Rohingya Muslims High-level meeting to prevent massive killings in a high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority with the international community in the first United Nations Myanmar And in the groups persecuted, they live a normal life to help those people.
“This is a historical opportunity for Myanmar, but it is long overdue,” YY Nu, the founder of Rohingya and the Women’s Peace Network-Myanmar’s Executive Director told ministers and ambassadors from several 193-member countries of the United Nations.
He said that Rohingya and other minorities in Myanmar have faced decades of displacement, harassment and violence, while no action has been seen in response to determining that they are victims of massacre. “That cycle must end today,” said YY Nu.
Buddhist-Bahul Myanmar has long been considered Rohingya Muslim minority as “Bengalis” from Bangladesh, even though their families live in the country for generations. Almost all have been denied citizenship since 1982.
In August 2017, an Rohingya rebel group attacks on Myanmar security personnel launched a cruel campaign by the army, which brought at least 740,000 Rohingya to Bangladesh. The army is accused of mass rape, murders and burning villages, and its operations gave rise to allegations of caste cleaning and genocide from the international community including the United Nations.
Myanmar has been eradicated from violence since the elected government elected by the military in February 2021 and ruthlessly suppressed the protests. Democracy guerrilla and ethnic minority armed forces demanding to exclude military rulers in western, armed resistance across the country and a fight across the country, Rakhine States where thousands of Rohingya still live are limited to many camps.
United States In 2022, it was said that it was determined that the members of the Myanmar Army carried out crime against humanity and massacre against Rohingya.
United Nations refugee chief Philippo Grandy, who recently visited Myanmar, told a high -level meeting on Tuesday that Bangladesh is now hosting 1.2 million Rohingya refugees close to Rohingya, and since fighting in Rakhin between the military and Arkan Sena in 2024, an additional 150,000 have demanded security in the neighboring country.
The Arakan Army, the well -armed military wing of the Rakhin ethnic minority, now controls almost all Rakhin states, Grandi said, and the condition of Rohingya has not improved.
He said that they still face a ban on discrimination, burning their villages, excluding work, moving freely, restricted education and health care and arrest threats. “They are subject to forced labor and forced recruitment” and “their lives are defined every day with racism and fear,” Grand said.
Julie Bishop, a special envoy of the United Nations for Myanmar, said that there was a very little sign that the political crisis could be resolved, with no agreeing ceasefire, peace or political solution.
The government is preparing for the elections starting in late December, but the United Nations Human Rights Head Volcar Turk said they would not reflect people’s will or form a basis for permanent peace. Election will be held under military control, Rohingya cannot vote as they are deprived of citizenship, and ethnic Rakhin parties have been disqualified from running.
Rofik Husson, founder of Arakan Youth Peace Network, told the assembly that despite the oppression of decades, Rohingya’s “deepest desire” is to live in his ancestral motherland, Myanmar, in peace and security.
“Nevertheless, the last decade has shown that without international support, it is not possible for us without international pressure,” he said. He called for the construction of a non-converted safe area in the northern Rakhin state along the border with Bangladesh.
Speaking in an impure voice, the founder of the Rohingya Student Network, Mong Soydollah, said, “There may be no permanent peace for Rohingya for self -determination and for international security in Rakhin.” “The United Nations must collect resources to empower the Rohingya,” he told the world leaders.
The Chairman of the Mahasabha, Analena Berbock, who chaired the meeting, finished, saying, “Today is just an early point, we have to do more.” He promised an action-oriented follow-up.