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Crisis in Arakan State
Dear friend
Communal violence between Arakan Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya in Arakan State in June has now evolved into government organised repression and a major human rights and humanitarian crisis.
Burmese police, security forces and soldiers are raping, looting, torturing and arbitrarily killing Rohingya people.
There have been mass arrests with Rohingya people kept in detention camps without trial, without food or medical services.
Around 100,000 internally displaced people, both Arakan and Rohingya, are in various locations and not getting enough, or even any aid. The government is blocking aid, and where aid is being delivered mostly Rohingya are being excluded.
Local authorities are refusing to allow many Rohingya people back to some villages, shops or homes in a policy that appears designed to ‘cleanse’ these areas of Rohingya people.
The President of Burma has proposed a policy that amounts to ethnic cleansing, asking the United Nations to arrange for Rohingya people to be placed in camps, removed from Burma and sent to third countries.
Despite this growing crisis and the outrageous public support for ethnic cleansing by the President of Burma, there has been virtual silence and almost no action taken by the British government and rest of the international community. Lives are being lost as a result.
Send a letter to Foreign Secretary William Hague now. Click here to take action:
Download the letter here
Thank you.
Dear friend
Communal violence between Arakan Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya in Arakan State in June has now evolved into government organised repression and a major human rights and humanitarian crisis.
Burmese police, security forces and soldiers are raping, looting, torturing and arbitrarily killing Rohingya people.
There have been mass arrests with Rohingya people kept in detention camps without trial, without food or medical services.
Around 100,000 internally displaced people, both Arakan and Rohingya, are in various locations and not getting enough, or even any aid. The government is blocking aid, and where aid is being delivered mostly Rohingya are being excluded.
Local authorities are refusing to allow many Rohingya people back to some villages, shops or homes in a policy that appears designed to ‘cleanse’ these areas of Rohingya people.
The President of Burma has proposed a policy that amounts to ethnic cleansing, asking the United Nations to arrange for Rohingya people to be placed in camps, removed from Burma and sent to third countries.
Despite this growing crisis and the outrageous public support for ethnic cleansing by the President of Burma, there has been virtual silence and almost no action taken by the British government and rest of the international community. Lives are being lost as a result.
Send a letter to Foreign Secretary William Hague now. Click here to take action:
Download the letter here
Thank you.
