Misplaced Trust Worsens Plight of Rohingya Refugees

By: Kayhan Int’l

With the attention of most of the world turned towards the destruction of Yemen and the slaughter of its people by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the Ukraine crisis kicked up by the West to pressure Russia, and the stepped up efforts by the US, the super terrorist, to resurrect the Takfiri terrorism in Syria and Iraq, the plight of the world’s most persecuted people has gone from bad to worse.
It is now a year since the coup by the military in Myanmar that toppled the regime of that cruel woman, Aung San Suu Kyi, but nothing has improved for the Rohingya Muslims, a million of whom continue to languish as refuges in subhuman conditions in neighbouring Bangladesh.
Hopes of return home have that arose on February 1, 2021 when Army Chief Min Aung Hlaing took control of the country and replaced President Win Myint with Vice-President Myint Swe, have long been dashed.
As a matter of fact, cruelties seem to have increased under army rule with harsher punishments for the Rohingyas attempting to return to their destroyed villages.
Several of the returnees have ended up in prison with sentences ranging up to five years, as the UN is reluctant to carry out its responsibilities of repatriation.
It was actually a misconstrued thought for those representing the Rohingya refugees to expect relief from the army, since this is the same army which Suu Kyi had used to crackdown upon the Muslims of Rakhine, raze their towns, kill them, and drive them across the borders into Bangladesh.
Later, in an international court, this shameless woman tried to justify her crimes against humanity by defending the Myanmar military, which since August 2017 has been engaged in the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Rohingya Muslims.
The UN for its part has procrastinated the crisis by saying that talks are being held for repatriation of the refugees and investigations are underway to determine the degree of the destruction wrought by the Myanmar regime.
What investigations and what negotiations when everything is crystal clear? The whole world knows who the criminals are and the magnitude of their crimes against humanity.
The squalor in which the Rohingya refugees live without adequate facilities and their being barred from entry into other neighbouring countries, speaks volumes of the plight of victims.
In view of these facts, the World Body and human rights organizations should end their inactiveness and swing into action to find a solution to the unending crisis which is a blot on human conscience.
A blot on Muslim conscience as well, since hundreds of billions of dollars are being squandered by the oil-rich Arab regimes of the Persian Gulf to kill fellow Muslims in West Asia, while dallying with the Zionists – the archenemy of the Ummah.