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Friday, 27 July 2012

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I remember that from 5 years ago I was introduced to the Rohingya People of Burma aka Myanmar  through a BBC report about their agony. Since then I wonder why the Muslim world is not helping them but suddenly the Arab Muslim suddenly knew that there are Muslims suffer in Burma and there is a country called Burma in the first place thanks to the latest clashes between Muslims and Buddhist in Rakhine state.
The latest clashes between the Rohingya Muslims "One of the most prosecuted minorities in Burma" and Buddhists in Sittwe area , Rakhine State took place after the rape and murder of Buddhist when Buddhists attacked the Muslims in retaliation from a month ago. According to official records 10 Muslims were killed on June 3rd, 2012 and not less than 80 were killed throughout the month.Whole villages of were burned from both sides equally unfortunately. Just like any dictatorship , the military junta helped in spreading the violance , nothing better than divide conquer. Thousands of Rohingya People had to flee the country and head to Bangladesh through Naf river as well to India and in temporary refugee camps increasing their suffering more and more.The photogallery below shows real photos from there from month ago. 
The president of Burma, the puppet president to be accurate Thein Sein has told the UN that refugee camps or deportation was the "solution" for nearly a million Rohingya Muslims in the wake of communal unrest in the west of the country from two weeks ago.During then UNHCR from its side rejected that racial suggestions saying that it is not its job to resettle the Rohingya. Already despite the Rohingya Muslims , the Muslims are minority yet their existence in the according to historical records goes back to centuries in the country yet they are not recognized a citizens and regarded as foreign Bengals.
The West began to speak more about the case thanks to the noise created in the East by Muslims , the thing which I will not deny. Human rights organizations like Amnesty International began to speak about the issue creating more international awareness.
Needless to say many human rights activists are shocked on how the famous icon of democracy Aung San Su Kyi is keeping her mouth shut about the whole Rohingya issue , we need a clear answer from her to know whether she believes that they are Burmese citizens or not like Chinese and Indian communities in the country , ambiguous answers are not good for her image in the world.
Su Kyi meets a Muslim Rohingya at her Part HQ earlier
June 2012 before the eruption of sectarian tensions. 
The bigger shock also for the human rights activists worldwide is from the Burmese monks who were regarded as freedom fighters from two years ago. Of course I am shocked too by the position of the Burma's monks that once called for democracy and equality , I think their actions contradicts with the pacifist beliefs of Buddhism and simplest principles of human rights and freedom.


Buddhist monks in Sittwe during the clashes "Reuters"
The Rohingya people are not the only minority prosecuted in the military state that began to be open to the world only last year through economic policies. The Chinese and Indian ethnic minorities brought by the British since 19th century to the country suffer from terrible conditions as well. Just this month the Burma Campaign UK "BCUK" published a report about how the Buramese army attacked villages and areas of ethnic minorities earlier this year whether in state of Kachin  and the state of Shan. Still the most prosecuted among all these ethnics are the Rohingya.
Here is a photogallery showing the Rohingya people in May 2012 in Sittwe before clashes.
The Military junta in the country is already using a mix Burmese nationalism presented by General Ne Win since 1960s and conservative Theravada Buddhism to bolster its rule and to remain in power targeting ethnic and religious minorities in the country as enemies. You can read more about this problem here." I think we know how this goes very well in the Middle East and the Arab countries , we are experts now !!"
Now I finished the facts part let's go to our part of the world.
There was huge social media campaign in our part of the world after knowing the news of the clashes that made me believe that there was ethnic cleansing going in Burma. A systematic social media campaign that unfortunately built its cause on lies , yes lies.
Thanks to the huge Social Network Gulf Salafist machine , there are people who believe that the Buddhists killed in two days not less  than 10,000 Muslims !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Already that machine used photos from Asian natural catastrophes like earthquakes and tsunamis as African ethnic fights showing dead bodies of children as evidence from Burma.  
Thsi graphic photo is from Nigeria and you can see
African soldiers yet it presented as it is from Burma
Muslims burnt alive !!!
I was careful when it comes to the photos because I know that Burma is from the countries that do not give photographers the freedom to shot films or photos. This is why , this post is belated one. 
This photos were presented as Muslims killed by Buddhists
on the Left where as it was taken from China's earthquake !!
That campaign made Egyptian youth protest in front of the Burmese embassy in Zamalak and Islamist MPs presented petitions to the ambassador who found himself face to face to the Egyptian revolutionary youth forcing him to issue a statement for the first time in the history of that embassy in Cairo. I will not lie and say that it was not a good move to create noise and remind the military junta in Burma that there are other people in the world other than the West are watching them but ....
But yesterday Sheikh Hafez Salamah , the famous icon of resistance in Suez wants the Muslims to provide the Rohingya Muslims with arms and fighters to stand against the aggression of the Buddhist rulers and their military against the Burmese Muslims.
It is very serious matter when it comes from man like Sheikh Hafez with influence among Salafists in Egypt. Taliban Pakistan which is regarded internationally as terrorist group has also threatened the military Junta and Burma in general over the Rohingya issue. 
Of course personally I think these threats will harm the Muslims more in Burma as we deal with restless criminal junta by the end of the day. Shall we see Taliban targeting Buddhist temples to the end of their usual actions !!?? This is what I am afraid of.
I did not like already when the matter turned in to a virtual crusade not only against the Burma Junta regime and Buddhist monks but Buddhism with any prior knowledge , in fact there was huge misinformation spread throughout the social and also the mainstream media starting from the fact that the Arakan is actually a Muslim state when actually Muslims are the minority  !! It was once a Muslim state hundreds of years ago for God sake.
In the past weeks , you would see strange stuff on #SaveArakan and #Arakan hashtag in Arabic and English very night. Everyday you find fake photos from all around Asia as if it was from Arakan and everyday you ask them to check their info and you got attack.  
Beautiful Rohingya girl 
Nevertheless there are diplomatic efforts from the Muslim world after all someone has to move in the right way , the Organization Islamist Conference "OIC" sent letters to UN and to President Thein Sein asking them to stop the violence against the Muslims there.  The Turkish human rights organizations like IHH as well Turkish news agency began to sent delegations to the Rohingya refugees camps.
Despite I am angry from what has been happened to the Burmese Rohingya Muslims , I am furious from the Buddhist monks from their disgusting behaviour and pro-democratic icon Aung Suu Kyi on her silence yet something make me feel unease how the Gulf Salafist machine acted in spreading the cause using false photos to mobilize hundreds of thousands if not of millions of Muslims in the Arab world using social media.
That machine did not move in that way during the Lebanese war or Gaza war when I remember , I felt as if we are being directed to a fight without any prior knowledge about a country called for Burma. It is like let those kids who turned the Middle East upside down target their anger to Burma to get rid from their junta. I do not know may be it is a feeling as I do not trust the sectarian Salafist Gulf media machine at all and whoever stands behind it.
By the way I hope that Arabs stands for the rights of the Badoon in Kuwait in the same way they are standing for the Rohingya Muslims , there are thousands of Arab Muslims in Kuwait who are not recognized as citizens , stateless suffering in one of the most richest countries in the world !!
Nevertheless what is happening to Rohingya people is a crime should be stopped , it should be stopped through facts and not through lies.

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