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Will Myanmar's Extermination Campaign Ever End? Dr Habib Siddiqui

In spite of decades-long campaign to eliminate the Muslim minorities of Myanmar, they are still there. It is not the Rohingya Muslims alone, there are Kaman Muslims, there are Karen Muslims, and there are Shan Muslims, there are Panthay Muslims and many others who call Myanmar their home.

Rohingyas are seen at a camp for displaced people in Myanmar's western Rakhine state.

Long time ago I learned never to say 'never again' when it comes to Myanmar's savagery. The latest mayhem against the Muslims in the Shan state, far away from the western Rakhine state - bordering Bangladesh, once again shows that for this religious minority Myanmar is proving to be hell on earth. Seemingly, there is no conscientious Buddhist living inside this den of hatred and intolerance that is bold enough to challenge this status quo. Daw Suu Kyi, once darling of the West, has long shown her despicable hypocrisy when she tried to ignore the monumental crimes of her Buddhist people and the government against the Rohingyas of Myanmar, considered the worst persecuted people on earth.

For years the Rohingya people living in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine, formerly known as Arakan, have been subjected to ethnic cleansing practices, and denied every right enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Now that racial hatred and religious bigotry is spreading like a cancer all across Myanmar to include other Muslims in the country.

A Muslim Woman Beaten By a Monk in Pa-an

April 28, 2013
M-Media
Zarni

M-Media learns that a Muslim woman was beaten by a monk in the town of Pa-an, Karen state, on April 28 morning.

In the morning at 8 AM, Daw Ma Khin (aka) Daw Shakira, age 50, stood aside on the street as she saw the scores of monks walking down for the morning elms. A monk accused her of crossing the street while the monks were marching for elms. Beaten with the bowl carried by the monk, the woman fell to the ground and her head bleed.

People nearby saw the incident, but no one helped her as she was beaten by the monk.

She was taken to the hospital by her daughter awhile later.

Although local authority came to see her, there is no action taken.

The monk responsible for this act is from Thitsa Mandaing monastery.

This is not the first incident of this kind. Last year, an elder Karen Muslim man was beaten by the monks in the morning. He died a few days later.

M-Media learns that there have been no less than 10 incidents of this kind, but no one has been charged.

In Pa-an, Wirathu's 969 sermon was held between April 20 and 22. As usual, his sermon was about anti-Muslim.

Arakan Report Angers Rohingya Leaders

By SIMON ROUGHNEEN / THE IRRAWADDY| Monday, April 29, 2013 | 

 

 Arakan Commission member Aung Naing Oo, of the government-backed Myanmar Peace Center, holds up a copy of the executive summary of the official Arakan investigation commission’s report. (Photo: Simon Roughneen / The Irrawaddy)

 

 

 

RANGOON — Rohingya leaders have reacted angrily to the findings of the official investigation into a wave of brutal violence that hit Arakan State in 2012, slamming the report findings as selective and slanted.

Speaking after members of a commission formed last year to investigate the violence presented a summary of their report today in Rangoon, Myo Thant, a Rohingya representative of the Democracy and Human Rights Party, told The Irrawaddy that the report did not present a completely accurate picture of the Arakan situation.

“This report has some good suggestions, but in ways it is biased and incomplete,” he said.

Commission members, including former political prisoners Ko Ko Gyi and Maung Thura, better known as Zarganar, launched the summary of the commission’s findings today at the Myanmar Peace Center.

The commission recommended that the Burmese government increase security in the troubled western region and said that resettlement of more than 100,000 displaced people should be held off until reconciliation measures are implemented.

Long Standing Residual Cases in Two Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh

U Ne Oo
April 28, 2013

From the latest Human Rights Watch report, it is shocking to find that there are still Rohingya refugees who are from initial 1991 influx, have still been residing at these two refugee camps, i.e. Nayapara and Kutupalong. I have written a note about these two camps in 1997 (http://www.netipr.org/uneoo/rohingyas_resolving_residual_cases). As record stands, in 1997 there were 21,000 Rohingya residents where Burmese IMPD (Immigration and Man Power Department) give clearance to '7500' as of belonging to Burma.

Ghosts of Myanmar's past refuse to be buried

Saturday, April 27, 2013

These past few weeks have been somewhat hectic for the government of Myanmar. First, there was the prestigious peace award given to President Thein Sein by the International Crises Group, recognizing his work toward a peace that can be achieved.

Then came the lifting of all sanctions by the European Union, except for its arms embargo. Afterward the government released 100 prisoners, 56 of whom were said to be political internees. More than 800 political prisoners have been freed in amnesties between May 2011 and last November.

But later the mood among the country's political leaders wasn't so festive, nor among Western countries.

A 153-page report from the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) entitled “All You
Can Do is Pray: Crimes against Humanity in the Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma's Arakan State” quickly re-established a sense of reality about Myanmar.