The United Nations has on
several occasions warned about large-scale violence being committed against
minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, saying such acts of
violence could amount to crimes against humanity. But Myanmar's government
remains defiant, with the country’s military rejecting reports of gross human
rights violations against the minority groups in the troubled state.
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Jahangir Mohammad, director
of the Center for Muslims Affairs, believes that Myanmar’s army chief is either
“delusional” or he is covering up the truth, arguing that nobody will take his
remarks seriously given all the UN reports about human rights violations
against the Rohingya Muslims in the country.
He said the Myanmarese
government is acting like all other regimes that “commit genocide” but which
somehow convince themselves that these crimes are not taking place.
“We have seen it many times
in history where they simply fail to accept the responsibility that they should
for what is happening. But of course this is not surprising,” the analyst told
Press TV in an interview on Wednesday.
But the world, he said, is
well aware that Myanmar’s military has been participating in a “state-sponsored
genocide” of the Rohingya Muslims for nearly five years.
There is an “organized
attempt” throughout Myanmar to remove the Rohingya and to claim that they are
not citizens of the country and do not belong there, he noted.
Mohammad further stated that
Western powers adopt their policies on the basis of self-interest rather than
human rights principles, and that their strategies are mainly driven by
economic motives and other interests of their own people in different parts of
the world.
Therefore, Mohammad
concluded, Western states do not really care about what is happening to the
Rohingya people; rather, their aim is to open a new market for exploitation and
trade, and Myanmar “fits the bill nicely.