BROUK President Tun Khin Interview on HRW Report “All You Can Do is Pray”

RB News

April 26, 2013 

Ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity have been committed against Myanmar's ethnic Rohingya people, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York-based nongovernmental organisation. 

According to the report released on Monday, entitled All You Can Do is Pray, more than 125,000 ethnic Rohingya have been forcibly displaced since two waves of violence in May and October 2012. Satellite images show almost 5,000 structures on land mostly owned by Muslim Rohingya have been destroyed, says the report. 

The October attacks, the report states, were co-ordinated by Myanmar government officials, an ethnic Rakhine nationalist party and Buddhist monks. The deadliest attack took place on October 23, in which witnesses say at least 70 Rohingya - including 28 children - were massacred in Mrauk-U Township. 

BROUK President Tun Khin highlighted in interview “There is no safety and security for Muslims in Burma. There is no talk or solution - to return to Rohingya’s to their original villages and towns, to amend 1982 citizenship law from President Thein Sein .Rohingya IDPs in Sittwe and other towns facing blocking of aid, facing threat from Rakhine and government security forces, many Rohingya women are facing difficulties even to deliver their babies as authorise blocked medical aid, Rohingya can not buy food from market and can not go to hospital, Children are dying day by in IDP camps. It is shocking to see EU is lifting sanctions. Last year EU resolution mentioned that Status for Rohingyas and improving welfares of Rohingyas is one of the Benchmarks and that benchmark has not been met yet, Instead more than 140,000 Rohingya become IDPs living in camps and President Thein Sein is implementing his proposed ethnic cleansing plan to get rid of Rohingya from Towns and villages to camps to send to third world countries”.