28 November 2016
UN
intervention is the only viable solution in Rohingya situation
For more than 6 weeks the innocent and peaceful-living
Rohingyas have been made systematic targets of wholesale destruction, killing,
raping and looting and arson attacks. The Myanmar military and security forces
have killed more than 500 people, raped hundreds of women, burned down over
2500 houses, destroyed mosques and religious schools, and perpetrated other
inhuman acts.
While the persecution against Rohingya has been callous,
persistent and recurring again and again for many decades -- causing refugee
problem and boat people crisis that pose regional instability and threat to
international peace security -- the Myanmar Government has manifestly failed to
protect them, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi is
personally complicit and officially guilty in making Rohingyas’ plight worse.
As outlined in Articles 6 and 7 of the Rome Statute, well
documented reports and videos confirm that genocide and crimes against humanity
(including ethnic cleansing) have been committed against Rohingyas by the
Myanmar Government.
Due to ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity, the
Rohingyas are fleeing to Bangladesh for a temporary shelter to save their
lives. They strongly desire to return to their ancestral homeland of Arakan as
soon as possible and live a life in peaceful-coexistence with other ethnic
groups, as responsible citizens of Myanmar, rather than to live in humiliation
as refugees in alien lands.
But it is frustrating that United Nations, powerful
countries and Myanmar neighbours, have taken no concrete step to response to
the serious humanitarian needs of the helpless Rohingyas and to stop the
ongoing genocide against them.
The Rohingya are hated, rejected, persecuted, annihilated
and killed, and are treated as non-nationals. They do not enjoy any legal
rights under Myanmar law and so do not have any redress in Myanmar. Therefore,
the international Community should intervene in the matter. Particularly the UN
intervention, on the grounds of humanitarianism with the specific purpose of
preventing or alleviating widespread suffering or death of ethnic Rohingya with
full security, is the only viable option left over to protect and save over a
million of innocent lives. It seems implausible that the Rohingya would have
any other redress except via the UN intervention.
We, therefore, urge upon the UN and international community
for urgent intervention in the case of well documented genocide against the
Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority to protect and save the lives of more
than one million of innocent people. We also urge for an impartial
international investigation into the crimes against Rohingyas, and for urgent
humanitarian aids to the needy.
For more details, please contact:
U.K.: Ronnie +44-7783118354 Japan:
Zaw Min Htut +81-8030835327
Australia: Dr. Hla Myint +61-423381904 USA: Dr. Habib Ullah +1-4438158609
Canada: Nur Hasim +1 (519) 572-5359 Bangladesh: Ko Ko Linn +880-1726068413
Email:
info@rohingya.org www.rohingya.org
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