ဘဂၤလီ( ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ)ကို ဘန္ေကာက္
ပို ့စ္ အင္ဒီတာအာေဘာ္ကေရးသား
ထားတာကိုေဖာ္ျပလိုက္ပါတယ္။
Turkey would rather avoid questions when asked about the government's
harsh treatment of its critics and Kurdish political activists.,
ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာျပႆနာကို မြတ္စလင္ကမာၻမွာ ပို၍ အာရုံစူးစိုက္မႈရလာေစရန္ ရည္
ရြယ္ခ်က္ျဖင့္ နိဳင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ၾကိး Ahmet Davutoglu ကို ရခုိင္ေဒသကို ေစလႊတ္
ခဲ့ေသာ တူရကီနိဳင္ငံဟာ ကဒ္လူမ်ဳိး နိဳင္ငံေရးလႈပ္ရွားသူမ်ားအေပၚ ျပင္းျပင္း
ထန္ထန္ ကိုင္တြယ္မႈနဲ ့ပတ္သက္ျပီး ေမးျမန္းလာလ်င္ အျမဲ ေရွာင္ရွားေလ့
ရိွပါတယ္။
Indonesia dissembles when asked about discrimination against its
Christian minority.
ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာ ျပႆနာကို ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ ကိုင္တြယ္ပါလို ့ျမန္မာအစိုးရကို တိုက္
တြန္းေနတယ့္ အင္ဒိုနီးရွားအစိုးရဟာ သူ ့နိဳင္ငံအတြင္းက လူနည္းစု ခရစ္ယာန္
ဘာသာဝင္အေပၚ ခြဲျခား ဖိႏွိပ္ ဆက္ဆံတယ့္အေၾကာင္းနဲ ့ပတ္သက္ျပီး
ေမးလာခဲ့ရင္ အျမဲဖုံးကြယ္ လိမ္ညာေလ့ ရိွပါတယ္။
Saudi Arabia would rather not talk about women's rights at home
ျမန္မာနိဳင္ငံမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြဟာ ethnic cleansing လူမ်ဳိးတုန္းသတ္ျဖတ္ခံေနရပါျပီ
လို ့ေအာ္ခဲ့ေသာ ေဆာ္ဒီအာေရဗ်ဟာ သူ ့တိုင္းျပည္မွာ အမ်ဳိးသမီးအခြင့္အေရး
အေၾကာင္းကိုေျပာဆိုေလ့မရိွပါဖူး။
while Iran continues to speak out against intervention in Syria
despite mass killings by the Assad regime.
ျမန္မာနိဳင္ငံမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ား အစုလိုက္ အျပဳံလိုက္ "genocide"သတ္ခံေနရပါတယ္ ၊
နိဳင္ငံတကာ ႏွင့္ကုလသမဂၢတပ္မ်ား ေစလႊတ္ျပီး ၾကားဝင္ ထိန္းသိမ္းဖို ့လိုအပ္ပါတယ္
လို ့ေတာင္းဆုိခဲ့တယ့္ အီရန္အစိုးရဟာ အာဏာရွင္ ဆီးရီယားသမၼတအာဆတ္
အတိုက္အခံသူပုန္အေျမာက္အျမားကိုသတ္ျဖတ္ေနျခင္းအေပၚ ကုလသမဂၢမွ
ၾကားဝင္ထိန္းသိမ္းေပးဖို ့ကိုေတာ့ အျမဲကန္ ့ကြက္ေနပါတယ္။
But all these countries agree that the Muslim Rohingya deserve basic
human rights and better treatment from the Myanmar authorities.
ဒါေပမယ့္ အဲဒီနိဳင္ငံေတြအားလုံးဟာ မြတ္စလင္ ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာေတြဟာ အေျခခံ
လူ ့အခြင့္အေရးေတြ ရသင့္တယ္၊ ျမန္မာအစိုးရက သူတို ့ကို ပိုျပီး
ေကာင္းေကာင္းမြန္မြန္ ဆက္ဆံသင့္တယ္လို ့တညီတညာထဲ
သေဘာတူေနၾကပါတယ္။
သတင္းအျပည့္အစံုမွာ ...
West, Islam can unite over Rohingya cause
Thomas Donilon, the US president's national security adviser, said
that Barack Obama was to raise concerns over the plight of Muslim
Rohingya in Rakhine state during his meetings with Myanmar President
Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Doing so could be
critical not only to resolving the conflict in Rakhine state, but it
could also have great implications for relations between Islam and the
West.
Published: 20/11/2012 at 12:00 AM
Writer: Fuadi Pitsuwan
In the latest clashes last month, sectarian violence between the
Buddhist majority and Muslim minority in Myanmar's westernmost state
claimed 89 lives, according to official reports. While much of the
world sees the situation as "merely" a clash between Buddhists and
Muslims, it is much more complex.
At the heart of the conflict is the Rohingya's lack of protection from
the state because they are not considered Myanmar citizens, despite
having lived in the country for several generations. Buddhist Rakhines
view the Rohingya with suspicion, as illegal immigrants from
Bangladesh who refuse to speak the Burmese language and embrace the
local culture.
To be fair, many who claim to be Rohingya are illegal immigrants and
it is extremely difficult to determine who are real Rohingya and who
are illegal settlers from Bangladesh.
Muslim countries are very interested in seeing better treatment of the
Rohingya by the Myanmar authorities who are accused by international
human rights organisations of favouring the Buddhists in the conflict.
Turkey's first lady Emine Erdogan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
visited Rakhine state in August, which led to widespread international
media coverage of the conflict and jolted the Islamic world into
paying attention.
Jusuf Kalla, former vice-president of Indonesia and current chairman
of the Indonesian Red Cross, made it a personal crusade and led
Indonesia's efforts to try and persuade the Myanmar government to find
a peaceful settlement to the Rohingya issue. Saudi Arabia has called
the conflict "ethnic cleansing" against the Muslim Rohingya and King
Abdullah reportedly ordered $50 million in aid to be sent to the
Rohingya community. Iran also spoke out against the treatment of the
Rohingya and called on all Muslim countries and international
organisations to take swift actions to stop the "genocide" in Rakhine
state.
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a bloc of 57 Muslim
countries, sent a high-level delegation to Myanmar and has continued
to be vocal on the issue. According to its secretary-general, the OIC
sent a letter to the White House encouraging President Obama to raise
the Rohingya issue with Myanmar's leaders during his trip to the
country, the first ever visit by a sitting US president.
This solidarity within the Islamic world is unprecedented. Muslim
nations are speaking with one voice and that voice favours the
protection of human rights.
While some of these countries may be using the issue to deflect
attention from their own flawed human rights policies, the plight of
the Rohingya has created a common position among these Muslim
countries. More importantly, these interests coincide with values
traditionally espoused by the Western world.
It is imperative that the White House recognise this opportunity
resulting from this shared interest. The US may equivocate when
questions related to the Arab-Israeli conflict arise.
Turkey would rather avoid questions when asked about the government's
harsh treatment of its critics and Kurdish political activists.
Indonesia dissembles when asked about discrimination against its
Christian minority. Saudi Arabia would rather not talk about women's
rights at home, while Iran continues to speak out against intervention
in Syria despite mass killings by the Assad regime. But all these
countries agree that the Muslim Rohingya deserve basic human rights
and better treatment from the Myanmar authorities.
US concern for the plight of the Muslim Rohingya will demonstrate that
it is not in conflict with the Islamic world. The US can use this
opportunity to work with Muslim countries to promote tolerance and
respect for human rights in Rakhine state.
In his speech at Yangon University yesterday Mr Obama urged an end to
the sectarian unrest saying that there was no excuse for violence
against innocent people.
But the president should go further and develop the emerging shared
values evident in the world's response to this conflict. (Of course,
he must do so delicately without making the Buddhists feel like
scapegoats.)
Islam and the West can find common ground in Rakhine state. It could
well be that the road to reconciliation between Islam and the West
will pass through this abject region in the westernmost part of
Myanmar.
Fuadi Pitsuwan is is a non-resident WSD-Handa Fellow at Pacific Forum
CSIS in Honolulu, Hawaii, and a Belfer IGA Student Fellow at Harvard
University's Kennedy School of Government. The article originally
Link : http://m.bangkokpost.com/opinion/322093
