Jamat-e-Islami of Hyderabad is organizing an all-party round table meeting after Maghrib prayer on Wednesday, 06th September at its office at Chatta Bazar. All the organizations and parties are requested to attend the meeting to protest against the Rohingya Muslim Genocide in Myanmar
It is proposed to draft a protest resolution to arouse the sentiments of humanity in order to awaken their conscience.
It may be mentioned that there are protest being held worldwide against the Rohingya Muslim Genocide in Myanmar. For the past many years, there has been an organized genocide of the Muslims in Myanmar by the Buddhists. Recently, nearly 125,000 Rohingya Muslims have entered Bangladesh since an upsurge in violence in neighbouring Myanmar, the United Nations reported on Tuesday. Some 37,000 have arrived in the past 24 hours — the highest number of arrivals in a single day since the unrest began.
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Rohaingya Muslims are often described as “the world’s most persecuted minority”. They are an ethnic Muslim group who have lived for centuries in the majority Buddhist Myanmar. Currently, there are about 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims who live in the Southeast Asian country.
The Rohingya speak Rohingya or Ruaingga, a dialect that is distinct to others spoken in Rakhine State and throughout Myanmar. They are not considered one of the country’s 135 official ethnic groups and have been denied citizenship in Myanmar since 1982, which has effectively rendered them stateless. Nearly all of the Rohingya in Myanmar live in the western coastal state of Rakhine and are not allowed to leave without government permission. It is one the poorest states in the country with ghetto-like camps and a lack of basic services and opportunities.
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Due to ongoing violence and persecution, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled to neighbouring countries either by land or boat over the course of many decades. Since the late 1970s, nearly one million Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar due to widespread persecution.
According to the most recently available data from the United Nations in May, more than 168,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar since 2012. Following violence that broke out last year, more than 87,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh from October 2016 to July 2017, according to the International Organization for Migration.
Many Rohingya also risked their lives trying to get to Malaysia by boat across the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. Between 2012 and 2015, more than 112,000 made the dangerous journey.
The UN estimated that there are as many as 420,000 Rohingya refugees in Southeast Asia. Additionally, there are around 120,000 internally displaced Rohingya.
The violence in Myanmar’s northwest that began in late August has forced around 58,000 Rohingya to flee across the border into Bangladesh, while another 10,000 are stranded in no-man’s land between the two countries, Reuters reported, citing UN sources
India closes its door on Rohingya’s
Over the last 70 years, independent India has opened its doors to refugees of every religion – Buddhists of Tibet; Muslims of Afghanistan; Hindus and Christians of Sri Lanka; and, of course, ten million Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and tribals of East Pakistan in 1971. But Alas it has changed now, More than 40,000 Rohingya are battling against possible deportation by the Indian government, the latest in a series of struggles for the community who the Myanmar government and the majority of the Burmese speaking population refer to as “Bengalis,” implying they are interlopers from Bangladesh.
Last month, India’s junior Home Minister Kiren Rijiju said Rohingyas are illegal, and that state authorities have been asked to identify and deport them, sparking widespread concern.
MoS Home Kiren Rijiju has said India wants to deport all illegal immigrants even those with UNHCR papers because –
Immigrants are susceptible to recruitment by “terror” groups
They “not only infringe on rights of Indian citizens but also pose grave security challenges”
Influx of migrants also leads to social, political and cultural problems
The idea to “ensure the demographic pattern of India is not disturbed”
India has no Refugee Law
India is not a signatory to 1951 UN refugee convention, or its 1967 Protocol
The government decides asylum pleas on ad hoc and case-to-case basis
Asylum-seekers whose plea is okayed are given long-term visa (LTV) to be renewed annually
Long-term visa gives them right to work in private sector and access to education and banking
A small Victory for Rohingya
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to pass any order to stop the Union government from taking steps to deport 40,000 Rohingya Muslims to their home state Myanmar, giving the Rohingya’s as a small hope. Terrified by reports of violence in their country, with nowhere to go, these refugees are just hoping that their plight is noticed and they are dealt with compassion.
An estimated 40,000 Rohingyas are believed to have settled in India. The subject of Rohingyas is expected to come up in discussions as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Myanmar on a three-day visit. This is his first bilateral trip to the country.
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