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  • ASEAN Ulama & NGO Comes Up With Action Plan For Rohingya

    ASEAN Ulama & NGO Comes Up With Action Plan For Rohingya

    THE ACTION PLAN

    ASEAN + ULAMA DAN NGO MEETING TO STOP THE MYANMAR MASSACRE

    1. Distribution of the Shah Alam Declaration Worldwide ( English and Arabic )
    – all OIC Head of State members and OIC  Special Envoy on Rohingya
    – UN Security Council members
    – UN Secretary General and UN Special Envoy on Rohingya
    – all Asean Head of State members
    – Chair of EU
    – main international Media

    ACTION : MAPIM and SHURA

    2. Food and Humanitarian Flotilla to Myanmar
    – defining the objectives ( humanitarian and advocacy )
    – determing of vessel and route ( options  from Penang or Aceh or Krabi or Phuket or India or Bangladesh)
    – solicit support from UN and OIC and EU and Asean member state
    – shipping of food, medical , basic needs
    – participation : ngo activists, international media, celebrities , nobel peace prize winners, ulama, journalist ..ect
    – Funding
    – voyage schedule
    –  public mobilization and public annoucement
    – target dates and time line.

    ACTION : MAPIM and other Ngos

    3. Inter religious Dialogue and  missions with Religous Leaders in Asean +
    – issuing a collective declaration
    – inter religous mission to advocate for peace to Myanmar
    – sending message to Dalai Lama

    ACTION :
    4. Special letter to China , India and Bangladesh
    – demand to pressure Myanmar to stop the genocide
    – demand Bangladesh to protect the rights Rohingya refugees and access to humanitarian assistance
    – send delegate to embassies

    ACTION :
    5. Memorandum to Asean Human Rights Commission
    – demand Myanmar to comply to protection of the Human Rights of minorities
    – send a delegate to Asean Secretariate in Jakarta
    – call to suspend and boycot Myanmar iin Asean if genocide persist.

    ACTION :
    6. Solidarity call to all International  Muslims and Ulama Associations to stop the Myanmar Massacre.
    – call to the International Union of Ulama to urge all ulama world wide to stand up against Myanmar genocide.
    – urge all Muslims to hold special prayers for Rohingya brothers and sisters.
    – call to contribute to humanitarian assistance to Rohingya victims of oppression by Myanmar regime.
    – call to defend the victims of injustice by the Myanmar regime on the Rohingya

    7. International Boycott Campaign on Myanmar
    – to consider an international boycott against Myanmar if genocide persist within the next 7 days.
    – to look into ways of launching an effective boycot in trade , cultural, social , diplomatic and labor.
    9. International Campaign to revoke Peace Prize from Aung San Su Kyi.
    – to send a letter to Aung San Su Kyi conveying a reminder message to her of her responsibilty as a Nobel Peace Prize Winner that she is beholden to carry the duty of protectiong human rights of the oppressed and minorities.
    – to write a petition to the Panel Board of the Nobel Peace Prize

    10. Calling International Ulama for a Fatwa on the Myanmar Rohingya Massacre :
    – to write to the Chairman of International Ulama Union
    – to call on all imam of world masaajid to conduct a special prayer on the oppression on the Rohingya .

    Action Plan Proposed by the Delegates:

    1. Talk with China to put pressure on the Myanmar government as China is influential. Propose solution to PM Najib to talk to China for negotiation.
    2. UN is paralyzed with inaction, hence the neighbouring countries should put pressure on them to take actions through ASEAN channels.
    3. Asian Rohingya Centers (think tank) published a declaration called the “Declaration of Selayang” which initiated the 2017 International Year of Solidarity for Rohingya. Its objective is also to revoke Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize award;
    a. Planning for a workshop & public hearing at town halls to hear & share the problems of the Rohingya in Malaysia
    b. Engage with the local Rohingyas to assist them through Whatsapp & Facebook & go global.
    4. Hold dialogues between Buddhists & Muslims in Myanmar.
    5. Stakeholders such as the British, Bangladesh & Myanmar Governments to hold an international conference.
    6. Use OIC as a platform by sending letters to the Myanmar Government on the genocide
    7. Freedom Flotilla for Rohingya
    8. Investigation for the crimes against humanity in Arakan

    Source: www.mapim.org

  • Singaporean Buddhist: Rohingya Issue An International Humanitarian Issue, Not Just A Muslim Problem

    Singaporean Buddhist: Rohingya Issue An International Humanitarian Issue, Not Just A Muslim Problem

    Admin hi,

    I’m Singapore born and bred Chinese who became a Buddhist over 8 years ago. Been following your posts on the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar. Some of the images and videos were very hard to take. As a Buddhist, it pains me to read that some of the inhumane treatment on the Rohingya were allegedly carried out by militant Buddhists. It made me question my faith but I’ve become better for it as I’ve been able to rationalise that these deplorable acts are not what Buddhism is about. Moreover, the Buddhism practiced there is not the same as what’s practiced here.

    Trust me, we all want to help. Me and my other non-Muslim friends, we all want to help. That’s only natural after looking at the suffering. But we all don’t quite know how. Nevertheless, we cannot lose hope.

    I want to reassure all my Muslim friends we suffer with you on this Rohingya issue. The Rohingya are human beings just like us. Their lives should not be toyed with, with such appalling disregard.

    Their suffering is not a Muslim problem. It is a problem for the world, for humanity. All humankind should roundly condemn the actions of the Myanmar government.

    In the past, the world marginalised Myanmar because of its disregard of democracy and its mistreatment of Aung San Suu Kyi. What the Rohingya is going through is far worse. The world cannot turn a blind eye just because there is some semblance of democracy in the country now.

    The world can, and should do better.

    In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.

    #savetheRohingya #SingaporeansforRohingya #solidaritywithRohingya

    Lotus

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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

  • Protests All Over Asia Against Myanmar’s Genocidal Persecution Of Rohingya Muslims

    Protests All Over Asia Against Myanmar’s Genocidal Persecution Of Rohingya Muslims

    DHAKA, Bangladesh — Thousands of Bangladeshis marched in the capital’s streets Friday to protest the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Burma, one of several similar rallies in the region.

    Chanting “Stop killing Rohingya Muslims,” they marched in Dhaka as violence in Burma’s Rakhine state escalated, forcing thousands to leave their homes.

    The protesters from several Islamic groups burned an effigy of Burma leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a flag of Burma. They carried banners reading “Open border to save the Rohingya.” Bangladesh’s southeast borders Burma.

    Organizers said some 10,000 protesters joined the rally in Dhaka. Smaller protests occurred in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

    Also, rights group Amnesty International asked Bangladesh not to forcibly send fleeing Rohingya back to Burma.

    Up to 500,000 undocumented Rohingya have been living in Bangladesh after arriving from Burma in waves since the 1970s. Some 33,000 registered Rohingya refugees are lodged in two camps in southern Cox’s Bazar district.

    Local media reported that a few thousand Rohingya Muslims have entered Bangladesh this week with the help of smugglers, but authorities didn’t confirm that.

    Maj. Gen. Abul Hossain, director general of the Bangladesh Border Guard, said on Friday that “only some” arrived by boats.

    On Thursday, Bangladeshi border guards did not allow at least a dozen boats carrying Rohingya to enter Bangladesh, said Lt. Col. Abu Jar Al Jahid, a commanding officer of the border agency in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf area.

    Amnesty International condemned the persecution of Rohingya Muslims by Burma and Bangladesh’s unwillingness to accept them.

    “The Rohingya are being squeezed by the callous actions of both the [Burma] and Bangladesh authorities. Fleeing collective punishment in Burma, they are being pushed back by the Bangladeshi authorities. Trapped between these cruel fates, their desperate need for food, water and medical care is not being addressed,” said Champa Patel, Amnesty International’s South Asia director.

    Burma’s security forces are mounting indiscriminate reprisal attacks against Rohingya in response to an Oct. 9 assault on three border posts that killed nine border officers, the rights group said in a statement on Thursday.

    The group said it has heard accounts of Burma’s security forces, led by the military, firing at villagers from helicopter gunships, torching hundreds of homes, carrying out arbitrary arrests and raping women and girls.

     

    Source: www.usatoday.com

  • Stop The Extra-Judicial Killings Of Rohingyas In Myanmar

    Stop The Extra-Judicial Killings Of Rohingyas In Myanmar

    TERORIS….

    bentuk terorisme yg paling biadab adalah terorisme yg dilakukan oleh negara…

    buddhist-terror-1

    jadi saksikan lah…Wahai manusia yg mengaku islam…lihat betapa keji.kejam dan brutal mereka…membunuh.memperkosa dan menganiyaya bukan hal tabu untuk mereka…

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    MAKA..siapakah yg paling layak kita sebut TERORIS…saudare…

    #SAVEROHINGYAPEOPLE
    #STOPEXTRAJUDICIALKILLING

     

    Source: Adnan Khair