(မူရင္း စာမ်က္နာကိုၾကည့္ရန္)
နိုင္ငံ သား ျဖစ္ျပီးသား ျမန္မာ မူဆလင္ အစြန္း ေရာက္တို ့ကလည္း ၊ မူဆလင္ျဖစ္လွ်င္ျပီးေရာ ဟုသည္ ့ မသိစိတ္ကို အေျခခံကာ ေထာ သူခိုးကို ဒါးရိုးကမ္း သည္ ့အလား ျမန္မာ ျပည္ တြင္ ႀကီးျပင္းလာသည္ ့ေက်းဇူးကို မေထာက္ ထား ေတာ ့ပဲ အသားထဲ ကထြက္သည္ ့ေလာက္ ပမာ မ်က္လံုး စံု မိတ္ကာ ကုလား မ်ိဳး နြယ္ခ်င္းပဲ မူဆလင္ ခ်င္း ပဲ ဟူသည္ ့ သေဘာ ျဖင္ ့ လိုက္လံ ေထာက္ခံ ေပး လွ်က္ရွိသည္ ့အျပင္ ၊ ကမာၻ ကစိတ္၀င္စား လာေအာင္ ဘာသာေရး ဖိနိပ္မူ ၊ ဘာသာ ေရး အထိက၇ံုး ပံု စံမ်ိဳး ဆြဲ ယူ ဖန္တည္း ေနႀကသည္မွာ ျမန္မာ ျပည္အတြက္ အႏၱရယ္ ႀကီးလွေပသည္ ၊ ထို သစၥာ ေဖါက္ အမ်ိဳး ရုပ္ အစြန္း ေရာက္ တို ့ကို ရပ္တန္း မွ ရပ္ အျမင္ မွွန္ ရေစလို ပါသည္ ။
မ်ိဳး ခ်စ္ ျပည္ ခ်စ္ စိတ္ အျပည္ ့ျဖင္ ့
မ်ိဳး မင္း
မွတ္ ခ်က္ ၊ ၊ ဆက္ လက္ ျဖန္ ့ေ၀ အြန္ လိုင္း တင္ ေပး ႀကေစလို ပါသည္ ၊
(ေအာက္ေဖၚျပပါ အေၾကာင္းအရာကို Toronto Star မွကူးယူေဖၚျပပါသည္။
ဘေလာဂါ)
A stateless Muslim tribe is being forced out of Burma, but they have nowhere to go
The accounts circulating around Burma’s troubled west coast recall the beginnings of massacres in Bosnia or Rwanda: hacked limbs, pamphlets stoking mob violence, old women passing out iron spikes to vigilantes and whole city wards burned to the ground.
Cheered on by the international community, Burma’s post-junta government has promised to end despotism and ethnic warfare. But smouldering enmity between two groups — the majority Buddhists in seaside Rakhine State and a stateless Muslim tribe called the Rohingya — suggests keeping this promise remains difficult.
The violence began in June with waves of tit-for-tat killings, home invasions and arson sprees in Sittwe, a provincial capital. Testimonies gathered in a recent Human Rights Watch report suggest that both sides have suffered torched homes, murder and mutilation at the hands of wild mobs. The Internet lit up with images of flaming huts and lifeless bodies in Rakhine State.
But only one side, the majority Buddhists, was permitted to storm rival neighbourhoods, largely with impunity. Sittwe’s Muslim quarter has been widely torched and purged, according to Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director with Human Rights Watch. Soldiers and police, he said, did little to stop the mobs. Rohingya who remain in Sittwe reportedly fear venturing outside to buy food in the markets.
For now, segregation appears to be working. The largely Rohingya displaced have been driven to more than 60 camps, said Silke Buhr, an information officer with the World Food Program, which has long maintained a presence in remote Rakhine province. Roughly 64,000 remain displaced, she said, from a high of 100,000.
According to government figures, the death toll stands at 78, but Human Rights Watch monitors believe that figure is far too low. “Our research shows that this is a gross underestimate,” Robertson said.
At the heart of the conflict is a pervasive belief in Myanmar that the Rohingya are menacing invaders.
Burma’s President Thein Sein, the public face of the nation’s much-heralded reform movement, believes that segregating the Rohingya is inadequate. He wants them expelled from the country.
But expelling the Rohingya would be highly impractical. With roughly 800,000 residing in Burma, there are simply too many of them to relocate.
There is a fundamental obstacle to purging Burma of the Rohingya: no other country wants to receive them en masse.
Many Rohingya who have recently fled to Bangladesh have been pushed back by border guards. Those who have slipped through add numbers to the roughly 300,000 who live a bleak existence in crowded refugee camps. Even opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi, widely considered the voice of Burma’s oppressed, has shied from exhibiting sympathy for the Rohingya. (Her party, the National League for Democracy, did not return repeated phone calls and emails requesting clarification of its policy views on the Rohingya.)
Adamant that Rohingya are invaders, many in Burma simply refer to them as “Bengalis” or, stronger still, “terrorists.”.
Bloody warfare between ethnic groups is exactly the sort of horror that reformist leaders have pledged to overcome. But the government’s answer to the Rohingya dilemma — forced segregation and alleged collusion with vigilantes — indicates that ethnic peace will not come easily, said Human Rights Watch’s Robertson.
“It’s an early warning,” he said, “that this test is going to be much harder than the international community has assumed.”
Protesters hold up a banner during a demonstration against the massacre of Muslims in Burma. There are fears that sectarian violence is growing in the country which is attempting to expel the Rohingya people, a Muslim tribe.
Protesters hold up a banner during a
demonstration against the massacre of Muslims in Burma. The placard
reads "Where is the humanity? Myanmar is forgotten." There are fears
that sectarian violence is growing in the country which is attempting to
expel the Rohingya people, a Muslim tribe. 
Protesters wave placards as they demonstrate against the massacre of Muslims in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.
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