BURMESE ROHINGYA AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION (BRAFA)
4818 South 14th Street, Milwaukee Wisconsin 53221, USA
Tel: (414) 736 4273, (414) 306 1751, Fax: (414) 817 0656
BRAFA Delegation met with Congresswomen Gwen Moore’s District Office Director in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A
delegation of BRAFA consisting of Shaukhat @ MSK Jilani (Chairman),
Hussain Saifula (Vice-Chairman), and Max Zubair Ahamad (General
Secretary) met with District Director Lois O’Keefe of the Congresswomen
Gwen Moore’s District Office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the date of
January 23, 2013 and discussed about the plights of Burmese Rohingyas
and Arakan Muslim population in Burma.
During
the discussion on the roundtable, BRAFA President highlighted and draw
the attention of Congresswomen Gwen Moore as following:-
Since
June 03, 2012 to October 2012, due to the atrocities, persecutions,
ethnic cleansing and genocidal actions carried out by the Buddhist
Rakhine political and elites group with the full supporting of Burmese
military security forces on the indigenous Rohingya people in Arakan
State, Burma which affected:-
1- Over 10,000 Rohingya people were killed and burned down by the Buddhist Rakhine groups and Burmese security forces in duty,
2- About
20,000 Rohingyas houses plus 57 mosques have been set fire and
destroyed from 70 Muslim villages across 8 Townships of Arakan, Burma,
3- More
than 135,000 Muslim Rohingyas have been displaced and became homeless
and now living in the concentration camps as internally displaced
persons (IDP) and refugees in their own country,
4-
The living condition of the concentration camp is very poor,
unhygienic, and overcrowded. the people in the concentration camp are
not getting enough foods, clean water, and medical supplies and even
people cannot move from one place to another, and no safety and
protection at all, as well as elderly people, pregnant women and minor
children are dying day to day because of shortages of food, poor
hygiene, lack of medical facilities and malnutrition.
5- Thousands
of Muslim population owned shops, market and commercial store have been
confiscated by the Burmese government officials and never return back
to the rightful owners,
6- hundreds
of Muslims women and girls were raped by the Buddhists Rakhine people
and Burmese security forces during the attack and violence in the name
of protecting and helping them, and also many Muslim youths, students
and religious scholars are being arrested by the Burmese government
security forces and charged them with false and illegal allegations and
presently, estimated 1,200 Muslim Rohingyas are in the Burmese jails in
Arakan,
The BRAFA President also told that Muslim
Rohingyas are deprived of Burmese citizenship rights in Burma and
currently, living as stateless people in their native land. In addition,
the Arakan State Government officials, Immigration Authorities, NASAKA
(Burma Border Security Forces) and Dr. Aye Maung led Rakhine
Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) members are now compelling the
innocent Rohingya people to confess Bengali ethnicity and taking
signatures by force in family data check-up to prove them foreigners.
The leaders and members of RNDP and Arakan State Government authorities
are also being implemented a program of segregation policy not allowing
the Rohingyas and Arakan Muslims to go to Downtown and other places of
inside Arakan State.
He
further said that because of continuous persecutions, looting, torture
and harassment by the Burmese security forces and armed Buddhist Rakhine
groups, thousands of Muslim Rohingyas fled the country through the sea
and now entering into neighboring ASEAN countries such as Thailand,
Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, and moreover currently, many
Rohingya people are under immigration detention in Thailand and Malaysia
who fled the country to escape persecution and torture at the hands of
Burmese security forces and armed Rakhine groups in Arakan,
The
BRAFA Chairman also appealed to Congresswomen Gwen Moore through her
District Director Lois O’Keefe the following three (3) points:-
1- To put paramount pressure on the Burmese President Thein Sein and his military Government Ministers
through US Congress to end atrocities, rapes, torture and controlled
genocide against the civilian Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority group in
Arakan,
2- To introduce a legislation
in favor of suffering Rohingya ethnic minority people of Arakan in the
US Congress and also send strong messages to Burmese President Thein
Sein to restore Burmese citizenship and basic fundamental human rights
for the Rohingya ethnic minority people who were living in Arakan for
centuries,
3- Until
peace and security prevailing in Arakan State, recommend to dispatch UN
Peace Keeping Forces in Arakan to protect the Rohingya ethnic minority
and Arakan Muslim population from the ongoing atrocities, gross human
rights violation, extermination and genocide committed by the Burmese
government, its security forces and Buddhist Rakhine people.
Maung Tue (aka) Kamal Hussain
(Information and Publication Secretary)
Burmese Rohingya American Friendship Association (BRAFA)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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