AhlulBayt News Agency

source : Moqawama
Friday

24 August 2012

2:59:00 PM
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Myanmar: Rohingya Muslims Most Oppressed

Muslims in Myanmar are still being slain, and more massacres in the different states are being perpetrated. But Rohingya State in the Arakan region suffers the greatest number of victims, Myanmar residents say.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - "The Burmese regime is unstoppably perpetrating carnages," reported the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Navi Pillay. In her last report, Pillay mentioned more than 650,000 Muslims of 800,000 had been slain in Rohingya State since the spread of massacres in Myanmar.

Though media is censored in Myanmar, "al-Intiqad" succeeded in contacting activists in Myanmar to reveal the truth as to the oppression of Myanmar Muslims.

Activist Muhammad Ma'soum reported to our website details on the adversities of more 100,000 migrants from Rohingya State. Ma'soum said, "The migrants are trying to resort to the Buddhist monks previously organizing sit-ins and protesting against the regime."

Ma'soum's tone revealed agony, "We, Muslims, supported the monks, but they did not receive the migrants. They even ousted them off temples, and they refused to offer food and water to the hungry, migrant women and children.

Likewise, two main associations run by monks provoked people not to offer any help to the Muslims; they only watched what was going on as they wished to be "impartial"!"

Myanmar Muslims as well criticize the "impartiality" of Aung San Suu Kyi, who for two decades has been well known as an oppositionist, and who was imprisoned and suffered a lot.

 The democracy and freedom "advocate" is supported by the United Nations and the West as they prepare her to be the future president of Myanmar.

"Myanmar Muslims criticize her "unbiased" stance," said Ma'soum, "She refused to answer when we asked her to help and declare her opinion on Myanmar Muslims' calamities! Then we wrote her asking whether she acknowledged our equal citizenship and our right to live in Myanmar amid the conditions she claimed in her movement against the Burmese regime. So she said she didn't know and that she was uncertain whether we were Burmese citizens! She also said there were "prerequisites" for citizenship but did not specify them."

 San Suu Kyi's declarations served her own election campaign, said Burmese activist Fatima Tsuma to "al-Intiqad", "San Suu Kyi is thronging Buddhists to vote for her in the 2015 presidency elections. Had she the courage to say so, she would have declared supporting Muslims' rights would make her lose the Buddhists' votes."

Exasperating Myanmar Muslims is the stance of such activists on the Muslims' cause, especially San Suu Kyi's. "Delivering speeches, she ardently keeps citing the Nelson Mandela model to win greater popularity.

But she's a liar. Mandela wouldn't have let us down had he been in her shoes, "Ma'soum added, criticizing San Suu Kyi's non-humanitarian stance, which cancels out her "democracy and freedom" slogans."

Over half a million Rohingya Muslims have migrated to the poor neighbor country Bangladesh. Now they live utmost adversity as there is no income, shelter, food, or clothing.

Nor does a United Nations commission on human rights act there as in the case of UN commissions acting in wars around the world.

Whereas the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNHCR) now acts regarding Syria, supports the Syrian opposition, sets camps and encampments to encourage Syrians to leave their country, also campaigns against the Syrian regime to make the world sympathize with the Syrian opposition, and shows the urgent humanitarian cause through refugee camps, no UN acts in Myanmar.

Neither is there any humanitarian movement in support of migrants in Myanmar, nor is there a political stance on the massacres being perpetrated there!

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