Time for debate or Reconciliation?

Dr. Abid Bahar Ph.D.

Time and again, in the past we asked Aye Chan, Aye Kyaw and Ashin Nayaka, the xenophob trio to have an open debate about why they had to call Rohingyas as "foreigners" or as "Influx Viruses." They remained silent for years. They knew their arguments were fundamentally flawed. Their arguments were based on racism. Their such works and activities were documented and they were found to be the promoters of ethnic violence in Arakan.

Based on the merit of their works, instead of bringing them for debate they should be brought to justice through the International Criminal Court. Their place shouldn't be a conference room in a civilized country but they should be placed in the the confinement of a jail. They helped promote ethnic unrest in Arakan. Aye Kyaw was instrumental in the adaptation of the 1982 Citizenship Law. If we have to have debate, it should be with Arakanese humanist leaders.

Racism to Rohingya in Burma

Dr. Abid Bahar Ph.D.
“The Burmese military has clearly embarked on a policy of ridding the country of ethnic Rohingyas by any possible means. Official claims that the refugees are "illegal immigrants" – Asia Watch
An enclave is part of a country geographically separated from the main part by the surrounding foreign territory. A great deal of works has been done by the military’s civilian collaborators on the province of Arakan (Rakhine province) claiming that there is the existence of an enclave in Burma. Most prominent of the authors is Aye Chan. Aye Chan, a native of Burma’s Arakan (Rakhine) province, says there is an enclave in Arakan.

The military’s Burmese democracy and the process of Bengalicing the Myanmarese indigenous Rohingya

Dr. Abid Bahar

People are dying in the Rohingya concentration camps in Arakan. Medical supplies are not allowed to reach these people, NASAKA harasses them regularly in camps and ask them to sign and acknowledge as Bengalis.

Rohingyas wants to be called as the Rohingya but the government forces them to accept the name Bengali. Rohingyas know it very well that it is to get rid of them because they are racially and religiously different from the Buddhist Rakhines.

Rohingyas are a people who once had their houses, business, family, land and a pair of cows to cultivate their land. They even had their citizenship until 1982. These people were born of parents whose ancestors had lived in Arakan before Burma occupied Arkan in 1784.