Victims of Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Day Concentration Camps
of
Burma/Myanmar
It
has been over two years now Rohingyas and Kamans of Arakan state
(western Burma) are totally excluded from Burma and fell into the
worst of the worst part of tragic. This matter is a mix of
similarities that have happen over history like; APARTHEID, SLAVERY &
RACISM, EXTERMINATION.. For decades, Rohingyas have been oppressed,
victimized and terrorized by the both government authorities and
extremist Rakhine people. Ongoing ethnic cleansing pogroms with
genocidal actions, repression and forceful eviction operations
against Rohiongya minority, are recorded commonly in 1942, 1949 1967,
1978, 1991,1994/95, 2002 and the latest state sponsor pogrom over
Rohingya and Kaman muslims of Arakan 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. Death toll over 12,000
people and nearly 200,000 people displaced and number of arbitrary
detention reached at least 12,00 Rohingyas and Kaman muslims mainly
from Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Sittwe townships. Despite the central
govt has characterized the events as 'communal violence, the
government’s involvement and contributions into the crisis are very
obvious.
- 2) Allowing security forces to shoot the Rohingyas and Kamans, and not arresting a single armed Rakhine.
- 3) Seizing lands of Rohingyas which were burnt down and disposing them into concentration camps.
- 4) Blocking aid, foods and compelling to die from starvation and attacking aid workers.
- 5) Denying their rights to have rights such as medicare, education, relocation, movement.
- 6) President Thein Sein asking the United Nation to relocate Rohingya in a third country.
- 7) Fabricating false news: the local Burmese news groups and anti-Rohingya bloggers reporting the way they like and playing a major role of bias through inciting anti-Rohingya propaganda and portraying Rohingyas as they want and providing reverse information.
- 8) Forcing to accept foreigner identity in the mid of humanitarian crisis. Rakhine RNDP party openly declared the bounty reward for every dead Rohingya. Forcing to sign the documents that describe as illegal immigrants that have no claim to Burmese citizenship. When the Rohingya in the camp refused to sign the documents, the authority threatened the Rohingya and Kaman victims that no signing would no aid ever made it through the blockades again including aid from foreign organizations.
Minorities
are continued to face vigilant attacks, extrajudicial killings,
sexual abuses, arbitrary arrests and detention, inhumane tortures,
use of landmines, the recruitment of child soldiers, forced labour,
striking-off of citizenship and not allowing to recourse under new
citizenship act.
A)
Kachin state: By February 2013, internally displaced persons
about 35,000 in Myitkyina (two camps in Jan Mai Kaung) and Waingmaw
(Thargaya and Lavoa camps). Another about 40,000
displaced are in KIA/KIO-controlled areas. (while people fleeing into
China is not counted into.)
B)
Chin state: Chin refugees seeking refuge in
Delhi-India from the past deacades and now living in tents left about
8,500 people.
C)
Shan state: There are about 125,000 Shan displaced living along
China border and some of them fled into China.
D)
Karen and Mon states:
More than 120,000 Karen, Kareni (Kayah) and some Mon people
displaced internally. About 200,000 mainly Karen, Karenni and Mon
refugees took refuge in Thai-Burma border refugee camps and most of
them been there from the past three decades. By the end of year
2013, about 80,000 refugees are still living in ten refugee camps.
E)
The
government's massive contribution into violences in Rakhine State,
later spreads to other parts of Burma with
the lead of ex-prisoner monk Wirathu.
1)
Mandalay regions:
Attacks
in Miktila, Ywa Tan of Ramitin, Kyaukpandaung, Aylar, Chaunggyi Ywa
of Thabake Kyin, Kyipauk Ywa of Sinku townships, destroyed about
3,500 houses plus several mosques and displaced about 15,000 Muslims
and killing more than a hundred, including mass killing of 36 mostly
teenagers in the small town of Meiktila on 20 Mar 2013.
By
the end of 2013, more
than 5,000 from Meiktila town alone (of whom more than 4,000 are
living in five
camps
of Meiktila town and another about 1,000 with host families and in
one
camp
in Yin Daw town). The
rest about 9,000 people were allowed to return to their locations.
2)
Pegu Regions: The
attacks took placed across 8 townships of Monyo, Padigon,
Gyobingauk,
Okpho,
Kinmma tract of Zigon
(Thaygon), Minhla, Sit Kwin, Okthigon, Nattalin, and Okkan.
Most
of them were returned to their locations.
3) Sagaing Regions: About
320 people from Htan Gone village of Kanbalu township,
had
taken shelter in Muslim schools after a mob burned homes on 24
August 2013.
4)
Yangon regions: Scattered
attacks in Hlaing Tharyar, South Dagon, Tharkaytha townships. Arson
attacks in Pebedan Madarasa killed 8 teachers and 28 students on 21
Mar 2013.
5)
Magwe regions:
A mosque, houses and belongings of 10 Muslims were demolished in
Kanma Township on 13th April 2012.
6)
Shan State: The
attacks took place in Lashio destroyed the
Myoma Mosque and estimated 5 Muslims have died and 30 houses were
burnt
down on the following day of Meiktila
riot on 20 Mar 2013.
7)
Kachin state:
Attacks
in Saitaung of Phakant township destroyed a
few muslims’ houses and shops in the evening of about 2nd
May 2013 .
8)
Chin state: A
village of 17 families live in
Paletwa
township were also attacked by Rakhine gangs came from Rakhine state
as a result of it's situated along the Kaladen River connected to
Arakan. After about a year of confinement, the situation has been
normalized by community leaders and authorities..
F)
Arakan/Rakhine state: displaced Rohingya and Kaman
There
are total about 200,000 Rohingya, Kaman and Rakhine muslims people
involving about 75,000 children displaced (of whom about 175,000)
have been forced into protracted camps and the rest about a million are also in appalling conditions under confinement and facing constant
abuses since June 2012. Displaced people about
(110,000) 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.
Some
camps have temporary houses and most of the camps have makeshift
tents only. The camps are 'Ghetto Type' and the condition is
completely horror that aid can be delivered through government
authorities if they agreed to and Rakhine gangs didn't block the
access.
In Burma today there are Human Rights Organization, Red Cross Society,
Healthcare clinic but all are puppet bodies of terror government and
not delivering services for Rohingya and Kaman people. While Rakhine
children are freely attending the government schools, the Rohingya
youths those teaching Rohingya kids, distributing rations,
translating language, 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
authorities in Northern Arakan (NRS) and Rakhine people in Southern
Arakan (SRS), oppress and attack Rohingyas and Kamans. Systematic
dehumanization of Rohingya and Kaman people have been under practised
for over two years since the beginning of violences from June 2012.
1)
Akyab/Sittwe township: Displaced Rohingyans and Kamans about
9o,000 people were from (19) villages and others those displaced
people came by boats from Pauktaw and Kyaukpyu townships, made up
total about (110,000) people are living now in 13 to 15
camps. But only 7 refugee
camps have temporary houses and the rest camps have makeshift tents
while many thousands joined with relative houses. People in the camp
have to struggle in raining season and day night they wet.
2)
Pauktaw township: All Rohingya
and Kaman people from about 5,000 houses across the town in (18)
villages were dispalced and forced into the following 4
camps numbering now about
(40,000) people.
i)
Sintatmaw camp: displaced
villagers from Haine Fara (Kaine Byin), Saysudaine and some Kaman
people of Myebon and Kyaukpyu pushed back from Sittwe beach, were
also placed into this camp.
ii)
Kyine Ni Pyin camp: displaced villagers from Shweli Frang,
Haime Fara, Kyine Ni Pyin, Ponnaagri, Twaine Fara.
iii)
Anaraine camp: displaced
villagers from Nayar Fara (Rwa Thit) & Furan Fara (Rwa Haung),
Anaraine, Seiku Rwa, and Hunree Fara.
iv)
Kudushi (Lamba Diya): Foer fara
(Zawgyi), Kudushi Fara (Kudish village), Lamba Diya and Karargri, Dom
Fara and Naine Chaung.
3)
Kyauktaw township: About
(7,800) displaced Rohingya people from about 1,200 houses across 9
villages are forced into the follwing 10 camps:
1)
about 1,000 people in Shwe Hlaing (Maelifaung),
ii)
about 600 people in Gupichaung (Guvitaung),
iii)
about 500 people in Apoukwa (Aa-fok),
iv)
about 1,500 people in Aine (Haine fara) and came from other villages,
v)
about 900 people in Ambari (mango filed),
vi)
About 1,200 people in Sangardaung,
vii)
about 500 people in Ni-dann Fara are residents of Mar-nae-gyar fara
(Zay Haung @ Central Market area),
viii)
about 450 people in Khon-dol (Khaungdok-Alay gyuan),
ix)
about 1,150 people in Nai-raung (Radanapon).
4)
Kyaukpyu township: Displaced
Kaman and Rohingya people in this town was primarily about 23,000
people from about 4,800 houses which were completely burn down. Most
of them fled by boats, some reached Akyab/Sittwe, transferred to
Pauktaw camp and got neighbouring countries.
The
rest Kamans gathered themselves by boats and lived more than a year on
board but they were forced into makeshift
tents
near Fishing warf (Paikseik) situated in front of Kyauktan military
camp. Later, displaced Kaman and Rohingya people from Paikseik,
Tamar chaung, Ambarla Fara, estimated total about 3,000 people..
Some
of them are previous victims of
Cyclone Giri of 22 October 2010..
5)
Myebon (Peninsula) township: Kaman
and Rohingya about 7,000 people (from
about 750 houses) who
were pushed into the jungle of the mountain during the attacks in
their villages of Alay
Baine Quarter in central area and Taungbaw Rwa (mountain village).
Now
left about 4,000 people in this area and call as Taungpaw
camp
(Mountain camp)..
It is a squalid camp of muddy mess with raw sewage running through
and the tents are ramshackle.
Their
crops and fields have been taken over by Rakhine people. Rakhine
Buddhists control the jetty and refuse to allow aid agencies regular
access to the Rohingya camp.
6)
Rambre (Peninsula) township: a
few Kaman people living in the town and those from 22 houses burn
down in Tan Rwa village were gone to unknown and since the
beginning, the biggest Kaman people' village call Kyauknimaw (fishing
village) estimated houses about 1,000 are still surrounded by
security forces and constantly facing confrontation by Rakhine
people.
7)
Tandwe township: Half of entire
Kamans and Rakhine muslims displaced people, were fled to other
towns. The rest joined with relative houses, some gathered around the
mountain beside (Twechin Rwa) and a few live on their burnt down
lands, are still confined by local authority and Rakhine people..
8) Mrauk Oo & Minbya townships:
More
than 12,000 Kaman and Rohingya people displaced from about 2,100
houses burnt down in across 10 villages across the both regions.In Mrauk Oo, about 500
houses from Yainetay
village (Zula Fara), about 2,00 houses from Parein village, were
burnt down. Now, about 2,750 people living in the Yainetay
village camp
and another about 1,900 people living in the Parein
village camp.In Minbya, about 150 out of
465 houses from Aung Dine villages, 86 houses from Sudaine Rwa
(Santhodan/Creek Taung), 250 out of 319 houses from Kan Pali, 120
houses from Thar Dar, 229 houses from Tharak Rwa(Tharak Aok), some
of 300 houses from Paiketay Rwa (Fishingvillage). Now, gathering as
1998 people in Aung Daine camp, 535 people in Sudaine
camp, 1341 people in Kan Pali camp, 1669 people in
Tharak camp, 56 people in Paiketay camp.
9)
Ponnagyuan township:
A very drought village situated near the bay of Sittwe call
Siddikul (Taedak Kadi) still living in the same location after
built-up tempo houses.
10)
Rathedaung township: About 600 houses from 7 out of 22 Rohingya
villages were burnt down and total about 3,000 Rohingyas displaced.
i)
About 5,00 displaced Rohingyas from about a hundred houses of Farang
Chaung village and another about 230 displaced Rohingyas from 55
houses of Kondan (Kuttichaung) village, were transferred into
Dongsey Fara camp.
ii)
About 7,00 displaced Rohingyas from more than 200 houses of Saw
Farang Fara, were transferred into Razabil camp.
iii)
1,200 displaced villagers from 120 houses of Kararo Kondan
(Sara-paran) were piled over a year at Sarak Pran and finally moved
them into Chilkhali Camp.
iv)
More than a thousand displaced Rohingya villagers from Tabretaw
(Zufarang Fara), Anauk Pran (Anakpran), Nyaung Pin Gyi (Muzadiyara),
are still living in the tents around their villages.
11) Maungdaw township: About
1,200 people displaced from 250 houses burnt down across 16 villages
are: 20
houses from Ward-3, 70 houses from Ward-4, 4 houses from Ward-5, 25
houses from Hafilya, 4 houses from Sawmawnya (Taung Paing Nya), 60
houses from Hunri Fara (Bomu Rwa), 7 houses Noa Fara, 6 houses from
Myothugyi (Haineda Fara), 1 house from Nurula (Bagonna), a few
houses from San Oo Rwa and Kadibil, 7 houses from 4 Miles area, 15
houses from Donpyin @ Sarkumba, one house from Longdon, 6 houses
from Myoma Kayein Dan, and the rest were from Duchiradan village.
However,
no shelter not aid has been provided to the displaced Rohingyas so
most of them fled and the rest joined with their relative houses..
12)
Buthidaung township: Two
families of 13 displaced people moved to their relative houses after
their houses were burnt down in Ward No.(1) on 23 Jan 2013..
Conclusion
The
current Rohingya genocide in Burma is a case in which different
forces in society and politics have converged to create, basically, a
living hell for this particular group.1
Majority
of Buddhist people believe Burma only belongs to them and democracy
should only be available to them. Many
western governments have tried to tame them but failed ever. We don’t
believe anyone else can tame them.
Consequently,
the governments from western countries have commenced conducting
business with Burma and securing their businesses and investment
only. The military generals remember their crimes in the past and to
protect from retaliation from its own people, they use Muslim as
scapegoat by shifting focus on Muslims through Buddhist Monks by
preaching hatred towards Muslim. The Burmese government is behind
every conflict against Muslims recently by using their underground
gangs, where organizations are morally supported by majority Burmese
Buddhists.2
Burmese
rulers have continuously committing crimes against humanity. It has
been over two years now the government keeps the Arakan crisis alive.
About a million of people are under systematic confinement and nearly
200,000 displaced people are ending up in the modern day
concentration camps and enduring with confinement, constant abuses,
dying at least 7 to 20 people mostly children and elderly people for
lack of medicare and food supply. They are also forbidden from
livelihood.
Surprising,
we see that UN and its member countries use no power in Burma affairs
even though there is ongoing humanitarian crisis across the country.
Not ensuring aid delivery, medical treatment, and to ease the crisis.
So, the 'normalization of the situation' is in bleak.
Unless
direct and effective International Intervention, the government would
not normalize the situation in Arakan and other parts of Burma.
Infiltration
and Total Boats Sank in International Waters from June 20123:
From
the beginning of violence from 2012 June, total about 95,000 of
Rohingyas and Kamans have been crossed into neighboring countries.
As a result of existing tyrannical persecutions in home country from
the past five decades, nearly a million of Rohingya people fled into
neighbouring countries and they became Burma's first refugees. Having
similar problems in transit countries and remain unwanted anywhere,
some of them risked their lives through secondary migration to safe
territories. Today Rohingya refugees are uprooted in Bangladesh,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, India, KSA, and some
transferree Rohingyan refugees in Nauru and PGN pacific island
nations. A few, less than 1% were luckily resettled through UNHCR
from 2001 to USA, British, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
and Australia.
In
Thailand:
The number of Rohingya boat people languishing in the custody of the
Thai authorities, reached at the peak of 2,000 people by end of
2013, plus existing hidden number of about 40,000 Rohingyas
including many in various slave labours .
In
Malaysia:
Area based leaders estimate about 45,000 Rohingyas and Kaman living
since earlier of 1990 where about 3,000 are recent arrivals through
the borders but recorded only five boat arrivals including Singapore
turn away boat4
from December 2012.
In
Bangladesh:
In the past two years, at least 40,000 Rohingyas and Kaman displaced
refugees crossed into Bangladesh and therefore the border guards
pushed them back in many occasion and resulting more than one thousand
drown to death in about total 15 boats. Existing number about
400,000 Rohingya refugees including those living in UNHCR runs
squalid refugee camps of Kutupalong and Nayapara in southern district
of Cox’s Bazar about 40,000 people, have been there from the past
three decades. Rohingyans those living outside the camps are never
counted as refugees. The UNHCR has resettled about a thousand
Rohingyas from the registered camps from year 2006. The enormous
problems in Bangladesh are direct impacts on vulnerable Rohingya
refugees in Bangladesh and the government accuses intl communities for
keeping the Rohingya matter alive.
In
Indonesia:
There are about a thousand in detention custodies and the rest other
more than 2,000 Rohingyas and Burmese muslims are somehow living in
various locations. And Resettlement of the Rohingya refugees to
Australia began from the end of 2011.
In
KSA:
Rohingya
refugees arrived during 1942, 1978, 1992 numbered about 500,000 and
the majority living in Mecca’s slum quarters of (Naqqasha and
Kudai) and Jeddah. The government has subsequently announce to issued
tempo-visa but never been materialized.
In
India: The Rohingya refugees living in India are never appeared
publicly but a group of 1,500 Rohingya displaced in Hyderabad city
came to
highlight5.
In
Cambodia: According to JRS, there are 17 recognized Rohingya
refugees and four still seeking status by June 2013 while others
have moved on.6
In
Srilanka:
The
Srilankan Navy rescued 70 Rohingya people are languished in
detention. The first batch of 37 Rohingya people have remained in the
Mirihana Detention Centre since 2nd
February 2013
. A
further batch of 33 was also added there.7
Compiled by Habib
Edited
by MSK Jilani (USA) & Sadek (Malaysia)
Published
by:
1Genocidal
Buddhists?: An Interview with Burmese Dissident Maung Zarni
2Russell
from AusMa (Minority Support Group)
based in Melboune, Australia
3http://www.ndphr.net/p/boatpeople.html
4 Malaysia takes in 40 Rohingya shipwreck survivors
5 Rohingya exiles struggle to survive in India
6ROHINGYA
REFUGEES IN CAMBODIA JUNE 2013 BRIEF
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