{"id":98831,"date":"2020-02-08T16:53:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T23:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=98831"},"modified":"2020-02-08T16:53:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T23:53:24","slug":"is-the-icj-in-compelling-myanmar-to-recognize-rohingya-tantamount-to-enforcing-the-most-sinister-form-of-religion-cultural-imperialism-on-a-small-independent-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/02\/08\/is-the-icj-in-compelling-myanmar-to-recognize-rohingya-tantamount-to-enforcing-the-most-sinister-form-of-religion-cultural-imperialism-on-a-small-independent-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the ICJ in compelling Myanmar to recognize ‘Rohingya’ tantamount to enforcing the most sinister form of religion-cultural imperialism on a small independent nation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Kanbawza Win Courtesy <\/strong>Asian Tribune<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

In a landmark verdict, the United\nNation\u2019s highest court has ruled that it has the authority to consider a\ngenocide case against Burma and ordered the country to prevent irreparable harm\nfrom being committed again, signalling that the sensational news has vanquished\nthe conflict resolutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But my research indicates otherwise,\nof how in the 18th century, the Colonial British in construing Burma to be part\nof the British Indian empire encouraged the Chittagonians<\/em> labourers\nfrom India to work in the fertile fields of northern Arakan making Burma the\nrice bowl of Asia\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Origin of the Rohingyas<\/strong> In fact\nsome of the Kala<\/em>r (meaning dark complexion) were already there\nliving in a large village, even before the British annexed the country in 1824.\nThese people considered themselves to be genuine Muslims, strictly adhering to\ntheir traditional cultures and the new comers admired them and wanted to live\nwith them. However, the old village people said Even if you speak the\nsame language and of the same religion, you are not an authentic Muslims and we\nwill not welcome in our village, but if you want to reside here you can stay in\nthe outskirts of our village.\u201d <\/em>Hence those new comers reside there and\nwere label as Ywathitthar, (in Burmese meaning people from the new\nvillage) <\/em>while from the old village continue to call themselves\nas Ywahaughthar (people of the old village).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as more and more Chttagonians <\/em>came\nover, it overwhelmed the old village and everybody now called themselves\nas Ywahaoungtha.<\/em> However, to a new Chittagonians <\/em>who\njust arrived having little or no knowledge about Arakanese or Burmese languages\nheard the word of Ywahaungtha<\/em>r or rather the Arakanese word as Rwahaungtha,<\/em> somewhat\nakin to the Bengali word Rohin.<\/em> Hence, the name of Rohingya.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, compelling Burma to recognize the\nword Rohingya <\/em>tantamount to enforcing as the most sinister\nform of religion-cultural imperialism on a small independent nation which is\nbound to be resisted by every person residing in Burma, Why the tyranny\nof the majority?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genocide of the Arakanese Buddhist<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the fall of Singapore in 1942,\nthe British withdrew to India and organized all these Kales<\/em> in\nBurma to fight the Japanese, (the Burmese were allied with the Japanese,\njust to gain independence from Britain).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However these Arakanese Kales<\/em> taking\nadvantage turned their guns on the locals, not only exterminating everyone,\nincluding women and children but also destroying their religious edifies,\ndigging up Pagodas and religious shrines, only very few Arakanese managed to\nescape to India or to other parts of Abakan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Maungdaw<\/em> townships\nalone they exterminated more than 30,000 known as Maungdaw\nMassacre, <\/em><\/strong>which were still remembered and clearly written in\nBurmese which can still be seen in the archives of Rangoon. Obviously, all the\nlocals Arakanese deeply hated these Kales<\/em> compelling the world\nto be perplexed or comprehend the raisons d’\u00eatre<\/em> of the\nhatred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chunk of the Motherland.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After World War II, at the prospect of\nBurma gaining independence (1947) these Kalar,<\/em> now calling\nthemselves as Mujtahids (meaning founder and defender of Islamic\nlaw) <\/em>unable to reconcile residing under the infidels, led by its\npolitical party Jami-atoll Lemma-e Islam<\/em><\/strong> went over\nto Muhammad Ali Jinnah <\/em>(founder of Pakistan) to take these\nthree Arakanese townships of Buthidaung Maungdaw and Rathedaung <\/em>which\nthey renamed as Dar al-Islam (meaning the region under Muslim\nsovereignty where the Islamic law prevails),<\/em> into the then East\nPakistan (now Bangladesh),<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similar to what, Congressman Bradley\nSherman,<\/em> chairman of the Sub-committee on Asia Pacific, proposed.\nRebuffed, these Mujahids<\/em> fought the newly Independent Union of\nBurma under the civilian government of U Nu, who had no choice but to send his\nable commander General Smith Dun (at that time there was no Ne Win nor the now\nexisting racist Myanmar Tatmadaw).<\/em> These Mujahids<\/em> were\nbeaten and its leaders ran away to East Pakistan promising that they or their\nancestors will never speak Burmese. So, when the incumbent Bangladesh\nPremier Sheikh Hasina<\/em>visited the Rohingya <\/em>refugees\nshe can speak in Bangali<\/em> but when Daw Aung San Suu\nKyi <\/em>visited them she has to call the interpreter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bangladesh Liberation War<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1971 Muktijuddho<\/em> war\nwhen the West Pakistani Pahtans <\/em>army launched an all-out war\non the Bengali dominated East Pakistan, more than 10 million of Bengali crossed\ninto Burma as refugees. But when the war was over not all of them went back.\nSeeing, that the inhabitants speak the same language adhering to the Bengali\ncustoms and having a fertile soil about half a million opted to remain in these\nthree townships, so much so that Bangladesh ambassador has to admit to the\nBritish ambassador as seen in the London archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burmese Socialist Programme Party<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The late General Ne Win abhorred the\nword Burmese Junta\u201d<\/em><\/strong> refer by the international media\nand started creating his proxy the Burmese Socialist Programme\nParty <\/em>asking all the people to write political proposal to him. All\nthe people responded except the Rohingya <\/em>who called a\nconference of its own in the Burma-Bangladesh border, with the aim of\nanother Dar al-Islam. <\/em>To this Ne Win replied with Operation\nDragon King\u201d<\/em> driving out the first batch of Rohingya,<\/em> but\nlater as the UN intervened, they were accepted back, but it was discovered that\nmore came in, then went out because e.g. A Rohingya <\/em>youth ran\naway to Bangladesh, but when he was repatriated back he came in with 30 or more\npeople because he already had four wives (Muslims can marry four wives) and\neach wife was a widow with five to six children of the previous marriage. This\nis galling to the locals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Most Persecuted People of the\nWorld.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Bangladesh Liberation\nWar<\/em> of the 70s, these Rohingya<\/em> sided with the\nPakistan army of Phatans acting as scouts and spies and so when the War of\nliberation was over they were hated by the local Bengali and naturally\nBangladesh or India nor the Arab world. It is the brain child of Bengali\nDiaspora<\/em> residing in West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are they one of Burma\u2019s ethnic\nnationalities?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 72 years (1948-2020) existence\nof the Union of Burma, every non-Myanmar ethnic rebelled against the central\ngovernment but none of them attempted to take the chunk of the motherland to\njoin a foreign country. Furthermore in 1976 the opposition of all the\nnon-Myanmar ethnic group was formed at Manerplaw <\/em>known as\nthe National Democratic Front,<\/strong> but Rohingya <\/em>refused\nto take part. Even when the ethnic cleansing became more intensified after the\n1988 pro-democracy uprising, many of the Burmese Muslims were persecuted and\nfled to the Thailand-Burma border area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human Rights Watch<\/em> reported\nthat a disproportionately high number of Muslims joined ethnic Karen\nbecause the Burmese army had destroyed their mosques and schools while ordering\nthem to convert to Buddhism or leave the country.\u201d<\/em> Hence the All\nBurma Muslim Union <\/em>was formed and fought side by side with the Karen\nknown as K’Nyaw Thoo\u201d <\/em>and yet not a single Rohingya<\/em> took\npart. If these are the facts and figures perhaps, I am insane to hear the call,\nthat these Bengali Kalas <\/em>insisting to be a bona\nfide <\/em>citizens of Burma with equal rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evil Genius<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this crisis the marauding Myanmar\narmy (Tatmadaw) <\/em>were caught red handed, because the Rohingyas<\/em> ran\naway under the glare of the news media proving true to the Burmese omen\nof when Bama shout nobody hears but when Kalar shout everybody\nhears.\u201d <\/em>Lamentably, the international world was unable to comprehend\nthat Burma\u2019s 2008 Nargis Constitution that sets apart the army from, the\ncivilian administration, and instead blamed the civilian government of Daw Aung\nSan Suu Kyi. The serpentine brood of Generals has clearly outwitted the\ninternational community driving the country into the arms of China, whose head\njust visited the country bringing in the year of the Rat infested with Wuhan\nvirus<\/em> (coronavirus) and raking away 33 projects for easy access to the\nIndian Ocean avoiding the Malacca strait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crux of the Problem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the ICJ <\/strong>is not\ncockeye and view, that Burma is a fragile state, where power is control by the\nmen in green, the UN solemn oath of never again\u201d<\/em><\/strong> should\nbe better served and improves the ICJ<\/strong> record of one out of\neleven cases comply with its measures. Now it seems, that any large-scale\nrepatriation of Rohingya<\/em> is out of question. The simple logic\nof Demography seems to be missing when Bangladesh population is 165\nmillion (8th largest in the world) <\/em>residing in an area of only\n147 thousand square miles can easily march into Burma, which has a population\nof only 55 million and an area of 676 sq. kilometres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what every people in Burma is\nafraid of. As for the IOC<\/strong> we pray that it would be a real\nchampion of the Muslims instead of the Organization of Interference<\/em> in\nthe internal affairs of other Countries <\/em>to prevent the\never-rising Islamophobia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kanbawza Win,<\/strong> former\nForeign Affairs Secretary to the Prime Minister of the then Socialist\nRepublic of the Union of Burma <\/em><\/strong>is now a permanent Burmese exile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Asian Tribune –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Kanbawza Win Courtesy Asian Tribune In a landmark verdict, the United Nation\u2019s highest court has ruled that it has the authority to consider a genocide case against Burma and ordered the country to prevent irreparable harm from being committed again, signalling that the sensational news has vanquished the conflict resolutions. But my research indicates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}