By Aung Aung
November 16, 216
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Myanmar Army and Border Guards police launch mortars, launchers and machine guns on Rohingya in DaGyiZar Village Tract at noon on 13 November 2016. (Photo – Cincds)
NLD
government so-called first civilian government of Myanmar announced that the
Muslim-terrorists attacked Border Guard Posts of Maungdaw and Rathedaung with
swords and sticks; killed 9 BG police on 9 October 2016.
Starting on
10 October, Myanmar Army and Border Guards have been running clearance or
genocidal operations against Rohingya civilians. They torched 100s of
Rohingya’s houses, launched air strikes, fired motors and automotive
sub-machine guns on Rohingya civilians.
Many Rohingya
from Wa Baik, Kyi Kan Pyin village track, Kya Gong Taung village tract, Yae
Khet Chaung Kwasone village tract, Da Gyi Zar village tract, Thu Oo Laa village
tract, Myaw Taung Vt, Mayantaung village, Pwin Phyu Chaung village track, Long
Doon village track, Sin Thay Pyin, Zedi Pyin, Ga Yat Chaung, Sein Gyi Chaung,
Mro Mi Chaung were shot to death without asking any question 100s of Rohingya
were arbitrarily arrested and announced them Islamic terrorists with the most
inhumane and sustained genocide of the Rohingya people.
Myanmar
military is forcing Rohingya to hold sticks and swords for self-defense. During
the operations, Myanmar military and Border Guards continue oppressions in
Rohingya villages mentioned above with non-stop killing, raping woman, looting,
burning and mass arrest.
Approximately
50,000 Rohingya were forced to be displaced, nearly 4,000 Rohingya injured and
700 were killed during the genocidal operations. They locked civilians inside
their houses and burnt them alive in Yay Khae Chaung Khwa Sone South Hamlet in
Northern Maungdaw.
Myanmar
state media and most of the Buddhist media blamed only Rohingya for all the
destruction. They explained Islamic terrorists torched their own houses, killed
their own people and Myanmar government is charging them according to law.
I have been
trying to contact those who hold sticks and swords for self-defense. On
November 13, I could contact Maung Tin (a) Zahid through him I had an interview
with a member of Faith Movement. The complete interview is as follows:
Aung Aung: Are
you really from the Faith Movement?
Kyaw Maung: Yes,
I am in it for self-defense.
Aung Aung: New
civilian government led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi formed Rakhine Commission
leading by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to solve the problems. International
Community and Rohingya politicians have been trying to solve Rohingya issue
through diplomatic and peaceful way. On this situation, why do you stand with
sticks and swords against government?
Kyaw Maung: Rohingya
had rights to vote and to be elected as parliament constituency up to 2010.
Since 2012, government accuses us illegal Bengali immigrants, conduct violence
against us, and keep us in the concentration camps and ghettos, depriving all
fundamental human rights including livelihood, education and healthcare.
We hoped new
civilian government would restore our rights but it became worse than Thein
Sein government. During new government, we are being forced to accept NVC cards
instead of Scrutiny cards like other ethnics, increased persecution and
arbitrarily arrest. It held 21st century peace conference with all ethnic
ignoring Rohingya.
Daw Aung San
Suu Kyi urged not to use Bengali for Rohingya but State media and all Buddhist
media use Bengali immigrants. If we are illegal immigrants, government can
deport us to the country they refer. They have no right to persecute us and
keep us in the ghettos for destruction blocking from our daily needs.
Aung Aung: Did
you attack Border Guard Posts which government announced terrorist attacks that
killed 9 BG police on 9 October, why?
Kyaw Maung: We
are not terrorists. In September, seven of our colleagues were arbitrarily
arrested by Border Guard and tortured them inhumanely. In the beginning, they
demanded 500,000 Kyats for each to release them but later, they were
disappeared and BG refused arrest of them. We had no intention to attack the
posts. We attacked to find our colleagues back thinking they might be inside
the posts.
Aung Aung: Armed
struggle to get your rights is not easy. Shan, Kachin, Kayin have been fighting
decades without any result. Though they have strong armed force, they can do
nothing. How can you stand with sticks and swords against powerful and
notorious army? Have you got any training from any country for the revolution?
Kyaw Maung: We
have no intention to be rebellion against government. But it does not stop
persecution; we have no rights at all. If we stand for self-defense, we will
die once. Now, we are dying every minute. We have no foreign contact. If we are
connected to any terrorist group we might have explosive weapons, not only
sticks and swords. We attend no training. Persecution taught us to determined
self-defense instead of dying under slow burning genocidal program of Myanmar Army.
Aung Aung: How
many people participate in your Faith Movement?
Kyaw Maung:
We have no systematic organization victims who lost their family members
because of persecution join us voluntarily with their own free wills. At the
beginning we had nearly 100, later only 40 members remain. We hope the members
will increase soon because of State’s terrorist attacks on innocent civilians.
Aung Aung: State
claims that you torched the houses and ran away. Does it true?
Kyaw Maung: After
9 October attacks, when Army and Border Guards torched hundreds of Rohingya’s
homes, killed in mass, arbitrarily arrested 100s of peoples; we decided to give
up our self-defense activities. But Army and Border Guards continue genocidal
operations one village after another killing and burning inhumanely.
Unfortunately,
we confronted army while we were moving to another village on 12 November 2016.
Then we had to fight to save our lives. Based on that confrontation, government
launched air strikes, fired mortars and automatic sub-machine guns on civilians
randomly that caused many Rohingya families into ashes in Yae Khet Chaung Kwa
Sone Village tract, nearly 700 Rohingya were killed by Army through operations,
nearly 4,000 people injured and have no doctor, 50,000 became homeless.
We announced
openly who we are, our video clips are available, and government knows our
faces. Why does it need mass killing of innocent civilians if it has no intention
for Genocide? Why did Army torch the whole village into ashes? State has been
deceiving public as well as the world that terrorists burnt the houses and ran
away, no rape case there and no injustice, everything is under the law.
If
government is true on its claims why can’t it allow journalists for free
investigation? Let international investigation come and let them to discover
the reality. We have concrete evidence of genocide committed by the Army.
(Watch here)
We are not terrorists. Myanmar Tatmadaw and Border Guards are the real
terrorists. https://youtu.be/itAvKiLWd_4
Aung Aung: If
a reliable media wants to see you, can you meet to discuss?
Kyaw Maung: Any
media who respect human rights and justice are welcomed for dialogue.
Aung Aung: If
government restores your rights, will you give up self-defense struggle?
Kyaw Maung: We
never demand anything that harms Union, peace, and reconciliation. We just
demand our own rights to restore all rights that the former parliamentary
democratic government of Myanmar had approved. We are not insurgents or
rebellions. We want to be good citizens and serve for the country.
(Watch)
Rohingya families burnt into ashes in Kya Gaung Taung village tract on
13.11.2016: https://youtu.be/bkIfkSpyINw?t=9
In the name
of clearance operation in Maungdaw district, Myanmar army burnt to death many
Rohingya who were in their houses using heavy weapons and burnt down the whole village
into ashes. Some of the bodies could not be identified as they became ashes.
167 Rohingya from Kya Gaung Taung village tract were missing. Most of the
missing numbers might be died there while Army launched heavy launchers.
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