The UN General Assembly approved a resolution urging Burma
to provide “Full Citizenship” to its Rohingya minority and to allow them to
move freely in December 2014. Burmese authorities want categorize them as
“Bengali” implying they are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh; although both
former President Thein Sein and Immigration Minister, Khin Yee had admitted
officially “there was no single illegal immigrant.
The resolution, adopted by consensus, stressed the
assembly’s “serious concern” about the Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya. A
senior US official said “The answer to the issue is peace and stability and
citizenship for the Rohingya in Rakhine State and that is the solution” in June
2015.
In August 2016, UN Chief Ban Ki Moon said “Myanmar’s
Stateless Rohingya should be given the right to citizenship after generations
living in the country. Million-strong Rohingya minority are denied citizenship,
voting and work rights; more than 140,000 have been displaced and the rest are
being kept in the ghetto-like situation since 2012. Thousands of Rohingya have
fled to other countries on rickety boats in search of better lives, only to
drown or fell victim to human traffickers.
In June 2016, UN said “the Rohingya suffered the entrenched
discrimination so deep it may amount to crimes against humanity”. Aung San Suu
Kyi set up an advisory panel chaired by former UN Secretary general Kofi Annan
to find “lasting solutions to the complex and delicate issue but at the same
time, State is forcing Rohingya to accept genocidal NVC cards or to leave the
country through “genocidal operation” in the name of “Clearance”.
Before 2015 election, Suu Kyi said “1982 Citizenship Law is
not suit to the international standard and it should be amended but after the
election, she is trying to implement NVC program which is 100 times worse than
1982 citizenship law. She really wants to provide “full citizenship” she may
not offer NVC.
Like Thein Sein and Khin Yee, Suu Kyi knows well that none
of the Rohingya is illegal immigrants rather illegally leaving daily to escape
from genocidal ghettos. Report of Human Rights Watch demonstrates a deeply
inadequate understanding of the crime of genocide.
Myanmar authorities led by Aung San Suu Kyi ignores international
laws.The Myanmar army has committed atrocity crimes against Rohingya and Suu
Kyi’s commission is attempting a whitewash Ministries led by Suu Kyi have
charted the path of denial, waging a shameful propaganda campaign.