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New UN Secretary General
Antonio Guterres Who was in
Charge of UNHCR before met Former President Thein
Sein
in Nay Pyi Taw on July 12, 2012.
(Photo – MOI Webportal Myanmar)
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UN SEC-GEN ANTÓNIO GUTERRES: A HOPE FOR AN END TO ROHINGYA
GENOCIDE?
By Aung Aung
In July, 2012, Myanmar
President Thein Sein told Guterres: “Burma will take responsibility for its
ethnic nationalists but it is not at all possible to recognize the illegal
border-crossing Rohingya who are not an ethnic of Burma and the government was
prepared to hand over the Rohingyas to the UNHCR and then resettle the ethnic group
in any third country “that are willing to take them”.
The UNHCR dismissed the
President’s radical plan, the RNDP backed Thein Sein’s statements. The
resettlement programs organized by UNHCR are for refugees who are fleeing a
country to another, in very specific circumstances. Obviously, it’s not related
to this situation,” said UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres.
I wrote an open letter to the
World leaders in September 2012.
Real facts of decades-long
persecution against Rohingya dissolved with the words of World leaders:
discussing definition or name of persecution, urging criminals to end their
crimes, rewarding them in the name of democracy reform, and supporting them
with great expectation.
New United Nations
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres might be a hope for Rohingya because he said
“We want the World our children inherit to be defined by the values enshrined
in the UN Charter: peace, justice, respect, human rights, tolerance and
solidarity.
All major religion embraces
them, and we strive to reflect them in our daily lives. The threats to these
values are most often based on fear. Our duty to the people we serve is to work
together to move from fear of each other, to trust in each other. Trust in the
values that bind us, and trust in the institutions that serve and protect us”.
Rohingya became the most
persecuted minority since 1970s. Up to 2010, they had right to vote and to be
elected in the parliament constituency but in the name of democracy reform,
State systematically staged violence against them in 2012 and made them illegal
immigrant.
When the UNHCR dismissed
radical proposal of Myanmar, Thein Sein keep all Rohingya in the genocidal
blockage deprived all basic fundamental rights including rights to find food
freely, cultivation, finishing and education. The first so-called civilian
government led by Nobel Laureate, Suu Kyi, increased persecutions and
restrictions. Her government is forcing to accept NVC cards to legalize
persecution and continue genocidal operations against us.
In September 2016, Ms. Suu Kyi
invited former UN Chief Kofi Annan to lead a commission and find solution for
the plight of Rohingya. At the same time, genocidal operations of Myanmar
military and Border Guards Started in October that caused 100s of innocent
civilian died and more than 50,000 Rohingya displaced from their homes.
1000s of eyewitnesses and
victims have proved atrocities of army and border guards but Myanmar denies all
the evidence as a fabrication: spread propaganda against Rohingya and Muslims
through State’s media, persuade majority Buddhists with the hate-speech of
extremist leaders Wirathu and Sitagu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwRnLFQUaSI&feature=youtu.be
Ms. Suu Kyi appointed an
education minister whose main purpose is deprivation of educational rights, not
only for Rohingya but for all Muslims in Myanmar. Ministry of education ordered
all institutions not to accept any Muslim student for professional
subject-majors such as Medicine and Engineering. This year, 100s of Muslim
applied for those subjects but Ministry of Education rejected them saying “Thwe
Naw” means “Mix-blood”.
"Immigration Minister ordered all the staffs, not to issue
Scrutiny Card for Muslims even though their parents hold official Scrutiny
Cards. State’s policies against Rohingya and Muslims in Myanmar are worse than
Nazism."
Since October 2016, new
restrictions have enforced, banned fishing and humanitarian aids that increased
starving Rohingya. In Kadi of PunnaKyun, Koe Tan Kuak and Chilkhali of
Rathedaung,and in Northern Maungdaw many Rohingya face starvation now.
Reports of Human Rights Watch
have confirmed military burned villages, raped women and girls, killed innocent
civilians, arbitrarily arrested that forced them to leave. Satellite imagery
and interviews with refugees place responsibility for burnings of Rohingya
villages in Burma’s Rakhine State squarely with the Burmese military.
Since October 9, 2016, at least
3,000 buildings have been destroyed, driving thousands of ethnic Rohingya from
their homes. John Mckissick ( http://www.aungaungsittwe.com/protesting-john-mckissick-myanmar-proved-states-sponsored-genocide/
), head of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on
the Bangladesh side of the border, has accused Burma’s government of ethnic
cleansing. The U.N’s special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, Yanghee Lee,
has condemned the lockdown (http://www.ohchr.org/FR/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=20895&LangID=E
) on Rakhine State as “unacceptable”.
It’s also time for the
international community to speak out, end genocidal operations against them,
and take immediate action to those who committed crimes against humanity. No
criminal on Earth may admit their crime unless the Judges take action.