အင္တာနက္ေပၚက ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေရး တုိက္ခုိက္မႈ တရားစြဲမည္

 

2012-07-22

အင္တာနက္ Youtube မွာ ကိုယ့္ကိုကိုယ္ ဗီဒီယိုရိုက္ၿပီး အျမင္သေဘာထားမတူတဲ့ အျခားသူေတြကို ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေရးအရ အသေရပ်က္ေအာင္ တိုက္ခိုက္တာေတြ ျဖစ္လာတာေၾကာင့္ လန္ဒန္ စီးပြားေရး တကၠသိုလ္ရဲ႕ ဧည့္ပညာရွင္ ေဒါက္တာဇာနည္က ဥပေဒအရ တရားစဲြဖို႔ ျပင္ဆင္ေနေၾကာင္း RFA ကို ဒီကေန႕ေျပာပါတယ္။

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္မွာ ဇြန္လက စတင္ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့တဲ့ ပဋိပကၡေတြကို အေျခခံၿပီး အင္တာနက္ေပၚမွာ လူမ်ဳိးေရးအရ မုန္းတီးမွဳကို အေျခခံတဲ့ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေရးအရ တိုက္ခိုက္တာေတြ ျဖစ္လာခဲ့တယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။
"ေနာက္ဆုံးေပါ့ေနာ္။ Youtube ေပၚမွာ ကုိယ့္ကုိယ္ကုိ ဗီဒီယုိ ရုိက္ျပီးေတာ့ တင္ေပးလုိက္တယ္။ တင္ေပးလုိက္တဲ့ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ရဲ႕ နာမယ္က ကုိျငိမ္းခ်မ္း။ သူ႔အေဖက ျမန္မာ့ တပ္မေတာ္က ေရတပ္က အရာရွိေဟာင္း အျငိမ္း တစ္ေယာက္ေပါ့ေနာ္။ တပ္က အရာရွိေဟာင္း သားသမီးတစ္ေယာက္က အဂၤလန္ႏုိင္ငံမွာ ပညာသင္ျပီးေတာ့ အဂၤလန္ႏုိင္ငံမွာရွိတဲ့ လြတ္လပ္မႈ အခြင့္အေရးေတြကုိ အလြဲသုံးစားလုပ္ျပီးေတာ့ ကုိယ့္ ဗမာအခ်င္းခ်င္း သြားပုပ္ေလလြင့္ ေျပာမယ္။ မတရား တုိက္ခုိက္တာေတြ လုပ္မယ္ဆုိရင္ေတာ့ ေရွ႕ေနေရွ႕ရပ္ အသင္းအဖြဲ႔ေတြနဲ႔ ဒီကိစၥကုိ ဘယ္လုိ အေရးယူရမလဲဆိုတာကုိ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ စကားေျပာေနပါတယ္။"

Burma,Authority targets religious leaders in Maungdaw

 

Posted on July 22, 2012

 

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The concerned security forces-Military Intelligence and Burma border security force (Nasaka)- have been arresting religious leaders since yesterday, said a teacher from Maungdaw.

The officer from Nasaka area number 6, summoned all village admin officers with five religious leaders at his office today at about 9:30 am where the officer ordered to the village admins and religious leaders – not to process in the Mosques for congregational prayers or in the homes and if found, will arrest every body in process and also warned that the religious leaders led the conflict between Rohingya and Rakhine, according to a village admin from Nasaka area number 6.
“After meeting, the officer arrested five religious leaders – Moulan Abu Siddique, 45, from Hla Poe Khuang (Sorfordin Bil) village, Moulana Yousuf Ali, 40 from Zin Paung Nyar village, Moulana Mohamed Alam,40, from Poungzarr village, Moulan Kawlim, 40, from Hlabawzar and Moulana Dil Mohamed, 40,from Hlabawzarr.”
Besides,the Military Intelligence and Nasaka arrested 4 other Rohingyas from the Juma Moaque of Thayai Gonetan ( Knonena Para) while they were praying in the veranda (porch), according to a villager.
“The arrestees are: – Moulana Fazal Haque, 50, Butu, 31, Amir Abdul Gaffor ,42 and another Moulana . The arrestees were kept in the Nasaka custody of Nasaka area number 7.”
Similarly, the Nasaka and Military Intelligence arrested 6 Rohingyas from Pa Nyaung Pingyi and 3 Rohingyas from Du Nyaung Pingyi today morning, said a villager from Maungdaw south. “ Most of the arrestees are religious leaders or students.”

source  KPN

OIC leads global campaign to protect Rohingya Muslims

 

Friday 20 July 2012

The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has launched a major international campaign to put an end to the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority in the Arakan state of Myanmar and protect their legitimate rights.
OIC offices in Geneva, New York, and Brussels are making intense efforts to foster international intervention in the issue. The OIC is in touch with the United Nations, UN Human Rights Council, European Union and other international organizations to halt the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar.

Myanmar: Abuses against Rohingya erode human rights progress

Jul 20 2012 -  

Khaleda, a Rohingya refugee (c) Amnesty International

Six weeks after a state of emergency was declared in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, targeted attacks and other violations by security forces against minority Rohingyas and other Muslims have increased, Amnesty International said today.

Communal violence in the state has also continued, the organization said.

“Declaring a state of emergency is not a license to commit human rights violations,” said Benjamin Zawacki, Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher.

“It is the duty of security forces to defend the rights of everyone – without exception or discrimination – from abuses by others, while abiding by human rights standards themselves.”

သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ကုိ ထိုင္းသတင္းစာက ျပင္းထန္စြာ ေဝဖန္

မဇၥ်ိမသတင္းဌာန ။ ။ ျမန္မာသမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္သည္ ဇြန္လ အတြင္းက သူ၏ ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံ ခရီးစဥ္ကုိ ႏွစ္ႀကိမ္ တိုင္တိုင္ ေရႊ႕ဆိုင္းခဲ့ရၿပီးေနာက္ လာမည့္ တနဂၤေႏြေန႔တြင္ သံုးရက္ၾကာ ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံ ခရီးစဥ္ကုိ စတင္မည္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ထိုစဥ္တြင္ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ရွိ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္၏ မၾကာေသးခင္က မွတ္ခ်က္မ်ားကို
ေသာၾကာေန႔ထုတ္ ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံ အေျခစိုက္ ဘန္ေကာက္ပုိ႔စ္ သတင္းစာ၏ အယ္ဒီတာ့ အာေဘာ္က ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္
ေဝဖန္ျခင္းျဖင့္ ျမန္မာသမၼတ ခရီးစဥ္အား ႀကိဳဆိုလိုက္သည္။

မူလက ဇြန္လ ၄ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ဦးသိန္းစိန္၏ ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံ ခရီးစဥ္ စတင္ရန္ သတ္မွတ္ခဲ့ျပီး ထိုင္းႏုိင္ငံ ဘန္ေကာက္ျမိဳ႕တြင္ က်င္းပခဲ့သည့္ အေရွ႕အာ႐ွ ကမၻာ့စီးပြါးေရးဖိုရမ္ တြင္လည္း မိန္႔ခြန္းေျပာရန္ စီစဥ္ခဲ့ေသးသည္။ သုိ႔ရာတြင္ ျမန္မာ့ အတိုက္အခံ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အား လာေရာက္ရန္ႏွင့္ ထုိကြန္ဖရင့္တြင္ မိန္႔ခြန္းေျပာၾကားရန္ အားတက္သေရာ ဖိတ္ၾကားခဲ့ၾကျပီးသည့္ ေနာက္တြင္မူ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္၏ ထိုင္းႏုိင္ငံ ခရီးစဥ္ကုိ ဖ်က္သိမ္းလိုက္ၾက ၿပီး သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္အေနျဖင့္ ခရီးစဥ္အတြင္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ အရွိန္အဝါေအာက္တြင္ လႊမ္းမိုးခံရမည္ကုိ မလိုလားသျဖင့္ ခရီးစဥ္ ဖ်က္သိမ္းလိုက္ၾကျခင္း ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ထင္ေၾကးမ်ားလည္း ထြက္ေပၚခဲ့သည္။

ျမန္မာသမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ ဇူလိုင္လအတြင္း ကေမၻာဒီးယား ႏုိင္ငံ Siem Reap တြင္ က်င္းပခဲ့သည့္ အေမရိကန္-အာဆီယံ စီးပြားေရးဖိုရမ္တြင္ မိန္႔ခြန္း ေျပာၾကားေနစဥ္

Burmese Muslims targeted in communal violence, says Amnesty

Minority Rohingya population beaten, raped and killed by security forces and Rakhine Buddhists, claims rights group

guardian.co.uk, Friday 20 July 2012

Rohingya refugees in Malaysia protest outside the British high commission in Kuala Lumpur
against the violence in Burma. Photograph: Ahmad Yusni/EPA

 

Communal violence is continuing in western Burma six weeks after the government declared a state of emergency, with much of it directed at minority Muslim Rohingyas who have been beaten, raped and killed, Amnesty International has claimed.

The rights group accused both security forces and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists of carrying out fresh attacks against Rohingyas, who are regarded as foreigners by the ethnic majority and denied citizenship by the government because it considers them illegal settlers from neighbouring Bangladesh.

After a series of isolated killings starting in late May, bloody skirmishes spread quickly across much of Burma's coastal Rakhine state.

Myanmar: Rohingya community under attack

20 July 2012

Attacks by security forces in Myanmar against minority Rohingya and other Muslims have increased in Rakhine State, where a state of emergency was declared six weeks ago.

“Declaring a state of emergency is not a license to commit human rights violations,” said Benjamin Zawacki, Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher.

“It is the duty of security forces to defend the rights of everyone – without exception or discrimination – from abuses by others, while abiding by human rights standards themselves.”

The Myanmar government declared a state of emergency in Rakhine State on 10 June, following an outbreak of communal violence the previous week among the Buddhist Rakhine, Muslim Rakhine, and Muslim Rohingya communities. It remains in effect in several areas.

Amnesty Int'l: Myanmar's Rohingyas being targeted

BANGKOK (AP) - Communal violence is grinding on in western Myanmar six weeks after the government declared a state of emergency there, and Muslim Rohingyas are increasingly being hit with targeted attacks that have included killings, rape and physical abuse, Amnesty International said Friday.

A government spokesman for coastal Rakhine state, which was engulfed by a wave of bloody unrest in June, called the allegations groundless and biased. Amnesty's claims are "totally opposite of what is happening on the ground," spokesman Win Myaing said, adding that the region was calm.

Amnesty accused both security forces and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists living in the region of carrying out fresh attacks against Rohingyas, who are seen as foreigners by the ethnic majority and denied citizenship by the government because it considers them illegal settlers from neighboring Bangladesh.

Genocide Emergency: Western Myanmar, Rakhine State: The Rohingya

Source from Genocide Watch

The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic minority living in northern Rakhine state in Western Myanmar. They face religious and ethnic discrimination by Myanmar's military regime, which refuses to recognize the Rohingya as Myanmar citizens. The Rohingya people are not considered one of 135 legally recognized ethnic minority groups in Myanmar. Myanmar considers them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, but they have lived in Myanmar for centuries, and Bangladesh will not accept them as its citizens.

The first Rohingya people arrived in Myanmar as early as the seventh century, but the Myanmar military regime maintains, to this day, that the Rohingya immigrated to Myanmar from India while under British colonial rule. This disregard for earlier settlers prohibits the Rohingya from being legally recognized as a minority group in Myanmar.

The Rohingya have permanently settled in Western Myanmar and make up 1/3 of the population of the Rakhine State. There are close to 750,000 Rohingyas in Rakhine State.
Because of the Myanmar military regime's denial of legal recognition, the Rohingya are denied fundamental human rights and freedom, and the military regime consistently perpetrates human rights violations against this vulnerable population.

• The regime refuses to issue identification cards to Rohingya, which are necessary to be able to travel, as well as to obtain passports and enroll in higher education.
• They are denied land and property rights and ownership. The land on which they live can be taken away at any time.
• The Rohingya people are barred from government employment.
• Marriage restrictions are imposed on them. They are limited to two children per couple.

Updated news of Rathedaung Township on July 19, 2012

Yesterday, army went to the Rajabill (Auknanra) village of Rathedaung Township and chased the villagers to arrest but all the villagers ran away. At last, the army arrested one villager named Abul Shama (45) and his wife. His wife is from Rakhine community and he married her since 20 years ago. The army also arrested the wife of Abul Shama and both of them were severely tortured by the army. After marriage, they gave birth four children. His wife was sent to her parents’ house. However, Abul Shama was released after paying Kyat 150,000. It is not known to the villagers, why the army chased the villagers.

Today, Rohingya villagers are not allowed to go to Zaydi Pyin ( Kyaung Taung ) market of Rathedaung Township for marketing. If the villagers are met on the way to the market, the army and the Rakhine youths beat them.

Besides, at noon, the Rakhine community held a meeting in the Buddhist monastery of Zaydi Pyin regarding the Rohingya community. Though the result of the meeting is not known to the Rohingya villagers, the Rohingya villagers believe that the Rakhine villagers will attack the big mosque of Zaydi Pyin which is established since long ago. So, the Rohingya villagers become fear and sad. However, the army made blank fires to the air since 1:00 pm. It maybe threatening to the Rohingya villagers by army.

In Rathedaung Township, Rohingya villagers are not allowed to go out from their villages and are dying everyday because of starvation , shortage of medicine. Most of the villagers are living in open sky as their homes were burned down.

sorce kpn

Machete Massacre in Arakan: The Hidden Face of Burma Exposed

Abid Bahar

From the military leadership down to NASAKA, the Rakhine police, in the civilian front RNDP and even some leaders closely working with Aung San Suu Kui, the problem with the Rohingya people have been seen as a case of dealing with”illegal immigration” of Bengali people to Arakan. Fortunately, contemporary research on Rakhine-Rohingya relations shows it is not about illegals in Arakan, Burma, it is about intolerance to a people, who are racially, culturally and religiously different from the mainstream racially mongoloid Rakhine-Burmese people.

Unfortunate though, even Burma’s new military backed government, the wolf in ship’s skin continues to call Rohingyas as the noncitizens of Burma. It has been done in compliance with the 1982 Ne Win’s Constitution Act that denied Rohingya Citizenship. Following this definition to the government, Burma is not actually doing anything wrong, it is only fighting against “intruders” into Burma who according to the authority came to Burma after 1824.

Fortunately, history proves over and again that Rohingyas didn’t migrate to Arakan from Bengal, they were already there as the indigenous people and others settled by the sea.
(Link: http://drhabibsiddiqui.blogspot.ca/2011/10/analysis-of-muslim-identity-and.html).
Contrary to the xenophobic understanding that Rohingyas are intruders into Burma, we see, successive Burmese invasions of Arakan led to the settlements of nonBengali people in Chittagong and Chittagong Hill Tracts of present Bangladesh.
(Link:http://www.kaladanpress.org/v3/index.php?

Religious cleansing: crime against humanity

19 july 2012
Ismail Salami

Described as the Palestine of Asia by the UN, the Rohingya Muslim community in Myanmar is currently going through an unutterable ordeal at the hands of the Rakhine extremist Buddhists in Arakan who are targeting the Muslim minority with the worst form of religious cleansing.
Ethnic cleansing is rife in Myanmar and is turning into a human tragedy of colossal proportions. A confidential United Nations report dated May 29, 2011 and marked “Not for Public Citation or Distribution”, defines ethnic cleansing as a “purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.”

What is happening in Myanmar to the Rohingya Muslims violates international laws and is to be categorised as crime against humanity. Unfortunately, the Myanmar peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to the plight of the Rohingya Muslims. Maybe she has forgotten her own words on democracy and human rights that, “The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity.”
Reportedly, the settlement of the Rohingya Muslims in this region dates back to the eighth century. However, in the seventies, the junta embarked on a systematic programme of religious cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims who are denied their basic rights, i.e. the right to freedom of movement, marriage, faith, identity, ownership, language, heritage and culture, citizenship, education etc. Deplorable as it is, the Muslims in Myanmar are among the most persecuted minorities in the world according to UN.

No security for Rohingyas under so-called emergency Act 144 in Maungdaw

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The Maungdaw Township administration office called all the villages’ admin officers today and ordered to collect all religious students list from every village, according to a village administration officer from Maungdaw.

“The office ordered to collect religious students list and may be the office will call again to give them students list or young Rohingya lists. After collecting the lists, may be the authorities start to arrest the students which are the main power of Rohingyas’ next generation.”

 

The police officers –Thein Tin and Aye Htun Sein – are being harassed Rohingya businessmen who came to open their shops as per the ordered of Maungdaw Township Administration office. But, the Rohingya businessmen are not getting any protection from the authority; also they were picked up by police nearby clock tower junction when returning to their villages. The police officers kept the Rohingya businessmen at the electric power station compound to extort money from them, said a businessmen from Maungdaw.

“The Rakhines are also harassing the Rohingya businessmen while they open their shops and loot anything which they had taken for their home. They can’t able to go and back freely from their home and shop.”

 

 

Iran urges intl. organizations to investigate killings in Myanmar

TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Monday called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and other international organizations to investigate the massacre of Muslims in Myanmar.    “Respecting followers of religions and preparing the ground in such a way that religious and ethnic minorities would be able to use their civil rights is an accepted principle in all schools of thought, and it is expected that the government of Myanmar will pave the way for national unity and cohesion and (the upholding of) Muslims’ rights in the country and help prevent any use of force and humanitarian disaster,” Mehmanparast stated.

Rohingya Plight Highlighted in London

A picture from the book, “Exiled to Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya” (PHOTO: Greg Constantine)

The London School of Economics (LSE) hosted a panel discussion on Monday evening to debate the crisis in western Arakan State and to express support for the Rohingya community.
Many members of the Burmese community crowded into the packed theater alongside London-based activists and members of NGOs. On the panel were Chris Lewa, the director of the Arakan Project and a leading voice on behalf of the Rohingya, and US photographer Greg Constantine who recently released a book of black and white photography titled

Stop the killing of Rohingyas

It was the founding fathers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who were so sympathetic and humane as to give asylum to hundreds of thousands of members of the persecuted Burmese community. Many of the descendants of these refugees are still living in the Western Region of the Kingdom in the area between Makkah and Jeddah.

They are the Rohingyas, the Palestinians of Asia. The Rohingyas have lived in Burma since the 8th century, yet in 1962, the Burmese junta began a program of ethnic cleansing in an attempt to force them to leave the country.

In the past few months, the nearly one million Rohingyas in Burma’s Arakan state have been under siege by the local Rakhine community.

The UN has said: “The government has denied birth certificates and citizenship to the Rohingyas. Today, the community is in a perilous situation as they are being targeted because they are not of the same race and religion as the Rakhine Buddhist majority.”
The Buddhists are targeting the Rohingyas as a part of state-sponsored ethnic cleansing.

Update crisis of Arakan

It has been over 40 days now, the military government is openly escalating more brutal crimes. Rohingyans have been confined with constant abuses and without food. Some Rohingya those attempted to escape by boats through the sea were fired by launchers by navy forces and those captured in inland-waters were defined as illegal enterers and punished to unknown.
Schools have been opened from last week and all Rakhine children are attending while Rohingya are disposed to languish in uncertainty.
The government and Rakaine state minster who is also Rakhine people party-RNDP’s president and high-ranking authorities are openly stopping any kind of food supply or finding foods by Rohingya themselves.
However, the demon military government that repeatedly committing crimes has been receiving more kind and diplomatic approaches. It is the time therefore no Rohingya could be survived. Soon, they all will be exterminated within the scope of government’s pogrom.

US Muslims plea for end to Rohingyas plight

“ISNA rejects these ongoing oppressive policies and is deeply sorrowed by the recent killing of innocent Rohingya Muslims,” the Islamic Society of North America said.

“We stand firmly against the usage of ethnic and religious differences to perpetrate the persecution of minority communities, regardless of country, religion, or circumstance.

“The government of Myanmar's current course of action is unacceptable, and the Rohingya people must be afforded basic human rights.”

Described by the UN as one of the world's most persecuted minorities, Myanmar’s ethnic-Bengali Muslims, generally known as the Rohingyas, are facing a catalogue of discrimination in their homeland.