Arakan Rohingya National Assembly (ARNA) : Rohingya Community Participates in "Refugee Alternatives Conference 2018"

Friday, 16 February 2018

Rohingya Community Participates in "Refugee Alternatives Conference 2018"

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the Refugee Alternatives Conference 2018, co-hosted by the University of Melbourne and Refugee Council of Australia in University of Melbourne on 14 Feb 2018.

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A two-day conference was focusing on improving policy, practice and public support for refugee and asylum seeker issues. (https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/…/refugee-alternatives-c…/)

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Habib from ABRO & ARNA and Junaid from BRCA presented about Ongoing Genocide in Arakan state from June 2012 and briefed the past crises of 1994-95, 1991, 1978 and Diaspora situation in Transit Countries and discussed about Solutions..

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Paricipants include many representatives from Department of Home Affairs, local NGOs, INGOs including MSF and Amnesty International, experts, individuals, human rights lawyers, academics, volunteers and Karen and Chin leaders, other refugee communities..

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The plights of Rohingya received very strong support by all participants. Motions passed by Parsuram Sharma-LuitalJP strongly urged the Refugee Council to recommend the Australian government to resettle 20,000 Rohingya refugees.

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Why it is Genocide

This case of Rohingya should not be a simply dismissed by characterizing as a clashes (or) a sectarian attack (or) a communal violence, (or) domestic matter.

The Rohingya and Kaman people in Arakan state have been completely BLOCK out. It is a total destruction of a community with a full operation of genocide and ethnic cleansing, arbitrary killings, corporal and collective punishment, slaughtering, burning alive, beheading, rapes, systematic confinement, pushing into concentration camps, destroying identities, barring permanently from a right to have rights, divide and segregation, eradication from homeland, destruction of historical and ancestral evidences, blocking aid and foods, education, medicare and livelihood and cutting off of electricity and waters.

The military powered now NLD government led by Suu Kyi has been successfully materializing the tasks of annihilation by achieving majority public’supports by laying out coordinated plans throughout various actions of destruction.

the government's very clear involvement

deploying of securities forces and joining the attacks on the ground, introducing (laws and orders, curfew) for Rohingya only to squeeze the Rohingya villagers and openly allowing the aggressive armed Rakhine people trespassing and attacking of innocent unarmed Rohingya villagers, dispatching the gang members everywhere across Arakan, supplying one factory made arms such as arrows and knives, looting (goods, cash, crops and animals) and razing houses, allowing security forces to shot the Rohingyas, bulldozing the buildings those were not destroyed by following day and seizing lands of Rohingyas which were burnt down, disposing the displaced Rohingya victims into concentration camps, blocking of aid and foods supplies and forcing to accept foreigner identity in the mid of humanitarian crisis.

The ousted Thein Sein government itself invited the UNHCR chief to relocate all Rohingyans to a third country in Aug 2012. Additionally, by member of parliament and chairman of Rakhine National Development Party, Dr. Aye Maung (a Bangladeshi by birth) interviewed with Venus News Journal on 14 June 2012 said “the Rakhine state should be established in the same way Israel was initially established”.

Lately, the current top military general Min Aung Hlaing said on 1st Sept 2017 that the ongoing operation in Rakhine state is ‘unfinished business’ from world war II.