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Burma Rebuffs Asean Bid for Role in Arakan State
People wait for food to be distributed at a Buddhist monastery used as a collective shelter for people displaced by violence in Arakan State. (Photo: Reuters)
A planned emergency meeting of foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to address the aftermath of recent communal violence in Arakan State was called off last week after Burma sternly rejected the regional grouping’s involvement, The Irrawaddy has learned.
In a letter addressed to the Asean foreign ministers dated Aug. 10, Cambodian Foreign Minister Nor Namhong, whose country is the current chair of Asean, called for an emergency meeting in Phnom Penh on Aug. 14 to discuss what he described as the “humanitarian crisis” in Arakan State.
However, in a reply also dated Aug. 10, Burmese Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin categorically rejected the proposal, saying that the situation in Arakan State did not constitute a humanitarian crisis or “a cultural and religious issue.”
“As we had clearly stated in our press release of 30 July 2012, the incidents in Rakhine [Arakan] State is purely an inter-communal violence,” he wrote, adding that the meeting would be “contrary to the fundamental principle of non-interference in internal affairs of an Asean Member State.”
Asean has been noticeably low-key in its response to clashes that broke out between Arakanese Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in early June, leaving dozens dead and tens of thousands homeless. However, an international outcry—including large protests in Indonesia and Malaysia over the alleged ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas—has increased pressure on the bloc to act.
Besides being constrained by its policy of non-interference, Asean may also be wary of being seen as taking sides in the dispute, which many Burmese say has been distorted to portray the Rohingya as the sole victims in a conflict that has devastated many lives on both sides.
To allay such concerns, the grouping has proposed “a humanitarian engagement” similar to that organized by Asean in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, which killed more than 140,000 people in Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta in May 2008, according to a senior Asean official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
However, even the role of humanitarian aid workers in the Arakan clashes has been a highly contentious issue, with a number of NGO workers and staff from the UN refugee relief agency UNHCR being arrested for allegedly participating in the riots in June.
According to sources in the northern Arakan townships of Sittwe, Maungdaw and Buthidaung, however, nine of these aid workers were released yesterday, in the latest sign that the government is responding to criticism of its handling of the situation.
Weeks after the violence began, President Thein Sein told visiting UNHCR officials that the “best solution” to the problem was to put the Rohingya in camps administered by the UN agency and arrange for their resettlement in third countries. More recently, however, he told Voice of America that Burma would try to improve the education of the Rohingyas to ease tensions.
The government also allowed the UN special human rights envoy for Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana, and Turkey’s foreign minster, Ahmet Davutoglu, to visit the strife-torn region this month, and recently gave a green light to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to assist refugees in Arakan State.
Noting these developments, the senior Asean official acknowledged that “it looks rather strange [for Asean] to be absent on the issue.”
“Asean, aspiring to be a ‘community of caring and sharing societies,’ is conspicuously absent from the scene. How can we explain this to the international community?”
So sad the nicey, nicey democracy dress up game in “So Wonderful Authentic Asian Style” is finishing too early before everyone has a good go.
Never mind. You can still go in and join the lolly scramble- Aung San Suu Kyi approved. (Americans are camping out there already.Don’t forget to give thousands of one-dollar jobs to the locals.))
Just be quick before the Islamists start to make true pickle out of this juicy situation. People running away for lives in Bangalore and the Tibetan monk stabbed in Mysore are just entrée.
When things go (more)horribly wrong, it would be time to remember who put the horns on the raging horse.(Democratic clothes-changed military–ha,ha -you guys are hoot!)
ASEAN! Jokestars. Just not funny.
Burma surely needs a helping hand from the ASEAN to prove none of the International NGOs’ allegations against Burma of mass murder, genocide, and ethnic cleaning has ever taken place. After all, ASEAN countries have been best friends of Burma through its constructive engagement policy when Burma had no friends in the past.
The truth is Burma does really have to deal with the issues of Muslim Bengali invaders, who started the ignition of the deathly violent communal riots in the Rakhine State of Burma with the key of rape; driving through all red light; destroying everyone on its path to hell .
There are too many slanderous accusations of mass murder, genocide, and ethnic cleaning to which, some international NGOs partially consider as true; and a lot of Muslim Brotherhood countries has entirely accepted as true; emerging numerous violent protests in front of the Burmese Embassy in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Pakistan while Muslim Extremists and terrorists threaten to use violent retaliation against Burmese interests.
For its silence on, mishandling in and ignorance of the communal riots in Rakhine State, the Government of Burma, under U Thein Sein administration, has been losing the battle of public relations in the international community for the time being, shutting down the whole process of its reform program of democratization of Burma while Rakhines are becoming victims of vicious slander for defending their own lives.
Without the independent investigation to the riots, the image of Burma will maintain with stain, keeping the doubt of all these slanderous accusations alive; blocking Burma’s further progress toward Democracy. Think it carefully to move Burma forward from where it is now.
Should such an investigation be taken place to clear the doubt of Burma’s sincerity in handling in the communal riots, in my opinion, there is no other group better than ASEAN for its protection of Burma’s interests.
In the mean time, no compromise must be made to the suggested plan of the President U Thein Sein on Bengali Rohingyas; that is to put non-Burmese citizen into a designated save area to prevent further deathly riots. The president of Burma has to be very assertive in telling the fact that majority of Bengali Rohingyas are not the citizens of Burma and those who committed crime will be dealt with current existing criminal law. In accordance with the existing citizenship law, those of Bengalis eligible for citizenship of Burma may apply right away, while non- eligible Bengalis will face deportation to their own country. If their mother country Bangladesh does not accept them back, Burma has no choice, but to put them into a camp or designated safe area.
Citizenship of Burma is not a free ride, but has to be earned through hard work. It can’t be earned by robbing, killing, and threatening Burmese citizens.
A Burmese Freedom Fighter
in Burma we have freedom fighter like Galon u saw, who assassinated aung san and cabinet minister.result is destruction we faced until today.further destructive policy promoted by dictator Ne Win, including striping citizenship of rohingya ethnic enacting 1982 law.in Burma one by one evil leader,evil dictator come and go all dictate their evil policy to rohingya,make their life misery. now rohingya face new murderer Nazi thein sein,RNDP party led by Dr. aye maung and his gang,Chauvinist group 88 student generation led by Ming ko naing .uneducated, uncivilized criminal in Burma denial thousand years of rohingya existent in arakan , make false claim against rohingya ethnic.
In Burma, we also have Bengali illegal immigrants like Maung Rohingyas, who always bite the hand of their care givers that feed them. The rule of law is a way to solve the problem, and no one is above the law of immigration act of Burma. If you didn’t commit any crime, don’t worry, you would be ok.
Hey, Maung Rohingya, Be sensible and take my candid note!
The basic requirement of earning a citizenship of Burma is to get along well with the hosts, followed by appreciation and recognition without breaking any existing law of host country. I can help you for your rehabilitation should you make a polite request to me, on condition that you haven’t committed any crime and didn’t participate in recent communal riots.
A ‘freedom fighter’ advocating concentration camps and mass denial of human rights. Pathetic, ugly, shameful hypocrisy.
You are just a blamer. You will never come up with a piratical solution to the problem. It doesn’t surprise me at all and it is expected to see your negative response to my solution with intense anger, and blame. Just because I know that you are just a blamer, but it is not too late to join me to be a part of solution provider.
You advocate rounding up hundreds of thousands of people and placing them in camps. This is a very similar ‘solution’ to one in Europe in the 1940s – ever heard of Hitler? If you act & talk like a Nazi, don’t expect anything but disgust from right-thinking people. Freedom fighter… what a joke.
Wrong! My solution is similar to the practices of those of New Zealand, Australia, and any other civilized countries.
Spoon&Fork- You are blind man, in fact, Bangalis/Rohingyas are Illegal Migrants from Bangladesh and USA already deny no genocide in Burma. i agree with A Burmese Freedom Fighter.
Burmese president should be sent to mental asylum.Or he can be sent to international court of justice for trial due to crime against humanity.Along with him all the ministers & generals should also be sent for trial.They have made fragmentation of burma possible.In Burma they should be produced before court for this crime also.
Arakan Crisis is a miniature comparing to the Kachin conflict, where thousands of young soldiers have shed their lives, hundred of thousands of peoples fled their homes and living in limbo, unaccountable young women were raped and brutally killed, numerous innocents are tortured to death, real Crime Against Humanity. ASIAN must convene Emergency Meeting for Kachin, the Voluntary Federal State of Burma being inhaled into the Bama Blackhole.
dear mr duwa,,both crises are same,, but only the differences u can see is that rohingya have no rebel group..but kachin have rebel goup,kachin fighting for seperate homeland ,,while rohingya demanding only human right,basic right,,,
I love Wunna Maung Lwin’s stand and his policy. The Muslim world is taking too much advantage on the Rohingya issue. We already lost too much to these people because of Ne Win and Than Shwe’s useless government. We cannot afford to lose even one inch of our sovereign territory to foreign invaders.
Burma entered Asean for its benefits not for other sharing and caring. Now Dr. Mahathir should learn
Burma regime mentality and the regime which he make effort to become and give membership to Asean. The regime does not care any type of humanitarian crisis since the regime has racist peoples inside the party in power and also opposition side has racist too, it is difficult to solve the communal problems.The prejudice is as their culture in the history of Burma even among themself that is majority ethnic group.
you are absolutely right,,bro,,
ASEAN, please don’t try to explain your absence. And don’t be embarrased about that. Youv’e been conspicuously absent for more than twenty years when Burma was under a real oppression. Don’t start acting like you care now.
Burma Rebuffs Asean Bid for Role in Arakan State, and rightly so. We are an Independent,Sovereign Nation and we can take care of issues and problems within our borders. Asean needs to take care of its own backyard before moving into the international front yard. Are Cambodia and Indonesia seeking for an International Fact Finding Commission to the communal riots in next door in India? I think not…so brother don’t cherry pick your cause.
Those words sound familiar… ah yes, exactly what the generals used to say when they flung thousands of people into prison for standing up for human rights. ‘Sovereignty’ is the curtain behind which human rights abusers routinely hide.
Spoon and fork you forgot your plate; when ignorance is bliss it’s folly to be wise…don’t forget that you are on stage.
Maung Shwe Moe
Just do your homework. India is not an ASEAN country. ASEAN
ASEAN should expel Burma from the organisation.
Hasan, ASEAN member Governments have brain and they know the truth. ASEAN members are not like OIC members who were victims of Bengali Rohingya misleading.
There’s no point for expulsion Burma from ASEAN.
Read this news from RAF.
The truth about Arakan and Assam crisis will be known to whole world soon.
Muslim extremists in Pakistan are manufacturing and distributing fabricated Video, Pictures and News to Muslim world via Internet. I don’t whether Bengali Rohingya leaders were involved but they are certainly redistributing those fabricated Video, Pictures and misinformation to OIC members and Muslim peoples.
OIC members and Muslim peoples will be question creditability and integrity of Bengali Rohingya leadership soon.
http://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/fabricate-photo-originated-from-pakistan-08192012105134.html
Who care? ASEAN is an organization with no credibility. What have they achieved so far? Nothing. Since day one, Myanmar should not join this useless group. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Indonesia are still the lepers just like Myanmar.
You mean the jihadist from the face of the earth…
As President Thein Sein states, Rohingyas urgently need secular education. Since they are exposed predominantly to religious education, they can easily become extremists.
Besides, the Burmese population at large needs to be educated on critical thinking and the principle of human rights.
Recently the remarks of some ‘advocates of democracy’, seem to reek of racial discrimination and intolerance, which sound appalling even to Americans.
Plenty of extremist Buddhists out there – let’s re-educate those too. Actually, how about re-educating everyone who agrees with any religion or ideology?
You Americans are too naive to believe in Muslims. Forgot how dissident Iraqis tricked the Bush government to believe the WMD claim in Iraq, resulting in so many American lives?
Cambodia should have consulted with its paymaster China before asking Myanmar. ASEAN is a toothless tiger that anyone can ignore, even Myanmar. And, that Cambodia did it in favour of China ignoring the interest of ASEAN at the last meeting. For the first time in history ASEAN failed to issue a joint declaration because Cambodia objected to it as instructed by China. Cambodia should join China, not ASEAN and certainly should stay out of Myanmar’s internal affairs.
Agree !
Leave China out of your communal riots. We have seen with our own eyes what Burmese military did in 1967 to the ethnic Chinese community. As for ASEAN, if the Burmese ‘gov’t’ don’t like it, they can always quit. And don’t blame China. Shame on you for pulling in China who supported Burma when the Westerners imposed unilateral sanctions on her.
Pauk Hpaw Ko Tin Myint. You China dragon has a more subtle way of swallowing the Burma deer. A lot of Myanmar girls have become wives, concubines, mistresses or prostitutes because of human trafficking, the destination of which is China. And some Burmese authorities are looking the other way because they have Chinese blood in their ancestors. The late Ne Win or Pauk Hpaw Shu Maung was a bastard and he incited the riots of 1967. Pauk Hpaw Khin Nyunt has also been sowing seeds of hatred.
People, plz try to learn why Burmese people have been struggling many decades in term of economic, social well-beings and many issues. It’s because its govt and people are so self-centered on economic, political engagements and on many other issues. Don’t forget that country’s self-centered only creates barrier for the people. Be open mind and transparent, and don’t limit your knowledge with selfishness.
President U Thein Sein’s rebuff to ASEAN is right.It showed that he and his men can handle the problem without involvement from outside powers-Islamic or otherwise.lready he constituted a committee to investigate the causes and find an amicable solution.Tensions begin to ease after the two communities were separated.Sufficient amenities need to be provided to both communities.Segregation should be an interim arrangement with possible inter communal dialogue through exchange programs between the youths from both sides. Ghetto-like segregations must be avoided at all cost.If we allowed such ghettos.these will turn into breeding grounds of extremists and terrorists in our backyard There are many examples such examples in our moderne history..Extreme caution need be taken.Here we should mobilize most clever skills of political and diplomatic dexterity.No hot heads have a place in such delicate situations.Calma,Calma as Italian would say.
Asean should know Rohinger issue is Population Explosion in Bengladash. Look at the Nuf river border between Beingladash and Burma, it is a few minutes boat ride into swampy shore on Rakhine side for overpopulated crowd on other side. It is really a cleaver move of the populated neighbor to seal incoming ,but freely shut their eyes to outgoing crowd. Look at the border skamish of that country with India where fences and walls have to be erected, and then the clash in Assen region. If Asean really want to help out their
fellow Bengalis, just help them out to control their population explosion.
only people who have been to rakhine in recent days will know the situation. on friday the muslims started burning and killing everyone, including women, children, elderly & monks.
mr. president is right in sending rohingyas to camps. this is not a religious war, this is war against illegal immigrants who speak very little myanmar & they have no proper education.
because they never had proper lives, they will do anything to kill for food. so mr. president should send all these illegal immigrants to camp & send them back to middle east or bangladesh.
usa, canada & eu does the same thing when dealing with illegal immigrants. send the rohingyas back to where they came from. this is our land, myanmar!
Ridiculous! This is your land Myanmar? You robbed it from the Mons who dominated the whole Lower Burma. You ended the Rakkhine dynasty and enslaved the people and the buddha statue alike. You robbed it from Shan saw bwas. You robbed it from Kachin Duwas. You broke your promise and did not give the States the right for secession. You have taken it against the will of ethnic peoples.
Mr ” A Burmese Free Fighter ” is absolutely correct. U Thein Sien gov: should be assertive. This muslim world has been taking advatage everywhere. Your words were absolutely correct to put them in ” Camp” as a refugee status if they fail to show the evidence , required by the law.
U Win Mra is also correct , not to accept any bias by foreigners who should not be allowed to invove in internal affairs of a country relying on the media.
The kind of riot is also happening in India. I don’t any international bodies are trying to sort it out. So, why these bodies are bust with Mynamar?
They wan to help, unhappy people are allowed to go to the places whereare ready to be acepted.
It is better not make any propaganda by using the religion.
I agree with U Wanna Mang Lwin for the way he responded quickly. It is Myanmar internal affair.
Mr Nor. Namhong ( Cambodian Foreign Minister ) and all of Asian leaders. When we look at in the past, one of Asian member in Indonesia , there were Christian Churches and all of the worshiper were burned down by Muslim rioters. Why, all of the Asian leader were so silence at that time. All of this Christian members were purely Indonesia citizen.
Lets look at Myanmar Bengali Rohingya issue? They are intruder, illegal immigrants. Off cause some of Bengali were living peacefully with the rest of Myanmar citizen, so far they don’t have any problem at all. After arriving some Bengali intruder, illegal immigrant from Bnegladesh , the trouble start immediately. If, Asian country want to be so kind to the Burmese people and the Burmese government, they should ask Bengladesh to take back their own citizen/people.
The real problem is this. The Bengali population is three time bigger than Myanmar has and their country is the sizes of one third of Myanmar. There were bombing population in Bengladesh. Myanmar government is not responsible for neighboring bombing population. They have the limit.
wunna maung lwin
how did you get wunna title how many lives of soldiers you saved. to get this title ?
how date you lie to the international communities. do you wants to get another title for lying arkanese people they will give you cobra wunna maung lwin because
arkanese people inspire the snake .
may god bless you for your lies.
may you be bless with the wunna cobra maung lwin.
a prefix for your honorable title of the military junta .