An appeal from Burma Task Force, USA

Real genocide is taking place in Burma, while most of us are legitimately worried about refugees in Bangladesh who have survived the genocide.

All reports say now Burmese military is starving Rohingyas into death. No one is allowed to take food to them. An estimated 250,000 are detained in the old and the new camps what the New York Times called "the 21st-century concentration camps".

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Since the remaining Rohingya are in the custody of the Myanmar government, it is responsible for their wellbeing and it must take care of them.

Another 250,000 are trapped in the mountains or forests, or on the seacoast trying to get to Bangladesh. And of course, those who survived by reaching Bangladesh, are in a terrible situation themselves. See below what you can do about them.

3 Clear Asks

After meeting the top government officials of four different countries, including the US and Canada, as well as the UN leadership, we firmly believe that the following 3 point agenda that we have developed is the only right course of action for all those who are willing to stop this genocide:
  1. Call it a Genocide: Determine that it is a genocide, as French President has said, to enable the genocide treaty and R2P to come in  to action.
  2. Establish a Safe Zone: Support the only suggestion on the table offered by the Bangladesh Prime Minister: Establish a safe zone inside Burma with the UN peacekeepers to defend Rohingyas if attacked, until the Kofi Annan recommendations facilitate restoration of Rohingya citizenship and their rights as equal citizens.
  3. Allow Access to Relief:
    • Support full sanctions on Myanmar, minus food and medicine, until they  allow full access to the UN and humanitarian relief and restore the citizenship of Rohingyas.
    • Airlift urgently needed shelter, food supplies, and medicine to Bangladesh with transport helicopters for distribution.

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