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The “Rohingya
Genocide Day” of August 25 is a memorable day for our people and generations.
For decades, the
Myanmar brute forces and state-sponsored non-state actors have carefully
pre-planned genocidal onslaughts against our innocent people. Families were
massacred, mass graves uncovered, hundreds of villages scorched, thousands of
houses burned to the ground, women gangraped, babies thrown into the flame,
forcing about one million survivors to take refuge in neighbouring
Bangladesh, creating a great humanitarian disaster and a threat to regional
peace and security. We are grateful to the government and people of
Bangladesh, and other receiving countries, for sheltering and taking care of
our refugees, in solidarity and on humanitarian ground. The destruction
of Rohingya people in Myanmar began decades ago. Today they are mere ruins.
Our homeland is irrecoverably destroyed, but the criminals could not destroy
our faith. We have physical, psychological and spiritual attachments to our
homeland. With strong will and determination we will fight to save it in
self-defence. We will not be giving up. Unfortunately,
international community has failed us again and again. Almost all governments
have avoided their treaty obligation to “prevent and punish” genocide according
to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
(CPPCG) 1948, or the Genocide Convention. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi also failed
during her time as a leader and publicly defended the brutalities of the
Myanmar army, even at the International Court of Justice. Thus, the Myanmar
junta realized their criminal policy with impunity and to continue violating
international law without consequences. The attitude of
the Myanmar military towards Rohingya people has not changed. The policies
and stance of the oppositions, including National Unity Government (NUG) and
Arakan Army (AA) are ambiguous. The situation is not conducive for voluntary,
honourable, safe and sustainable return of the Rohingya refugees from
Bangladesh and elsewhere to Arakan. It is crucial to ensure the protection of
the remaining Rohingya living in confined villages, ghettos and apartheidlike
concentration camps in Arakan under the threat of genocide and facing great
humanitarian emergency. We have
continued to seek justice and accountability. We want victims to see justice
served and the cycle of violence is not repeated. We seek an increase in
criminal cases against all perpetrators, whether it is through local or
national courts and at the International Criminal Court. All perpetrators
must be brought to justice. No genocide can be prevented without
intervention. Further, the Rohingya seek genuine inclusion in the creation of
a federal democratic republic in Myanmar, where all ethnic minorities can
co-exist in peace without the threat of genocide and other international
crimes. We welcome the
U.S. government’s formal recognition of “Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingya. The
utmost priority for the Rohingya now is to return home. Meanwhile,
restoration and recognition of Rohingya’s full citizenship and ethnic
identity, guarantee of their collective rights particularly the “Right of
self- determination” along the lines of other ethnicities within the federal
Union of Myanmar are imperative. In conclusion,
today we remember and honour all victims and martyrs. We will remember them
forever. Today we also salute our female survivors, including the rape
victims, for their courageous efforts to survive, even as refugee widows and
orphans. The extent of
barbarity employed in Arakan against our people surpassed everything else
that took place in Burma/Myanmar. That will not and cannot be forgotten. For more information, please contact: |
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Thursday, September 15, 2022
THE ROHINGYA GENOCIDE DAY WILL NOT AND CANNOT BE FORGOTTEN
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