Arakan News Agency
After increasing international pressure following the publication of testimonies and documents proving genocide against the Rohingya Muslims, the Government of Myanmar sought to polish its image to the world by claiming that it had brought a Muslim family back to its territory and broadcast pictures of the family. However, UN sources questioned the allegations.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement that it was not directly aware of the matter and had not been consulted or involved in it … Non-governmental human rights organizations also questioned the repatriation of Myanmar’s first family of Muslim Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh.
The Myanmar government has announced that the first family of Muslim Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh after the United Nations says ethnic cleansing in 2017 in Myanmar has returned, but the non-governmental organizations question this declaration.
The International Federation for Human Rights criticized the return of the first family, saying it was part of a “public relations campaign aimed at diverting attention from the crimes committed” in the words of the organization’s representative in Asia, Andrea GIORGETTA. Which was captured by satellites on the extent of the destruction of the Rohingya villages, that “the international community should follow with interest what will happen to this family.” “The main problem is that Myanmar does not always grant candidates to return and does not allow them to return to their villages,” she said. “For its part, the Bangladeshi government has rejected Myanmar’s claims about the resettlement of a 5-member Rohingya family in Arakan province.
The Bangladeshi government has indicated that the family has never entered its territory, and the Associated Press quoted Asad al-Zaman Khan, the Bangladeshi Interior Minister, as saying: “Myanmar’s allegations of resettlement of the Rohingya family are unfounded.” Khan said that the family did not “The Myanmar authorities have taken the step as nothing more than a farce,” he said, expressing the hope that “Myanmar will return all Rohingyas as soon as possible.”
Abu Kalam, Bangladesh’s refugee relief and rehabilitation commissioner, said the Rohingya family had never crossed the border. “It can not be described as resettlement,” Abu Kalam said. It never happened, and Bangladesh is by no means part of it. “
The allegations made by the Myanmar government coincided with the hearing of the UN Security Council, for the first time since the initiation of the ethnic cleansing campaign against the minority of the Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar, to benefit a Rohingya activist who spoke about the crimes of sexual violence against women in her country … This came during an open debate of the Security Council On the tragedy of the Rohingya, according to Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Amina Mohammed, who participated in the meeting …
Rohingya activist Razia Sultana, a researcher at the Kaladan Foundation (a Bangladesh-based non-profit media organization), briefed the Council on the plight of Rohingya women and girls “systematically targeted because of their religion and race” … She urged the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court, Ms. Sultana told council members that “women and girls, some of whom are 6 years old, have been gang-raped and burned alive,” pointing out that her meetings provide evidence of government forces committing these crimes … “The government forces raped more than 300 women and girls in 17 villages in the state of Rakhine (Arakan / West), during the attack of more than 350 villages since August 2017 “…
“Hundreds of soldiers committed these crimes throughout the state of Rakhine (Arakan) systematically.” The Rohingya researcher presented a shocking and detailed picture of some of those crimes that “included female genital mutilation after rape, in order to terrorize Rohingya women and end their offspring” …
The fragile attempts of polishing by the Government of Myanmar collide with hard rock from the resounding truths that have been published in the form of video and audio of the genocide in Arakan. They also imply an implicit recognition by the government of these crimes. At the same time, This government.
