Myanmar to Bar Rohingya From Fleeing, but Won’t Address Their Plight

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Myanmar to Bar Rohingya From Fleeing, but Won’t Address Their Plight

SITTWE, Myanmar — The government of Myanmar says it is determined to stop the departures of migrants fleeing religious persecution in places like this bitterly divided port city, but it will not budge in its refusal to address the conditions driving the exodus across the sea.

Tens of thousands of Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group, fled the country in recent months, setting off a regional crisis when boatloads of migrants were abandoned at sea or abused and held for ransom by traffickers.

But the government insists that most of the migrants do not belong in Myanmar, referring to them as Bengalis, and says it has no plans to alter policies that strip them of basic rights and confine more than 140,000 to a crowded, squalid government camp here.

“There is no change in the government’s policy toward the Bengalis,” U Zaw Htay, a deputy director general of the Myanmar president’s office, said in an interview this week.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/world/asia/myanmar-to-bar-rohingya-from-fleeing-but-wont-address-their-plight.html?_r=0

[noitom]

Myanmar is inhumane. Where is the voice of Aung San Su Kyi on this issue? Why is she silent in defense of the rights of Rohingya.

[BigBadGeordie]

Myanmar is inhumane. Where is the voice of Aung San Su Kyi on this issue? Why is she silent in defense of the rights of Rohingya.

Because she is a politician and wants to be elected and does not want to upset the majority group in Myanmar.

[Geordie59]

Maybe they have seen the havoc cause around the world by Muslims and are determined not to allow it in their country.

[Oziex1]

Maybe they have seen the havoc cause around the world by Muslims and are determined not to allow it in their country.

If problems are defined by religious groups, then I would suggest the Buddhists are the trouble makers in this case. I hope they and the people of Myanmar are ready for retaliation by hard core well equipped Muslims, must be on the way?

[Mudcrab]

Maybe they have seen the havoc cause around the world by Muslims and are determined not to allow it in their country.

If problems are defined by religious groups, then I would suggest the Buddhists are the trouble makers in this case. I hope they and the people of Myanmar are ready for retaliation by hard core well equipped Muslims, must be on the way?

I suggest you suggest wrongly

[cookee68]

How are you going to bar them from fleeing, unless you are there to witness them get onto boats or lorries , me I would let them all leave

[JockPieandBeans]

Maybe they have seen the havoc cause around the world by Muslims and are determined not to allow it in their country.

If problems are defined by religious groups, then I would suggest the Buddhists are the trouble makers in this case. I hope they and the people of Myanmar are ready for retaliation by hard core well equipped Muslims, must be on the way?

I suggest you suggest wrongly

Without getting involved in the rights or wrongs involved in this.

You might want to read this article from today.

Burma’s worst nightmare came a step closer to reality when a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban’s most hardline faction called on the oppressed Rohingya to “take up the sword and kill in the path of God”.

Other attempts to improve the desperate position of Burma’s Muslim minority were futile, he said last week. “Protest demonstrations, marches [and] condemnation resolutions” were useless. Only violent jihad would make the difference.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/burmas-great-terror-moves-a-step-closer-as-taliban-urges-rohingya-to-take-up-the-sword-10319254.html