BROUK Highlight Rohingya Issue on 14th EU- NGO Forum on Human Rights
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| BROUK President Tun Khin and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms Navanethem Pillay at 14th EU-NGO Forum for Human Rights (Photo - BROUK) |
RB News
December 9, 2012
BROUK president Tun Khin attended 14th EU- NGO Forum on human rights 6-7 December 2012 at Brussels, Belgium. During the conference Forum BROUK President raised Rohingya issue with Mr Stavros Lammbrinidis, European Representative for Human rights, Ms Navanethem Pillay United Nations High Commissioner for Human rights.
During the workshop Racism and Xenophobia Tun Khin discussed how Anti-Rohingya and Anti-Muslim campaign is growing and in Burma and also recent violence in Arakan where thousands of Rohingyas were killed by government security forces and Rakhine in June and October.
BROUK President had side-line meeting with United Nation High Commissioner of Human Rights Ms Navanethem Pillay and European Union external Service team. During the side-line meeting BROUK urged
- To put pressure on President Thein Sein to stop violence and crimes against the Rohingya and to protect the lives of helpless Muslims in Arakan.
- To support UN peace-keeping forces being sent to Arakan for the purpose of preventing further death, killing, rape and destruction of the Muslims.
- To support a UN Commission of Inquiry and to send independent international observers to the ground.
- To put pressure on President Thein Sein government (i) to allow unhindered humanitarian aid to the Rohingya victims in all parts of Arakan; (ii) to stop its segregation scheme and replace it with a proactive policy of ‘peaceful co-existence’; and (iii) to repeal or amend the Burma Citizenship Law of 1982 To in order to conform it with international law standards.
