Rohingya Refugee Memorial Day in Carlow, Ireland

Carlow, Ireland: Rohingya community of Ireland celebrated Rohingya Refugee Memorial Day (18th November-2011) and prayed magfreth for the soil of murders at new oak community centre with the present of some local and NGO bodies in Carlow, Ireland today.

Some Rohingya community members delivered theirs speeches. Mr Eliys, Mr Rabi, Mrs Hamida, Mr Rahied, Mr Osman and Mr Rafique aid on theirs important speech “As our experience of 17 years. Bangladesh has been playing an offensive unlimited time football game with the ball (Rohingya) against Burmese govt. for decades.

For being well founded fear of Burmese persecution approximately 265,000 Rohingya victims fled from their beloved homeland Burma on 1991-92 and the UN Refugee Agency has come to assist and protect them.

After a year passed Bangladesh govt started its commercial game with Rohingya refugees by forceful repatriation named voluntary repatriation. Its voluntary repatriation was a well planned forceful repatriation as a single, two; three members were repatriated by the police operation in the camp they took away even a single baby of a family to repatriate to Burma.

So refugees demonstrated against forceful named voluntary repatriation at all (19) camps in the same time. Bangladesh govt crackdown numeral polices to fire cats and dogs upon refugee protestors where over a thousand were killed and wounded in numeral.

Like that Bangladesh used its great plot to repatriate Rohingya forcefully in many term where no life security is denied.

Refugees also demonstrated 4 time against forceful repatriation.

No1.Referred on 1993.

No 2. On 1997 more than two hundreds innocent refugees were sent to jail.

No 3. On 6th February 1998 polices arrested an old man named Dil Mohammed, who was killed by beating at police custody at Kutupalong refugee camp to assent for repatriation complaining human traffic (which was completely fabricated ), from their operation.

So refugees hold demands to get rid of such killing and inhuman tortures with the hunger strike to draw attention of world governing bodies but it’s gone vain on 13th february 1998 when Bangladesh government recruited thousands of polices, Ansars, armies, arms forces and so on.

On that day our young leader Md Younus (23?) was killed by inhuman tortures, as putting sands in mouth when saying Allah, many were wounded and more than 100 innocent’s refugees were impressioned.

No 4. The final and important was occurred in 2004. Polices and govt office staffs hunt refugees to repatriate at nights such before. On June 6, 2004 at mid-night CIC (Camp In Charge), Abu Hurraira, with his staffs and polices, entered the camp and plot to arrest some innocent refugees but refugees in competed it with awaken all refugees.

Anyhow CIC compelled to flee to his office by shooting blank fire. Following day refugees started hunger strike again to draw kind attention of such sorts of government inhuman activisms raising demands to UNO, UN refugee agency and Bangladesh govt.

It was a great sorrow that on November 18, 2004 Bangladesh govt in competed the peaceful demonstration. They fired upon refugees and killed Ahsan Ullah(15), Saleh Ahammed(60) and Md Saber(28). see here

Rohingya refugees have signed the day as Rohingya refugee Memorial Day. After the following year we have been celebrating the day.

Alhamdulillah we could able to celebrate it in Ireland this year. I am requesting to the world governing bodies to notice the situation occurring upon Rohingya in the world.

We do not want to death in the sea like boat people any more"

Mrs Hamida said " Rohingya refugees have been facing rape, extortion, arbitrary arrest, human trafficking, fabricated cases and so on in Bangladesh refugees camps."

She also raised questions to the UNO members what is faded to luck of Rohingya in her speech.

All the speech deliverers feel the importance of the Rohingyas' national life to remember the sorrowful moments. And we also feel the assistance of United Nations and European Union as well as ASEAN for durable solution of Rohingya Nation.

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