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BROUK Invitation to “Protest against Extrajudicial Killing of Rohingya in Northern Arakan, Burma”.
October 16, 2016   Articles, Flyers, Header Images, Interviews, Messages, Pictures, Press Releases   No comments
Since 9th October Myanmar military and police forces have been indiscriminately killing the Rohingyas and torching their homes and villages.  At least 150 Rohingyas, including old men, women and children, and  4 Rohingya villages were burned down in Maungdaw Township producing, as of today, more than 10000 internally displaced people causing a humanitarian disaster.  Due to curfew order and blockade, there is an acute shortage of food, medicine, and other essentials. The situation is exponentially worsening. It is a violation of international law and Geneva Convention.
We Rohingya Community in UK holding a demonstration in front of Burmese Embassy  in London to stop extrajudicial  killing of Rohingyas in Northern Arakan.  We would like to invite you to join with us and  raise your voice to protect Rohingya lives in Arakan. Thank you so much.
The demonstration will take place as follow;
Place                   In front of Burmese Embassy
Address “Burmese Embassy” 19A Charles Street, London, W1J 5DX.
Nearest Tube Station: Green Park (Piccadilly & Victoria Line) King Charles Street, London SW1A2AH.
For more information please contact, Tun Khin +44 7888714866.
“Save Rohingya from ANNIHILATION” Joint Statement – 16 October 2016
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Joint Statement                                                                16 October 2016
We, the undersigned Rohingya organisations express our serious concern on the continued military and police crackdown on the civilian population in Northern Arakan.
Since 9 October, under the pretext of looking for attackers, the Myanmar military and police forces have been indiscriminately killing the Rohingya, torching and plundering their homes and villages. Two mass graves were found and about 100 Rohingya civilians were extra-judicially killed that included old men, women and children. At least 5 Rohingya villages were set ablaze destroying many houses or whole villages.
The grave situation has caused many Rohingya to flee their villages. An estimated 5000 Rohingya have been internally displaced causing great humanitarian disaster. Due to curfew order and blockade, there is an acute shortage of food, medicine, and other essentials. The situation is exponentially worsening. It is a violation of international law and Geneva Convention.
Whilst these crimes against humanity have been manifestly committed by the joint armed forces with impunity, the authorities, as a part of an evil design, are spreading lies to the media that “Bengalis” — a racial slur in reference to the Rohingya people—are burning down their own houses to leave the international community in a state of confusion.
We are disappointed by the recent statement of the EU and request them to make an objective assessment of the situation on the ground and help the victims of human rights violations on humanitarian grounds.
We also request the State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to intervene into the matter and put an end to the military crackdowns on the civilian population.
In the face of the current humanitarian disaster, we urge upon UN with the international community:
(a)  To provide full protection to the helpless Rohingya community in Northern Arakan.
(b)  To provide the victims with necessary humanitarian assistance, including healthcare.
(c)  To investigate the whole extent of the event and bring those responsible to justice.
Last not least, we are a peace-loving people believe in peaceful co-existence. And we demand a peaceful resolution to the crisis.
Bradford Rohingya Community in UK
Burmese Rohingya Community in Denmark
For more information, please contact:
Tun Khin (Mobile):        +44 7888714866
Ko Ko Lin (Mobile):       +880 1726068413
Nay San Lwin(Mobile):  +49 69 26022349
STOP KILLING INNOCENT ROHINGYAS IN ARAKAN
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Joint Statement                                                Date 10th October 2016
STOP KILLING INNOCENT ROHINGYAS IN ARAKAN
We, the undersigned organizations, are deeply concerned about a violent crackdown killing innocent Rohingyas which began yesterday in Maungdaw, Arakan State, Myanmar.
Last Saturday night/early Sunday nine police officers were killed in attacks by unknown assailants on three police posts in Maungdaw, Arakan State.
After the incident more than 10 innocent Rohingyas were killed by Burmese military forces and police forces. Mass arrests are taking place. Many Rohingya women were arrested in Wabek village, in Maungdaw Township.
In the past few hours 7 Rohingyas were shot dead by military forces in Myo Thugyi village in Maungdaw.
Central governments in Myanmar have officially stated that it is unknown who carried out the attack. There are no known armed Rohingya organizations, but other non-Rohingya armed organizations do exist in Arakan  State. It appears some security or local government officials are privately briefing media that Rohingya people carried out the attack. There is no evidence for this. They may be doing so because the attack took place in Rohingya areas, or to use the attack as a pretext for a crackdown on Rohingya.
These attacks must not be used by security and military forces as a pretext for a violent crackdown on the Rohingya involving arbitrary executions, mass arrests and further persecution of the Rohingya people. This already appears to be happening. These are criminal acts against innocent and must cease immediately.
The National League for Democracy led government must take immediate steps to ensure rule of law is followed by the military, police and other security services.
Action must also be taken against nationalists who are trying to exploit the deaths of these police officers to whip up anti Rohingya and anti-Muslim hatred and violence.
It is also vital that the international community intervene with the NLD led government to ensure it enforces the rule of law.
We, therefore, request the international community, United Nations, OIC, EU, ASEAN, US and UK to put pressure on NLD-led government:
(1)   To stop the killing of innocent Rohingyas in Maungdaw and other parts of Arakan
(2)  To restore all basic freedoms, including freedom of movement, marriage, education, healthcare and peaceful-living, and to lift all aid restrictions in Rakhine/Arakan State.
(3)  To end all persecution and ghettoization and to immediately rehabilitate and reintegrate all IDPs in their original places and properties.
Meanwhile, we urge upon the international community to support a UN Commission of Inquiry into the atrocity crimes against Rohingya and other Burmese people in order to publicly announce its findings and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Signatories;
Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK
Bradford Rohingya Community in UK
Burmese Rohingya Community in Denmark
Burmese Rohingya Association Japan
Burmese Rohingya Community Australia
Rohingya Community in Germany
Rohingya Community in Switzerland
Rohingya Organisation Norway
Rohingya Community in Finland
Rohingya Community in Italy
Rohingya Community in Sweden
Rohingya Society Netherlands
Rohingya Society Malaysia
Rohingya Arakanese Refugee Committee
For more information, please contact:
Tun Khin :         Mobile  +44 7888714866
Nay San Lwin:  Mobile  +49 69 26022349
Mr. Tun Khin, President Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK is an interview on BBC World News London studio on 24th August 2016, about the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State Chaired by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
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Mr. Tun Khin, President Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK had is an interview on BBC World News London studio on 24th August 2016.
Mr. Tun Khin spoke about the advisory commission on Rakhine State was formed, the commission is chaired by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Mr. Tun Khin welcomed the new Arakan State Advisory Commission formed and especially former “UN Secretary General Kofi Annan” will serve as the chairman.
He added, we will see how this commission will takes forward its work, we hope that having international members will ensure that recommendations are in line with the international laws.
Mr. Tun Khin also showed his concern that “It is very disappointing that a commission that will decide the future of the Rohingya does not have any Rohingya representative on it”. Rohingya being excluded from most of the commissions or Rohingya’s issue discussion, the international community should not keep going along with it, because none can find any permanent resolve without Rohingya representative.
He said, the reality is that the long term peace and stability can only be achieved through the inclusion of Rohingya voices. So the commission should have to consult with all the groups in Rakhine State including the Rohingyas.
With or without the commission, the plight of the Rohingyas is well known and well documented. There’re clear steps that the government can and should take to improve the situation.
A first step would be lifting restrictions on access to humanitarian aid and assistance.
Another would be ensuring the communities especially Rohingya community should have access to healthcare (specially lifesaving healthcare), education and employment opportunities.
These steps could be taken now and would go a long way to restoring the Rohingya’s dignity.
At the end Mr. Tun Khin stressed that! we also need a UN Commission of inquiry to investigate these crimes as this commission will not be investigating human rights violations against the Rohingya and those responsible for, and the Burmese government is not investigating this either, despite a recent UN report which states that “these human rights violations could constitute crimes against humanity” therefore, we still need a UN Commission of inquiry to be set up to investigate these crimes against Rohingyas.
“Burma’s Rohingya Need International Help Now More Than Ever”
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“Burma’s Rohingya Need International Help Now More Than Ever”
By TUN KHIN
THE huffington post
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Earlier this year the United Nations published a report ‘Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar’, which concluded that human rights violations against us could amount to crimes against humanity.
The report also stated that the government of Burma needed to take urgent action to end the anti-Rohingya policies of past governments. The response of the NLD led government and rest of the international community was silence. Once again, evidence of violations of international law have been provided, and once again no action has been taken. Our suffering goes on.
Worse, the day after the UN report was published, European Union diplomats based in Burma announced that in response to a demand by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to avoid using the word Rohingya, they would also not use the word Rohingya when talking about Rohingya people.
The denial of our ethnic identity is an integral part of the discrimination that we face. Nationalists and the government administration under former President Thein Sein have deliberately and tactically escalated controversy over the use of the name Rohingya as part of their campaign to say we are not an ethnic group in Burma and don’t belong there. They called us Bengali instead, claiming we are immigrants from Bangladesh. Instead of standing up to these people and their lies, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has said because the name is controversial, diplomats should call us ‘Muslims from Rakhine state’.
This is seen as a victory by nationalists. Rather than being pacified by this so-called compromise, they are now demanding the Burmese government officially call us Bengali. Not calling us Rohingya has encouraged them. In effect, the government of Burma and European Union have sided with racists and nationalists rather than with the oppressed and vulnerable.
My people are dying in the camps where they fled to four years ago after they fled mobs burning their homes and villagers. They are dying in part because the new government has kept in place severe restrictions on delivery of aid. In towns and villages my people live in poverty and fear, afraid of attack or arrest at any time. My people are denied the right to travel around the country, are denied citizenship, and denied the right to vote. We are denied access to healthcare. Our children are denied access to higher and university education. We had so much hope in an NLD government, but so far, since they came to power, things have continued to get worse, not better.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi says her government needs time and space to deal with this issue. As Rohingya we understand that there is much hatred against us in Burma. Fully addressing this will take time. But in the short term restrictions on aid can be lifted, action taken against those inciting hatred and violence, and the process of reforming the 1982 citizenship law which is at the root of depriving us of so many of our rights, could be started. My people are dying and suffering so much, we don’t have time. We need action now.
At the same time, violations of law don’t get much more serious than crimes against humanity. Yet having concluded that these crimes might be happening, no action is being taken by the UN or government of Burma. Imagine if a police force said a murder had been committed, but we are not going to investigate it. That’s the equivalent of what the United Nations are doing now.
At a time when there is so much hope for so many others in Burma, this is our most desperate hour. Pressure needs to be placed on the NLD led government to lift government restrictions on humanitarian aid to the Rohingya still living in squalid camps four years after being forced to flee their homes. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi must be made to live up to her previous statement that the discriminatory 1982 citizenship law should be reviewed. And the United Nations must establish an international investigation into human rights violations against my people. Next month’s UN General Assembly sessions are the opportunity to do this.
Report after report have concluded that multiple violations of international law are being committed against the Rohingya. No government can say they don’t know what is going on. It is to their shame that they allowed it to carry on.
“Tun Khin is President of Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK and Leading voice of the Rohingya in Exile.”
BROUK – USA – Lobby Trip 2016 (23rd-28th May 2016)
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Mr. Tun Khin President Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK-(BROUK) is on a trip to United State. In this current crisis situation of Rohingya community, in inside Myanmar (Burma) and outside the country, all Rohingya Refugees need special assistance and help from outside the world. In this regard Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK-(BROUK) is lobbying with US State Department and other important dignitaries of the state.
Mr Tun Khin meeting with Assistant Secretary of State Tom Malinowski and other US government officials in Washington DC.
Mr. Tun Khin briefed about the update situation of Rohingyas in Arakan & Rohingya Refugees all over the world. He urged immediate action to protect Rohingyas and their health condition in concentration camps. Mr Tun Khin showed his concerned and highlighted that Burma’s persecuted Rohingya are slowly succumbing to starvation, despair and disease in the concentration camps.
Tun Khin Said, “These Aren’t Refugee Camps, They’re Concentration Camps, and People Are Dying in There”
BROUK President Mr. Tun Khin also met with US Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration Department, where he had good discussion on Resettlement of Rohingya Refugees.
Furthermore Tun Khin raised Rohingya refugee’s situation in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh and India.
Mr. Tun Khin President Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK-(BROUK) said,
“If you want to see to stop Persecution against Rohingya in Burma, International Community MUST intervene”.
NLD – Led Government Must Act To End Rohingya Crisis
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London, 07 April, (Asiantribune.com):
Members of the European Burma Network (EBN) call upon the new government of Burma to act swiftly to start to address the Rohingya crisis in Burma/Myanmar.
The past five years have seen a dramatic escalation of human rights abuses, repression, discrimination and violence against the Rohingya.
Around 150,000 people have been displaced and are living in camps which have been described by senior United Nations officials as having some of the worst conditions in the world. Well over 100,000 Rohingya, more than ten percent of the populations have fled the country in the face of increasing repression, of whom thousands are believed to have drowned fleeing by boat.
Human Rights Watch and Fortify Rights have documented human rights abuses which meet the legal definition of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. Experts on genocide have also warned of the dangers of genocide against the Rohingya Most Rohingya were stripped of their right to vote in last year’s election, were excluded from the recent national census, and continue to be denied their legal right to citizenship.
For decades military government of Burma have pursued a twin track policy of repression and impoverishment in an attempt to drive the Rohingya ethnic group out of the country. The new NLD led government faces enormous challenges in addressing this legacy. However, given the seriousness of the humanitarian and human rights crisis, bold and decisive action is needed immediately to start to address this issue.
Members of the European Burma Network endorse the four action steps proposed by the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK which the NLD could implement to start to address the Rohingya crisis.
Action against hate-speech and extremists – Take action to prevent hate speech and incitement of violence, and demonstrate moral leadership, with Aung San Suu Kyi and other NLD leaders personally and specifically speaking out against prejudice and hatred, and challenging the extreme nationalist narrative.
Ensure humanitarian access – Immediately lift all restrictions on the operations of international aid agencies and also start to devote more government resources to assisting IDPs and isolated villagers. Ensure safe return for all those displaced in Rakhine state.
Reform or repeal of the 1982 Citizenship Law – The lack of full citizenship lies at the root of most of the discrimination faced by the Rohingya. There is no way this issue can be avoided, and it is much better that an NLD-led government bite the bullet and deal with it at the start of their period in government when they have a new and strong mandate, strong party unity, and elections are years away. It will have to be addressed at some point. Better it is done while the NLD-led government is strongest.
Justice and accountability – An NLD-led government should set up a credible independent investigation with international experts to investigate these crimes and propose action. If the NLD government fails to do so, the United Nations should establish its own Commission of Inquiry.
Implementing these steps immediately not only makes sense on human rights and humanitarian grounds, but also politically. The NLD led government, with its new and overwhelming mandate, will be at its strongest in its first year, and therefore more able to withstand any short term controversy over unpopular but necessary measures. Failure to address the crisis will lead to continued suffering, human rights violations and deaths, much of which could have been avoided, and may also be more potentially destabilising to the government in the long term.
In many areas the ability of the NLD led government to act to address key problems faces difficulties created by the limitations on its power in the military drafted constitution. Acting to implement these four steps is within the power of the government, if it chooses to act.
As organisations which responded to the call of the NLD and democracy activists in Burma/Myanmar for international support, we remain committed to helping to promote human rights for everyone in Burma/Myanmar, regardless of race or religion. We trust that now that you are in a position to act to promote human rights, you will do so.
Actions Birmanie (Belgium)
Association Suisse-Birmanie
Burma Action Ireland
Burma Campaign UK
Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK
Christian Solidarity Worldwide
Info Birmanie (France)
Society for Threatened Peoples
Swedish Burma Committee
http://www.asiantribune.com/node/88811
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Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK)
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ရက္စြဲ ။ ။ ၂၀၁၆ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဧျပီလ (၁) ရက္။
ေလးစားအပ္ ပါေသာ သမၼတၾကီး ဦးထင္ေက်ာ္ ခင္ဗ်ား-
ျပည္ေထာင္စု သမၼတ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္၏ သမၼတၾကီး အျဖစ္ ေရြးခ်ယ္ တင္ေျမႇာက္ ခံရျခင္း အေပၚကြၽႏု္ပ္တို႔ ျမန္မာ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာ အသင္း – ယူေက (BROUK) မွ ၾကိဳဆို လိုက္ပါသည္။ ဤသို႕ ေရြးခ်ယ္ တင္ေျမႇာက္ခံ ရျခင္းအား ကြၽႏု္ပ္တို႕ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္၏ ဒီမိုကေရစီ လမ္းမၾကီး အတြက္  အေရးပါ အရာေရာက္ေသာ မွတ္တိုင္တစ္ခု အျဖစ္ ကၽြႏု္ပ္တို႕႐ႈျမင္ပါသည္။ ကြၽႏု္ပ္တို႕၏ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ၾကီး အတြက္ ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ စြန္႕လႊတ္စေတးျခင္း ျပဳခဲ့သည့္ ကြၽႏု္ပ္တို႕အားလုံး၏ မိခင္ၾကီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ၾကီးမားေသာ ေအာင္ျမင္မႈ အတြက္လည္း ကြၽႏု္ပ္တို႕ ဂုဏ္ယူပါသည္။
ျမန္မာ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာ အသင္း – ယူေက (BROUK) သည္ လူမ်ိဳး၊ ဘာသာမခြဲျခားဘဲ ျမန္မာျပည္သူျပည္သား အားလုံး အတြက္ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရး ႏွင့္ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ရရွိေစရန္ ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာကပင္ ၾကိဳးပမ္းလာခဲ့ေသာ အဖြဲ႕ အစည္းၾကီး တစ္ရပ္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ကြၽႏု္ပ္တို႕အဖြဲ႕အစည္းၾကီးသည္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အေနာက္ပိုင္းေဒသရွိ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ား ရင္ဆိုင္ေနရေသာ ျပင္းထန္သည့္ ဖိႏွိပ္မႈမ်ားအပါအဝင္ တိုင္းရင္း သားတို႕ရွိရာ ေဒသမ်ားအတြင္း လူ႕အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈမ်ား အဆုံးသတ္ သြားေစရန္ NLD LA ႏွင့္ UK ရွိ ျမန္မာ့ လူ႕အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားႏွင့္ အတူတကြ ၾကိဳးပမ္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ ခဲ့ပါသည္။ ကြၽႏု္ပ္တို႕ ၏ BROUK မွ ေထာက္ခံ အားေပးၾကိဳးပမ္းခဲ့သည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္းမ်ားသည္ ယခုအခါ လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္မ်ားအျဖစ္ လည္း ေကာင္း၊ ဝန္ၾကီးမ်ားအျဖစ္ လည္းေကာင္း၊ အျခားအဆင့္ျမင့္ အရပ္သားအစိုးရ ရာထူးဌာန မ်ားတြင္ လည္း ေကာင္း အသီးသီး တာဝန္ထမ္းေဆာင္လွ်က္ ရွိေနၾကသည့္ အတြက္ မ်ားစြာႏွစ္ေထာင္း အားရေက်နပ္မိပါသည္။ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအား ဆယ္စုႏွစ္မ်ားစြာ အစဥ္အဆက္ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခဲ့သည့္ အာဏာရွင္ႏွင့္ အစိုးရမ်ား လက္ထက္ တြင္ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအား ေဖ်ာက္ဖ်က္ပစ္ရန္ အလို႕ငွါ ဆင္းရဲမြဲေတမႈႏွင့္ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္ မႈဆိုင္ရာ မူဝါဒမ်ားကို တစ္ျပိဳင္နက္ထဲခ်မွတ္က်င့္သုံးခဲ့ပါသည္။ သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္အစိုးရ လက္ထက္ လူထု ေထာက္ခံမႈရရွိေစရန္ ႏိုင္ငံတြင္းဗုဒၶဘာသာအမ်ိဳးသားေရးဝါဒႏွင့္ မြတ္စ္လင္မ္ဆန္႕က်င္ေရးလႈပ္ရွားမႈမ်ားကို အသုံးျပဳရန္ၾကိဳးစားအားထုတ္ခဲ့ေသာေၾကာင့္႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအေပၚ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရးခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈမ်ားသည္ သိသာ ထင္ရွားစြာျမင့္တက္ခဲ့ပါသည္။
႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအေပၚလူ႕အခြင့္အေရးခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈမ်ားသည္လူမ်ိဳးတုန္းသန္႕စင္ျခင္းႏွင့္လူသားထု အေပၚ ျပစ္မႈက်ဴးလြန္ျခင္းတို႕၏ တရားဥပေဒဆိုင္ရာ အဓိပၸာယ္ဖြင့္ဆိုခ်က္ႏွင့္ ကိုက္ညီေၾကာင္း လူ႕အခြင့္အေရး ေစာင့္ ၾကည့္သူမ်ားအဖြဲ႕ (Human Rights Watch) မွေဖာ္ျပခဲ့ပါသည္။ လူသားထုအေပၚျပစ္မႈ က်ဴးလြန္ျခင္း ေျမာက္ ေၾကာင္း အေထာက္အထားမ်ားကို Fortify Rights အဖြဲ႕မွလည္း ေတြ႕ရွိျပီးျဖစ္ပါသည္။ Yale Law School မွ Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic၊ Fortify Rights ႏွင့္ Queen Mary University London မွ International State Crime Initiative တို႕အတူတကြ ေလ့လာမႈမ်ားအရလည္း ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ိဳးတုန္း ေဖ်ာက္ ဖ်က္မႈ အေထာက္အထားမ်ားကိုေတြ႕ရွိရပါသည္။ ၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ား ထြက္ေျပးခိုလႈံခဲ့ေသာ စခန္း မ်ားတြင္လည္း လူ႕အခြင့္အေရးခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈျပႆနာမ်ားရွိေနျပီး၊ Arakan National Party (ရခိုင္အမ်ိဳးသား ပါတီ) မွ အဆင့္ျမင့္ပါတီဝင္မ်ားသည္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအား မုန္းတီးေရးအတြက္ ဆက္လက္လႈပ္ရွား ေဆာင္ရြက္ ေနၾကပါသည္။
NLD အစိုးရသည္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမုန္းတီးဆန္႕က်င္ေရးျမႇင့္တက္မႈမူဝါဒမ်ားႏွင့္ ဥပေဒမ်ားကို ရပ္ဆိုင္းသြား ေစရန္ဆယ္စုႏွစ္မ်ားစြာအတြင္းပထမဦးဆုံးၾကိဳးပမ္းတင္ျပလာရုံမက၊အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာဥပေဒခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈမ်ားအားအဆုံးသတ္ေစကာတရားဥပေဒစိုးမိုးေရးႏွင့္ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာလူ႕အခြင့္အေရးစံႏွုန္းမ်ားကို လက္ေတြ႕ အသုံးခ်ေဆာင္ရြက္လွ်က္ရွိပါသည္။
႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအေပၚ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရးခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈမ်ားႏွင့္ မတရားမႈမ်ား၏ ေရေသာက္ျမစ္ အေၾကာင္း ရင္းမ်ားအား ေဖာ္ထုတ္ရန္ ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာၾကာရွည္မည္ျဖစ္ရာ၊ ၎လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္အား စတင္အေကာင္အထည္ ေဖာ္ရန္လည္းေကာင္း၊ အသက္မ်ားစြာအားကယ္တင္ရန္ႏွင့္ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရးခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈမ်ား ေလ်ာ့နည္းသြား ေစရန္ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈတို႕အေပၚ ခ်က္ျခင္းထိေရာက္မႈရွိေစရန္လည္းေကာင္း NLD အစိုးရအေနျဖင့္ အစိုးရ သက္ တမ္းပထမေျခာက္လတာကာလအတြင္းေဆာင္ရြက္သင့္ႏိုင္သည့္လက္ေတြ႕ေျခလွမ္းမ်ားကိုေအာက္ပါ အတိုင္း အၾကံျပဳတင္ျပအပ္ပါသည္။
၁) အမုန္းဝါဒျဖန္႕ခ်ီသူမ်ားႏွင့္ အစြန္းေရာက္မ်ားပေပ်ာက္ေရးေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်က္။
၂) လူသားခ်င္းစာနာသည့္ လမ္းဖြင့္ေပးမႈႏွင့္ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား၎တို႕ေနအိမ္မ်ားသို႕အႏၲရာယ္ကင္းစြာျပန္လည္ ေနထိုင္ေရး။
၃) ၁၉၈၂ ႏိုင္ငံသားဥပေဒအား ျပင္ဆင္ျခင္း (သို႕မဟုတ္) ဖ်က္သိမ္းျခင္း။
၄) တရားမွ်တမႈႏွင့္ တာဝန္ယူမႈ။
ေျခလွမ္းေလးခု-
၁) အမုန္းဝါဒျဖန္႕ခ်ီသူမ်ားႏွင့္ အစြန္းေရာက္မ်ားပေပ်ာက္ေရးေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်က္။
က႑အစုံပါဝင္သည့္က်ယ္ျပန္႕တာရွည္ေသာ နည္းဗ်ဴဟာကို စီမံခ်မွတ္ရမည္ျဖစ္ျပီး၊ ယင္းသို႕စီမံခ်မွတ္ရာတြင္ ျမန္မာ့လူ႕အဖြဲ႕အစည္းေဒသအသီးသီးမွကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေပါင္းစုံႏွင့္အတူႏိုင္ငံတကာမွကြၽမ္းက်င္သူပညာရွင္မ်ား ႏွင့္ႏိုင္ငံတကာလူ႕အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမွအဆင့္ျမင့္အစိုးရဝန္ၾကီးအဆင့္တို႕ ပါဝင္ေသာအမ်ိဳးသားညီလာခံၾကီး တစ္ရပ္ မွ အစျပကာ၊ အေရးပါေသာအရင္းအျမစ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ကြၽမ္းက်င္နည္းပညာတို႕အား ႏိုင္ငံတကာလူ႕အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမွ ပံ့ပိုးကူညီသည့္အခါ လက္ခံရယူသင့္သည္။ ဤလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္အားအေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ရန္ အခ်ိန္ယူရမည္ျဖစ္ ေသာ္လည္း၊ စီမံကိန္းခ်မွတ္ျခင္းအား အလွ်င္အျမန္စတင္သင့္သည္။
လိုရင္းအားျဖင့္ဆိုရမူ၊ NLD အေနျဖင့္ေဆာင္ရြက္ရမည့္ အျခားေျခလွမ္းႏွစ္ခုရွိပါသည္။ ပထမေျခလွမ္း မွာ အမုန္းဝါဒျဖန္႕ခ်ီမႈမ်ားႏွင့္ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈလံႈ႕ေဆာ္ျခင္းတို႕အားကာကြယ္သည့္အေနျဖင့္ လံႈ႕ေဆာ္သူမ်ားႏွင့္ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈအတြက္စည္းရုံးသူတို႕အား ဥပေဒအရႏွိပ္ကြပ္ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ယေန႕အခ်ိန္အထိ၊ အမုန္းဝါဒ လံႈ႕ေဆာ္မႈမ်ားႏွင့္ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈတို႕အား လုံးဝဥႆံုအေရးယူျခင္းမရွိေသးပါ။
ဒုတိယေျခလွမ္းမွာ၊ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္အျခား NLD ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားပုဂၢိလ္အားျဖင့္ဦးေဆာင္ ကာ မတရားမႈမ်ားႏွင့္အမုန္းဝါဒျဖန္႕မႈမ်ားကိုအထူးသျဖင့္ ဆန္႕က်င္ေဟာေျပာ၍ အစြန္းေရာက္အမ်ိဳးသားေရး ဝါဒျဖန္႕ခ်က္မ်ားကို တန္ျပန္ရမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲရလဒ္သည္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ဩဇာ ႏွင့္ လူထု ေထာက္ခံမႈအား ေဖာ္ညႊန္းလွ်က္ရွိပါသည္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ဦးေဆာင္မႈသည္ အေရးပါေသာ ေျပာင္းလဲမႈအား ေဆာင္က်ဥ္းႏိုင္ရုံမက၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရွိ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူ႕အခြင့္ အေရးကိုေထာက္ခံပံ့ပိုး လွ်က္ရွိသူ မ်ားမွ ၎တို႕၏ ဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖာ္ရာတြင္ အကာအကြယ္ႏွင့္ ယုံၾကည္မႈမ်ား ရွိလာေစႏိုင္ပါသည္။ ဤနည္းအား ျဖင့္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာႏွင့္ဆိုင္ေသာ ေဆြးေႏြးမႈမ်ားႏွင့္စကားစစ္ထိုးျငင္းခုံမႈမ်ားအေပၚအေျပာင္းအလဲရွိလာႏိုင္ပါသည္။
၂) လူသားခ်င္းစာနာသည့္ လမ္းဖြင့္ေပးမႈ
NLD ဦးေဆာင္ေသာအစိုးရအေနျဖင့္ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္၌ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအကူအညီေပးေရး အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား အေပၚခ်မွတ္ထားသည့္ကန္႕သတ္ ခ်က္မ်ားကို ခ်က္ျခင္းရုပ္သိမ္းရန္ႏွင့္ အကူအညီေပးေရး လုပ္သားမ်ား၏လုံျခဳံေရးအတြက္အာမခံခ်က္ေပးရန္ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္။
NLD အစိုးရအေနျဖင့္ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမ်ား၊ သီးျခားလြင့္စင္ေနထိုင္ေနရေသာ ရြာသူရြာသားမ်ားအားအေထာက္ အပံ့ျပဳႏိုင္သည့္ အစိုးရအရင္းအျမစ္မ်ားကို ပိုမိုေပးအပ္ရန္။
ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အဆင့္ခ်မွတ္ထားသည့္အလုံးစုံေသာကန္႕သတ္မႈမ်ားႏွင့္ဥပေဒစည္းမ်ဥ္းမ်ားအား က်ယ္ျပန္႕စြာ ေဖာ္ ထုတ္ကာ ခ်က္ျခင္းရုပ္သိမ္းရန္။
႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားႏွင့္ရခိုင္မ်ားသည္ ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ အတူယွဥ္တြဲေနထိုင္လာခဲ့ ၾကသည္ျဖစ္ရာ၊ နားလည္ သည္းခံမႈ၊ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းမႈအျပည့္ျဖင့္ ဆက္လက္အတူတကြယွဥ္တြဲေနထိုင္ႏိုင္ၾကရန္ ကြၽႏု္ပ္တို႕အားလုံး ေလ့က်င့္ ပ်ိဳးေထာင္ရမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ႏိုင္ငံေရးအၾကပ္အတည္းမ်ားကိုေျဖရွင္းသည့္နည္းလမ္းအျဖစ္အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈ အသုံး ျပဳျခင္းကို ကြၽႏု္ပ္တို႕႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားမွ ကန္႕ကြက္ဆန္႕က်င္ပါသည္။ ကြၽႏု္ပ္တို႕သည္ကြၽႏု္ပ္တို႕၏ အမိႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ ၾကီးျဖစ္သည့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၌႐ိုးရွင္းေအးခ်မ္းစြာ ေနထိုင္ၾကလိုပါသည္။ ကြၽႏု္ပ္တို႕သည္သီးျခားျပည္နယ္ကိုလည္း မလိုလားသလို၊တစ္စုံတစ္ဦးအေပၚကြၽႏု္ပ္တို႕၏ ကိုးကြယ္ရာဘာသာတရားႏွင့္ယဥ္ေက်းမႈတို႕ လႊမ္းမိုးရန္လည္း မလိုလားပါ။ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသည္မ်ားစြာေသာလူမ်ိဳးမ်ားႏွင့္ဘာသာအယူဝါဒတို႕ရွင္သန္ရာႏိုင္ငံျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ေနထိုင္ ရာေပ်ာက္ဆုံးလွ်က္ရွိေသာ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ ၎တို႕၏ မူလဘူတေက်းရြာမ်ားသို႕ အႏၲရာယ္ကင္းစြာျပန္ ႏိုင္ရန္ႏွင့္ ယင္းသည့္အတြက္ လိုအပ္သည့္ လုံျခဳံေရးအကာအကြယ္မ်ားကို ျပည္နယ္အစိုးရမွ တာဝန္ယူရမည္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
၃) ၁၉၈၂ ႏိုင္ငံသားဥပေဒအား ျပင္ဆင္ျခင္း (သို႕မဟုတ္) ဖ်က္သိမ္းျခင္း။
႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ား၏ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ားျငင္းပယ္ခံရသည့္ အေျခအျမစ္အေၾကာင္းတရားမွာ ၁၉၈၂ ႏိုင္ငံသား ဥပေဒျဖစ္ပါသည္။ လြတ္လပ္စြာခရီးသြားလာခြင့္၊ က်န္းမာေရးႏွင့္ပညာေရးဝန္ေဆာင္မႈ မ်ားရယူခံစားခြင့္ တို႕ အပါအဝင္႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာတို႕ရင္ဆိုင္ၾကဳံေတြ႕ေနရသည့္မ်ားစြာေသာခြဲျခားခံရမႈတို႕သည္တင္းျပည့္က်ပ္ျပည့္ႏိုင္ငံသား အျဖစ္ကို မရရွိျခင္းအေပၚမူတည္ပါသည္။ NLD ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ အစိုးရအေနျဖင့္ ခိုင္မာေသာလူထုေထာက္ခံမႈ၊ ခိုင္ခန္႕ေသာပါတီစည္းလုံးမႈ၊ႏွစ္မ်ားစြာလိုေသးသည့္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတို႕ကိုအားျပဳကာအစိုးရသက္တမ္းအဦး အစ ၌ပင္ အခက္အခဲမ်ားရွိလင့္ကစား၊အထက္ပါအေရးကိစၥမ်ားကို ျပဳရန္ဦးစားေပးေဆာင္ရြက္ႏိုင္ပါေသးသည္။ ၎ဥပေဒအား ျပင္ဆင္ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္းသည္ မုခ်အျငင္းပြါးဖြယ္ရာျဖစ္ေသာ္လည္း၊ ေရွာင္လႊဲရႏိုင္သည္ေတာ့ မဟုတ္ပါ။ တစ္ခုေသာအခ်ိန္ကာလ၌ ယင္းကိစၥအားကိုင္တြယ္ေျဖရွင္းရမည္သာျဖစ္ပါသည္။ NLD ဦးေဆာင္ ေသာ အစိုးရ အခိုင္မာဆုံးျဖစ္ေနသည့္ အေျခအေနတြင္ ကိုင္တြယ္ေျဖရွင္းျခင္းသည္ပို၍သင့္ေတာ္ေကာင္းမြန္ လွပါသည္။
၄) တရားမွ်တမႈႏွင့္ တာဝန္ယူမႈ။
႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအေပၚ မ်ိဳးတုန္းသတ္ျဖတ္မႈ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေခ်၊ လူသားျဖစ္တည္မႈအားက်ဴးလြန္သည့္ ျပစ္မႈ ႏွင့္ မ်ိဳးတုန္းသန္႕စင္ေဖ်ာက္ဖ်က္ျခင္းအပါအဝင္ မ်ားစြာေသာ ႏိုင္ငံတကာဥပေဒမ်ားကို ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္သည့္ ထင္ရွား ေသာအေထာက္အထားမ်ားရွိေနပါသည္။ ဤျပစ္မႈမ်ားအား ကိုင္တြယ္ေျဖရွင္းျခင္းမျပဳ၍မရသလို၊ ဤျပစ္မႈမ်ား အတြက္ တာဝန္ရွိသူမ်ားကိုလည္း ၎တို႕ရဲ့လုပ္ရပ္မ်ားႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ျပီး လစ္လ်ဴ႐ႈ၍မရႏိုင္ပါ။ ေၾကာင့္ၾကမဲ့ အပူ အပင္ကင္းစြာျပစ္မႈက်ဴးလြန္ႏိုင္ျခင္းသည္ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားအေပၚက်ဴးလြန္လွ်က္ရွိသည့္ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရးခ်ိဳး ေဖာက္မႈမ်ားကိုဆက္လက္က်ဴးလြန္ရန္အားေပးျခင္းသာျဖစ္ပါလိမ့္မည္။ တရားမွ်တမႈႏွင့္ တာဝန္ယူမႈတို႕သည္ ေနာက္ထပ္ျဖစ္ေပၚလာႏိုင္သည့္ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈမ်ားကိုတားဆီးရန္အလြန္အေရးပါထိေရာက္ေသာကိရိယာတန္ဆာ ပလာျဖစ္ပါသည္။
အဆိုပါျပစ္မႈမ်ားအားစုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးအေျဖထုတ္ရန္ႏွင့္ အေရးယူရန္အတြက္ NLD အစိုးရအေနျဖင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွ ကြၽမ္းက်င္သူမ်ားပါဝင္ေသာ ထိေရာက္လြတ္လပ္သည့္ စုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေရးအဖြဲ႕ ဖြဲ႕သင့္ပါသည္။ အကယ္ ၍ စုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးမႈအား NLD အစိုးရအေနျဖင့္ မျပဳလုပ္ႏိုင္ပါက၊ ကမာၻ႕ကုလသမဂၢအဖြဲ႕အစည္းၾကီးမွ ၎၏ ကိုယ္ပိုင္ စုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေရးေကာ္မရွင္ကို ဖြဲ႕စည္းတည္ေထာင္သင့္ပါသည္။
သမၶတၾကီးအေနျဖင့္ဤကမ္းလွမ္းအၾကံျပဳခ်က္မ်ားအားအေရးတယူစဥ္းစားကာအေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ လိမ့္မည္ဟုလည္းေကာင္း၊ ထပ္မံေဆြးေႏြးရန္အတြက္ သမၼတၾကီး (သို႕မဟုတ္) သမၼတၾကီး၏ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ တို႕မွ ကြၽႏု္ပ္တို႕အားေတြ႕ဆုံခြင့္ေပးမည္ ဟု ကြၽႏု္ပ္တို႕ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါသည္။
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ျမန္မာ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာ အသင္း – ယူေက (BROUK)
THE NATION: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia urged to end Rohingya refugee detention.
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March 11, 2016
The governments of Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia should end the indefinite detention of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and provide them with full protection, said Fortify Rights and the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) in a new briefing today.
Almost ten months after human trafficking syndicates abandoned thousands of Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshis in the Andaman Sea, Rohingya refugees continue to lack protections in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, the rights groups said.
“We hoped the international attention on the boat crisis last year would have resulted in durable solutions and greater protections for Rohingya refugees in Southeast Asia, but that’s not what we’ve found,” said Tun Khin, president of BROUK. “Asean can and should do better.”
The group produced an 18-page briefing, “Everywhere is Trouble,” based on meetings with government officials, United Nations officials, and nongovernmental organisations; visits to an immigration detention centre (IDC), government-operated shelter, and refugee camps; and interviews with Rohingya refugees and survivors of human trafficking.
It said at least 40 Rohingya refugees have been detained in Thailand for more than 10 months in squalid facilities at the Songkhla IDC, including reportedly a dozen or more boys under the age of 18.
“Thailand should immediately stop detaining refugees,” said Matthew Smith, executive director of Fortify Rights. “The treatment of refugees in these facilities is inhumane and undignified, and the detention of refugee children is particularly shameful and should end immediately.”
In Malaysia, thousands of Rohingya refugees are detained in IDCs throughout the country. Rohingya survivors from the May 2015 boat crisis reportedly remain detained in Belantik Immigration Detention Center, where access by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and service providers is extremely limited.
In May 2015, Indonesia was widely praised for opening its borders to Rohingya refugees after Acehnese fishers courageously rescued at sea more than 1,000 survivors of human trafficking. Today, Rohingyasurvivors from the May boat crisis are confined to camps in Aceh, Indonesia. Rohingya refugees living in the camps are not free to leave the camps and must depend on service providers for basic necessities. Rohingya refugees living in other parts of Indonesia with UNHCR status lack freedom of movement in the country.
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Rakhine top job tussle about more than politics
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TODAYONLINE.COM
BY TANG CHEE SENG
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
SINGAPORE — The closely watched appointment of the Chief Minister in Myanmar’s Rakhine state would have implications on both the humanitarian situation for Rohingya Muslims and the country’s parliamentary composition, said a prominent Rohingya activist.
Mr Maung Tun Khin, president of the “Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK”.
In an interview with TODAY earlier this week, Mr Maung Tun Khin, president of the “Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK”, noted that the political jockeying for Rakhine state’s top post was being played out between the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD), the ultra-nationalist Arakan National Party (ANP), and the country’s military which remains a potent political opposition in Parliament.
“The ANP is saying that if the NLD is really democratic, (the latter) has to select someone from ANP,” he said, referring to the fact that the ANP beat the NLD at the state-level polls last November.
“But if there is an ANP Chief Minister, there will be more policies of persecution that will be pursued to eliminate the Rohingya,” said Mr Tun Khin. He explained that the Chief Minister would be able to dictate local policies including whether international aid agencies will be allowed additional access to Rohingya camps.
He noted that Ms Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD is in a difficult position, as the ANP, which is pushing for the Rohingya to be moved into camps or deported, has threatened to “give problems” to the ruling party.
“If NLD does not appoint a Chief Minister from the ANP, the ANP will stand with the opposition,” said Mr Tun Khin. But he emphasised that as the ultra-nationalist party’s warning was vaguely worded, the threat could involve the ANP working with the remnants of the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and possibly the military lawmakers in Parliament to form a coordinated opposition bloc to oppose the NLD.
At the same time, said Mr Tun Khin, the military which occupies one quarter of the seats in Parliament has been pushing to appoint Chief Ministers in some resource-rich and strategic areas, including the Rakhine, Shan and Kachin states, among others. If the military pushes to retain the incumbent Rakhine Chief Minister General Maung Maung Ohn, the humanitarian situation for the Rohingya will continue to remain dire.
Although having grown up in Myanmar, Mr Tun Khin, who is a Rohingya himself, was forced to leave the country to pursue his tertiary education overseas after Myanmar’s 1982 Citizenship Law which rendered 1.1 million Rohingya effectively stateless curtailed his right to further education, freedom of movement and employment.
The activist, who is regularly in touch with internally displaced Rohingya and fellow human rights advocates in Myanmar, warned that since 2012 there has yet to be any improvement in the conditions of the Rohingya currently confined in camps.
“Children and pregnant women are dying day by day because the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is not able to provide enough medical aid,” said Mr Tun Khin, adding that although MSF was allowed back into Myanmar months after being kicked out in 2014, humanitarian access by the aid group was severely curtailed by the then-USDP government.
Since communal violence between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya broke out nearly four years ago and displaced some 140,000 people, tens of thousands have left Rakhine state by boat. Last year, thousands of desperate Rohingya fled on smugglers’ ships, sparking a crisis in South-east Asia after other countries initially turned the boats back, leaving the migrants to starve at sea.
Dr Melissa Crouch, a legal expert on Myanmar, agreed with Mr Tun Khin’s assessment that the Rohingya humanitarian situation going forward would be dependent on who becomes the next state Chief Minister. She said the NLD is likely to be deep in negotiations with the military.
“If the NLD is going to enter into any sort of bargaining with the military on constitutional amendments, perhaps the only thing that they have to give away in return, for example, is a military person to be appointment as Chief Minister in Rakhine state,” she said, referring to how Ms Suu Kyi is seeking to change the country’s military-drafted Constitution, which bars her from being President as her children are not Myanmar citizens.
Dr Crouch, who is a lecturer in the law faculty at the University of New South Wales in Australia, was speaking to TODAY at the side-lines of a seminar organised by the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) yesterday on “Understanding Religious Diversity in Myanmar”.
“Certainly, it would be important to watch who will be elected at the state level as Chief Minister, because they do have significant power,” she said.
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