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New Delhi: Outraged by reports that intelligence agencies are drawing up a state list of supporters of Rohingya refugees in India, several personalities have written an open letter to the Ministry of the Interior. by asking him to put an end to these persecutions.
In their letter, the signatories declare to be "sympathizers". The letter reminds India of its glorious traditions of welcoming refugees: "We have never fired people where they would be tortured, raped and murdered. It is the essence of our philosophy. "
" We wonder what will be the next step in your ministry. Will you prepare a lawsuit against Rohingya's supporters like the one in which several academics, poets, writers, lawyers and human rights defenders are persecuted for their alleged links with the Maoists in the Bhima-Koregaon case ?, says the letter. . [19659002] The letter continues to talk about the violent reaction that has erupted on social media: "There are already calls to stop and prosecute Rohingya sympathizers for supporting" terrorists "and" murderers ". Hindus and Buddhists ". Several BJP leaders have stated that "Rohingya Muslims should not live here and those who sympathize with them". "
It also highlights the plight of Rohingya in India, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
The full letter is reproduced below.
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Open letter to Mr. Rajnath Singh, Minister of the Interior of India
Sub: MHA compiles a list of Rohingya supporters according to the state of play.
Honble Minister of the Interior,
According to information posted online by your ministry, intelligence agencies have compiled a list of several organizations and people friendly to Rohingya refugees in India and provide them with badistance. According to the report published in Pioneer (November 19), the list includes the names of a former ambbadador, eminent jurists, members of civil society and a professor of a renowned university, as well as than organizations such as the working group on alternatives. Strategies, Bondi Mukti Committee, Kolkata, Center for Muslim Culture of Kerala and Amnesty International, India and several others.
Minister of the Interior, we are Rohingya sympathizers. They are the most persecuted community in the world. Thousands of people around the world express their sympathy for the Rohingya community after being subjected to mbadacres, rapes, torture, detention in concentration camps and denial of health care. education and employment by the Myanmar military junta and the current government led by Aung San Suu Kyi.
Several governments around the world, Nobel laureates such as Mairead Maguari (Northern Ireland), Tawakkol Karman (Yemen), Amartya Sen and the Iranian Shirin Ebadi Society, a civil society organization, and the UN mission United Nations investigation concluded that the Rohingya are the victims of a conflict. genocide. In 2016, in an open letter to the United Nations Security Council in December 2016, twelve Nobel laureates called for an intervention to end the human crisis in Rakhine State in Myanmar. I will add that Vijay Nambiar, special advisor to the UN Secretary-General in Myanmar, had also requested the opening of an impartial investigation into violence in the state of Myanmar. Arakan / Rakhine.
While a few thousand Rohingyas are in India, there are more than one million in Bangladesh. In addition, hundreds of thousands of members of this persecuted community are scattered throughout the region of Southeast Asia and Southeast Asia. The systematic persecution of the Rohingya ethnic community has continued since the 1970s. In 1977, the military junta launched Operation Nagamin or King of the Dragon. Under the pretext of "filtering the population to search for foreigners" and relocating Muslim villagers, the army carried out widespread looting, rape, arson and the desecration of mosques.
As a result of the constant onslaught of Buddhist self-defense groups and Myanmar's army, referred to as "slow-burning genocide", more than half a million Rohingyas were already out of their country in 2017 when the army of Myanmar, under the pretext of retaliation of the attack of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army triggered a reign of terror that led to one of the exodus of the most catastrophic refugees of modern times. More than 780,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar to Bangladesh.
Generalized, systematic and planned fires of tens of thousands of Rohingya houses and other structures in Buthidaung, Maungdaw and Rathedaung, in Rakhine State. The army, the police of the border guards and the militia of northern Rakhine State from August 25 to October 2017 have been documented and badyzed by many groups of independent civilians, including governments, including the United States and the UN. The United Nations Independent Investigation Mission, in its report to the United Nations Security Council, has called for the investigation and prosecution of Myanmar's Commander-in-Chief. , Major General Min Aung Hlaing, and his senior military officials for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. .
You know that the military dictatorship of Myanmar deprived the Rohingyas of their citizenship by enacting a new law on citizenship / nationality in 1982. This law violates the long-standing generally recognized standards of nationality and a series of laws. international legal instruments, including the Declaration of Human Rights. There is ample evidence that the Rohingyas lived in Arakan even before the arrival of Buddhists in Rakhine. However, moving away from history, I wish to emphasize that it is undeniable that no State can render stateless persons, in principle, persons born in its territory under the United Nations Charter. If a person was born on the territory of a country and has no other legal citizenship, then they must obtain citizenship of that country. The Rohingyas are of Burmese origin and, according to international law, no matter where their distant ancestors came from. And no amount of history, factual or invented, can change this fundamental fact. No attempt at history can justify an attempt at ethnic cleansing.
Minister of the Interior, the whole world knows that the Rohingya are victims of ongoing genocide. Yet your Prime Minister, Kiren Rijiju, has said that since the Rohingya are illegal migrants, they could be deported. "Raj Dharma", which you claim to follow, indicates that you must protect the oppressed and the vulnerable. Yet a letter from your ministry issued a letter in which it was written: "Illegal migrants are more vulnerable to recruitment by terrorist organizations. … The infiltration of [Myanmar’s] the state of Rakhine … into Indian territory, particularly in recent years, besides constituting [a] a burden on the limited resources of the country, also aggravates the problems of security posed. "Is it not the state's duty to protect the 'vulnerable' from the unscrupulous and we are such a small country that we can not … 40,000 refugees. However, the Rohingya do not live in refugee camps. The Indian state, unlike Bangladesh, a much poorer country, has never bothered to provide economic badistance to Rohingya refugees. The Rohingya living in India are working for their livelihood, which increases our gross national income
Instead of protecting the Rohingya refugees, it seems that you let the anti-Rohingya feeling grow. In 2017, in Jammu, where about 5,500 Rohingya lived, the leaders of several Hindu groups aligned with your party launched a campaign to expel the Rohingya from the region. Like Buddhist extremists in Myanmar, they display posters designating the Rohingya as Bangladeshi Muslim migrants and denouncing long-standing prejudices against Bangladeshi migrants in Assam and the northeastern states. They threatened a campaign to "identify and kill" the Rohingya if the government did not expel them. [Also] In September 2017, Rohingya refugees from Rajasthan were asked to leave.
Since the publication of the report in The Pioneer several calls have been launched on Twitter and on the Internet in favor of an action against Rohingya sympathizers. Rohingya sympathizers are called "pseudo-laymen and liberals" and have been falsely blamed for asking the government to provide Rohingya with a house and other necessities. Calls have already been made for the arrest and prosecution of Rohingya sympathizers for their support of "terrorists" and "killers of Hindus and Buddhists". Several BJP leaders have stated that "Rohingya Muslims should not live here and those who sympathize with them".
We wonder what will be the next step in your ministry. Will you prepare a lawsuit against Rohingya's supporters as one in which several academics, poets, writers, lawyers and human rights defenders are persecuted for their alleged links with the Maoists in the Bhima-Koregaon case? ?
Last year, in August (2017), when human rights groups condemned the government for trying to deport the Rohingya, Minister Rijiju said: "India is the most human country in the world. Millions of refugees live in India. There is no other country in the world that welcomes so many refugees. "
Yes, honorable Minister of the Interior, it is the glorious tradition of our country. We have never fired people where they would be tortured, raped and killed. It is the essence of our philosophy.
Tapan Bose, director, Delhi
Anand Patwardhan, director, Mumbai
Rita Manchanda, researcher, author, Delhi
Sumanta Banerjee, author, historian of culture, Hyderabad
Bharat Bhushan, writer, columnist, Delhi
Sahana Basavapatna, lawyer, Bangalore
Nandini Sundar, academic, author, Delhi
Farah Naqvi, author, journalist, Delhi
Arundhuti Duru, feminist, social activist, Lucknow
Sandeep Pandey, social activist, writer, Lucknow
Jawed Naqvi, writer, journalist, Delhi
AK (Dunu) Roy, social activist, writer, Delhi
Dinesh Mohan, academic, Author, Delhi [19659020] Alok Rai, Academic, Allahabad
Om Prakash Mishra, Academic, Kolkata
Sushil Khanna, Academic, Kolkata
Ranabir Samaddar, Academic, Kolkata
Pradip Bose, Academic, Kolkata
Gautam Mody secret General Secretary, New Trade Union Initiative, New Delhi
Ravi Himadri, Director, Initiative for Development and Justice, New Delhi [19659045]
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