A Controversial Report of "Burma and Bangladesh: A Strategy to Combat Statelessness"

By admin,

A new report written on 14 Dec 2014, came out here. 

"Burma and Bangladesh: A Strategy to Combat Statelessness"

How controversial is- 

Despite the report calls to solve the crisis strategically, it undermines the primary existence of the people through wisely labelling as recent settlers from the waves of Bangladeshi migrations..

The writer itself viewing 'sympathizer' and much eager to bring the solution over the problems. In deed, the hidden fact is that the writer smartly and wrongfully proving  these vulnerable people as late settlers by crediting on the doggy documents of the dictators and other oppressive operations/processes which were forcefully exercised during 1978-King Dragon Operation, 1990-Pyi Taryar Operations..

Specially in these parts from-

"The Rohingyas are mainly the descendants of Bengali/Chittagonian labour migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh who had settled in Arakan after the 1824 British annexation of that province. After Burma gained her independence from Britain in 1948, an unknown number of settlers from the Chittagong area continued to enter as migrants."

"Those 800,000 stateless Rohingya/Bengali are often referred to as Temporary Registration Card (TRC) or White Card holders. This group of stateless people were recorded in the 1983 Burma Census as foreigners. There are indications that the 1973 Burmese Census has registered this same group as foreigners. It would appear that the Burmese immigration begun issuing Temporary Registration Cards (TRC) to this group of foreigners since 1950s. After 1995, with the returning of 230,000 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh and at the requests of UNHCR, the Government uniformly issued the TRCs to all those 800,000 stateless people within Arakan State."

This is how the educated one's double dealing and instigation of all parties in order to keep the crisis alive. So, no Burmese, nor government will take initiation to issue citizenship to people who are being indicated as "late arrivals".

The writer doesn't understand the plights of Rohingya at all or intentionally undermine the several waves of violences that have been conducted on Rohingya during 1942, 1949, 1958-60, 1967-68, 1978, 1990-92 and the crisis of " 1784-1824- The 40 year Burmese tyrannical rule of Arakan".

The such over-championing reports should not be re-credited..