The Case of Being Diplomatic

With a strong mandate given by the UMNO delegates, the UMNO President attended the rally on a common issues with PAS President at the Stadium Titiwangsa, last Sunday, condemning the Myanmar violence and bloodied crackdowns against the Rohingnyas. 

This is the third rally of such nature organized in the capital city, Kuala Lumpur. Previously, similar effort was called at the Myanmar Embassy and the National Mosque in condemning Myanmar and urging the regime to stop violence against the Rohingyas. 

The recent rally, highlighted the cooperation between two largest political parties (UMNO and PAS) representing the Malays and Islam, committed in their protest against atrocities beyond universal values. 

Reportedly, there are about 1.5 million Rohingnya ethnic residing in the Rakhine state (known as Arakan in ancient Burma) of the total Myanmar population of about 55 million. The Rohingnya exodus has sparked an ongoing regional humanitarian crisis. 

Malaysia and Thailand, being the closest to the Myanmar borders are already implicated with human trafficking issues, in addition coping with the influx of Myanmar refugees since 2012 to February 2016; approximately 144,390 refugees that majority are Rohingnya ethnic. 

The rampant killings and absence of intervention by the world and regional communities (UN, OIC and ASEAN) resulted in Myanmar public disgusted with Malaysian head of state as pictured at the Malaysian Embassy in Yangon, Myanmar.

Malaysia should propose a review of Myanmar membership in the ASEAN community of such inhumane nature. The rhetoric on Rohingnya has taken a new dimension. Action is required! 

Close the Malaysian embassy and the envoy to return home, immediately. The Myanmar envoy and workers should be expelled from Malaysia. Impose trade embargo on Myanmar. Similarly when UN recognized the Israelis into Palestine in 1948, they should exercise the same with the Rohingnya.

Who Are The Rohingnya? Why Are They Victims Of Such Gravity From The Myanmar Government/People?

The Rohingya people of Arakan are mostly Muslims with a small Hindu population among them. They are racially Indo-Semitic. They are not an ethnic group developed from one tribal group affiliation or single racial stock. Tides of people like the Brahmins from India, Arabs, Moghuls, Bengalis, Turks and people from Central Asia, came mostly as traders, warriors and preachers overland or through the sea route to Arakan. 

Many settled in Arakan, during the Indian Chandra period, mixing with the local people formed the first nucleus of the Rohingya people in Arakan. Hence due to their settlement and common sufferings in Myanmar, they are identified found as the Rohingyas of Arakan, chronicled from the 3rd century to 1406 A.D. 

The language of the Chandras was proto-Chittagonian: Sanskrit, Pali, and Arabic mixed similar to what Francis Buchanon Hamilton found in 1799 with Rohingyas in Burma spoken by the Chakmas and Thanchangras of Arakan and Bangladesh, with its written form similar to Bengali found in the Anand Chandra Inscription (reference to the Vaishali and The Indianization of Arakan by Noel Singer); the controlled territories as far north to Chittagong.

Dated from 957 A.D. there had been a huge migration of Tibeto-Burman Theraveda Buddhist population into the plains of Arakan. They took possession of Arakan from the Chandras thus forcing the Indian looking people to retreat either towards the northern part of Arakan or back to Bengal, making it the first Indian exodus of Arakaniese people into Bengal. 

Following to the event of 1784 Burmese invasion of Arakan, Burmese king took the Arakani chronicles to Burma proper. The Arakani Sanskrit chronicles were rewritten in Burmese along with a tendentious interpretation of events entered into the present Arakani history to purify Arakan of Muslim traces for their only Buddhist mongoloid race dated past 3000 years.

The Burmese has deep rooted grudge and infinite hatred, especially when the Rohingyas recruited to wage war under the colors of the British military in the First, Second and Third Anglo-Burmese War and where they lost, resulting the Rohingya people returning to Arakan.

The early history of Arakan has been generally considered to be that of a province of eastern India, yet has been neglected by both Indian and Southeast Asian historians. The dynamics of the Arakan history needs to be examine from the beginnings of urbanization until the rise of the Burmese empire which subsequently dominated Arakanese culture and the Rohingnyas, a stateless people. 

Reflecting on the Chandra rule, the vast territories encompassing Chittagong should rightfully be the land for the Rohingnyas and not the Bangladeshi. In 1958, exodus of Rohingnyas refugees were allowed to enter refugees camps in Bangladesh.

Reference:


http://www.kaladanpress.org/v3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3772%3Aburmas-rohingya-origin-in-the-ancient-kingdom-of-arakan-understanding-the-arab-chandra-synthesis-&catid=35%3Arohingya&Itemid=29

http://drhabibsiddiqui.blogspot.ca/2011/10/analysis-of-muslim-identity-and.html

http://www.kaladanpress.org/v3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1721:mystery-behind-the-chakma-and-the-rohingyas-linguistic-similarities&catid=35:rohingya&Itemid=29

http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/Imtiaz-Ahmed.html

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http://www.warzone.cc/rohingya-briefing-report/

Second Gaza In Making; Collaborative Genocidal In Post Democracy?

The pages of mankind’s history and civilizations has never fall short from warring factions; conquests and occupations of faraway land. For the mighty nations, it is justifiable in expanding their horizons, reaping the resources of alien territory, and showcase of their might. 

For decades, the Palestinians embattled for their rights and sovereignty challenged by the Israelis zone expansion and oppression in the Middle East since 1948 set by the then British Empire after the Holocaust during World War Two. 

In southeast Asia, the Rohingnya people in Arakan are undermined by the ‘Junta’ led Myanmar in a recent republic leadership, which entails the British through the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824 -1826) in consequence of Burma’s (Myanmar present day) expansion moving closer to British East India (later British India) with issues on refugees and military operations over ill-defined borders.

Subsequently, the Second Anglo-Burmese War (1842-1853) and the Third Anglo-Burmese (1885) are confrontations by the Burmese confrontations that warrant ‘casus belli’ (an event used to justify starting a war) by the British and total annexation of Burma.

The latest development on the besieged region, genocide by the Myanmar’s military operations in the Maungdaw region of Arakan, has fallen onto deaf ears of the regional and international leaders and agencies. Ground humanitarian efforts are unable to reach the Rohingnya people with the borders being clamped down. 

Villages and places of worship (mosques) were set on fire. Thousands of children, women and elderly people went helter-skelter to escape from capture, torture and killings. The men of Rohingya are unarmed or the ability to defend themselves and their loved ones from the wrath of the Myanmar military that predates in history. 

The large scale military operation by Myanmar has forced some refugees to cross the Teknaf River. While some managed to enter the borders of Bangladesh, they were forced to return to Myanmar by the Bangladeshi patrolling military. A news reported by an NGO claims, even the Bangladeshi army committed extortion and killing of the refugees caught in the border crossings. 

Ethnic cleansing by the Myanmar military has been overwhelming and inhumane far worse than the 2012 massacre. Reports of babies brutally murdered and thrown into burning villages while Rohingnyas women raped by military and militia Buddhists at the peak of senseless violence. 

The Rohingya people have been denied Burmese citizenship since the Burmese nationality law (1982 Citizenship Act) was enacted. The Government of Myanmar claims that the Rohingya are illegal immigrants who arrived during the British colonial era, and were originally Bengalis. The inhumane treatments by the republic does not justify actions upon the Rohingnya.

What has Aung San Suu Kyi; the 1991 Nobel Peace laureate done to maintain peace in her homeland? She openly supports the genocide of Rohingnya Muslims! Why the silence from the ASEAN, OIC, UN and the EU community? Why has the international agencies allowed this injustice to continue?