Important Questions to U Myint Kyaing
With honor: We, Rohingyas have some cross questions in this
important news/article. I hope The Irrawaddy news agency will make follow up of
the questions as early as possible.
The government has estimated it can take back about 300
Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh per day and said there is a need to
scrutinize the refugees under the four main principles of a 1993 agreement
between the two countries.
“We can only process about 150 [refugees] in a checkpoint
per day as we have to scrutinize and check their information,” said U Myint
Kyaing, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Labour, Immigration and
Population.
Question: Driving out in 1000s daily, why do you are planned
to accept 150-300 per day? Is it a joke or slap to the world?
The government has said it would accept the refugees at
two checkpoints in Taungpyo Letwe and Nga Khu Ya villages before resettling
them in Dar Gyi Zar village in Maungdaw Township.
Question: We, Rohingya from entire Mayu region are fled to
Bangladesh, why do have named only Dar Gyi Zar? Have you made ghettos there? Is
it plan to do like Sittwe and other IDP mass ghettos?
There have been suggestions from the Bangladesh
government to amend parts of the 1993 agreement that allows the return of
Rohingya who can prove residence in Myanmar but the four main principles of the
agreement won’t change, said the permanent secretary.
Question: Many things to be changed and to be adde in new
MOU within the international standard, do you agree?
The four main principles state returnees need evidence of
their residence in Myanmar, repatriation must be voluntary, the parents of
children born in camps must have lived in Myanmar, and refugees separated from
their families need confirmation of this from a Bangladeshi court.
Question: Myanmar govts have been attacked us many times,
burned many times, no evidence in our hands, NaSaKa & LaWaKa have also
torched evidence of govt offices in Mayu Region. Rohingya born in Refugee camps
are now married, parents died, they have neither knowledge nor any evidence of
Myanmar. How will you solve? What does it mean “Bangladeshi court”? How can
they confirm about us?
But under the agreement, additional measures in the
repatriation process may be needed, said the permanent secretary, adding that
these measurements would include taking legal action against any “terrorists”
among the returnees on the spot.
Question: If I say “no terrorist” among us but defenders,
while you were attacking into innocent women and kids. They have lost many
family members, do you want to take action them too? Who will take action
against Armed forces “carried out mass carnage”?
He added that the governments of the two countries are
still negotiating to sign an MOU for the repatriation of the refugees.
A delegation led by Simon Henshaw, Acting Assistant
Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, will
also meet with government officials and humanitarian agencies to discuss
efforts to improve conditions for the significant influx of refugees into
Bangladesh, according to the State Department.
Demand: We want to a third party group in MOU because Myanmar government
has been broken promises MANY times. We Rohingyas are ever under manipulation
of Myanmar government. Therefore we want US/UN led group must be participated
in MOU as responsible of Myanmar side. Moreover our restoration of Rohingya’s
rights must be announced before MOU.
Some 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have now fled across the
border to Bangladesh from Myanmar Army clearance operations in a campaign the
UN calls ethnic cleansing. The refugees say security forces were killing
civilians, burning homes, and raping Rohingya women.
Question: 1000s evidence of inhumanities in records, we
want zero interference of Armed forces. Can you give us chance to proof those,
will you take action?
The army launched its operations in the wake of deadly
attacks on police outposts by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) on Aug.
25, which was declared a terrorist group by the government.
Question: ARSA is not terrorist organization; intolerably
raised hands against tyranny, is struggling for rights, is “ethno-nationalist”
movement. Will accept them for peace process?
There is a huge gap regarding the numbers of people who
fled to Bangladesh between the ground survey of Rakhine State government and UN
statistics, according to the President’s Office.
Comment: Don’t worry, no one is entering to die into Rakhine state
rather than Rohingya, aborigines of Arakan.
“We have nothing to argue on the number [of refugees].
Whatever the number they are saying, we won’t accept if they don’t have
evidence of their residence here,” U Myint Kyaing said.
Question: We are on run of State run genocide, our evidence
are burned to ashes, where can we find evidence?
By @mir_sidiquee SHRA
