Saturday, June 16, 2012

It's Crime. It is NOT a religion clash.

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

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