During these days, I have been reading news about the clash
between Arakanese which is one of Myanmar ethnics and Rohingya, illegal
immigrants. What I realized is that all news agencies could not present
the case to the readers around the world to have thorough understanding
on this issue. Therefore, I decided to put an effort to convey the exact
situation to International Communities who might have interested in
this issue.
First of all, I would like to highlight that
this clash is not something in between Muslim and Buddhist because all
religions have been living in Burma peacefully and harmonically to date.
However, after reading so many news reports, it seems all news agencies
tried to give an idea like the clash is between Muslim and Buddhist. In
fact, it is not about any religions, and it is just a matter of how
they report. I guess there might be the reason why they reported in such
a way to mislead from reality. Perhaps, they tried to extend the case
in view of religions or they bought the news from unreliable sources.
They themselves would be able to answer on their true intention.
Second
on my list to clarify is that Rohingya is NOT one of Myanmar ethnics.
Again, this is nothing to do with any religions or human rights. It is
simply because they are not Myanmar ethic from the beginning. Many
people might want to debate on this fact. If so, I will make myself
clear by giving an example. Can I claim that Burmese is one of British
ethics after staying in Britain for more than ten years or so?
Furthermore, there is no county in the world who will accept illegal
immigrants happily. Only Arakanese is very good in nature, and allows
Rohingya to stay in their State harmonically though. I can imagine how
Arakanese got angry when they (the host) were insulted by illegal
immigrants in a way not acceptable by any societies.
Since
three Rohingya guys raped and killed a lady of Arakanese, this is a
crime that they had committed. Arakanese should have seriously pushed
authorities to take actions against such crime instead of retaliating by
killing ten Rohingya guys. As a consequence, Rohingya set fire to
thirty villages of Arakanese. In the end, both committed different kinds
of crime.
All in all, the rule of law is the most
important as it has been repeatedly highlighted by democratic icon, Daw
Aung San Suu Kyi. The reason why I echo her opinion is that I am trying
to get to the very beginning of Rohingya case.
How could those Rohingya cross the border line and stay in Arakanese State?
How is Immigration Authority handling on those illegal immigrants (not only Rohingya, also other illegal immigrant)?
In
the long run, the population of Rohingya will also grow up. We cannot
always keep them in refugee camps. I think this is something that
Myanmar Government to set a proper procedure or assessment (on
characters/behaviors/quality and so on) for them to be Myanmar citizens
even though their country of origin is not willing to accept back. Also,
I believe this is NOT something to pressurize Myanmar to accept
Rohingya as citizens. If someone wishes to insist to accept them, I
might need to raise a counter question, “why don’t you try on them by
bringing them to your home country as your own citizen right away?”
In
view of Human Rights, I agree that Rohingya need to be taken care in
terms of education, health care, not to be forced labor and things like
that. (Reason being a developing and poor country, personally I do not
think Myanmar would be able to cover for all those requirements.) On the
other hand, Rohingya need to respect the rules of the area they are
staying, and local cultures.
After all, we all human
beings need to live together by taking care of one another, also
respecting the rules and regulations that have been set for the
territory where we are living and contributing to. That will definitely
bring the peace and harmonious society for each and every one of us.
LLZ
