple reports and satellite imagery of security forces and local militia burning Rohingya villages, and consistent accounts of extrajudicial killings, including shooting fleeing civilians".

• Seeing through the official story in Myanmar
• Who are the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army?
• Tales of horror from Rohingya who fled

"I call on the government to end its current cruel military operation, with accountability for all violations that have occurred and to reverse the pattern of severe and widespread discrimination against the Rohingya population," he said.

Latest reports put the number of those who have fled to Bangladesh at 313,000. Aid agencies say they are in desperate need of food, shelter and medical aid, and that current resources are inadequate.

• Why won't Aung San Suu Kyi act?
• Myanmar conflict: The view from Yangon
• Fake photos inflame tensions

Bangladesh is already host to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled previous outbreaks of violence in Rakhine. Existing refugee camps are full and the new arrivals are sleeping rough in whatever space they can find, reports say.

Media captionJustin Rowlatt reports from the Bangladesh border
The authorities have, however, started to register the new arrivals. Previously only those in two official camps were being documented, but government teams are now collecting fingerprints and details from all newcomers, including those in makeshift shelters.

Analysts say that, until now, the government has refused to register those outside camps for fear of legitimising them. But the current move may help the government as it engages in a diplomatic battle about the Rohingyas' future, the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder reports.

On Sunday, the Rohingya militant group behind the 25 August attacks declared a one-month unilateral ceasefire to allow aid agencies in, but the Myanmar government rejected it, saying it would not negotiate with "terrorists".

It maintains that it is the militants who are burning Rohingya villages and targeting civilians, but a BBC correspondent on an official visit to Rakhine came across a Muslim village apparently burned by Rakhine Buddhists, contradicting the official narrative.

Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader, is facing mounting criticism for failing to protect the Rohingya, and on Monday exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama added his voice, urging her "to reach out to all sections of society to try to restore friendly relations".

But the Rohingya are extremely unpopular inside Myanmar. On Sunday, police fired rubber bullets to break up a mob attacking the home of a Muslim butcher in Magway region in central Myanmar. One protester was quoted by AFP news agency saying it was a response to events in Rakhine.

 

[gangsta_rap]

Myanmar's government even unwittingly admitted they are committing a genocide.
The U.N was created so that we won't see any more genocides. ..

 

[idune]

UN may not be much worth for its action (inaction) but fact that UN recognizes Myanmar committed "ethnic cleansing" helps driving a solution.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/11/nobel-peace-prize-winner-presiding-over-ethnic-cleansing-un-says/

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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses the General Assembly at the United Nations on September 21, 2016 in New York City. Presidents, prime ministers, monarchs and ministers are gathering this week for the United Nation's General Assembly's annual ministerial meeting. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Presiding Over Ethnic Cleansing, UN Says

Will Racke
Immigration and Foreign Policy Reporter
11:14 AM 09/11/2017




A Nobel Peace Prize recipient who defied Myanmar’s military dictatorship is now presiding over what U.N. officials call “a textbook case of ethnic cleansing” against a religious and ethnic minority.

Human rights groups accuse Aung San Suu Kyi, a national icon who is currently the state counselor to Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy, of remaining silent as the government persecutes hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims.

Nearly 300,000 Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since fighting broke out in August in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, according to reports from human rights groups in the area. The government’s crackdown indiscriminately targets innocent women and children in addition to militants within the Rohingya population, the U.N.’s top human rights official said Monday.

“We have received multiple reports and satellite imagery of security forces and local militia burning Rohingya villages, and consistent accounts of extrajudicial killings, including shooting fleeing civilians,” Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein told the U.N. Human Rights Council, according to Reuters.

“I call on the government to end its current cruel military operation, with accountability for all violations that have occurred, and to reverse the pattern of severe and widespread discrimination against the Rohingya population,” he added.

Rohingya Muslims are a hated minority group in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. The government considers them to be Bangladeshi illegal immigrants, while Bangladesh says they are Burmese. In 2016, about 85,000 Rohingya poured into Bangladesh, fleeing rape, torture and murder at the hands of Myanmar security forces.

The latest conflict began on Aug. 25, when Rohingya militants killed 12 security officers in attacks on border posts, according to Myanmar state media. The Myanmar military responded with a campaign to of “clearance operations” against what it called Rohingya “terrorists.”

Once revered in the West as a champion of democracy and human rights, Suu Kyi has recently come under fire from human rights watchers for her non-response to the conflict. They accuse her of standing by as the crackdown on militants has expanded into a brutal ethnic cleansing of the entire Rohingya population in Myanmar. Some are now calling for Suu Kyi to be stripped of the Nobel Prize she won in 1991 for resisting Myanmar’s military junta.

Derek Mitchell, a former U.S. ambassador to Myanmar, told NPR that Suu Kyi’s comments on the situation have not been helpful — she referred to some reports on atrocities as “fake news” — but that she has little ability to influence Myanmar’s military operations against the Rohingya.

“I certainly don’t think it’s illegitimate to ask that she be more vocal in her compassion for this really beleaguered population, but she inherited an absolutely awful situation of Rakhine State,” he said. “And, in fact, the current crisis was spurred by an attack by a militant group acting in the name of the Rohingya. So the military had made the response. She doesn’t control the military.”

 

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/20...yis-silence-in-myanmar-is-damning_a_23203682/
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Once A Moral Leader, Aung San Suu Kyi's Silence In Myanmar Is Damning
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate is silent over the slaughter of Rohingya Muslims.
11/09/2017 4:51 PM AEST | Updated 8 hours ago

• Eoin Blackwell Senior Associate Editor, HuffPost Australia

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Once held up as a beacon of moral leadership, Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi's star has fallen dramatically as the leader is condemned internationally for her silence over the slaughter of Rohingya muslims by her country's military.


The Nobel-Peace Prize winner and Myanmar's de-facto leader, who spent 15 years under house arrest for defying a military junta, Suu Kyi has stood silent as the military systematically slaughter Rohingya civilians, forcing more than 290,000 to flee towards neighbouring Bangladesh.


The exodus began in late August, after Rohingya militants attacked police posts and killed 12 members of the security forces. The military, along with Buddhist vigilante groups, began burning dozens of villages in Northern Rakhine State, killing what is estimated to be hundreds of Rohingya villagers.


The rebels on Monday declared a month long truce, but the state reportedly brushed it aside.

Chris Wattie / Reuters
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (R) listens to Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi speak during a meeting in Trudeau's office on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 7, 2017.

The crisis has been described by observers as among the worst seen in the country.

"I've covered refugee crisis before and this was by far the worst thing I have ever seen," said New York Times reporter Hannah Beech, describing the exodus of civilians into Bangladesh after the military offensive.

"All I saw was this endless stream of people and an endless stream of mud and water and rain."

The Rohingya Muslim Minority

• There are 1.3 million Rohingya in Myanmar, and they have beens described by the UN as the "most persecuted minority in the world";
• Another 1.5 million form a diaspora, and many are refugees;
• The 1982 Burmese citizenship law stripped most of the Rohingyas of their stake in citizenship;
• The 2012 Rakhine State anti-muslim riots killed more than 160 and left 100,000 displaced riots;
• In October 2016, the Myanmar military began cracking down on Rohingya again after insurgents attacked a border outpost. Violence renewed on August 25, 2017.

The United Nations has appealed for aid to deal with the unfolding humanitarian crisis.

But with the wave of hungry and traumatised refugees "showing no signs of stopping," they are overwhelming agencies in the Cox's Bazar region. The agencies are already helping hundreds of thousands displaced by previous conflicts in Rakhine state, the U.N. told Reuters on Sunday.

While hundreds are believed to have been killed, Suu Kyi -- who does not control the military -- has kept damningly silent as her one-time allies plead with her to speak out.

Danish Siddiqui / Reuters
Rohingya refugees walk on a muddy path after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh September 8, 2017.
Her silence can be viewed as a pragmatic trade-off to give her political cover.

In a phone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this month, she reportedly said the crisis was being distorted by a "huge iceberg of misinformation."

In April Suu Kyi reportedly told the BBC the phrase "ethnic cleansing" was "too strong" a term to describe the situation in Rakhine.

"I don't think there is ethnic cleansing going on," she said. "I think ethnic cleansing is too strong an expression to use for what is happening."

"I think there is a lot of hostility there - it is Muslims killing Muslims as well, if they think they are co-operating with the authorities."

Danish Siddiqui / Reuters
Rohingya refugee children are stopped by volunteers as they jostle to receive food distributed by local organizations in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, September 9, 2017.
Australia has called for restraint from Myanmar authorities, and for them to protect civilians and allow for unfettered access for humanitarian workers following reports all UN aid to northern Rakhine has been stopped.

The Australian Greens have written to Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to take 20,000 Rohingya refugees.

In the midst of this, an online petition calling for Suu Kyi's 1991 Nobel Peace-price to be revoked has attracted more than 400,000 signatures.

Suu Kyi's biographer has called on her to retire, while fellow Nobel laureates have called on the 72 year old to do something.

"My dear sister," wrote Bishop Desmond Tutu in a letter imploring Suu Kyi, "if the political price of your ascension to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence, the price is surely too steep.

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Nobel peace prize laureates, Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (R) and South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop Desmond Tutu (L) speak at Suu Kyi's house in Yangon, February 26, 2013.
"A country that is not at peace with itself, that fails to acknowledge and protect the dignity and worth of all its people, is not a free country.

"It is incongruous for a symbol of righteousness to lead such a country; it is adding to our pain," Tutu wrote.

The International Crisis Group in a report warned the crisis risks the country's transition from military rule.

"While dynamics at play in Rakhine are mostly driven by local fears and grievances, the current crisis has led to a broader spike in anti-Muslim sentiment, raising anew the spectre of communal violence across the country that could imperil the country's transition," it said.

Rohingya Describe Military Atrocities

Human Rights Watch
Map depicting sites where satellite sensors detected active fires between August 25 and 28, 2017.
I heard the sounds of fighting around 4 p.m. on Friday [August 25]. There was a lot of noise, worse than before. I saw them [the soldiers] myself as they entered my village. I don't know how many there were but it looked like a lot to me. I fled with the other villagers and we sheltered in the jungle overnight. When I returned to the village the next morning, after the soldiers had left, I saw about 40 to 50 villagers dead, including some children and some elderly. All had knife wounds or bullet wounds – some had both. My father was among the dead; his neck had been cut open. I was unable to do last rites for my father, I just fled.Momena, 32, fled her village of Kirgari Para on August 26 with two of her three children.

Mohammad Ponir Hossain / Reuters
A Rohingya woman cries on the ground, as she received news, over the phone, that her husband was killed by the Myanmar Army, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh August 28, 2017.

Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters
A car is seen near a house that was burnt down during the last days violence in Maungdaw, Myanmar August 31, 2017.
I remember army helicopters, olive green in color, flying around. I was standing on the other side of a canal, watching all this happen directly across from me. I was very close and saw it all myself. The soldiers were using guns that shoot fire, or something that explodes and sets fire. Mohammad Yunus, 26, from Sikadir Para in Tat U Chaung village tract.

Human Rights Watcj
Map locating 700 buildings destroyed in August 2017 in the Rohingya-majority village of Chein Khar Li, Burma.
Jumma prayers were just over that Friday, and the men and boys were outside the mosque when the Rakhine armed men came up to them. Rahim and others took up bamboo poles, that's all they had, but Rahim panicked when they began to shoot. He started running away. I saw them shoot him – the bullet went through his cheek, right by his cheekbone under his eye. He died from that wound.Khatija Khaton, a widow, lived in the village of Ashikha Mushi with her four children.

 

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If my memory doesn't serve me wrong, it's the west give Sukyi the Nobel Prize.

They give Nobel Peace Prize to whoever serve their interets and propaganda.

 

[Yaseen1]

they are killing brutaly more worst than animal slaughter beheading women and children with axe desecrating their deadbodies in a manner which even isis had not done.it is worst event in humanity.i feel ashamed to consider her even a human.she is a slap on face of u.n nobLe prizes

 

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Aung San Suu Kyi has branded the Rohingya issue as an “iceberg of misinformation”.
Here’s the reality from refugees on the ground in neighbouring Bangladesh

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Who is burning down Rohingya villages?
About 294,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar since violence erupted last month.

Rohingyas say the military is waging a brutal campaign against them, burning their villages.
Myanmar rejects this, saying its military is fighting against Rohingya "terrorists".
The BBC's Jonathan Head investigates.
Click the link below to watch the video

 

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06:15 PM, September 12, 2017 / LAST MODIFIED: 06:51 PM, September 12, 2017
Footage of Rohingya villages in flames
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These are the footage of ongoing persecution in the Rakhine state of Myanmar.
These videos were collected from Rohingya refugees who recently fled into Bangladesh territory.

Three refugees -- Mohammad Ali, 60, Nurul Huda, 30, and Helal Mia, 35, -- kept these records of horrific incidents on their mobile phones when they fled.

Several of the villages like Balai Bazar of bordering Maungdaw district are seen going up in huge flames which the refugees allege that are the works of the country’s military and local militia.

 

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Only days old and fleeing for their lives.
These newborn Rohingya twins are two of 270,000 refugees to seek safety in Bangladesh in the last two weeks.

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