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| ARU Director General, Dr. Wakar Uddin, with Turkish Foreign Minister, Dr. Ahmet Davutoğlu, at OIC Ministerial Contact Group Meeting. |
RB News
April 17, 2013
On behalf of Rohingya community in Myanmar and various regions around
the world, the Director General of Arakan Rohingya Union, Prof. Dr.
Wakar Uddin, expressed his deepest gratitude to the Secretary General of
OIC, His Excellency Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, for convening the
emergency OIC Ministerial Contact Group meeting at the OIC Headquarters
in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on April 14, 2013, to find a solution to the
crisis faced by the Rohingya and Myanmar Muslim population in Myanmar.
Dr. Uddin echoed what the Secretary General Dr. Ihsanoglu and the
Political Officer Ms. Dina Madani have spoken about the current
situation in Myanmar. Dr. Uddin reinforced the presentation by Ms.
Madani that detailed the graphic nature of the violence against the
Muslims in Myanmar. “I have been regularly in touch with our community
in Arakan and Central Burma, and receiving reports of horrifying
atrocities and gruesome murders of men, women, and children. It is
humanly unthinkable in this day and age how anyone in Myanmar can commit
such crimes against humanity. In fact, what the international community
learning from the media is just a fraction of the bloodbath taking
place in Myanmar.” Dr. Uddin said. He further stated “The campaigns to
uproot Islam from Myanmar began with Rohingya in Arakan. The radical
Buddhist elements started this with Rohingya first, claiming that they
have to cut-off the roots before eliminating the tree ‘Islam’ in Burma -
Rohingya being the roots.”
Dr. Uddin alerted the OIC member states and the Muslim Umma that the
rapidly emerging Buddhist terror Network “969”, which seriously deviates
from the original teaching of peace by Buddha, poses the most serious
threat to Islam in Burma today and subsequently to the stability of
Southeast Asia region. “You see the refugee crisis in Bangladesh,
Malaysia, Indonesia, and other countries. At the same time some sorts of
violence have started to spill over to these countries. Subsequently,
violence has also erupted in Sri Lanka. The emergence of the radical
Buddhist terror network could continue to cause the domino effects in
the region and in other parts of the world.” he stressed.
Dr. Uddin expressed the gratitude by Rohingya people to the
international community, including OIC and its member states, UN, the
governments of US, Canada, and several European countries, and a number
of NGOs for their tremendous efforts to stop the violence in Myanmar and
find a durable solution to Rohingya and Muslim issues; but he also
appealed to them to do more. He cautioned some of the OIC member states
in the region that when the very existence of a community and the faith
in a country is seriously threatened, the policy of “non-interference in
another country’s internal matters” becomes counter-productive and
serves as a tool for the aggressor. Dr. Uddin called on the OIC member
states to use their bilateral relations as an avenue to persuade and
pressure the Myanmar Government to resolve the issues with utmost
urgency for the sake of humanity and the stability in the Southeast Asia
region. “Your Excellency, it is no longer a Rohingya issue. It is
becoming a regional and potentially global humanitarian crisis.” he
concluded.
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| ARU Director General, Dr. Wakar Uddin, with Bangladesh Foreign Minister, Dr. Dipo Moni, at OIC Ministerial Contact Group Meeting. |
On the sideline, Dr. Uddin also met with dignitaries from some OIC
member states, including the Foreign Ministers of Turkey and Bangladesh,
and further discussed the pressing issues on Rohingya and violence
against Muslims in Myanmar. “I am very satisfied with each meeting, and I
can assure you that they are dedicated to bringing a solution to the
issues faced by Rohingya and Myanma Muslims” Dr. Uddin replied, when
asked by the Saudi-based ARU signatories about his separate meetings
with the Foreign Ministers.
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