genocide of the rohingya of myanmar in 2012 by dr. habib siddqui

7/29/2019 Genocide of the Rohingya of Myanmar in 2012 By Dr. Habib Siddqui

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Myanmars(Burmas) Western State of Arakan (Rakhine) is again burning. In Mrauk-U, the formercapital of the independent kingdom of Arakan, hundreds of young Rakhine Buddhist men were on themarch: packed on the backs of pickups, on motorcycles, on trishaws, tuk-tuks and bicycles, but mostlyon foot.

They carried spears, swords, cleavers, bamboo staves, slingshots, crossbows and the occasiona

petrol bomb. Their target: the unarmed Rohingya Muslims. As the Economist (dated Nov. 3, 2012) ofthe UK noted, one Buddhist terrorist tugged at an imaginary beard and made a grisly throat-cuttinggesture.

Sadly, Mrauk-U is not the only town where Rohingya Muslims are facing a genocidal campaign at thehands of Rakhine terrorists. From the reports collected inside Myanmar, there is little doubt that the

Rakhine Buddhist terrorists, aided by local and central government politicians, police and securityforces, are carrying out a pre-meditated genocidal campaign to exterminate and drive out every

Rohingya of Burma (Myanmar). So atrocious and criminal this campaign is even the president ofMyanmar, who had previously tried to hide such targeted violence, had to admit on Friday, October 26(as reported in the pro-government newspaper the New Light of Myanmar) that eight mosques(Muslim houses of worship) and 2,000 of Rohingya homes were torched to completely destroy these.His spokesman told the BBC this weekend that "there have been incidents of whole villages and parts

of the towns being burnt down in Rakhine state." The actual facts and figures, however, are muchworse!


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It is feared that in the last week of October at least5,000 Rohingya homes were burned to ashes. Satellite

imagery shows the utter destruction of a Muslimquarter of the coastal town of Kyaukphyu, from whereoil-and-gas pipelines are to cross Myanmar to China.In this latest genocidal campaign, the Muslim villages

and localities in townships are cordoned off and firebombed. Anyone trying to escape from their burnedhomes is shot dead by the Rakhine Buddhist terroristsand their patrons within the government. Racist

Rakhine politicians and monks are creating anenvironment of racial/religious hatred and intolerancewhich justifies all types of violence against the

unarmed Rohingya population. Many Rohingyas have,therefore, tried to escape to the forest or the openseas, only to be hunted down there, too. Last week,

dozens died when their boats sank in the Bay ofBengal. Others are forced to sneak out to Bangladesh.

Denied entry, many have ended up in squalid camps inSittwe (Akyab) to join others who have been confinedthere since early June. Dozens of Rohingya girls werealso kidnapped by the Rakhine terrorists to use rapeand kidnap as weapons of war to terrorize theRohingya populace.

It is an all out extermination campaign against theRohingyas of Myanmar. In a statement datedThursday, October 25, Ashok Nigam, a United Nationsofficial in Myanmar, said, "The UN is alarmed byreports of displacements and destruction. He saidthat access to all affected people is critical and appealed for immediate and unconditional access toall communities in accordance with humanitarian principles.

As I have pointed out earlier in my speeches and writings, the Myanmar government wants to hide its

heinous crimes against the Rohingya people and, thus, have not allowed access of the internationalmedia, NGOs, aid groups and even the UN to the troubled region to investigate, monitor and assess thescale of the violence. Since the elimination of the Rohingya people one way or another is the declaredstate objective, no aid has reached from the Myanmar government agencies to the Muslim victimsAnd what is worse, even the relief materials sent from the OIC and the Islamic Relief have not reachedthe intended Rohingya victims. Less than 10% of such aids have trickled down to the victims. TheMyanmar government, thanks to the state-managed protests and demonstrations in October by racist

Buddhists that included monks, has also barred the OIC and Muslim relief agencies from openingoffices inside the Rakhine state to help the Rohingya victims.


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Not a single Buddhist terrorist has been punished for the gruesome murder of Muslims, not then andnot now. All what we heard from the Thein Sein government was that it had identified the instigators

behind the violence and pledged to bring them to justice. But as we have witnessed earlier with theJune 3 lynching death of 10 Burmese Muslims, such promises have not translated into justice, letalone created an atmosphere that protects the lives and properties of the affected Rohingya minority.

It is obvious that the Thein Sein government is playing the cat-and-mouse game with the worldcommunity with false promises made to divert attention away when the satellite pictures are too

obvious and difficult to hide such crimes, and once the outside pressure is low to encourage andparticipate in this heinous crime. As such the pogroms that started in June 3 with nearly a hundredthousand internally displaced Rohingyas have only worsened with extra tens of thousands that are nowwithout any shelter. The once thriving Muslim localities now look like bombed-out territories. No

Rohingya has been allowed back in to rebuild those properties. They have been caged in camps thatlook like the Nazi concentration camps from which they cant venture out to fetch their livelihoodwithout risking being shot by the Rakhine Buddhist security forces. They have been placed there toslowly die.

Terrorizing the unarmed Rohingya population has become a Rakhine national passion. The Borde

Security Force (NASAKA) continues to remind the Roingya people that Arakan is a Rakhine placewhere there is no place for the Roingya Muslims and that they must leave or will be killed. Newerterritories are added to the list of ethnically cleansed ones to terrorize Rohingya Muslims and

exterminate them. The Section 144, which prohibits an assembly of more than five people in an area,is only applied against the Rohingya. They cannot go out to protect their homes, shops, mosques,schools and villages from being looted and set on fire by the Rakhine terrorists who are not stoppedfrom committing such crimes by the security forces.

In most cases, these criminal Rakhines are aided by the government. There have been cases, e.g., asin Kyauk Pyu Township, in which instead of dousing the fire with water, the Buddhist firemen sprayedgasoline into the fire to complete the destruction! "The firemen threw petrol on the flames, as if it waswater! The authorities are one-sided. We can never trust them," said a local teacher to Pete Pattissona journalist working for the Independent (UK). Last Wednesday, the entire Muslim community in Kyauk

Pyu decided to flee in their fishing boats, joining thousands of others trying to escape from beingkilled or burned alive. Former Muslim residents of Pauk Taw told the Independent that a governmentferryboat had rammed their fishing boats at sea, resulting in drowning deaths of dozens. Those whohad fled and made it ashore have been prevented by government authorities from landing on the coast.


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Satellite images of Kyauk Pyu and its coastal surroundings, released by the Human Rights Watch atthe weekend, show the extent of the devastation. Where once there were houseboats and floating

barges moored along a harbor town packed with houses, now there is charred desolation, with 811homes and other structures destroyed.

All the victims in recent months have also been Muslims and yet the Thein Sein government tries to

portray the violence in the Rakhine state as an interracial or communal riot.

What is going on inside the Rakhine state is simply a purposeful policy designed by the Myanmargovernment in which the members of the majority Rakhine ethnic group, which is Buddhist by faith,

are willing executioners to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of the

Rohingya ethnic community, which are Muslims, from the geographic areas of Arakan and Myanmar.

The United Nations define such activities as ethnic cleansing. No hog-washing by the murderousregime and its supporters at home and abroad will succeed to hide such monumental crimes.

The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people is a text book case. It has become a national project that

is led by the Myanmar state at the central level and the Rakhine state at the local level, supported by agood percentage of the Buddhist nation and its dominant Burman and Rakhine ethnic groups, andwhich employs large institutional and material resources.

Barbaric and sectarian attack on Muslim in Arakan State of Burma : The turmoil was triggered bymassacare of 10Muslim Pilgrims in a Rangoon bond passenger bus in Taunggup Town on 3 June 2012. The attack followed the alleged gangrape and murder of an Arakanese woman on 28 May by three Muslim men, who have since been detained on June 2 by police.


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The local Rakhine politicians and terrorists, the Buddhist monks and mobs, and the entire stateapparatus from the local to the central government level are enthusiastic partners in this projecttowards final solution of the Rohingya problem.

It was no accident, therefore, to witness demonstrations of monks, esp. those organized by Young

Monks Association, supporting Thein Seins plan to expel the Rohingyas from Myanmar. The largest

such demonstration was led by Wirathu, considered a venerable teacher by many Buddhists. He is acriminal who was imprisoned in 2003 for inciting violence against the Muslims. It is no accident that

Suu Kyi spoke with forked tongues and that her NLD party has actually been supporting the nationaproject towards elimination of the Rohingya people. Many of the so-called democracy leaders haveproven to be no better than fascists and are actually worse than the KKK members.

The worst criminals in this extermination campaign are,however, the fellow Rakine Buddhists, whose ancestors

settled in Arakan beginning in the 11th century, i.e.,centuries after the darker complexioned Indo-Bengali

ancestors of the Rohingya people had already settled inthis coastal territory once ruled by the Hindu Chandra

dynasty, which had closer ties with Bengal (todaysBangladesh).

With that intrusion, albeit a violent one, of the Tibeto-Burman people, the forefathers of todays Rakhinerace, who professed Buddhism, the original inhabitant

Hindus and Muslims gradually became minorityreligious groups. However, in 1430 when two

contingents of Muslim Army from Bengal, comprising ofmore than 50,000 soldiers, restored the fleeingArakanese king Narameikhla (Maung Saw Mawn) tothe throne of Arakan, and a great many of them wereasked to protect the regime against any future

Burmese invasion, the new settlements of the Muslimgarrison around the new capital city of Mrohang(Mrauk-U) greatly added to the size of the minorityMuslim community.

The Arakanese rulers of Mrauk-U dynasty adopted superior Islamic culture from nearby Muslim

Bengal/India, and issued coins with Islamic inscriptions. They patronized Bengali literature. They alsoadopted Muslim names, a practice that was to continue for generations well into the 16th century.Muslims played major roles in administration, courts and defense of this multi-ethnic kingdom that

maintained its independence for centuries until its annexation by the Burmese king Bodawpaya in1784.

Bodawpaya was a Buddhist religious fanatic who tried to demolish everything Islamic. He introducedracism and bigotry into this multi-religious region. He destroyed mosques that once dotted the


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shorelines of Arakan and patronized building Buddhist monasteries and pagodas. He massacred tensof thousands of Muslims, and took another 20,000 as prisoners during his annexation of Arakan.

During his tyrannical rule, some 200,000 Arakanese also fled to Bengal (todays Bangladesh), whichby then was under the British rule. After 40-years of Burmese rule (1784-1824), Arakan was occupiedby the English East India Company who ruled the territory until Burma won its independence onJanuary 4, 1948.

During the Second World War, taking advantage of the Japanese occupation of Burma, the Buddhist

forces which had allied themselves with the Fascist Japanese Imperial Army against the British Rajtargeted the Indian and Muslim population and their homes and businesses. Even the RohingyaMuslims who lived in the western territories did not escape the extermination campaign. Nearly ahundred thousand of them were killed in that joint campaign. They were pushed out of the southern

parts of the Arakan state; and many managed to survive by living in northern territories, closer to theBengal, where they were a solid majority. Another 80,000 settled permanently in Bengal to save theirlives. Two hundred and ninety four Muslim villages were totally destroyed.

Rakhine racist Buddhists monks is displaying anti-Rohingya stand and demanding to expell Rohingyas from Arakan

( Rakhine ) state.Even after Burma achieved its independence, sadly, the mass elimination and targeted violenceagainst the Rohingya and other Muslims continued. To the best of my knowledge, at least two dozencampaigns have been directed against them to ethnically cleanse them.


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These are:

01. Military Operation (5th Burma Regiment) - November 1948

02. Burma Territorial Force (BTF) - Operation 1949-50

03. Military Operation (2nd Emergency Chin regiment) - March 1951-52

04. Mayu Operation - October 1952-53

05. Mone-thone Operation - October 1954

06. Combined Immigration and Army Operation - January 1955

07. Union Military Police (UMP) Operation - 1955-5808. Captain Htin Kyaw Operation - 1959

09. Shwe Kyi Operation - October 1966

10. Kyi Gan Operation - October-December 1966

11. Ngazinka Operation - 1967-69

Extremists RNDP members and monks are protesting against Rohingyas and OIC in Sitwee(Akyab)


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12. Myat Mon Operation - February 1969-71

13. Major Aung Than Operation - 1973

14. Sabe Operation February - 1974-78

15. Naga-Min (King Dragon) Operation - February 1978-79 (resulting in exodus of some 300,000Rohingyas to Bangladesh; 40,000 died)

16. Shwe Hintha Operation - August 1978-80

17. Galone Operation - 1979

18. 1984 Pogrom in Taunggok

19. Anti-Muslim riots - Taunggyi (western Burma), Pyay and many other parts of Burma includingRangoon - 1987-88

20. Pyi Thaya Operation July 1991-92 (resulting in exodus of some 268,000 Rohingyas toBangladesh)

21. Na-Sa-Ka Operation since 1992

22. Race riot against Muslims March 1997 (Mandalay)

ARohingya Village in Pauk Taw Township was Burnt on October 25, 2012 by the members of RNDP terrorist party.


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23. Anti-Muslim riot in Sittwe February 2001

24. Anti-Muslim full-scale riot in Central Burma May 2001

25. Anti-Muslim violence throughout central Burma (especially in the cities of Pyay/Prome,Bago/Pegu) after 9/11 October 2001

26. Joint extermination campaign June 3, 2012 to date.

Every attempt has been made by the Myanmar government since the days of General Ne Win toethnically cleanse the Rohingya people and deny them human rights. They were declared stateless

thus licensing every crime directed against them; not a single Article of the Universal Declaration ofHuman Rights was honored. Here below is a shortlist of such crimes against the Rohingya people:

Denial of Citizenship

Restriction of Movement or Travel

Restriction on Education

Restriction on Ability to work

Forced Labor

Land Confiscation

Forced Eviction

*Destruction of homes, offices, schools, mosques, etc.

Religious persecution

Ethnic discrimination

Restrictions on Marriage of Rohingyas

Prevention of reproduction and forced abortion

Arbitrary Taxation and Extortion

Registration of births and deaths in families and even of cattle, and the associated extortion

Arbitrary arrest, torture and extra-judicial killing

Abuse of Rohingya Women and Elders

Rape as a weapon of war


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Depopulation of Rohingya community

Confiscation of residency/citizenship cards

Internally displaced persons or undocumented refugees and statelessness

Destruction or alteration of historical Muslim sites and shrines to erase its symbolism or Islamicidentity.

Rakhine racist and extremist monks are protesting against opening OIC office in Burma.

In a meeting (in which I was invited to speak on the Rohingya problem) held in Luton (located 30 miles

north of London), UK, on October 13, a British MP mentioned close parallel between what ishappening today against the Rohingya Muslims in Arakan and what happened in Bosnia in the early1990s against the Bosnian Muslims. He is right.

The Arakan state, which per estimates made by Dr. Shwe Lu Maung alias Shahnewaz Khan, in his book The Price of Silence: Muslim-Buddhist War of Bangladesh and Myanmar a Social Darwinists

Analysis had probably as many Rohingya Muslims as there were Rakhine Buddhists living in its fourdistricts before the latest extermination campaign that began on June 3 of this year, is now almostdevoid of any Muslim village that is unharmed or intact by Buddhist Rakhine terrorism.


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The UN and other international human rights groups have called the Rohingya Muslims, and rightly sothe worst persecuted people in our planet. Because of their race and religion, they are victims ofgenocide in the Buddhist-majority Myanmar.

Truly, no other word in the English language but genocide can describe what the Rohingya people are

facing. The use of this term should not come as a surprise since the Merriam-Webster dictionary

defines genocide as "the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political or culturagroup. As noted by experts, the term can be applied to such destructions in whole or in part of an

ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. By any definition, the Rohingya people of Arakan areethnically, racially, religiously different than the Rakhine Buddhists and majority Burmans inMyanmar.

In his book Worse than War Dr. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen cites five principal forms of elimination:transformation, repression, expulsion, prevention of reproduction, and extermination. Transformation

involves the destruction of a targeted groups essential and defining political, social, or culturalidentities. As I have mentioned earlier, in spite of their ties to the soil of Arakan since time

immemorial, the Rohingyas are falsely alleged by the dominant ethnic groups as new settlers fromnearby Bangladesh.

Repression entails keeping the hated, deprecated, or feared people within territorial reach and

reducing, with violent domination, their ability to inflict real or imagined harm upon others. Suchrepression has been a regular feature of Rohingya life inside Myanmar.

Expulsion, often called deportation, is a third eliminations option. It removes unwanted people morethoroughly, by driving them beyond a countrys borders, or from one region of a country to another, orcompelling them en masse into camps. The Myanmar government since the days of Ne Win has been

guilty of this crime.

How Govt. Authority and police force guided armed Rakhines to attack Rohingya residences.


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Prevention of reproduction is the fourth eliminationist act, which the Myanmar government has beenemploying in conjunction with others. Not only are the Rohingya families restricted from marrying, the

women are often forcibly sterilized, forced to abort and very often raped. In recent months, duringattacks on Muslim homes, villages and towns the kidnapping of the Rohingya girls and women havebecome a recurring event.

Extermination is the fifth eliminationist act in which the targeted groups are killed, often with theexcuse that their very existence poses a mortal threat. It promises not an interim, not a piecemeal, notonly a probable, but a final solution to the putative problem. It is not difficult to see why in recentweeks, poisoned oil and food were sold to the Rohingya people by Rakhine businessmen to kill themThe latest activities by the Rakhine terrorists, aided by racist monks and others within the largeMyanmar society, including murderous politicians and government authorities, thus, clearly show thatRohingyas are victims of an extermination act.

A comparison with the previously cited list of crimes of the Myanmar government clearly shows thatRohingyas are facing all the five forms of elimination. It is a complete package of annihilation of the

Rohingya people!

Genocide requires preparation and planning. It begins in the minds of men and needs mass

mobilization to commit the horror against the targeted group. The perpetrators or the executionersmust not only feel secure but also must be self-motivated and zealous to commit their horrendouscrimes. Often times, the task of preparing the mind is left to ideologues and chauvinist intellectualswho sell the poison tablet of intolerance against the targeted group. Without political leadership theoverwhelming majority of the perpetrators would not lift a finger in harm. However, once set in motiontypically with a few encouraging and enabling words, they, both the eliminationist regimes shock


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troops and their societies ordinary members give themselves, body and soul, to death. They do soeasily, effortlessly. And this is what we are witnessing today in Myanmar, esp. the Arakan state.

Taking a cue from other places where genocides have taken place, the leaders of this greatest crimeof our time - the Myanmar government, the local Rakhine politicians and intelligentsia, and their

Rakhine Racist Buddhist Monk and Rakhines are abusing Rohingya in Arakan, Burma

racist Buddhist monks within the general population -- have been feeding many myths for public

consumption that not only distort the history of the Rohingyas and other non-Buddhists but alsoexaggerate the potential benefits that could come from purifying the soils of Myanmar and Arakan by

eliminating the other people, esp. the Rohingya Muslims. Thanks to the poisonous writings ofRakhine chauvinists like Aye Chan, (late) Aye Kyaw, Khin Maung Saw and others, the Muslimpopulation is deemed an influx virus, a threat to the Buddhist identity of Myanmar, esp. of Arakan.Thus, a pervasive slogan that is often heard and discussed in the media is that the Rakhine people

cant live any more with the Rohingya terrorists. Forgotten in such biased reporting is the mere factthat all the victims of the carnage have been Rohingya people. It is they who are terrorized by Buddhistterrorism, and not the other way around!

The causes of mass murder can often be found in the ideology that the state espouses. Social andethnic compositions are usually the fault lines along which such elimination projects emanate. As I

have noted elsewhere, the Myanmar government espouses a new Myanmarism in which racism andbigotry are the defining ideologies to purify its soil of all the non-Buddhists and non-Mongoloid races.Its mosaic of identities - ethnic, racial, religious, linguistic and cultural, and the resulting diversity,which could have been its greatest strength is seen in this toxic ideology as its greatest weakness.


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In 1935, years before the Jewish Holocaust happened in Germany, anti-Jewish racist and bigotry-ridden laws were promulgated in the German city of Nuremberg stopping social and economic

contacts with the Jews. The Jews also lost the right to vote and hold office. Within the next eight years13 implementation ordinances were issued dealing with the enforcement of the Reich Citizenship Lawthatprogressively marginalized the Jewish community in Germany.

Very obviously: Rakhine terrorists are dismantling Mosque in Zailya Para Rohingya village in Sittwe.

Anyone violating these laws was punished by hard labor, imprisonment and/or fines. Such laws wereexploited by hard-core Nazis to destroy properties of a people that the authorities would not generallyprotect. Truly, it is hard to imagine the Jewish Holocaust in Europe without those Nuremberg Laws. The

recently issued religious edicts from Buddhist monks banning social and economic ties with theRohingya people, in particular, and the Muslims, in general, is a sufficient reminder and a direwarning about the ugly head of genocide that is emerging now in Myanmar, esp. in its western state ofArakan.

As I have noted in my keynote speech at the Bangkok Conference on Contemplating BurmasRohingya Peoples Future in Reconciliation and (Democratic) Reform, the new Myanmarismespoused by the Buddhist political leadership inside Myanmar, is totalitarian and is akin to neo-NazFascism. Its leaders and followers erase distinction between politics and religion, wanting to merge

their racist and fascist politics with and subordinate to radical Theravada Buddhism that is extremistfundamentalist, racist, violent and intolerant of all religions except its own. This toxic ideology is asure recipe for disaster in a country like Myanmar with some 140 ethnic groups and minority Muslims,Christians, Sikhs and Hindus comprising 15 to 20 percent of the total population. It breedsintolerance and promotes violence that is officially sanctioned by people in authority and supported byvast majority of its people as a national project. This hybrid cocktail of Burmese racist supremacy and


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intolerant Buddhism is a threat not only to its minority races and religions, but also to the entireregion.

Sadly, however, because of the western appetite for Myanmars natural resources, the crimes of theMyanmar and Rakhine government are overlooked. And instead, the root causes behind the targeted

violence against the Rohingya Muslims are falsely attributed to poverty and lack of economic

opportunities points recently made by Victoria Nuland of the U.S. State Department.

Rakhine Buddhist terrorist youths are gathering to attack Rohingya residents in Akyab June 10, 2012.

There is, however, no doubt that in spite of Myanmars enormous natural resources, the countryremains the poorest of the ASEAN countries, and South-east Asia. But to say that poverty is at theheart of the genocidal campaign is a linguistic camouflage to justice U.S. State Departments silence

on the grievous nature of the crimes committed by the murderous Myanmar government. We haveheard similar excuses during the Bosnian and Rwandan genocidal campaigns. There are manycountries with worse poverty but the powerful majority there doesnt commit acts of genocide against

the minority. For genocide to happen, it is always a national project in which people of all walks of lifeparticipate, and that is what is happening with the Rohingya problem inside Myanmar.

For years, China, India and other Asia Pacific countries have been doing business with the brutalmilitary regime in Myanmar. Human rights were never a priority. Many of the European and NorthAmerican countries were left out from a share at that Myanmar pie. For them to join in, they needed a

face change with Myanmar. And that devious process started first with the award of the Nobel PeacePrize to Suu Kyi who did not merit it, and then with the change of the uniform of the old guards whonot long ago had donned the military dress to claim that they are reform-minded. It was a Glasnostmoment for Burma, which was renamed Myanmar. That claim was followed with a controversia

election held in 2010 (followed by a by-election in which Suu Kyis NLD enthusiastically participated)to show that Myanmar was moving from a fascist military oligarchy into a democracy, and then the tripof Suu Kyi as Thein Seins unofficial ambassador to the western world pleading for opening up trade

and commerce relationship with the government.


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And in this warming up session, the last play was played during Thein Seins trip to the UN where hemet with Ban Ki-Moon and other western leaders.

Soon thereafter one after another of the western governments, too keen to eat their share of the pielifted all previous bans against the murderous regime. They promised huge investments. Emboldened

by such moves, the Thein Sein government does not feel that it is obligated to honor any previous

pledge made to the world community.

Soon after his return from the UN session, the racist Buddhist monks conducted stage manageddemonstrations asking the government to force out or relocate Muslims.

In government managed newspapers, they announced dire consequences against anyone doing anybusiness with Muslims including selling food and buying or renting out homes to and from them. Ashinted above, it is a copy of the Nazi era policy. It is a total package of ethnically cleansing Myanmarof the Muslim population, in general, and the Rohingyas, in particular. So insidious is MyanmarsBuddhist fascism, the Rakhine Buddhists living inside and outside Arakan and their patrons in the

Buddhist-majority Myanmar do not want any Muslim, esp. the Rohingya, living inside Myanmar, esp. inthe Rakhine state.

Rohingyas run away from a fire that was set to a part of Sittwe on 10 June 2012. (Reuters)


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As I have noted elsewhere, ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people has now become a national projectin Myanmar in which most Buddhists of Myanmar including the so-called democracy icon Aung San

Suu Kyi are willing participants one way or another. Even when they are not personally participating inthis heinous crime, through their sinister silence and/or endorsement of the regimes anti-Rohingyapolicy and the genocidal campaign that is carried out by criminal Rakhine Buddhists, they haveessentially become partners in this crime. The Rakhine Buddhists now have their own version of

Kristallnacht. They are mimicking the Nazi Party's series of pogroms in 1938, whereby one Jewishtownship after another was attacked. At this rate of destruction, there wont be any Muslim localityleft inside Arakan, their ancestral home.

None of these attacks since June 3 are isolated, unplanned, or spontaneous offenses. Already madestateless by the highly discriminatory 1982 Citizenship Law that is at variance with scores of

international laws, the Rohingyas are falsely blamed by fascist Rakhine politicians for crimes that theydid not commit so that the Buddhist populace could be incited to accept and assist the progressivelysavage operations of "race purification." Lynching attacks are organized by Aye Maungs fascist party

- RNDP and other equally racist Rakhine politicians and greedy businessmen to loot Rohingya

properties and burn their homes, businesses and mosques.

Rohingya property is confiscated. In this task the Rakhine-dominated security forces and police arewilling partners. As a result, the Rohingyas are now caged in concentration-like camps and ghettos orpushed into exile. The genocidal program is progressing in fury and irresponsibility to the "finasolution" to make them an extinct people.

With the Rohingya stateless the RNDP was quick to exploit the new list of demands placed upon the Rohingya of the

Arakan. The Junta had given the racially bias RNDP the opportunity to force the Rohingya into slave labor at beckon call

The Junta also turned a blind eye to the open rape of Rohingya women and children by the RNDP and the Myanmar

military. Killing of a Rohingya person was suddenly possible with little to no consequences. And every since 1982 the

RNDP and Buddhists extremist have taken full advantage of this political classification of the Rohingya within Burma.


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We can still stop this extinction if our powerful western governments act. They can pressure the TheinSein government through the UN Security Council not only to stop this ethnic cleansing and restore

Rohingya citizenship, but also ensure that the Rohingyas are compensated for their loss of lives andproperties and live with safety and security under UN-monitored safe havens created to the west of theKaladan River. If the regime resists such tangible changes, the UNSC members can take the criminaleaders of Myanmar and the Rakhine state to a Nuremberg-type trial for committing heinous crimes

against humanity, let alone ban all economic transactions with the rogue regime.

Unfortunately, the attitude of the powerful nations towards the Rohingya problem is a reminiscent ofthe Nazi era; they refuse to see and hear the obvious truth. It is simply immoral and inexcusable. Theyare buying and parroting the Myanmar regime's argument, that the conflict is basically two-sided withtwo large racial groups attacking each other. This is a false equivalence. When all the townships that

are burning, and refugees, are from one side the Rohingya, and when renowned activists, Buddhistmonks, and local Rakhine politicians and students are using language reminiscent of the Nazpropaganda, something truly catastrophic is underway seeking "final solution" of the Rohingyaproblem. Nothing can hide this ugly truth!

The Rakhine (Arakan) state now looks like a prison-like ghetto for the Rohingya people. Now, the

Rohingya homes are ring-fenced by burnt-out buildings and military checkpoints. Outside the capitalcity of Sittwe (Akyab), up to 100,000 more Rohingyas are living in a series of sweltering refugeecamps where malnourishment and disease are rife and where security forces and local Rakhine

activists impede aid workers from operating freely. As a result of years of persecution and a slow butsteady genocidal campaign, half the Rohingya population has already been pushed out. Others livinginside are counting their days to get out of this living hell. Can our generation allow such anobliteration of an entire community?

Village of Kaman and Rohingya were burnt by Rakhine Buddhists led by Dr. Aung Sise Tun in Kyauknimaw village in

Kyaukpyu Township. (Photo - Carlos Sardia Galache)


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On June 13, 2012 Rohingya men, women and children of Akyab (Sittwe) were mercilessly massacred by Rakhine

terrorists under the banner of RNDP and Rakhine Monks Association

These dead bodies of Rohingya Muslims were taken by Buddhist cremation centre to cremate in Akyab

(Sittwe) in June 2012.


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How many Rohingya deaths and destruction of their homes would qualify for these powerful nations toact and stop this most far-flung and terrible racial persecution of our time? How can we ignore or

tolerate such a calculated, malignant and devastating crime, which epitomizes racial hatreds,religious bigotry, terrorism and violence, and the arrogance and cruelty of power?

Trukish first laday and Trukish Foreign Minister visited Rohingya displace people on out-skirt of Akyab City.

An armed police officer guards as Muslim refugees stand behind him at a refugee camp in Sittwe, capital of Rakhine

State, western Burma. Pic: AP.

It is sad to see that we have not learned anything from genocides of the past neither from HitlersGermany nor from the more recent ones in Bosnia, Kosovo and Rwanda. Linguistic camouflages are

still used to minimize the nature of the crime faced by the Rohingya people. Many reporters relayingthe events are using prefixes like alleged only to obfuscate what is really happening. Many localreporters are absolutely biased and are guilty of disseminating government propaganda.


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The two innocent teenage Rohingya boys are slaughtered and hacked in Akyab by the Rakhine Buddhist racists in June

2012 because they are sons of Rohingya Muslims.These are some instances the ongoing Genocide against Rohingyasof Arakan (Rakhine) State in 2012.

In his closing remarks before the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946,

Robert Jackson, the U.S. Chief Prosecutor, issued the following warning: The reality is that in the longperspective of history the present century will not hold an admirable position, unless its second half isto redeem its first. These two-score years in the twentieth century will be recorded in the book of years

as one of the most bloody in all annals. Two World Wars have left a legacy of dead which number morethan all the armies engaged in any way that made ancient or medieval history. No half-century everwitnessed slaughter on such a scale, such cruelties and inhumanities, such wholesale deportations of

peoples into slavery, such annihilations of minorities. The terror of Torquemada pales before the NaziInquisition. These deeds are the overshadowing historical facts by which generations to come wilremember this decade. If we cannot eliminate the causes and prevent the repetition of these barbaricevents, it is not an irresponsible prophecy to say that this twentieth century may yet succeed inbringing the doom of civilization.

Witnessing the latest genocidal campaign against the Rohingyas of Myanmar, it is obvious that wehave failed on both counts - to eliminate "the causes" and to prevent "the repetition of these barbaricevents." Completed ##


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Lives have been torn apart by the intercommunal violence in both ethnic Rakhine and Muslim communities," said U Khin Maung

Hla, Secretary General of the Myanmar Red Cross. Because of ongoing tensions, displacement camps in Rakhine state separately

house families from the two communities.

Rohingyas and Kaman Muslims are escaping from recent attacks from 21 Oct 2012 in Kyaukpyu Town by fishing boats


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Rohingya Muslims, trying to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence in Myanmar, look on from an

intercepted boat in Teknaf in this June 13, 2012 file photo. (AFP)


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Myanmars President Thein Sein says Rohingya Muslims must be expelled from the country and sent to refugee camps

run by the United Nations. The former junta general said on Thursday that the only solution was to send nearly a

million Rohingya Muslims one of the worlds most persecuted minorities to refugee camps run by United Nations

High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).


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A Muslim woman weeps as she and others arrive at Thechaung camp refugee camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western

Burma, October 28, 2012.

Muslims women and children from villages gather before being relocated to secure areas in Sittwe, capital of Rakhine

state in western Myanmar, where sectarian violence is ongoing Tuesday, June 12. Gunshots rang out and residents fled

blazing homes in western Myanmar on Tuesday as security forces struggled to contain deadly ethnic and religious

violence that has killed at least a dozen people and forced thousands to flee. Khin Maung Win/AP


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Mass graves of Rohingya Muslims in Yin Thay Village at Mrauk-U town in Northern Arakan State ( 50 women and 30

children) massacred by Rakhine Buddhist extremists on 21 October 2012. Photo - from Al-Jazeera video.


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(14 January 2013)

After June 2012 deadly violence in Arakan, the human rights situation of the Rohingya has become more

deteriorating with story of dead and dying. Campaigns of genocide and extermination against them arecarried out day in, day out. Rape, murder, arbitrary arrest, looting, extortion, criminal atrocities, hunger and

diseases are persistent and widespread. Their burned down and depopulated villages are being populated withBuddhist settlers warmly invited from within and from Bangladesh. These are the main push factors that

cause the migration of Rohingya to neighbouring countries for which the Burmese government and Rakhine

Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) with Dr. Aye Maung are fully responsible.

Most Rohingyas, including those about 140,000 internally displaced during the carnage, have nothing to eat

and nowhere to go and are dying of hunger, malnutrition and diseases. Humanitarian aids to the Rohingyadisplacement camps and areas have been systematically blocked by the local administration dominated by

RNDP, with organized gangs of Buddhist Rakhine. It is almost unprecedented that some 50 drinking water

ponds of the Rohingya villages have been poisoned by the Buddhist Rakhine and the security forces.

No school or madrassa education is available for the Rohingya children in villages and displacement camps.Most of the mosques are still closed down, and funeral prayers for the deceased persons are disallowed

without payment. Villagers and Maulvis (religious persons) were tortured for performing funeral services. InShweza village of Maungdaw NaSaKa intelligence officer Aung Naing from Outpost No. 14 under Sector No.6is extorting Kyat 10,000 to 25,000 for each funeral.

NaSaKa security forces are conducting sporadic surveys coercing the Rohingya villagers to write Bengali astheir racial name in place of Rohingya against their will. Some villagers were arrested or tortured for

opposing their dictation while others escaped away.

Since June 2012, an estimated 13,000 Rohingya took perilous voyages towards Malaysia and more than 500

boat people are missing or have drowned after several boats sinking, while a number of them ended up in jails

and detention in countries within the region. During recent weeks Thai security forces rescued 773beleaguered Rohingya in Songkhla province whereas another group of 73 rescued Rohingya are reported

under threat of push back to Burma where they face persecution. The boat people are often victimized at thehands of the human traffickers who used to sell them to slavery for 60,000 to 70,000 Bhat ($1,975 to $

2,304) per person, particularly to fishing industry.

Rohingya tragedies and boat people disaster have got out of hand causing serious regional problem withinternational perspective. Primarily the Rohingya problem needs to be resolved within Burma, but there is nochange of attitude of the ruling civil-military hybrid government towards them. In the absence of national

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We, therefore, request the United Nations and its Members of the Security Council to send UN Peacekeeping

Force to Arakan in order to protect the helpless Rohingya people; and to constitute a UN Commission of

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Burma feels the heat as Arakan burns By STEPHFF| October 29, 2012 |
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Residents of northern Arakan State wield machetes at the height of the tensions between Rohingya Muslims and

Arakanese Buddhists in early June. (Photo: Reuters )

No Rohingya in Arakan state initiated the attack, but Rakhine mobs & security forces surrounded the Rohingyas

villages and wards and then they attacked the residences of Rohingyas with fire-balls first. Rohingyas only fight back in

defense. In the photo security forces and Rakhine Buddhist terrorists are organizing to attack Rohingyas.


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An ethnic Arakanese man holds homemade weapons as he walks in front of burning houses during fighting between

Buddhist Arakanese and Muslim Rohingya communities in Sittwe, Burma, on June 10, 2012


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genocide of the rohingya of myanmar in 2012 by dr. habib siddqui

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