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  • Dalai Lama On Rohingya Muslims: If Buddha Happened, He Would Protect The Rohingya Brothers And Sisters

    Dalai Lama On Rohingya Muslims: If Buddha Happened, He Would Protect The Rohingya Brothers And Sisters

    Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has a moral responsibility to try to ease tensions between majority Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims, her fellow Nobel laureate, the Dalai Lama, said on Monday.

    The Tibetan spiritual leader said he had stressed the issue in meetings with Suu Kyi, who came to power in April in the newly created role of state counsellor in Myanmar’s first democratically elected government in five decades.

    “She already has the Nobel Peace Prize, a Nobel Laureate, so morally she should … make efforts to reduce this tension between the Buddhist community and Muslim community,” he told Reuters in an interview in Washington.
    “I actually told her she should speak more openly.”

    Violence between majority Buddhists and minority Muslims in recent years has cast a cloud over progress with democratic reforms in Myanmar. Rights groups have sharply criticized Suu Kyi’s reluctance to speak out on the Rohingya’s plight.

    The Dalai Lama said Suu Kyi, who won worldwide acclaim and a Nobel Peace Prize as a champion of democratic change in the face of military persecution, had responded to his calls by saying that the situation was “really complicated.”

    “So I don’t know,” he said.

    There is widespread hostility towards Rohingya Muslims in the Buddhist-majority country, including among some within Suu Kyi’s party and its supporters.

    More than 100 people were killed in violence in western Rakhine state in 2012, and some 125,000 Rohingya Muslims, who are stateless, took refuge in camps where their movements are severely restricted.

    Thousands have fled persecution and poverty in an exodus by boat to neighboring South and Southeast Asian countries.

    The Dalai Lama said some Buddhist monks in Myanmar “seem to have some kind of negative attitude to Muslims” and Buddhists who harbored such thoughts “should remember Buddha’s face.”

    “If Buddha happened, he certainly would protect those Muslim brothers and sisters,” he said.

    The new Myanmar government announced late last month that Aung San Suu Kyi would lead a new effort to bring peace and development to Rakhine State.

    The announcement offered no details on how the group would go about addressing the state’s multitude of problems.
    Suu Kyi said during a visit by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry last month that the country needed “enough space” to deal with the Rohingya issue and cautioned against the use of “emotive terms”, that she said were making the situation more difficult.

     

    Source: http://indianexpress.com

  • United Nations: Myanmar Seeking Ethnic Cleansing Of Rohingyas

    United Nations: Myanmar Seeking Ethnic Cleansing Of Rohingyas

    Myanmar is seeking the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya minority from its territory, a senior UN official has told the BBC.

    Armed forces have been killing Rohingya in Rakhine state, forcing many to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh, says John McKissick of the UN refugee agency.

    The government of Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been conducting counter-insurgency operations since coordinated attacks on border guards in October.

    It denies reports of atrocities.

    Burmese officials say Rohingyas are setting fire to their own houses in northern Rakhine state. The BBC cannot visit the area to verify what is occurring there as journalists and aid workers have been barred.

    The Rohingya, who number about one million, are seen by many of Myanmar’s Buddhist majority as illegal migrants from Bangladesh.

    ‘Collective punishment’

    Although Bangladesh’s official policy is not to allow in illegal entrants across the border, the foreign ministry has confirmed that thousands of Rohingyas have already sought refuge in Bangladesh. Thousands more are reportedly gathering on the border.

    Efforts to resolve the issue must focus on “the root cause” inside Myanmar, Mr McKissick, head of the UN refugee agency UNHCR in the Bangladeshi border town of Cox’s Bazar told BBC Bengali’s Akbar Hossain.

    He said the Myanmar military and Border Guard Police had “engaged in collective punishment of the Rohingya minority” after the murders of nine border guards on 9 October which some politicians blamed on a Rohingya militant group.

    Security forces have been “killing men, shooting them, slaughtering children, raping women, burning and looting houses, forcing these people to cross the river” into Bangladesh, Mr McKissick said.

    “Now it’s very difficult for the Bangladeshi government to say the border is open because this would further encourage the government of Myanmar to continue the atrocities and push them out until they have achieved their ultimate goal of ethnic cleansing of the Muslim minority in Myanmar,” he said.

    On Wednesday, the Bangladesh foreign ministry summoned Myanmar’s ambassador to express “deep concern” over the military operation in northern Rakhine state.

    It said “desperate people” were crossing the border seeking safety and shelter and asked Myanmar to “ensure the integrity of its border”.

    Authorities in Bangladesh have been detaining and repatriating hundreds of fleeing Rohingya.

    Map showing Maungdaw's location in Rakhine State© BBC Map showing Maungdaw’s location in Rakhine State

    Earlier this week, Human Rights Watch released satellite images which it said showed that more than 1,000 homes had been razed in Rohingya villages over the past six weeks.

    What is happening in Rakhine state?

    A massive security operation was launched last month after nine police officers were killed in co-ordinated attacks on border posts in Maungdaw.

    Some government officials blamed a militant Rohingya group for the attacks. Security forces then sealed off access to Maungdaw district and launched a counter-insurgency operation.

    Rohingya activists say more than 100 people have been killed and hundreds arrested amid the crackdown.

    Soldiers have also been accused of serious human rights abuses, including torture, rape and executions, which the government has flatly denied.

    It says militants have attacked helicopter gunships providing air support to troops.

    Who are the Rohingya?

    The estimated one million Muslim Rohingya are seen by many in mainly Buddhist Myanmar as illegal migrants from Bangladesh. They are denied citizenship by the government despite many having lived there for generations.

    Communal violence in Rakhine state in 2012 left scores dead and displaced more than 100,000 people, with many Rohingya still remaining in decrepit camps.

    They face widespread discrimination and mistreatment.

    Is the government to blame?

    Myanmar held its first openly contested election in 25 years last November, with Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy winning a landslide victory.

    Though she is barred from the presidency due to a constitutional rule, Ms Suu Kyi, who serves as State Counsellor, is seen as de-facto leader.

    But her government, led as it is by a former human rights icon, has faced international criticism over the dire situation in Rakhine state.

    Rights groups have questioned why journalists and aid workers are not being allowed to enter northern Rakhine.

    Presidential spokesman Zaw Htay says the international media is misreporting what is going on.

     

    Source: www.msn.com

  • Elected Presidency – PAP ‘Elite’ Treating Us Like Children, Don’t Trust Our Choice

    Elected Presidency – PAP ‘Elite’ Treating Us Like Children, Don’t Trust Our Choice

    Some so called “smart” leaders think we should get Malays as PE since abt 50yrs, Malays is not being elected Singapore’s President. Some others think ‘Nah! We should not choose based on races, we should choose more on their credibilities etc…

    Who are you to decide for us?

    None of you has the right to decide for us.

    For myself, I feel more disappointed for PE not because of Malays or not but more because we don’t get our rights and our own freedom to choose our own future elected President. I will miss that moment to watch the rallies and watching many Singaporeans gather in crowd and concern of their future. As though the government doesn’t trust our choice. So please stop taking us as a child, as though we are so ignorant not to know who and who to choose as a President… Self elected President to me will only show your side of weakness, lack of confidence and competitive! When US past candidates had fought vigorously for about more than a year… Here we in Singapore being one of the most expensive and competitive country in most countries, we are stuck with back dated minded and lack of confidence leaders. It’s a shame and a big turn off! “Democracy” practice indeed!! Go and sell Koyok elsewhere!

     

    Source: AR Haroun

  • Ismail Kassim: Grading Your Leaders

    Ismail Kassim: Grading Your Leaders

    Lately I have been thinking about the nature of political leadership.
    What is the difference, I ask myself, between good leaders and great leaders and between the former and those regarded as average, ‘’Ok, can-do or so-so’’ leaders?
    I think we can all agree that good leaders are good managers. They are relatively hard-working, efficient, and to some extent, able to deliver the promised material goods to the people.
    Great leaders, on the other hand, need not necessarily be good at managing, but they have a grand vision and the ability to inspire their people towards a common goal.
    They are leaders who are ready to sacrifice their lives for a cause they believe in. They become great only after emerging victorious after a struggle against great odds.
    History is replete with such great leaders: Mao, Nehru, Uncle Ho, Thatcher, Reagan, Mandela, Deng Xiaoping and our very own LKY. I will also put Mahathir and Putin, despite their shortcomings, in the same category.
    In short, the underlying common factor is struggle. It is only through a tough battle that a leader can stamp his authority and forge group cohesion and solidarity around him.
    There is no other way. Camaraderie cannot arise in the absence of a battle against deadly opponents and certainly not through devious means to achieve victory without fighting.
    How about good leaders who lived in stable, post-revolutionary times? Is there any hope of them becoming great?
    Of course – lots of hopes. One way is to create your own challenges through manipulating the internal or external landscape.
    Abe, I think, is on the way to greatness if his efforts to remould the Japanese mind after the traumas of WW11 succeed.
    Duterte and Modi too have a chance if they could last the distance in their valiant goal to reshape their nations.
    So good leaders can become great, but if they are not careful they can also be downgraded one rung down to the level of the ‘’so-so’’ leaders.
    Badawi is a fine example of a leader considered good initially but later downgraded. He had great dreams and goals, but he could not control the greedy warlords and also the religious misogynists in and out of his party. Under their combined onslaught, his vision evaporated into thin air.
    Cameron, after winning a second term, was on the road to greatness, but then he stumbled badly over the Brexit issue. After his defeat in the referendum and subsequent resignation, history will put him under the ‘’so-so’’ category.
    Other leaders who are currently classified as good will also meet the same fate as Cameron if they mishandle or spurn the challenges facing them.
    Actually, leaders who have to face tough but winnable challenges during their rule should consider themselves lucky. They do not have to manufacture a crisis. All they need is to brace themselves and rally their good-minded people to battle.
    But if they take the soft or easy option, shifting the goalpost and disqualifying their opponents through dubious constitutional manoeuvres, then they risk slipping from good to the ‘’so-so’’ category.
    Such ‘’so-so’’ leaders, of course, can still console themselves. At least they are one rung above the bottom group of rotten leaders; the corrupt who steal their people’s money to feed their family frenzied overseas shopping sprees and bribe or buy political support from friends and foes alike.
    There are so many of these rotten apples, near and far, that I don’t think it is necessary for me to mention any by name.
    Readers should not have any problems in identifying at least some of them. What, if in the process of dodging a fight, a good leader makes a monumental blunder, an error of judgement, with grave consequences for his people in the coming years?
    Will he just be demoted to ‘’so-so’’ or kick down two rungs to join the rotten lot? I will let history make that call.
    spurns greatness
    falls from good to rotten
    ah! what a fate
    Source: Ismail Kassim
  • Mohamed Jufrie Mahmood: Why Does Singapore Continue To Do Business With Myanmar Despite The Gross Human Rights Violations On Rohingyas?

    Mohamed Jufrie Mahmood: Why Does Singapore Continue To Do Business With Myanmar Despite The Gross Human Rights Violations On Rohingyas?

    Just like their persecuted brothers in Mindanao, southern Thailand and elsewhere in the world, the Rohingyas are finally making moves to protect themselves.

    myanmar-fighting-back

    The question now is, will Singapore continue supplying arms to those who are persecuting and murdering them.

    The bigger question is, why did Singapore even start to work closely with and supply arms to the generals knowing very well that the arms would be used against the local population since the country was and is still not under any form of external military threat?

    Are we doing it for the money?

     

    Source: Mohamed Jufrie Mahmood

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