'Please save my future generation'
“Even in 1971, I did not see this grotesque brutality on us,” Mohathero says. Mohathero is the second highest priest of the Buddhist community in Bangladesh.
“Muslim men and women had taken refuge in my monastery in 1971 to escape the wrath of the Pakistani army,” the feeble man says. “I have saved so many Muslim souls from the brutal persecution of the Pakistanis. Today I feel defeated.”
The Mohathero slowly walked into the Sima monastery yesterday afternoon, supported by his disciples. He went from one pagoda to another, and looked at the defaced, damaged statues of Lord Buddha and the nobles in a state of stupor.
He was sweating. He was shaking in pain and exasperation. And he spoke in his gentle, quaint voice.
The Bangalees who had taken refuge in his monastery invented a trick to evade the Pakistan army.
“I am a China Buddhist,” they would tell the Pakistan army when intercepted. When Bangladesh was at war, China sided with Pakistan. This is why the Pakistan army had great respect for anyone affiliated with China. A China Buddhist was a respectable person and so was to be spared persecution.
“The Pakistanis did not torch our village. This attack is totally out of the blue,” Mohathero says. “This is an attack on my religion. I have no foes.”
And yet he had to run for his life. When the mob attacked his monastery, his disciples held him on both sides, lifted him off the ground and carried him into the paddy field. That is where he hid the night and survived.
“My civilisation is lost. My lifetime of worshipping has gone in vain. I am a lost man and lost I will be,” he says.
“Please save my future generation! Please!”
“ေက်းဇူးျပဳျပီး ငါ့ရဲ႕ေနာက္မ်ဳိးဆက္ေတြကိုကယ္
ေရႊျဖင့္သြန္လုပ္ထားေသာဗုဒၶရုပ္
ခါဒီသစ္တို႔ျဖင့္ထြင္းထားေသာကႏု
တိပိရကဋ္တို႔လည္းပ်က္စီးဆံုးရံႈ
(၈၃)ႏွစ္ျပည့္ေျမာက္ခဲ့ေသာ ဆရာေတာ္ သီရိမဒ္ ဆၾတာပရိယာ မဟာေထရ၏
နာက်င္ဆံုးရံႈမူကပို၍ၾကီးမားေ
ဆရာေတာ္၏လူသားမ်ားအေပၚနားလည္စာ
ယံုၾကည္မႈတို႔ပါဆံုးရံႈသြားရေလျ
ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္အေပါင္း
(ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးစစ္
ငါတို႔(ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္
ဟုမိန္႔ၾကားျပန္သည္။
“၁၉၇၁ ခုႏွစ္တုန္းက
ပါကစၥတန္စစ္တပ္ရဲ႕ႏွိမ္ႏွင္းသတ္
အမ်ဳိးသား အမ်ဳိးသမီးအေျမာက္အျမား ငါ့ေက်ာင္းမွာ ခိုလံႈခဲ့ၾကတယ္။
မြတ္ဆလင္ဘာသာဝင္အေျမာက္အျမားကို ပါကစၥတန္စစ္တပ္အႏၱရာယ္ကငါကယ္ခဲ့
ဒီေန႔ေတာ့ငါရႈံးသြားျပီလို” ဆရာေတာ္ကတုန္တုန္ခိုက္ခိုက္ေျပာ
တပည့္သာဝကႏွစ္ဦး၏ေဖးမမႈျဖင့္
ေျဖးညွင္းစြာဝင္ကာ ပံုပ်က္ပန္းပ်က္တခ်ဳိ႕က်ဳိးပဲ့
ဗုဒၶဆင္းတုေတာ္မ်ားႏွင္း ေစတီငယ္မ်ားအားလွည့္လည္ၾကည့္ရႈ
ဆရာေတာ္ၾကီးသည္နာက်င္ေသာကျဖင့္ ေဇာေခၽြးျပန္တုန္ခါေနယင္းမွ
တိုးညွင္းစြာေျပာျပေနသည္။ ဘဂၤလီေတြသူေက်ာင္းမွာ
ပါကစၥတန္စစ္တပ္အႏၱရာယ္ကေရွာင္လြ
ပါကစၥတန္စစ္တပ္ကေမးျမန္းစစ္ေဆး
(ဆရာေတာ္ၾကီးရဲ႕တပည့္)တရုတ္ဗုဒၶ
၎ဘဂၤလားစစ္ပြဲတြင္တရုတ္ျပည္သည္ ပါကစၥတန္ဘက္မွရပ္တည္ေပးခဲ့သျဖင္
ပါကစၥတန္စစ္တပ္သည္တရုတ္ႏွင့္ပါ
အေရးယူအျပစ္ေပးျခင္းမွကင္းလြတ္
အခုတိုက္ခိုက္မႈကေတာ့အဆံုးစြန္
ငါ့မွာေတာ့ရန္သူမရွိပါဘူး” ဟုဆရာေတာ္ၾကီးကဆိုသည္။
လူအုပ္ၾကီးကေက်ာင္းတိုက္အားတို
ကိုယ္တိုင္ေျပးလႊားနိုင္စြမ္း
တပည့္ရဟန္းပ်ဳိႏွစ္ပါးကတဖက္တခ်
လယ္ကြင္းမ်ားအၾကားတညလံုးပုန္းခိ
ငါ့မ်ဳိးႏြယ္ယဥ္ေက်းမႈအေဆာက္အအံ
ငါ့ရဲ႕တသက္တာဆုေတာင္းပူေဇာ္ေမတၱ
ငါဟာရံႈးနိမ့္သူျဖစ္ခဲ့ျပီ၊
ငါကိုယ္တိုင္လည္းေပ်ာက္ကြယ္ပ်က္
“ေက်းဇူးျပဳျပီး ငါ့ရဲ႕ေနာက္မ်ဳိးဆက္ေတြကိုကယ္
'Please save my future generation'
Inam Ahmed and Julfikar Ali Manik, from Ramu, Cox's Bazar
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
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