Arakan Rohingya National Assembly (ARNA) : Australia: Communities Meeting with Department of Home Affairs

Tuesday, 15 May 2018

Australia: Communities Meeting with Department of Home Affairs

Source ABRO, 16 May

A meeting for Humanitarian Program Consultation & Humanitarian Intl Protection Policy Section, has been successfully organized by Australian Department of Home Affairs on 15 May, between 12:00pm and 2.30pm.

The home affairs minister Peter Dutton MP has met friendly with all representatives from AMES, Red Cross, Brotherhood of St. Laurence, Islamic Council of Victoria, Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria, Foundation House, and many others.

Habib (founder and spokesperson for ABRO) has praised Australian government's 31.5 million dollar contribution in response to Rohingya crisis and raised briefly the following issues in the meeting:

1) political interferences including visa bans on military generals and their family members, boycotting their investments.
2) sharing an equal number of Rohingya refugees intake.
3) identities verification process, delaying visa processing and rethink of TPVs and SHEVs.
4) barrier substances of integration and contribution into Australia, the needs of prior job traning and skills.
5) immigration values and Australia international obligations..

After the meeting, Habib passed a copy of his recent book- 'first they erased our name' and also said the Australia intake to include Rohingya has been strongly quoted by Parsuram Sharma-LuitalJP, Brotherhoof of St. laurence, Chin, Karen Kareni leaders.

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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.