Myanmar faces anger from Muslim world over Rohingya plight
The latest erupted military campaign in Myanmar (also known as Burma) has forced tens of thousands of Muslims to flee across the border to Bangladesh.
In less than a year it is the second time that a military attack has led to a mass migration.
According to the United Nations, At least 87,000 refugees from Myanmar’s western Rakhine state have fled to nearby Bangladesh. From the time when violence increased in late August and due to overwhelming existing camps for the displaced, Bangladeshi government refused to accept more refugees.
Considering the situation, Turkish president Tayyip Erdoğan has offered help to Bangladesh saying that Turkey will bear the expense of Burmese refugees and Bangladesh should welcome Muslims brothers and sisters.
The most recent eruption of brutality in Rakhine state has taken the lives of more than 400 people and caused a mass departure of Rohingya into Bangladesh.
It all started after the rebelled attacked between Myanmar police and paramilitary posts. They said it was an effort to defend their ethnic minority from bullying by security forces in the country that belong to Buddhist majority.
In response, Myanmar’s military gave a free rein to what it called “clearance operations.” Human Rights Watch says satellite imagery shows the numbers of the building which ruined burned in the Rohingya Muslim village of Chein Khar Li are 700. This village is just one of 17 locations in Rakhine state where the rights group has documented burning of homes and property.
The protest in different Muslims countries across the world has raised the pressure on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto leader of Myanmar and a Nobel Peace Prize winner who once incarnate her country’s battle for democracy and human rights.
The youngest person, who won the Nobel Peace Prize, Malala Yousafzai (belong to Pakistan ), said her “heart breaks” at the pain of Rohingya Muslims and advised Myanmar’s leader, a fellow Nobel laureate, to criticize the violence in opposition to the Rohingya minority.
“Over the last several years I have repeatedly condemned this tragic and shameful treatment,” she stated in a statement posted on Twitter.
“I am still waiting for my fellow Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to do the same. The world is waiting and the Rohingya Muslims are waiting.”
Who are the Rohingya?
The Rohingya is a Muslim minority in Myanmar where the majority is Buddhist community. And Myanmar denies citizenship to Rohingya (about 1 million in numbers) who used to live in the country for ages in Rakhine state. Poor Muslims of Rohingya has often faced aggression and violence from the Buddhist majority, considers them Bangladeshi interlopers, and Bangladesh says they’re Burmese.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry also give a statement that Pakistan is deeply concerned about reports of rising numbers of deaths and the forced migration of Rohingya Muslims. It insists on Myanmar’s government to investigate reports of massacres and to be accountable for all this distraction.
Now the major problem is “the world remains silent in the face of the carnage of Rohingya Muslims. UN can’t see how they have been treated like animals, tortured and killed like by Buddhists in Myanmar”
