By Rohingya Vision
21-03-2017
Cox’s Bazaar,
Bangladesh — The Myanmar Commission of
Inquiry has accused the freshly arrived Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh of
fleeing their homes in Myanmar for no reason, it has been reported. Read
here: https://goo.gl/o6DNQp
The 10-11 member
Myanmar Commission (set up by the Myanmar President Htin Kyaw on December 1,
2016, to apparently investigate into the reports of atrocity crimes against the
Rohingyas in Maungdaw and Rathedaung) visited the Rohingya refugee camps in
Kutupalong area on Sunday (Mar 19) and in Balukhali and Leda regions on Monday
(March 20) accompanied by several international NGOs and heavy security
personnel. The commission talked to several fresh influxes of the Rohingya refugees
especially after the military attacks began in Maungdaw on October 9, 2016.
“We didn’t commit
any abuses or tortures against you. Nor did our armed forces rape you. You have
fled your homes for no reason”, said a Commission member to Ms. A (not real
name), a raped victim originally from the village of “Ngar Sar Kyu” in
Maungdaw, when she told the Commission on how she was abused and raped by the
Myanmar military in October 2016.
After her interview
with the Commission members, she was seen coming out of the place in tears and
said that her claims of horrors in the hands of the Myanmar military were
dismissed by the Myanmar Commission.
“To any sane people,
a Commission composed of the government officials themselves complicit in the
atrocity crimes against the Rohingya people makes no sense. It was formed to
just whitewash the atrocity crimes by the Myanmar military; to discredit, in a
brutally dishonest way, the international reports by the UN Rapporteur Ms.Yanghee
Lee, the UN Human Rights Council (UN-HRC), and the Human Rights Groups; and to
blindfold the international community.
“We wanted to
protest and boycott against the so-called Myanmar Commission. But there were
heavy securities deployed along with them”, said Mohammed Kabir, a Rohingya Refugee
in Kutupalong.
Earlier, Dhaka Tribune has reported how the same Commission
accused another fresh Rohingya Refugeein Kutupalong, Anwar Kamal, of lying
after he described the atrocities he witnessed. In an interview with Dhaka
Tribune, Anwar Kamal said “whenever a refugee would speak, they would interrupt
and say they were lying.” Read here: http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/foreign-affairs/2017/03/20/rohingya-refugees-claim-myanmar-delegation-dismissed-tales-violence/
“I heard a
delegation member say ‘These Rohingyas are making things up after fleeing to
Bangladesh,’ which makes it clear that they’re just for show.”
Ironically, while
the Myanmar government officials and the domestic media continue to spread
propaganda in the country to drive the country’s Buddhist majority Buddhist
population against the minority Rohingya by branding them as the illegal
Bengali immigrants from Bangladesh, the same government sends a Commission to
Bangladesh to interview the (recently arrived) refugees as a part of a
so-called fact-finding mission and thereby indirectly accepting that the
Rohingyas — no matter whatsoever name they are called with in Myanmar or their
claims of atrocity crimes are accepted by the Myanmar government or not — are
indeed from Myanmar, not from Bangladesh.
Source: http://goo.gl/4yabzL