by admin,
Today, we staged a demonstration in front of Burmese embassy in Canberra in the present of Australian Federal Police (AFP).
It was started from 9.30am and taken one hour long by reading 3 pages of statement by Habib and slogans by Min Min.
Demonstration was joined by about 60 Rohingyas collectively from Melbourne and Sydney.
Usually, No staff from the embassy came out to take our memorandum but it was given to an AFP officer who will be handing over to the embassy..
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our memorandum is as below:
We,
ABRO would like to raise serious concern over recent arbitrary mass
killing and slaughtering about 100 Rohingyans and ongoing arrests and
force confession from Maungdaw township, keeping the Rakhine (Arakan)
humanitarian crises alive, allowing to carry out genocidal attacks
and various operations, vigilant racial attacks, continuously locking
down about 150,000 Rohingyas and Kamans in ghetto type concentration
camps across 42 locations and confining the rest about a million in
their villages from June 2012, mass destruction of historical
evidences and religious buildings, forceful expulsion, blocking aid
and food supply, prohibit livelihood and compelling to die from
starvation, denying their right to have rights such as medicare,
education, relocation and movement, seizing and destroying
residential documents and forcing to accept foreigner identity and
not allowing to recourse under new citizenship act. .
After
recent attacks carried out by unknown armed gangs on border police in
Kyiganbyin, police outpost in Kotankauk, and local police office in
Nhakhuya where equal members of causality occurred from both sides,
the government forces instantly taken intentional steps of
retaliation to annihilate the Maungdaw township resident Rohingyans
from 9 Oct 2016 under the so call 'Land Clearing Operation' (Nay Myay
Chin Linn Yay).
In
this operation, about 100 Rohiongya involving women, children and
elderly people from 11 different locations were closely shot dead,
slaughtered in cool blood by military and security forces. Many of
those taken away by security and military forces were also found in a
mass grave with their hands tied that cleared how they been brutally
killed. Additionally, gang rapes of teens by those taken away by
authorities, looting goods and cash, extortion, expulsion from
villages and blocking of food supply, are also recorded.
An
estimated about 5,000 people have been displaced and now shelter-less
after about 700 houses and livestocks in Wabaik hamlet of Kyiganpyin
village, Kyet Yoe Pyin village tract, Nga Sa Kyu village tract and
Ngan Chaung village tract, were burn down by security and military
forces.
Despite
the government officially denounced the armed gang insurgent for
attacks and torching of houses, it actually government forces who
shot civilians and torching of houses that were captured in the
photos.
Despite
Ms. Suu Kyi told its authorities to deal those arrestees by lawfully
and requested not to compete by forces between government forces and
armed groups, it is practically different on the ground. Her
government does not enhance her authorities to act lawfully, nor
taking action onto officials those involved in arbitrary and lawless
killings, and for committing physical abuses.
Yet,
Ms. Suu Kyi did not confirm the attacks but her presidential office's
official statements and Burmese news agencies widely spreading
reverse information by linking the attacker armed group with
non-existing foreign group and fabricating false news, evidences and
implicating Rohingya community.
It
has been over four years now Rohingyas and Kamans of Rakhine (Arakan)
state are totally excluded from Burma and trapped into the worst part
of human tragic such as APARTHEID, SLAVERY & RACISM,
EXTERMINATION.. For decades, Rohingyas have been oppressed,
victimized and terrorized by the both government authorities and
extremist Rakhine people that been recorded commonly in 1942, 1949
1967, 1978, 1991,1994/95, 2002 and the latest state sponsor genocide
began from June 2012.
From
8 of June 2012, total destruction across (13) different townships of
Arakan state, reached at (97) mosques, about (23,000) houses from
(95) villages, killing thousands Rohingyans and Kamans and nearly
200,000 people displaced of whom about (110,000) people are in 13 to
15 camps of Sittwe (Akyab) city and the rest about (65,000) those
from other 8 regions in 26 camps are in aid workers unreachable
areas, and number of arbitrary detention reached at least 12,00
Rohingyas and Kaman muslims mainly from Maungdaw, Buthidaung and
Sittwe townships.
In
Burma there are so many organizations including Red Cross Society,
Healthcare clinic but all are puppet bodies of terror government and
not delivering services for Arakanese muslims. While Rakhine children
are freely attending the government schools, the Rohingya youths
those teaching Rohingya kids, distributing rations, Rohingyan
language support workers, providing medical assistance in the camps,
are instantly targeted by local authorities. So, many Rohingya youths
have continued to flee into neighbouring countries. Government
authorities pretend unable to interfere in local matters and also
instantly blocking aid delivery and medical treatment for displaced
Rohingya and Kaman victims..
The
ousted Thein Sein government pretended to be uncontrollable and
allowed to spread across central Burma therefore the attacks carried
out in 26 locations of 8 different states that destroyed thousands of
houses, killing hundreds of people, displaced more than 20,000
people.
Despite
the Thein Sein government has characterized the events as 'communal
violence, it was a well plan and the government’s involvement and
contributions into the crisis were very obvious.
The
latest target on Rohingya in Maungdaw township from 9 Oct 2016, is
actually another propaganda to divert international attention on
genocide and atrocities committed by government forces.
As
we aware, the current central ruler of NLD has been following the
same footpaths and tactics of the past regimes that keep routinely
attacking of ethnic minorities such as Chin, Karen, Kachin, Shan and
Rohingya.
When
there are double numbers of government armed forces presenting in
minority areas, and still carrying out attacks, the minorities lost
hopes and the number of armed ethnic group from repression is yet to
be grown in the future because it is only option to protect their
respective own people and lands from aggressive military operations,
tyrant abuses and genocide. However sadly, the people who are
protecting own people from genocidal attacks are branded as
insurgency or guerilla by central ruler government and Burmese news
agencies.
Historically,
the past government and now latest NLD, all of them have actually no
strategy for peace, nor taken workable steps to bring peace and build
trust with ethnic armed groups, But they are records of breaking
ceasefire agreements and aggressive and offensive attacks thru waging
wars and physical tortures over civilians that account for crimes
against humanity.
The
fact is that, the late NLD government's failure or not yet marched
forward to achieve genuine cease fire, reconciliation with minorities
and restoration of genuine federal democracy system. But, NLD
re-conciliated with military and kept her military in power so that
minority areas and their issues kept under military control.
NLD
leader Ms. Suu Kyi forgiving military generals' the past crimes and
now again favouring through achieving lifting blacklist of its
generals.
We
strongly urge Ms. Suu Kyi who is above the president of the country
and led the NLD government and its authorities to uphold its afore
said rules of laws and respect
the dignity and rights of the entire population regardless of race,
religion and colour and to ensure a free, fair and equal justice
system is available to all.
NLD
leader Ms. Suu Kyi has not yet condemns it militarily attacks on
minorities, not yet achieved release of a single muslim political
prisoner and yet to outline its plan on minorities.
NLD
government must also install laws and orders to equally guarantee
safety and security of the entire people of Burma. The
NLD government must immediately halt all forms of ongoing
persecution, oppression, restriction, segregation and vigilante
attacks against minority groups; particularly the Rohingya and Kaman
from Arakan state of western Burma.
The
NLD government must take immediate action to prevent ongoing
campaigns of racial hatred organised by radical groups, such as the
ultra-nationalist Buddhist group MaBaTha (969) Association, which is
supported by some politicians, ex-generals and their family members,
along with some Yangon-based Rakhine people.
We
are also disappointed to see NLD government and its authorities are
forcing Rohingya and Kaman people to accept foreigner identity,
seizing and destroying their residential documents and not allowing
to recourse to become new citizenship even under 1982 citizenship
act.
Practically,
it is not the 1982-citizenship laws that stripped off citizenship but
the authority who are intentionally reluctant to access the
Rohingya's historical existence and ancestral evidence that prove
primary evidence earlier than prior to 1824. The fact is that
after British occupation of Arakan in1824, the repatriated Rohingya
war victims of 1784 and 1794 Burman king invasion of Arakan, were
miscounted as British era settlers by central rulers.
Like
in 1978 and 1992, after drove out of Rohingyans and Kamans from their
ancestral homelands, the authorities tactically started collection of
data and those forcefully repatriated under bilateral agreement were
branded as Bengali so it could be accounted by exclusion of Rohingya
into national census as a creation official evidence for national
population history.
We
also would like to urge the UN and its member countries including
countries those have business ties with Burma to join together in
taking effective actions onto Burma's central ruler NLD government
and it authorities to abide by domestic and international laws.
We,
ABRO therefore demands the following:
1)
UN to use force to restore peace and stability in minority areas
including in Arakan state.
2)
UN to use force to immediately suspend blockage of food and aid
supply and grand special power to aid agencies to enable to supply
food and aid on the ground freely.
3)
UN to effectively pressurise onto central ruler government to
immediately lift all kinds restrictions.
4)
UN to monitor central ruler NLD government and its armed forces to
abide by domestic and international laws.
5)
To stop forcing and pressuring of Rohingya and Kaman to accept
foreigner identity.
6)
Immediately release of muslim political prisoners from central Burma
and thousand of Rohingya prisoners mostly detained in Sittwe Central
Jail, Buthidaung Jail and many other who are detained in police
lock-up and military camps.
Thankfully,
ABRO
For
more information, please contact;
Russel
: 0438 524935 (Melbourne)
Habib:
0406 310077 (Melbourne)
Mohammed
Amin: 0411 456400 (Melbourne)
Shujawuddin:
0411 378204 (Brisbane)
Sayad
Kassim: 0423 764858 (Sydney)
Mohammad
Sadek: +(60) 16 3094599 (Malaysia)
Maung
Kyaw Nu: +(66) 98 842 0459 (Thailand)
Kyaw
Soe Aung: +(1) 414 643 8001 (U.S.A)
