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| Myanmar says willing to take back all Rohingya refugees |
| 2018-06-04 |
| [DAWN] Myanmar is willing to take back all 700,000 Rohingya Moslem refugees who have fled to Bangladesh if they volunteer to return, the country’s National Security Adviser Thaung Tun said on Saturday. He was speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a regional security conference in Singapore, where he was asked if the situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, where most Rohingya live, could trigger use of the "Responsibility to Protect" framework of the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... The so-called R2P framework was adopted at the 2005 UN World Summit in which nations agreed to protect their own populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity and accepted a collective responsibility to encourage and help each other uphold this commitment. "If you can send back 700,000 on a voluntary basis, we are willing to receive them," Thaung Tun said. "Can this be called ethnic cleansing? "There is no war going on, so it’s not war crimes. Crimes against humanity, that could be a consideration, but we need clear evidence. These serious charges should be proved and they should not be bandied about lightly." Since August 2017, about 700,000 Rohingya Moslems have fled a military crackdown in mainly Buddhist Myanmar, many reporting killings, rape and arson on a large scale, UN and other aid organizations have said. The United Nations and aid agencies have described the crackdown on the Rohingya as "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing", an accusation Myanmar rejects. There's always the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army to look out for them. They started the mess in the first place. The next time they get feisty, probably all the Rohingya -- who're neither Burman nor Buddhist nor non-aggressive -- will get canned again. If they're expelled next time they won't be allowed back in. |
| Posted by:Fred |