Saturday, February 10, 2018

Myanmar authorities bulldozing Rohingya villages

By Mir Ahmed Siddiquee


It is in Balukhali village of Zin Pine Nya village tract, Maungdaw north, about 10 bulldozers arrived today on 10-02-2018 morning time, started demolishing all the structures including houses and Mosques.

 Rohingya from almost entire Zin Pine Nya village tract have been fled for life, to the refugee camps and into neighboring other villages. The authority took opportunity to demolish entire village tract. Recently about three villages of this village tract have been bulldozed, including religious structures. Report said some Rohingyas are still living in Dowrabil (Shwetar Pyin) village, others entire villagers left for life and modesty.

Undeniable fresh evidence of Rohingya genocide: https://youtu.be/fisDZkgJ5bg

Such many other village tracts are also bulldozed in Maungdaw Dist, also non-stop continued even the world pressured to stop genocidal campaigns. In addition, trying to repatriate the Rohingyas who are fled to the Bangladesh to save their life will be meaningless without creating a favourable environment for their return and proper resettlement is beginning to be clear.

Atrocities against Rohingyas are going on: https://youtu.be/jYDOZTn_ZE0
Rohingya Refugees in Zero point are frightened by BGP: https://youtu.be/yqOCWPCnwKU

New evidence compiled by the Amnesty International illustrate how a defiant Myanmar, even after the signing of a bilateral repatriation deal, continues its anti-Rohingya campaign as remaining members of the community there faces forced starvation, abductions, rapes and other forms of sexual violence. Unless there is a dramatic change in Myanmar's policy towards the Rohingyas, the same fate awaits the refugees on return.

Rohingya refugees in zero point are invited for table talk by BGP: https://youtu.be/olXubcfoRjE

We have repeatedly said in this column that the deal will work only if Myanmar creates a condition for the safe, voluntary return of the Rohingyas by giving them full citizenship rights. Only a physical movement from one country to another is not the solution, or we'll be coming back to the same cycle that triggered their exodus in the first place. The crisis being a complex one, it needs a holistic solution involving not only structural changes creating greater opportunities for the ethnic minority but also their reintegration and rightful recognition as part of that society.

International reaction to arrest of Reuters reporters in Myanmar: https://mirsdq.blogspot.com/2018/02/factbox-international-reaction-to.html

So far, the world leaders have failed to come up with anything more than perfunctory, at times only mild criticism—which has clearly fallen on deaf ears. The immediate priority is to put an end to Myanmar's anti-Rohingya campaign. But for a lasting solution, the international community must find a way, through tougher sanctions and greater diplomatic engagement, to make the country accept its citizens in a way acceptable to the latter.