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Man's inhumanity to man , makes countless thousands mourn! A letter from a Rohingya. Yesterday morning, while looking for latest news on Rohinga Crisis, I came across a tweet posted by a lady named Janelle reading as under: Jenelle @Jene_lle Sep 24 While the world focuses on #SuuKyi, the man responsible for these horrific abuses gets little condemnation. #Myanmar #Genocide #refugees Immediately, I remembered having watched a video telecast-ed by Al Jazeera TV on September 23 at 5:30 pm about the Rakhine People now being driven out brutally from their country of birth named Myanmar by its ruler who happen to be the country’s Armed Forces, the Buddhist Monks and majority of Burmese people who are not supposed to kill even an insect according to the great religion they practice. But they are now mercilessly engaged in killing a group of people systematically who happen to practice a different religion than the majority Buddhist. While the video was being played on the screen, a portion of the text of a letter slowly started appearing line by line on the screen that read as under: A message to the world from a Rohingya. Quote……….For all my life, all 24 years of it, I have been a prisoner in the open air jail ----Rakhine State. I was born in Myanmar as were my parents but my citizenship was snatched away before I was even conceived! My movement, my education, my access to health care and career has been heavily restricted because of my ethnicity! I am banned from working in the government. I am denied the right to higher education. I am barred from visiting the capital Yangon. I am even stopped from leaving northern Rakhine State. I am subject to the worst form of discrimination all because I am a Rohingya Muslim. For years my people who had been denied their most basic rights and killed on daily basis, shot dead in plain sight, forcibly and systematically made homeless. Our homes razed in front of our very eyes. We are the victims of a brutal State. For you to fully appreciate what our conditions are like, I am going to use an analogy: Imagine a mouse stuck in a cage with a hungry Cat. Our only method of survival is to run or hope someone help us to get out! For those of us that remained, there is a systematic campaign to separate us from the wider Rakhine Community. We are called” Kalar” dirty stinky people by the Buddhist to our faces. Whether you are a , whether you are an old man, no one escapes the abuse. When Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace prize winner, won parliamentary election in 2015, we had high hopes that change coming. We were confident that this woman hailed as a beacon of democracy our abuse and oppression would end. Sadly it soon became clear not only would she not be our voice, she would ignore our suffering. In the end she failed us. Our last hope failed us…………..Unquote Needless to mention here that the live pictures of the video that was telecasted by Al Jazeera simply reminded me my favorite poet Robert Burns's unforgettable line, “man’s inhumanity to man.” that he used in his heartfelt poem titled “ Man Was Made to Mourn: A Dirge”. Believe me, the live video made me cry for the innocent and unarmed men, women and who were being mercilessly shot at and killed by the Burmese Military because they were unfortunately non Buddhist! I have refrained myself from posting any picture of the brutal killings that are still going on In Myanmar for obvious reasons. Hope my readers would understand why this has been done! However, I feel now that justice will not be done to the victims of the Rohingya Genocide unless the photo of the person responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Muslims is posted here together with the photo of Aung San Suu Kyi. Let us shout together---Stop Genocide in Myanmar.    |
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Stop Genocide. Non Buddhist people of Rakhine are humans too!
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Thanks Deb for your post. Am surprised that this blog of mine has apparently failed to attract positive attentions of many of my readers. Anyway,I can understand the reason though.I would never want anyone live anywhere like these people under any circumstance,Deb. Thanks again.Stay happy and cheerful.
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I follow this on the news and I am embarrassed about what is going on in Myanmar and continous. I am not sure whether Aung San Suu Kyi cannot or will not meddle in the military regime. Again a religious war. The same happened and still happens to the Yazidis in Iraq. They had to leave their villiges and escaped into the mountains, houses were occupied by moslem neighbours, things stolen, people killed. A Yazidi woman I spoke to said it is a genocide. Thousands and thousands are leaving and left their homeland and are seeking asylum. And the world looks away. Nothing to profiting. Nothing what influences our daily standard of living. Maybe an politician would say - so sad. Indeed.
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I follow this on the news and I am embarrassed about what is going on in Myanmar and continous. I am not sure whether Aung San Suu Kyi cannot or will not meddle in the military regime. Again a religious war. The same happened and still happens to the Yazidis in Iraq. They had to leave their villiges and escaped into the mountains, houses were occupied by moslem neighbours, things stolen, people killed. A Yazidi woman I spoke to said it is a genocide. Thousands and thousands are leaving and left their homeland and are seeking asylum. And the world looks away. Nothing to profiting. Nothing what influences our daily standard of living. Maybe an politician would say - so sad. Indeed. I am afraid that this is not a religious war. Religion has nothing to do with it. The Rohingyas are “the world most persecuted minority”. They say that they lived in the Rakhine state of Burma since time immemorial. While the majority of Rohingyas are practicing Muslims, the remaining other Ruhingyas are practicing Hindus. However, according to the early history of the area, this ethnic group of people lived in western coastal state of Rakhine previously known as Arakan since as early as 12th century. They were made effectively stateless by the Burmese Military Junta in the year 1982 by denying them citizenship. We should also keep in mind that during more than 100 years of British rule ( 1824-1948 ) of Burma, migration of laborers took place in this area from Northern India and also from the then Bengal because the British administered Myanmar as a province of India. I am sorry to say that Aung San Suu Kyi has failed to protect the Rohingyas for reasons known to her. She has allowed herself to be used by the Military Junta of Burma. I do not know much about Yazidis of Iraq. It is unacceptable to me if they are treated like the Rohingyas of Myanmar.The world must not look away. Hope to read from you again here on my next blog.Until then,stay well and cheerful.Wishing you all my best.
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