Sunday 28 April 2013

Stop Ethnic Cleansing & Genocide in Burma ,help minorities to live with dignity,Dr.Golam Sarwar

Stop Ethnic Cleansing in Burma help to bring Genocide perpetrator to Account
Help Rohinga to live in Dignity, 

Dr. Golam Sarwar(sarwarnnj.blogspot.com)

Recent atrocities
The Telegraph wrote,Human Right Watch(HRW)  researcher released evidence that between June 2012 to Oct 2012" Thousands of Burmese civilian ,Buddist Monk descended on Muslim villages after  ? alleged rape of a buddist girl ,killing unknown numbers of muslims and burrying in mass Grave.HRW found 4x mass grave, unidentified  bodies were burried,some hand tied behind back,some were burnt,stabbed,beheaded,gunshot wound bodies including women and children. Security forces stood & sometimes actively participated in the attack."

As per The Guardian published  on 14/8/2012" more than 1000  muslims were killed yesterday in Burma"

In one incidence 70 muslim villagers including 28 children were hacked to death at Yan Thei Village ,in June 2012.

As per Reuter '8th april 2013 ,Buddist monk grabbed a young muslim girl and put a knife to her neck, "If you follow us ,I will kill her" monk taunted police.It was 21/3/2013 buddist mob armed with machetes & swords killed 25 muslims , dragged  their bloodied bodies up in a hill (Mngalarzay yone) and set the corpses on fire.'

Satelite Images 4x Muslims towns in Arkan state that experience ethnic cleansing in Oct 2012 identified total  4,855 homes of Muslim Rohingya  were destroyed who have since fled. Displaced Rohingya are in makeshift camps.Burmese security forces  have restricted accsess to international humanitarian organisations.

On 20/3/2013 after a muslim owened  Gold shop dispute  unknown muslim were killed,800 homes ,businesses,5 mosque were destroyed. Gruesome Video released by BBC " muslims were burnt alive ,some were beatened to death .Thousands of Burmese  & Monks attacking muslims homes,shops,looting while  police  were standing idly sometimes participating."

These are only few incidence highlighted from world media, hundreds of incidence yet to be mentioned.

Burmese muslim history

 In  1982 as per Burmese citizenship law Rohingya were not included on the official list of ethnic group by former dictator Gen. Ne Win since millitary took power in 1962. He 1st expelled muslims from army and security force.Burmese govt. denied citizenship to Rohingya who cannot prove their Ancestors settled in the country before the begining of British occupation in 1823AD.Burmese archive recorded Burmese muslims presence since 1050AD.

Muslims arrieved in Burma in 900AD in Rakhaine,Ayeyarwady delta,Tanintheryi coast prior to the establishment of 1st Burmese empire in 1055AD , but in Arkan and Maungdaw even long before. They arrieved from Arab,Persia,later from India as traders, settlers, later millitary personel,POW,refugees during british rule bet 1823AD to 1962AD.

Some analyst say  Burmese committing atrocities after destruction  of statue 'Bamiyan Buddah ' by Taliban in Afganistan in 1999.We all strongly condemned that .But massacre of  muslims in Burma happening from  for long before, during  the following  years ,in 1552,1752,1782, 1930,1938,1997,2001,2012 and 2013.

Burmese king Bayintnung (1550-1589 AD) after conquering Bago prohibited muslims from eating Halal meat . He also prohibited Eid-Ul Adha.

Burmese king Alaungpaya (1752-1760) also prohibited muslims to do halal on cattle.
Burmese king Bodawpaya (1782-1819) , called 4x top  famous Imam from all over Burma and killed them all after they refused to eat Pork.

Many riots took place during British rule in Burma  most noticeable ,during 1930 &1938 where Buddist monk incite unknown number of  muslims killing ,destruction of houses ,shops & mosque.

 In 1945 ,Gen.Aung San father of  Noble prize winner Aung San Su Ki  post WWII,founded  AFPFL(anti-facist party)  at the same time with Burmese Mulim Congress (BMC) by Md. U Razak  , they both worked together against any partition of Burma along community or religion line after British era  but unfortunately both were assasinated in 1947 by the army. Later AFPFL leader U Nu declared Buddish as the state religion of Burma.

In 1997 around 1000-1500 Buddish monks in Mandala shouted anti-muslim Slogans targeted mosque first ,followed by muslim shops,houses vehicles looting & later destroyed and burnt them .

In 15/05/ 2001, 20 muslims were beaten to death  while saying prayer inside the 'Han Tha Mosque' in Taungoo ,by Buddish Monks and pro junta force,later riot broke out  and another 200 muslims were killed, 11 mosque were destroyed & setting ablaze of over 400 houses.These mosque were bulldozed later  by SPDC Milltary  junta Bulldozer.


Asian human right watch deputy asia director Mr . Phil Robertson  accused the Burmese Govt of engaging in " Systematic Ethnic Cleansing against Rohingya muslims. Buddist Monks ,Political party operatives,Govt. officials, domestic Burmese media organised themselves to permanently change the ethnic demographics of the state."

Even Noble Prize winner Aung San Suu Ki refused to condemn the appalling treatment of the Muslims ? for fear of political reprisal.How ethical it is denying citizenship for Muslim Rohingya  ,forced eviction ,land confiscation extortion,genocide  and right to exist  in Burma, when they have been living there for hundreds of years .

We should also  note here that Srilankan's Buddist Monks ordered all shops in Srilanka to clear their stocks of Halal foods by April 30th ,2013.How Buddist can force shops nationwide to empty Halal foods without Government  approval.Buddist are not running the country,there is a democraticaly elected Government there,not like dictator Gen.in Burma . Is Srilankan Monk /society following the path of Burmese.We donot want to see another genocide  in Srilanka like Burma .

When World media focussed and talking  about  ethnic cleansing ,Genocide around the world ,like Bosnia,Rwanda,Burundi,South Sudan,Chechnya,Congo, Burmese Monks with the support of authority continuing  genocide,ethnic cleansing  silently .
World moral compass ,and  Conscience should act decisively to save these populations vanishing silently. We condemn strongly  all forms of violence ,terrorism, genocide,ethnic cleansing .All Conscience should influence politicians and ,Religious leaderships of the world to work together to stop this genocide  and anywhere in the world and  bring these perpetrator to justice.

Dr Golam Sarwar
(sarwarnnj.blogspot.com)







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