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  • Damanhuri Abas: Military Action In Myanmar Against Rohingya Amounting To Genocide

    Damanhuri Abas: Military Action In Myanmar Against Rohingya Amounting To Genocide

    This is happening in an ASEAN country. Its becoming a genocide. Countries behave only when they are pressured and cannot get away with abusing their own people or others. The International rule of law is selectively used and influenced by those with much power in the world.

    This BBC report is juz the tip of the iceberg. There are much more brutal accounts via photos and videos on social media that we may have seen but seem helpless to do anything about.

    At the very least we must raise our collective voice to create awareness via whatever platforms we may have some sphere of influence. We need to make people aware about this brutal killings currently taking place in that country.

    ASEAN countries must pressure Myanmmar to stop this genocide of its marginalized Rohingya people.

    Al-Quran, Surah 4. An-Nisa (The Women), Verse 75:

    وَمَا لَكُمْ لَا تُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَالْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ وَالنِّسَاءِ وَالْوِلْدَانِ الَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا أَخْرِجْنَا مِنْ هَٰذِهِ الْقَرْيَةِ الظَّالِمِ أَهْلُهَا وَاجْعَل لَّنَا مِن لَّدُنكَ وَلِيًّا وَاجْعَل لَّنَا مِن لَّدُنكَ نَصِيرًا

    Translation:
    And why do you not fight for the cause of God, while the weak among the men and the women and the children are crying: Our Lord! Bring us out of this town whose people are cruel oppressors! And, send us Your aid, and send us Your protector!

     

    Source: Damanhuri Abas

  • Penghapusan Bangsa Rohingya Di Myanmar

    Penghapusan Bangsa Rohingya Di Myanmar

    Maungdaw 15 Nov. – Operasi penghapusan bangsa etnik Rohingya terus dilancarkan pasukan keselamatan Myanmar apabila jumlah korban ketegangan baharu di negeri Rak­hine dalam keja­dian kelmarin yang masih berte­rusan meningkat kepada lebih 100 orang.

    Penderitaan dialami penduduk minoriti Islam di Myanmar itu didedahkan di blog RB News memandangkan media asing tidak dibenarkan memasuki Rakhine sejak keadaan di negeri tersebut tidak menentu bulan lalu.

    Menurut penduduk, tentera menggempur beberapa buah kampung di utara Maungdaw pada pukul 6.30 pagi kelmarin, memaksa penghuni keluar atau mereka akan ditembak jika enggan berbuat demikian.

    Semua rumah kemudian ditembak dengan meriam sebelum terbakar.

    Seorang saksi berkata, semua 700 buah rumah di Kampung Dar Gyi Sar musnah sepenuh­nya.

    Selain membakar rumah, anggota tentera turut mencampak kanak-kanak Rohingya yang masih hidup ke dalam api sehingga rentung dengan si ibu hanya mampu memandang tanpa berbuat apa-apa.

    Kekejaman tentera Myanmar tidak berakhir di situ apabila mereka dilapor turut melepaskan tembakan ke arah penduduk Rohingya yang mahu melarikan diri termasuk kanak-kanak.

    Difahamkan, pasukan tentera itu masih menggempur kedudukan penduduk Rohingya atas alasan ‘memburu’ penyerang yang membunuh anggota mereka.

    Bagaimanapun, jumlah kematian sebenar masih tidak dapat dipastikan kerana banyak penduduk terutamanya lelaki ditahan tentera.

    Sekurang-kurangnya 5,000 penduduk dilapor hilang tempat tinggal sejak kelmarin tanpa tempat berlindung dan maka­nan.

    Kejadian terbaharu itu di­khuatiri mencetuskan semula krisis kemanusiaan membabitkan etnik Rohingya sama seperti yang berlaku pada 2012.

    Source: www.mapim.org

  • The Myanmar Times Journalist Fired After Reporting On Military Rape In Rakhine State

    The Myanmar Times Journalist Fired After Reporting On Military Rape In Rakhine State

    A journalist was fired from The Myanmar Times after she reported on military rape in Rakhine State. More staff might be fired; others have resigned/are considering resignation. See: http://frontiermyanmar.net/…/reporters-sacking-followed-moi…

    To publicly indicate their anger and dismay, The Myanmar Times editorial staff took out an ad in their own paper.

    When you face censorship, quiet negotiations don’t address the systemic issue. Closed-door dialogue doesn’t challenge power; you’re playing by the rules of the powerful. You might get a story in the paper this time, or prevented a sacking another time, but it doesn’t mean you’ve won freedom. Here’s to journalists who aren’t afraid to take a stand together, and to let the public know about it.

    #PressFreedom#Soldiarity

     

    Source: Kirsten Han

  • Aung San Suu Kyi: Keadaan Di Wilayah Rakhine Disiasat

    Aung San Suu Kyi: Keadaan Di Wilayah Rakhine Disiasat

    TOKYO: Pemimpin Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi berkata hari ini (4 Nov) siasatan sudah bermula terhadap keadaan di wilayah Rakhine, di mana ramai anggota minoriti Muslim menetap dan juga di mana para pekerja hak asasi manusia berkata konflik di sana membawa kepada penganiayaan awam oleh pihak tentera.

    Suu Kyi, bercakap semasa lawatan ke Tokyo, memberitahu sidang media bahawa pemerintah Myanmar tidak cuba menyembunyikan sebarang perkara dan sedang cuba untuk mencari punca masalah itu, dan tidak akan menuduh sesiapa sehingga siasatan selesai dijalankan.

    Sebarang tindakan akan dilakukan mengikut proses yang sah di sisi undang-undang, tambah beliau.

    Suu Kyi belum lagi memberi komen secara langsung mengenai pakar-pakar hak asasi manusia yang menggesa pemerintah Myanmar untuk menyiasat dakwaan-dakwaan penganiayaan.

    Ini termasuklah insiden rogol dan pembunuhan, atau mengenai kenyataan-kenyataan dikeluarkan para pemantau hak asasi manusia, walaupun beliau sudah menggesa pihak tentera untuk mengawal tindakan mereka.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • New Fears Of Communal Violence In Myanmar

    New Fears Of Communal Violence In Myanmar

    NINE police officers were killed early on October 9th in a series of apparently co-ordinated attacks on border-guard posts in the troubled state of Rakhine in Myanmar’s west. The attackers were armed with knives, slingshots and only a few guns—and reportedly made off with dozens more guns and thousands of bullets. The Buddhist majority in Rakhine has long oppressed the state’s Muslim Rohingyas. Now the victims may be starting to fight back.

    Nobody has yet claimed responsibility, but police say the attackers—at least two of whom were captured and eight killed—were Rohingyas. One local official blamed the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation, a militant group that has been dormant for decades. The two who were detained reportedly told authorities that they planned the raids with fellow locals.

    The central government’s response has been reasonably level-headed. On the same day it held a press conference to appeal for caution and restraint. Two days later it dispatched high-ranking officials to talk to local leaders in the Muslim-majority townships where the attacks took place. Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s de facto leader, did not cast blame, but reiterated her commitment to “peace and stability”. “Rakhine State’s problem is Myanmar’s problem,” said the information minister.

    Since the attacks in northern Rakhine, however, clashes have broken out there leaving at least a dozen people dead—including unarmed civilians, according to locals. The government has beefed up an already heavy military presence. Some worry that the stolen guns will be used in future attacks on security forces, or that in trying to retrieve the weapons, the police will target innocents.

    By far the biggest concern is that unrest could spread, as it did in 2012, when communal violence between Buddhists and Muslims killed scores and displaced tens of thousands. Many outside Myanmar have criticised Miss Suu Kyi for failing to speak up for the Rohingyas. Anti-Muslim sentiment runs deep among the Burman Buddhist majority. Wirathu, a virulently nationalist monk and master of social media, posted a video on his Facebook page this week that he claims shows the attackers calling for Rohingyas to join the jihad.

    In August Miss Suu Kyi invited Kofi Annan, a former UN secretary-general, to head a commission investigating human-rights abuses in Rakhine. Buddhist nationalists protested, and the Rakhine parliament passed a resolution condemning the commission. But as this week’s events have shown, efforts to bring about a just and durable peace in Rakhine are more urgent than ever.

     

    Source: www.economist.com