Shamelessness Also Has Its Limits
M.S. Anwar
RB Article
February 7, 2012
Anyone with right sense knows that there has been a GENOCIDE of Rohingyas and Kamans going on in Arakan, Burma for eight months now. It has also time and again proven that the genocide is sponsored by the central government of Myanmar and cooperated by the Rakhine extremists (Maghs) in Arakan. Naturally, these helpless people are crying out to the world in the midst the grave injustices and atrocities being carried out against them. Instead of sympathizing them on the ground of humanity, the ignorant, uneducated and selfish ultranationalists and chauvinists in Burmese society brutally and illogically insist that Rohingyas and Kamans should leave Arakan if they can't bear up the condition.
Now, they are the two friendless communities in Burma and the international are not doing enough to save these people from being exterminated. The constant outcries of Rohingyas and Kamans are falling into deaf ears because of the hypocrisy in the world today dominated by the self-centered capitalists who know that they cannot benefit anything from these dying people. Rohingya community have been a figure of hatred and constant persecutions for decades on account of their different ethnic origin and religion. Rohingya community is the only ethnic people of Indian Origin among the predominantly ethnic people of Tibeto-Burman Origin. Rohingyas are descendants of Indigenous Proto-Australoid Negritos and Indo-Aryan Stock of Arakan, who came to racially mix with other people (settled later) and converted into Islam starting from 788 CE. Though these Negritos and Indo-Aryans were the followers of Hinduism, Mahayana Buddhism and Animism, they never were Tibeto-Burman people as Rakhines (Maghs) are today.
A Mongolian Invasion into Arakan occurred in 957 CE and they overthrew the Indian Kingdom of the time, the Hindu Chandra Dynasty. A new civilization took place and from the inter-marriages with the aboriginal Indo-Aryans, an Indo-Mongoloid race formed. Therefore, these invading Mongolians and Indo-Mongoloid people are the founding fathers of Rakhine race today, who later came to mix with other invading Burman people. Despite Rohingyas are the descendants of these aboriginal people, they are being branded as illegal Bengali immigrants on account of their religion. However, it is bound to explain that Rohingyas and Bengalis are not the same race but two different races of the same origin. But only the Fascists and Neo-Nazis such as many people in Burma think of the purity of their race, religion and country. For the rest, only humanism matters!
Therefore, it is absurdity, delusion and brutality of those fascists who are openly demanding Rohingyas to leave Burma on top of committing continuos heinous crimes against them just because they (Rohingyas) are different to them. For them, only the same or the similar people to them can be citizens of Burma. So, what will you call them? I will just call them SHAMELESS FASCISTS. Below is a typical racist and fascist Rakhine (Magh)'s view on Rohingyas. It is a view of a bigot who calls himself as an intellectual.
"That's our ancestral land. We cannot share that land with any ALIEN immigrants. I am not anti-Muslim or Islam but people are afraid now. The country or state has responsibility to protect BUDDHISM and the welfare of the people.
(Upon being asked why he would do with 800,000 Rohingyas or more) That's very difficult question and very complicated problem. I know every body has human rights. Human Rights is there. They must have human rights. But sometimes, we have to realize that constitution and national sovereignty clash with human rights.
By Dr. Aye Chan, co-writer of Influx Viruses: Illegal Muslims in Arakan, Kanda University Japan (Extracted from Al Jazeera Investigates- The Hidden Genocide)
Following points are to be noted:
- Are Rohingyas ALIENS? If so, what's the definition of Alien?
- Is Myanmar only responsible to protect only BUDDHISM? What about Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism etc in the country?
- Welfare of the people? Which people? Are they those people who are followers of Buddhism and of Tibeto-Burman origin?
- Human Rights is there and sometimes, we have to realize that constitution and national sovereignty clash with human rights? What kinds of constitution and national sovereignty are they if they are not founded on or do not value Human Rights so much so that they need to clash with human rights?
Dr. Aye Chan is a someone who is called an intellectual and historian among Rakhine community. If the scholars shamelessly lie and arbitrarily behave, what about the general illiterate Rakhines (Maghs)? The shocking truth is that his father was from Barua community from Bangladesh, who settled in Arakan in 1950s and once participated in Rohingya cultural festivals in Buthidaung. Baruas and Rohingyas are similar in physical appearances and also culturally and linguistically similar. Indeed, these bigots are shameless. May be being shameless is the second nature of the bigots.
(Now, the world has already known the truth. The world knows who Rohingyas and Kamans are. Yet, they are not coming forward to solve their root problems because they don't fit into their self-interests. If Rohingyas want to survive, they must learn how to struggle to survive like any other persecuted people in the world in the history and now.)
M.S. ANWAR is an activist and student in Malaysia. The writings, here, are of his own and do not reflect the editorial policy of RB.
