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Mar 28 2024

UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL (UNSC) MUST INTERVENE URGENTLY TO STOP THE ONGOING KILLING OF ROHINGYA VILLAGERS IN ARAKAN STATE OF MYANMAR. 

28, MARCH 2024

DEAR CHIEF EDITOR,

                                                           PRESS STATEMENT

UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL (UNSC) MUST INTERVENE URGENTLY TO STOP THE ONGOING KILLING OF ROHINGYA VILLAGERS IN ARAKAN STATE OF MYANMAR. 

Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization in Malaysia (MERHROM) urges the United Nations Security Council to intervene urgently to stop the ongoing killing of the Rohingya villagers in Arakan State of Myanmar.

For the past few months, the Myanmar military has been intensifying genocidal attacks against the Rohingya villages resulting in deaths of thousands of innocent Rohingya villagers including women and children. Hundreds of Rohingya suffered severe injuries following the attacks. Not only that, the Myanmar military is forcibly recruiting the Rohingya villagers to join the Myanmar military particularly from Maungdaw, Buthidaung, Minbya, Rathedaung and Sittwe Township. This is strange as Rohingya were not recognised as citizens. This has forced an unknown number of Rohingya villagers fleeing Arakan State.

The Rohingya villagers are also facing ongoing genocidal attacks from the Arakan Army (AA) where the Rohingya were arrested, kidnapped, tortured, blackmailed and killed. Hundreds or even more Rohingya villagers were killed during the war between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army. In mid of March 2024, about 100 Rohingya villagers were killed during their war as the military forced the Rohingya to be human shields.

Rohingya women were raped by both parties. In early March, a 4-year-old Rohingya girl was kidnapped by the Myanmar junta’s ally, the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP). They asked for a ransom of 15 million Kyat from the family for her release. However, they did not release her after receiving the ransom money. Finally on 14th March the girl’s dead body was found near the ALP’s office in Bumay. No Rohingya is safe in Arakan.

On 18th March 2024, Myanmar military carried out an air bombardment over Rohingya village in Minbya Township resulting in 25 Rohingya were killed and 60 of Rohingya villagers injured.

This situation has forced the Rohingya to flee the country to seek refuge. Both the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army forced the Rohingya villagers to leave their villages as they wanted to fight each other. The truth is that the fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army is a genocidal strategy by the military as more Rohingya were killed compared to the fighting parties.

Obviously, both the Myanmar military together with Arakan Army have committed genocide against the Rohingya. Last week, United Nations Chief Antonio Guterres warned about the situation of Rohingya in Arakan State. We urge the UN Security Council to take effective measures to stop the ongoing killing of the Rohingya and the genocide by deploying UN Peecekeeping Force to Arakan State. These are the evidence for the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ) cases against the Myanmar military and it must be documented carefully and comprehensively.

We regret the genocidal attack against the Rohingya continued during the holy month of Ramadan. The delayed actions by the United Nations, and the international community will only allow the ongoing killing of Rohingya in Myanmar and definitely increase the number of refugees and internally displaced persons and definitely have a tremendous impact on regional security and stability.

The timely interventions and international support to the people of Myanmar is very crucial at this time and the delayed actions definitely sacrifices more lives than ever. The military must be made accountable for the Genocide and atrocities without further delay. The ICJ and ICC process must be ongoing in whatever situation in order to deliver justice to the victims of Genocide and the people of Myanmar. 

Thank you. 

“JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED”.

Yours sincerely,

Zafar Ahmad Abdul Ghani

President

Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization in Malaysia (MERHROM)

Tel No: +6016-6827 287 

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Mar 19 2024

UN secretary-general alarmed by reports of Myanmar airstrikes

sources by : https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/un-secretary-general-alarmed-by-reports-myanmar-airstrikes-2024-03-18/?s=09

UN secretary-general alarmed by reports of Myanmar airstrikes

Reuters

March 19, 20246:56 AM GMT+8Updated 11 hours ago

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March 18 (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is alarmed by reports that military airstrikes in Myanmar, including on Monday in Minbya township, have killed and injured many civilians, a U.N. spokesman said.

Myanmar has been convulsed by turmoil since the military seized power from an elected government in a 2021 coup.

“The expansion of conflict in Rakhine State is driving displacement and exacerbating pre-existing vulnerabilities and discrimination,” the spokesman said. “The Secretary-General calls on all parties to prevent further incitement of communal tensions.”

Muslim Rohingya have faced persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar for decades and nearly a million of them live in crammed camps in neighboring Bangladesh’s border district of Cox’s Bazar. Most fled a military crackdown in 2017.

Myanmar’s military rulers view the Rohingya as foreign interlopers and have denied them citizenship.

Citing local residents, Radio Free Asia reported that 23 people were killed and 30 injured on Friday when a fighter jet dropped a bomb on Thar Dar, a predominantly Rohingya village about 5 km (three miles) north of Minbya.

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Mar 19 2024

MERHROM APPEAL TO THE UNITED NATIONS TO SEND A UN PEACEKEEPING FORCE TO TROUBLED AREAS TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THE POPULATION IN MYANMAR.

19th MARCH 2024

DEAR CHIEF EDITOR,

                                                          PRESS STATEMENT

MERHROM APPEAL TO THE UNITED NATIONS TO SEND A UN PEACEKEEPING FORCE TO TROUBLED AREAS TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THE POPULATION IN MYANMAR.

The Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization in Malaysia (MERHROM) strongly condemned the Genocidal attack against Rohingya in Minbya Township by the Myanmar military. As the Myanmar junta continues killing us, we urge no more selling and buying arms with the Myanmar junta for killing the Rohingya and the people of Myanmar.

MERHROM again to appeal to the United Nations (UN), World leaders, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) European Union (EU), Asean, International community, civil society organizations around the world and World citizens to stop genocide & atrocities in Myanmar.

Myanmar junta carried out an air bombardment over Rohingya village in Minbya Township on 18th March 2024, about 25 ethnic Rohingya were killed and 60 of Rohingya villagers injured. We feel we have been ignored. The genocide is still ongoing, without any sign it will end. MERHROM, stand with all the Rohingya who lost family members and everything they owned. On 15th March 2024, Rohingya villagers were forced to become Myanmar military to fight with Arakan Army (AA), About 100 Rohingya were killed during the fight as the military forced the Rohingya to be human shields.

MERHROM urges the United Nations (UN) to take appropriate measures following the continued genocidal attacks against the Rohingya minority. We regret the genocidal attack against the Rohingya continued during the holy month of Ramadan.

MERHROM appeal to the United Nations to send a UN peacekeeping force to the troubled areas first to ensure the safety of the population. Currently, genocide against Rohingya is ongoing. On top of that, the fight between Arakan Army (AA) and Myanmar Military is still ongoing in Arakan State which resulted in the constant death of Rohingyas.

We are very much frustrated to see the United Nations as the most mandated body in the world fail to stop the genocide against minority Rohingya in Myanmar.We hope for the super power countries to use their influence to increase action to Myanmar military to stop the genocide against ethnic Rohingya and people of Myanmar but our lives do not matter to them.

We urge all Myanmar military Generals to be prosecuted for genocide against the ethnic Rohingya.The International Criminal Court (ICC) and The International Court of Justice (ICJ) process must be speed up to stop the ongoing genocide and to protect the ethnic Rohingya in Myanmar. If we cannot stop the Rohingya genocide today, next we will celebrate the 100 years of Rohingya genocide.

The UN Security Council has already been failing in its obligation to address the issue of the Burmese military ignoring the provisional measures to prevent ongoing genocide of the

Rohingya, which were ordered by the International Court of Justice.

The International Court of Justice, known as the UN court, set out provisional measures in theGambia v. Myanmar case on Burma’s breaches of the genocide convention, in January 2020. UN Security Council members, and the penholder on Burma at the UN Security Council, the UK, have once again failed to learn lessons from past mistakes. Failing to act on violations of international law perpetrated against the Rohingya creates a sense of impunity and encourages an escalation of abuses. We are witnessing a repeat of this mistake happening in Rakhine State now.

The United Nations and the superpower countries must work towards ending the war, conflict & genocide around the world rather than looking for more resources to cope with the increased numbers of refugees.

May Allah grant them Jannatul Firdaus. Save innocent people of Myanmar.

“JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED”.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Zafar Ahmad Abdul Ghani

President

Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization in Malaysia (MERHROM)

Tel No: +6016-6827 287 

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Email: rights4rohingyas@gmail.com

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