Tuesday, November 8, 2016

IMPLEMENTATION OF R2P IS ESSENTIAL FOR ROHINGYA

By Aung Aung

Myanmar army patrols in a village of 
Maungdaw, Arakan and operate genocidal 
“Four Cuts Policy” on October 19, 2016. 
(Photo – Ye Moe/ Myanmar Review Journal)

A humanitarian crisis in Arakan State became 100 times worse than before as Myanmar army has been launching genocidal operation called “Four Cuts Policy” against Rohingya since October 9. Nearly 200 Rohingya were killed, 100s of houses were burnt down, at least 38 Rohingya women were raped, properties of Rohingya were robbed, nearly 700 were arbitrarily arrested and some of them were labeled terrorists in Maungdaw District by the army and Border Guard forces.

Not only in Maungdaw District, all Rohingya in Arakan who live in the ghetto-like villages and concentration camps, are now facing genocidal operation. On 5.11.2016, five Rohingya from Kadi village of Punna Kyun were attacked by Rakhine extremists.

Authority blocks all ways to reach aids to the affected areas. NLD government failed to protect Rohingya civilians rather it spread propaganda against Rohingya through national media. Though Daw Aung San Suu Kyi promised not to use the term Bengali for Rohingya, State’s media is consistently using Bengali terrorists and threatening their security.

Suu Kyi’s government has said that the men who attacked police posts on October 9 were Bengali terrorists but it launches genocidal operations against innocent Rohingya civilians instead of finding those terrorists. There is no Rohingya militant group operating in the State. Many Rohingya believe that those attackers might be Border Guard’s WY drug dealing partners.

More than a million Rohingya have been being kept under genocidal blockage depriving all fundamental human rights since 2012. Ex-military intelligence chief Khin Nyunt spread malicious lies to fuel anti-Rohingya hatred among the gullible and racist Buddhists. Rohingya are framed as a threat to the State’s security since 1990. Khin Nyunt is one of the most lethal snakes against Islam and Muslims in Burma.

Entire Burmese army sponsors Rohingya Genocide, racist and unprincipled NLD leaders deny existence of Rohingya, 99% of policy makers in all fields of government structure spread bias information against Rohingya and blood-thirsty Rakhine extremists are supporting army generals to continue Rohingya Genocide.

International Community has been urging Myanmar government to end persecution, resettle all IDPs in their own places and restore their rights but Myanmar ignores international laws and continues genocidal operation. Now it is time to implement R2P for Rohingya as soon as possible.

“In a country where the regular police and military are notorious for grave human rights violations, it’s difficult to extend the benefit of the doubt to poorly trained civilians,’ said Sam Zarifi, ICJ’s Asia Director. ‘Establishing an armed, untrained, unaccountable force drawn from only one community in the midst of serious ethnic tensions and violence is a recipe for disaster,’ he added.”