Arakan News Agency
The Myanmar President’s Office announced that a committee had been set up to implement recommendations to improve the security and livelihoods of the Muslim minority of Rohingya. The recommendations were presented in a report issued last month by a committee chaired by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
“The new 15-member Implementation Committee will improve security, economic development and social affairs in the areas of the Rohingya minority, as well as remove the camps for displaced people,” the APC network quoted the Myanmar office as saying. The committee will also accelerate progress in verifying the identity of the Rohingya Muslims under the country’s citizenship laws, so that they can be recognized as citizens.
For his part, activist Ahmed Abu al-Khair questioned the work of this committee or its ability to resolve the social and legal conditions of Rohingya. He said that there are many committees that were formed earlier for the opacity and temptation of the international community and did nothing to restore the rights of Muslims.
Activist Ayoub al-Saidi also played down the importance of this committee and said that the nationality law that Myanmar is talking about has revoked citizenship from Rohingya and therefore there is no point in forming such a committee if the law remains as it is in the constitution.
It is noteworthy that the Muslim Rohingya suffer persecution in this country with a majority of Buddhism, as many in the state of “Arakan” and parts of Myanmar illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
