Since August 25, this year, brutal military operations against the Rohingya Muslims across the Rakhine State accelerated in Myanmar (Burma), which forced thousands of the Muslims to migrate to Bangladesh. During the crackdowns, security forces committed deliberate human rights violations such as mass gang rapes, merciless killings, brutal beatings, beheadings of babies and children, arson and looting the houses of the Rohingya Muslims. They razed several villages to the ground. The pictures on social media and migrated persons verify “the rivers of blood, beheading of children and burning people alive—you do not have to be a Muslim to protest this or discern the truth, any person with even a tiniest bit of humanity, as to their hearts will quiver with pain. Just to envisage in what state our innocent brothers/sisters would be, bearing all this pain?”
According to the reports of international media, approximately 500 Muslims were slain during the operations, while it continues unabated. But media of some Islamic countries pointed out that more that 3000 Muslims have been killed since August 25, 2017 and more than 100,000 civilians have been displaced in Rakhine.
An advocate for the minority group has disclosed, “The Buddhist soldiers and civilians in Burma are attempting to cover up the massacre of the country’s Rohingya Muslim population by gathering their bodies and burning them.” Chris Lewa, director of the Arakan Project, who monitors violence in Burma’s Rakhine State, said her organisation had “documented the killing of at least 130 people in one settlement in the Rathedaung region…there were reports of three other villages where dozens of people had been killed.”
Meanwhile, Myanmar has blocked all the United Nations aid agencies from delivering vital supplies of food, water and medicine to thousands of desperate civilians, while humanitarian workers on the ground say that warehouses stocking vital emergency supplies are being looted.
Taking note of the genocide of the Rohingyas, Indonesian foreign minister reached Myanmar’s capital for emergency talks as pressure mounted on Jakarta after protest-marches at the Myanmar embassy.
The US-led international community, this crisis can destabilize the whole region by jeopardizing political and economic interests of America and other Western countries. It could also be manipulated by the militant outfits such as the Islamic State group (Also known as Daesh, ISIS, ISIL) and Al-Qaeda, including their affiliated groups like Al-Nusra Front, Afghanistan-based the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat-ur-Ahrar (TTP-JA also known as JuA) and will cause more recruitment in these and other terror-groups, and more terrorism-related assaults in South Asia, the Middle East, Europe and America.
It is the right hour that human rights organisations, OIC, Security Council and international media must play their active role so as to prevent wretched treatment meted out to Muslim minority, and to stop their further bloodshed in Myanmar.
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