Arakan News Agency
Al-Jazeera Channel detected murder, torture and arbitrary detention cases of Muslim minority during past two months in Arakan State, Myanmar.
Periodic report of the human rights sector, Global Rohingya Center (GRC) confirmed that the local police of Burmese continued to commit serious human rights violations against the Rohingya in Myanmar’s western province, Arakan.
Al-Jazeerah covered the cases in February and March, 2015. One murder case, two cases of torture and arbitrary detentions by government security forces on Rohingya Muslim minority in the region of Arakan state.
Mr. Naim Hussein Arakani, in-charge of monitoring and documentation of human rights sector in GRC said, the Rohingya minority in Arakan is living under legalized discrimination of extra ordinary nationalist and army backed semi-military government.
He explained that Rohingya Muslims are facing all kinds of atrocities those are internationally recognized as human rights violations. All of the violations are joined actions of government security forces and nationalist Buddhist monks, every where in Myanmar.
He more highlighted about the temporary identification card so call white card, which recently announce for expiration, forcing to eliminate from voting rights is also a violation of basic human rights. This is a part of series those practiced by government to eliminate Rohingya Muslims from political participation in the country.
A government official has said that the authorities succeeded in restoring more than six thousand white cards from minority Rohingya in Arakan in all parts of the first and second days of the month of April.
Since 1982, Myanmar junta been cancelled Rohingya Muslims from ethnic rights meanwhile classified as Bangali, intruded from neighboring Bangladesh, same time leaving them vulnerable, endless persecutions and discriminations.
It was in Arabic, translated to English.
By Mir Ahmed Siddiquee
