Day: July 5, 2012

Burma_Myanmar delegation meeting Human Rights Watch gave clear message on Rohinja (Stateless people)

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“””””အေရၾကီးသတင္း share ေပးပါ။””””
ဒီေန႔ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရး ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေရးအဖြဲ႕နဲ႔ အစည္းအေ၀း လုပ္ျဖစ္တယ္။ ျမန္မာကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႕က သူတို႔ကို ရွင္းလင္းတဲ့ မက္ေဆ့ခ်္တစ္ခု ေပးခဲ့တယ္။အကယ္၍ အခ်ိဳ႕ႏုိင္ငံမ်ား (အေမရိကန္ အပါအ၀င္) က ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ား ( ႏိုင္ငံမဲ့ ျပည္သူမ်ား) ကို လက္ခံႏုိင္မည္ ဆုိပါက ကၽြႏု္ပ္တို႔ အေနျဖင့္ သေဘၤာျဖင့္ေသာ္လည္း အျခားနည္းျဖင့္ေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း ပို႔ေပးမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။

ကၽြႏ္ု္ပ္တို႔ အေနျဖင့္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကို နားလည္ပါေသာ္လည္း ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ လံုျခံဳေရးကိုသာ ပိုမို အေလးထားပါသည္။

(ျပည္ေထာင္စုသမၼတ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတရံုး ညြန္ၾကားေရးမွဴး၏ ေဖ့စ္ဘုတ္အေကာင့္မွ အဂၤလိပ္လို ေရးသားခ်က္ကို ဘာသာျပန္ဆုိသည္။ မူလ ေရးသားေသာ စေတးတပ္စ္မွာ ေအာက္ပါအတိုင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။)

Today meeting with Human Rights Watch, Myanmar delegation gave the clear message, if some countries including US, can accept Rohinja (Stateless people), we can transport them by ships or others. We can undersatnd the human rights but we need to emphasize the National Security.

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Ethnic Residents Do Not Want Foreign NGOs in Northern Arakan

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In Burma, especially at the UN and International NGOs, they employ mostly Bengali Muslims. Especially in Arakan state, this is common practice of UN and Int’l NGOs that they only help Bengali Muslims and never offer help to Arakan Buddhists. Arakan Buddhists are ignored by so-called democracy and ethnic leaders, the government and international NGOs including UN. We demand the international community — especially UN to avoid discrimination against Arakan Buddhists.

Maungdaw: Many local Arakanese ethnic nationalities in Buthidaung and Maungdaw Townships in northern Arakan State say they do not want foreign NGOs, including the organizations of the United Nations, re-opening in their areas.

 

Arakanese victims in Maungdaw.

Residents contacted Narinjara by phone and in writing to say that international NGOs, including the UN, discriminate against the local ethnic residents in their operations and that some officials from those organizations were involved in stirring up the recent violent unrest in their area.

“Some employees of the NGOs were arrested by the authorities because they were involved in agitating the recent violent unrest. They downloaded the online news and photos and distributed them with their fabrications to the Muslims here to instigate them to rioting. Thus such unrest occurred in our areas,” said one resident from Maungdaw.

He said those NGO employees are also suspected by authorities for connections with illegal organizations in the neighboring country as well.

The residents said the UN and international NGOs usually charge the Burmese government for its human rights abuses and discriminatory practices towards the people, but they themselves are practicing widespread discrimination against the ethnic people in their areas as well.

“If we have to say…, whenever the UN and foreign NGOs call for job applications, they never employ the Arakanese ethnics despite their application and better qualifications. They employ only the Muslims in their projects. Moreover, they never give assistance to Arakanese even though they have nothing to eat, but they are providing all kind of assistance, including food, to the Muslim community. They always marginalize the Arakanese who are living side by side with Muslims in one village for their assistance. They are practicing such discrimination against the Arakanese people,” another resident told Narinjara over the phone.

Besides their discrimination, the local Muslim officers appointed by those organizations are also said to have often perpetuated the behavior such as insults, haughtiness, disrespect, and unsocial treatment towards the ethnic residents, using the facilities of those organizations.

Such misbehavior intensified dissatisfaction among the ethnic residents and caused mounting racial tension in the region, said a local social volunteer.

“Arakanese ethnic people are also severely suffering from oppression by the ruling people. In that situation, they are also being discriminated against by the international NGOs and they presume they have to face such discrimination just because of Muslims. So, they have turned their anger and dissatisfaction toward the local Muslim community. I have analyzed that the NGOs’ one-sided operation without doing thorough study on the long-standing problems have contributed to the development of racial hatred and animosity in our region,” he added. Continue reading “Ethnic Residents Do Not Want Foreign NGOs in Northern Arakan” →