.
Juntas ethnic cleansing proves
After attainment of independence from British in 1948 the successive Burmese regimes have been carrying on oppressions and repressions under the divide and rule policy to eliminate the entity of Rohingyas,demographic change of Arakan and deletion of histories of Rohingyas. The military Junta let loose of terror,aribitrary arrests are unabated, confiscation of Muslim lands, demolishing of Mosques and erection of Pagodas in the Muslim populated area are the daily occurrences.Arakan has been changed into a delta camp by raping Rohingya womenfolk freely and extortion of cash from the innocent inhabitants of Arakan.Imposing restriction on Rohingyas is very pathetic that one could not even visit ones relative in the same village. Banning on marriages is intentional to change Arakan into a Prostitute entity. There are many more unfocused stories of Rohingya extermination and coercions. Due to a well thought master plan of the military Junta Rohingyas are vulnerable and dubious to stateless people and a result more than half million are languishing in several countries like gypsy men and hardships are their daily companions.
Mrs.Chris Lewa ,coordinator, The Arakan project to the united states commission on International Religious freedom, dated 03.12.2007 stated the following having worked with ethnic people from Burma and more specifically with the Rohingya minority for the last 7 years, I am honored to offer a testimony today.did not result from counter insurgency strategies as it is the case along the Thai Burma border, but is the direct out come of policies of discrimination, oppression and exclusion against the Rohingya populationthey have been rendered stateless officially on the basis of their ethnicity .The 1982 citizenship law deprived them of legal status. There is no doubt that their religious identity plays a preponderant factor in the discrimination they are subject to.
Lastly, she recommended the beneath:
(01).The resentment spread by these policies combined with sheer poverty is conducive to radicalization. They have also led to the continuous movement of Rohingya out of Burma to Bangladesh as well as through Bangladesh by boat to Thailand and Malaysia. Thus becoming a regional problem.Therefore,US policy makers should consider the unique situation of the Rohingya in formulating us policy to promote human Rights.
(02).Direct aid delivery is necessary to alleviate the impact of such policies but agencies such as the world food program do not have enough funding to feed up to 50% of the extremely vulnerable families.
(03).The US government should provide more financial support for humanitarian action inside Burma particularly for the UNHCR and the WFP.
(04).The US has generally resettled a large number of Burmese refugees from Thailand and Malaysia. Unfortunately the Rohingyas have been excluded from the US resettlement Programs so far. Resettling Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh and other countries should be considered as a durable humanitarian solution.
The resolution of OIC in the eleventh session of the Islamic summit conference held Daker, Republic of Senagal on 12-14March 2008 which adopted the followings:
(01).calls on member states to continue their efforts in conjunction with those of the international community and United Nations in order to restore democracy in Myanmar and commit the government of Myanmar to the return of all refugees displaced from their homes. Particularly the Muslims of the Arakan region of Mynamr.
(02).Demands the Government of Myanmar to put an end to its practices of dispersing and exiling the Muslims of Arakan and its continued attempts to eradicate their Islamic Culture and identity.
(03).Invites secretary general to consider the possibility of dispatching a delegation to visit Myanmar on fact finding mission to study the conditions of Muslim there on.
(04).Emphasize the need to unite the efforts of Muslim leaders and civil society.
(05).calls on the member states to continue their support and assistance in all forms to Muslim in Myanmar and those among them living as refugees out side their homeland.
(06).Request the secretary general to follow up the situation of the Muslim minority in Myanmar and report to Twelfth session of the Islamic summit conference.
Benedict Rogers, the deputy chairman of the UK conservative Partys Human Rights commission stated in his article Burmas Muslim Rohingya Minority Dwelt at the Brink of Extermination that a senior UN official who has served in Darfur. Described the situation in northern Arakan as bad as any thing he has seen in terms of the denial of basic human freedom, he also added that, if Burma as a whole is under reported the people on its western border are almost unknown to the World.Journalists, activities and aid agencies who visit the region tend to head for the Thailand-Burma Border, where access to refugees, dispatched and democracy group is greatest. Few visit Burmas borders with India where a famine is unfolding with china or where women are trafficked into prostitution and fewer still make it to the Bangladesh border where a slow, forgotten genocide is taking place. Medicine Sans frontiers (MSF) has described the Rohingya as one of the ten world population in danger of extermination. At the end of the February 2009, the secretary general of ASEAN Mr.Surin said in an interview The Rohingya issue is a very complicated challenge to the entire region of Southeast Asia.
During Gen.Thein Shwe(the military prime minister) visits to Indonesia president Susilo Bambang Yudhono raised the Rohingya issue with Burmese general but there was no solution.
On 22.03.09 Thai foreign minister visited Rangoon to solve the Rohingya issue but out come was status queues. The secretary of United states Rodhom Hillary Clinton in her recent visit to Indonesia ,discussed Rohingya issue with President and foreign minister of Indonesia repectively.The prime minister of Singapore Lee Hsienloong said, as first time ,we must address this stateless people Rohingyas seriously. Soon we will lose credibility if we are unable to sort out a problem in our own region.
On 29.07.08 Arab News published a report of Human Rights Body of kingdom of Saudi Arabia which stated that people facing citizenship problems are 3 categories..
The Burmese Muslims who fled their country because of oppression.
On 26.02.09 the ASEAN Inter parliamentary caucus on Burma says that countrys human rights record and steps to political reform should be foremost on the agenda for the Association of Southeast Asian summit.
Philippine parliamentary Human Rights Committee chairman Lorenzo Tanda says, the integrity of the organization is put into question if nothing is done with regard to Burma, the caucus has strongly advocated political and human rights reform in Burma.
Mr. Teddy Buri the representative of Burma Government in exile says the pressure against the government, known as SPDC is leading to change. But ASEAN also has to take a united stand on Burma.
Malaysian Parliament member Nurul Izzah Anwar says ,Burmas government need to be held accountable.
On 30.04.09 Mr.Posak Nilubol has disclosed (a Thai diplomat) that his government has ignored and rejected one of his proposal in 1996 a memo of opposing Burmas admittance to the ASEAN fearing that if Burma were excluded it would push the country closer to China.
Very recently on 16.04.09 the foreign minister of Bangladesh Dr. Dipu Moni says,Rohingyas have been in Myanmar for centuries and many of them have even held high posts in democratic Burma. She refuted the statement of Burmese deputy home minister Phone Swe and asserted that Rohingyas were one of the many races of Burma that make up Myanmars total population and just by excluding from any list will not make them any thing other than an ethnic entity of Burma. Her statement was also supported by Stephen and N.Hassan Wirajuda the foreign ministers of Australia and Indonesia respectively.
On 21.04.09 Secretary General of OIC Professor Ekmal Uddin Ehsanoglu emphasized on more attention and provide with required support and assistance to the Muslim minorities by OIC member states. He particularly mentioned the initiates he has undertaken to resolve the issues besetting Muslim Minorities in the Philippines, Mynmar, Thailand.
The extreme mindset of the Burmese military regime can be measured from the statement of Ye Myint, the Burmese consular in Hong Kong that the complexion of Rohingya is dark brown, the complexion of Myanmar people is fair, soft and good looking. He further added that ,Rohingyas are as ugly as ogres.There is a song in Rohingya dialect which explains that when Rohingyas are found in villages they re called foreigners, if found in the forest working for livelihood they are arrested as insurgents and if found in rivers while fishing as daily earnings then humiliated as smugglers.
Amnesty International called on ASEAN states on 25.02.09 to move human rights of the summit. Its pacific deputy director Guest stated the treatment of the Rohingya boat people has highlighted the urgent need for regional action on human rights and one of the challenges facing a future ASEAN human rights body is the dire situation in Myanmar.
The forum also wrote an open letter to government of Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mynmar and Thailand after thousands of the minority Rohingyas left Burma on boat sailing with no specific destination.USA Burma Campaign reported below, 03.03.09. (Washington, DC) A U.S. based activist group called on the United Nations,
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and countries throughout the world to publicly condemn the Burmese military regimes treatment of ethnic minorities in Burma, including the Rohingya people. News reports state that the issue is not on the agenda of the ASEAN, even though ASEAN should be demanding an end to persecution of the Rohingya and all people of Burma. The Burmese regime has forced the Rohingya people to flee the country, said Jeremy Woodrum, co-founder of the U.S. Campaign for Burma.This shameless persecution must stop, and the international community should be in the lead in demanding an end to persecution of the Rohingya and all people of Burma. The Rohingya people have been regimes targets of brutal persecution for many years. The Rohingya, who are Muslim, live mostly in Burmas Arakan State close to the Bangladesh border. Regimes persecution has depopulated much of Arakan state of the Rohingya, except for the Maungdaw and Buthidaung Townships that border Bangladesh. Approximately 300,000 Rohingya have fled from Burma.
In addition to general oppression and brutality faced by other targeted border minorities, the regime direct abuses specific to the Rohingya, including denial of citizenship, severely restricted travel, religious persecution, population control measures through limiting marriage permits and birth restrictions, and the construction of model villages in which predominantly Muslim villages are forcefully evicted and repopulated by Buddhists and others of Burman ethnicity. In addition 112 former Presidents and prime ministers called on Security Council for action of deadline against Burma. A leading human rights organization today welcomed an unprecedented display of support for the release of all political prisoners in the Southeast Asian country of Burma.
The letter was spearheaded by former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik. Other former Presidents and Prime Ministers joining the effort include Corazon Aquino, Vaclav Havel, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Vicente Fox, Mary Robins Alejandro Toledo, Joaquim Chissano, Jacques Delors, Abdou Diouf, Elbegdorj Tsakhiagiin, Kim Dae-jung, Mikhail Gorbachev, John Howard, Lionel Jospin, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Benjamin Mkapa, Brian Mulroney, Romano Prodi, José Ramos-Horta, Margaret Thatcher, Alejandro Toledo, Mary Robinson, and Lech Walesa.
It is believed that never before in history have this many former leaders issued a call for action, on any issue. The call came in the form of a public letter to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The letter recalls that the UN Security Council demanded in October 2007 that all Burmese political prisoners must be released without delay. Instead of releasing political prisoners, the leader of Burmas military regime, Than Shwe, has nearly doubled the number of prisoners of conscience in Burma to over 2,100. It is time for the UN Secretary-General to respond to these Presidents and Prime Ministers and immediately get on a plane to Burma, said Aung Din, executive director of the U.S. Campaign for Burma. If the Secretary-General prefers not to travel to Burma, then he must urge the Security Council to take immediate action such as a global arms embargo on Than Shwes military regime. He has the duty to respond to the crisis in Burma, effectively, added Aung Din.Than Shwe is among the worlds most brutal military dictators. Besides locking up political prisoners, he has overseen the destruction of 3,300 ethnic minority villages in eastern Burma which has forced over 1 million refugees to flee the country and an additional 1/2 million to hide inside Burmas borders as internal displaced persons. At the same time, the regime has recruited up to 70,000 child soldiers, more than any other country in the world, and carried out a campaign of rape and sexual violence against ethnic minority women. According to prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz the commander of Muslim contingent in 1991 Gulf war suggested for a desert storm action against Burmese military for the safety of Rohingyas in Arakan as well as return of languishing in refugee camp.
44th meeting of the Human Rights Council held on 27 Mar2009 at UN head office of Human Rights Buiding,
The Situation of human rights in Myanmar
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenants on Human Rights, and reaffirming also previous resolutions on the situation of human rights in Myanmar of the Commission on Human Rights, Council resolutions S-5/1 of 2 October 2007, 6/33 of 14 December 2007, 7/31 of 28 March 2008 and 8/14 of 18 June 2008, as well as resolutions of the General Assembly, the most recent being resolution 63/245 of 24 December 2008, Welcoming further the agreement by the Government of Myanmar to the visit of the Special Representative of the Secretary General to Myanmar from 31 January to 3 February 2009 as well as the report of the Secretary-General on the human rights situation (A/HRC/10/17) in Myanmar,
Being concerned that the urgent calls contained in the above-mentioned resolutions, and of other United Nations bodies concerning the human rights situation in Myanmar have not been met and further emphasizing the need for significant progress towards meeting these calls of the international community, Recalling Council resolution 5/1 on institution building of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and 5/2 on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate-holders of the Human Rights Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate-holder shall discharge his/her duties in accordance with these resolutions and annexes thereto resolution No.10 as below:
Expresses its concern over the situation of the persons belonging to the Rohingya ethnic minority in Northern Rakhine State and urges the Government of Myanmar to recognize the right of these persons to nationality, and to protect all their human rights;
The foreign minister of Britain Mr.Miliband who stated on 27.04.09 in Luxembourg that, people are now looking forward to the constitutional reforms in Burma but our basic calls for the rights of minorities and opposition to be recognized and we remain strong in this indeed.
NRA.Rashid,
BSS,LLB
Juntas ethnic cleansing proves
After attainment of independence from British in 1948 the successive Burmese regimes have been carrying on oppressions and repressions under the divide and rule policy to eliminate the entity of Rohingyas,demographic change of Arakan and deletion of histories of Rohingyas. The military Junta let loose of terror,aribitrary arrests are unabated, confiscation of Muslim lands, demolishing of Mosques and erection of Pagodas in the Muslim populated area are the daily occurrences.Arakan has been changed into a delta camp by raping Rohingya womenfolk freely and extortion of cash from the innocent inhabitants of Arakan.Imposing restriction on Rohingyas is very pathetic that one could not even visit ones relative in the same village. Banning on marriages is intentional to change Arakan into a Prostitute entity. There are many more unfocused stories of Rohingya extermination and coercions. Due to a well thought master plan of the military Junta Rohingyas are vulnerable and dubious to stateless people and a result more than half million are languishing in several countries like gypsy men and hardships are their daily companions.
Mrs.Chris Lewa ,coordinator, The Arakan project to the united states commission on International Religious freedom, dated 03.12.2007 stated the following having worked with ethnic people from Burma and more specifically with the Rohingya minority for the last 7 years, I am honored to offer a testimony today.did not result from counter insurgency strategies as it is the case along the Thai Burma border, but is the direct out come of policies of discrimination, oppression and exclusion against the Rohingya populationthey have been rendered stateless officially on the basis of their ethnicity .The 1982 citizenship law deprived them of legal status. There is no doubt that their religious identity plays a preponderant factor in the discrimination they are subject to.
Lastly, she recommended the beneath:
(01).The resentment spread by these policies combined with sheer poverty is conducive to radicalization. They have also led to the continuous movement of Rohingya out of Burma to Bangladesh as well as through Bangladesh by boat to Thailand and Malaysia. Thus becoming a regional problem.Therefore,US policy makers should consider the unique situation of the Rohingya in formulating us policy to promote human Rights.
(02).Direct aid delivery is necessary to alleviate the impact of such policies but agencies such as the world food program do not have enough funding to feed up to 50% of the extremely vulnerable families.
(03).The US government should provide more financial support for humanitarian action inside Burma particularly for the UNHCR and the WFP.
(04).The US has generally resettled a large number of Burmese refugees from Thailand and Malaysia. Unfortunately the Rohingyas have been excluded from the US resettlement Programs so far. Resettling Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh and other countries should be considered as a durable humanitarian solution.
The resolution of OIC in the eleventh session of the Islamic summit conference held Daker, Republic of Senagal on 12-14March 2008 which adopted the followings:
(01).calls on member states to continue their efforts in conjunction with those of the international community and United Nations in order to restore democracy in Myanmar and commit the government of Myanmar to the return of all refugees displaced from their homes. Particularly the Muslims of the Arakan region of Mynamr.
(02).Demands the Government of Myanmar to put an end to its practices of dispersing and exiling the Muslims of Arakan and its continued attempts to eradicate their Islamic Culture and identity.
(03).Invites secretary general to consider the possibility of dispatching a delegation to visit Myanmar on fact finding mission to study the conditions of Muslim there on.
(04).Emphasize the need to unite the efforts of Muslim leaders and civil society.
(05).calls on the member states to continue their support and assistance in all forms to Muslim in Myanmar and those among them living as refugees out side their homeland.
(06).Request the secretary general to follow up the situation of the Muslim minority in Myanmar and report to Twelfth session of the Islamic summit conference.
Benedict Rogers, the deputy chairman of the UK conservative Partys Human Rights commission stated in his article Burmas Muslim Rohingya Minority Dwelt at the Brink of Extermination that a senior UN official who has served in Darfur. Described the situation in northern Arakan as bad as any thing he has seen in terms of the denial of basic human freedom, he also added that, if Burma as a whole is under reported the people on its western border are almost unknown to the World.Journalists, activities and aid agencies who visit the region tend to head for the Thailand-Burma Border, where access to refugees, dispatched and democracy group is greatest. Few visit Burmas borders with India where a famine is unfolding with china or where women are trafficked into prostitution and fewer still make it to the Bangladesh border where a slow, forgotten genocide is taking place. Medicine Sans frontiers (MSF) has described the Rohingya as one of the ten world population in danger of extermination. At the end of the February 2009, the secretary general of ASEAN Mr.Surin said in an interview The Rohingya issue is a very complicated challenge to the entire region of Southeast Asia.
During Gen.Thein Shwe(the military prime minister) visits to Indonesia president Susilo Bambang Yudhono raised the Rohingya issue with Burmese general but there was no solution.
On 22.03.09 Thai foreign minister visited Rangoon to solve the Rohingya issue but out come was status queues. The secretary of United states Rodhom Hillary Clinton in her recent visit to Indonesia ,discussed Rohingya issue with President and foreign minister of Indonesia repectively.The prime minister of Singapore Lee Hsienloong said, as first time ,we must address this stateless people Rohingyas seriously. Soon we will lose credibility if we are unable to sort out a problem in our own region.
On 29.07.08 Arab News published a report of Human Rights Body of kingdom of Saudi Arabia which stated that people facing citizenship problems are 3 categories..
The Burmese Muslims who fled their country because of oppression.
On 26.02.09 the ASEAN Inter parliamentary caucus on Burma says that countrys human rights record and steps to political reform should be foremost on the agenda for the Association of Southeast Asian summit.
Philippine parliamentary Human Rights Committee chairman Lorenzo Tanda says, the integrity of the organization is put into question if nothing is done with regard to Burma, the caucus has strongly advocated political and human rights reform in Burma.
Mr. Teddy Buri the representative of Burma Government in exile says the pressure against the government, known as SPDC is leading to change. But ASEAN also has to take a united stand on Burma.
Malaysian Parliament member Nurul Izzah Anwar says ,Burmas government need to be held accountable.
On 30.04.09 Mr.Posak Nilubol has disclosed (a Thai diplomat) that his government has ignored and rejected one of his proposal in 1996 a memo of opposing Burmas admittance to the ASEAN fearing that if Burma were excluded it would push the country closer to China.
Very recently on 16.04.09 the foreign minister of Bangladesh Dr. Dipu Moni says,Rohingyas have been in Myanmar for centuries and many of them have even held high posts in democratic Burma. She refuted the statement of Burmese deputy home minister Phone Swe and asserted that Rohingyas were one of the many races of Burma that make up Myanmars total population and just by excluding from any list will not make them any thing other than an ethnic entity of Burma. Her statement was also supported by Stephen and N.Hassan Wirajuda the foreign ministers of Australia and Indonesia respectively.
On 21.04.09 Secretary General of OIC Professor Ekmal Uddin Ehsanoglu emphasized on more attention and provide with required support and assistance to the Muslim minorities by OIC member states. He particularly mentioned the initiates he has undertaken to resolve the issues besetting Muslim Minorities in the Philippines, Mynmar, Thailand.
The extreme mindset of the Burmese military regime can be measured from the statement of Ye Myint, the Burmese consular in Hong Kong that the complexion of Rohingya is dark brown, the complexion of Myanmar people is fair, soft and good looking. He further added that ,Rohingyas are as ugly as ogres.There is a song in Rohingya dialect which explains that when Rohingyas are found in villages they re called foreigners, if found in the forest working for livelihood they are arrested as insurgents and if found in rivers while fishing as daily earnings then humiliated as smugglers.
Amnesty International called on ASEAN states on 25.02.09 to move human rights of the summit. Its pacific deputy director Guest stated the treatment of the Rohingya boat people has highlighted the urgent need for regional action on human rights and one of the challenges facing a future ASEAN human rights body is the dire situation in Myanmar.
The forum also wrote an open letter to government of Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mynmar and Thailand after thousands of the minority Rohingyas left Burma on boat sailing with no specific destination.USA Burma Campaign reported below, 03.03.09. (Washington, DC) A U.S. based activist group called on the United Nations,
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and countries throughout the world to publicly condemn the Burmese military regimes treatment of ethnic minorities in Burma, including the Rohingya people. News reports state that the issue is not on the agenda of the ASEAN, even though ASEAN should be demanding an end to persecution of the Rohingya and all people of Burma. The Burmese regime has forced the Rohingya people to flee the country, said Jeremy Woodrum, co-founder of the U.S. Campaign for Burma.This shameless persecution must stop, and the international community should be in the lead in demanding an end to persecution of the Rohingya and all people of Burma. The Rohingya people have been regimes targets of brutal persecution for many years. The Rohingya, who are Muslim, live mostly in Burmas Arakan State close to the Bangladesh border. Regimes persecution has depopulated much of Arakan state of the Rohingya, except for the Maungdaw and Buthidaung Townships that border Bangladesh. Approximately 300,000 Rohingya have fled from Burma.
In addition to general oppression and brutality faced by other targeted border minorities, the regime direct abuses specific to the Rohingya, including denial of citizenship, severely restricted travel, religious persecution, population control measures through limiting marriage permits and birth restrictions, and the construction of model villages in which predominantly Muslim villages are forcefully evicted and repopulated by Buddhists and others of Burman ethnicity. In addition 112 former Presidents and prime ministers called on Security Council for action of deadline against Burma. A leading human rights organization today welcomed an unprecedented display of support for the release of all political prisoners in the Southeast Asian country of Burma.
The letter was spearheaded by former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik. Other former Presidents and Prime Ministers joining the effort include Corazon Aquino, Vaclav Havel, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Vicente Fox, Mary Robins Alejandro Toledo, Joaquim Chissano, Jacques Delors, Abdou Diouf, Elbegdorj Tsakhiagiin, Kim Dae-jung, Mikhail Gorbachev, John Howard, Lionel Jospin, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Benjamin Mkapa, Brian Mulroney, Romano Prodi, José Ramos-Horta, Margaret Thatcher, Alejandro Toledo, Mary Robinson, and Lech Walesa.
It is believed that never before in history have this many former leaders issued a call for action, on any issue. The call came in the form of a public letter to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The letter recalls that the UN Security Council demanded in October 2007 that all Burmese political prisoners must be released without delay. Instead of releasing political prisoners, the leader of Burmas military regime, Than Shwe, has nearly doubled the number of prisoners of conscience in Burma to over 2,100. It is time for the UN Secretary-General to respond to these Presidents and Prime Ministers and immediately get on a plane to Burma, said Aung Din, executive director of the U.S. Campaign for Burma. If the Secretary-General prefers not to travel to Burma, then he must urge the Security Council to take immediate action such as a global arms embargo on Than Shwes military regime. He has the duty to respond to the crisis in Burma, effectively, added Aung Din.Than Shwe is among the worlds most brutal military dictators. Besides locking up political prisoners, he has overseen the destruction of 3,300 ethnic minority villages in eastern Burma which has forced over 1 million refugees to flee the country and an additional 1/2 million to hide inside Burmas borders as internal displaced persons. At the same time, the regime has recruited up to 70,000 child soldiers, more than any other country in the world, and carried out a campaign of rape and sexual violence against ethnic minority women. According to prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz the commander of Muslim contingent in 1991 Gulf war suggested for a desert storm action against Burmese military for the safety of Rohingyas in Arakan as well as return of languishing in refugee camp.
44th meeting of the Human Rights Council held on 27 Mar2009 at UN head office of Human Rights Buiding,
The Situation of human rights in Myanmar
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenants on Human Rights, and reaffirming also previous resolutions on the situation of human rights in Myanmar of the Commission on Human Rights, Council resolutions S-5/1 of 2 October 2007, 6/33 of 14 December 2007, 7/31 of 28 March 2008 and 8/14 of 18 June 2008, as well as resolutions of the General Assembly, the most recent being resolution 63/245 of 24 December 2008, Welcoming further the agreement by the Government of Myanmar to the visit of the Special Representative of the Secretary General to Myanmar from 31 January to 3 February 2009 as well as the report of the Secretary-General on the human rights situation (A/HRC/10/17) in Myanmar,
Being concerned that the urgent calls contained in the above-mentioned resolutions, and of other United Nations bodies concerning the human rights situation in Myanmar have not been met and further emphasizing the need for significant progress towards meeting these calls of the international community, Recalling Council resolution 5/1 on institution building of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and 5/2 on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate-holders of the Human Rights Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate-holder shall discharge his/her duties in accordance with these resolutions and annexes thereto resolution No.10 as below:
Expresses its concern over the situation of the persons belonging to the Rohingya ethnic minority in Northern Rakhine State and urges the Government of Myanmar to recognize the right of these persons to nationality, and to protect all their human rights;
The foreign minister of Britain Mr.Miliband who stated on 27.04.09 in Luxembourg that, people are now looking forward to the constitutional reforms in Burma but our basic calls for the rights of minorities and opposition to be recognized and we remain strong in this indeed.
NRA.Rashid,
BSS,LLB
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