Protect The Rohingya
By Rohingya
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“No words can suffice to describe the plight of the Rohingya who are trying to survive an unprecedentedly violent ethnic purge, with support and complicity of the Burmese government and silence of the very western governments that never cease to preach democracy and human rights.” - Ramzy Baroud
And yet this brave book sets out to do exactly that; describe the indescribable battle for survival of the Rohingya against the heinous human rights violations of the Burmese government.
The collection of articles, photographs, personal narratives, poetry and art , is a hand held out to the dying and the drowning, a voice crying in the wilderness, an appeal against the genocide, against oppression and state terror. But most of all it is a tribute to the Rohingya from the activists of ‘Protect the Rohingya’ a love letter to remind us never to forget.
The introduction into the Rohingya story aims to offer the reader a holistic view of who the Rohingya are and how it is in recent months that 8000 of them came to be drifting, unwanted by any country, on the Andaman Sea.
Often human rights violations far away from the usual conflict ' hot spots' go unnoticed, this books gives the reader the opportunity to easily understand the root causes of the Rohingya crisis as well as some way in which they can get personally involved.
Help us, to help them. Buy your copy now!
All proceeds from the book will go towards the funding of Rohingya upliftment projects.
Thank you for your support!
Protect the Rohingya
Rohingya
Protect The Rohingya is a South African organisation that raises awareness about the plight of the world’s most persecuted ethnic minority. The violence against the Rohingya is symptomatic of a long and oppressive history that has rendered them stateless. Help us, to help them. Buy a copy of this book! All proceeds from the book will go towards the funding of Rohingya upliftment projects. For interesting articles you can read our blog. Thank you for your support! Protect the Rohingya
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Protect The Rohingya - Rohingya
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It is unimaginable that the Burmese government’s apartheid and genocide against the Rohingya is going unmentioned for the most part. At this rate in the next decade the minority should cease to exist in Burma altogether. In 2015 in a ‘democratic state’ there is no place for massacres on the basis of religion and race, restrictions on birth and marriage, forced labor and human trafficking. We cannot wait for governments to act when more often than not they are complicit in the brutality. We the ordinary people must be heard, we will be heard.
Up the rebels!
Stanley Cohen: @StanleyCohenLaw
Denied citizenship and rendered stateless by the Burmese government the plight of the Rohingya is one of our time’s most deep and tragic human catastrophes. Not only are the over 140 000 people who are confined to squalid camps in Burma’s western province Rakhine forced to slowly succumb to starvation, despair and disease. The total of 800 000 Rohingya lack basic rights – including the right to education, to work, marry, and travel freely. They routinely suffer severe abuse.
But the tragedy of the Rohingya doesn’t only lie in one state’s systematic and inhuman persecution of a certain group of people. In the shadow of our world’s other on-going conflicts the surrounding world has found and chosen a possibility to ignore the suffering of the Rohingya. To the vast majority of international statesmen and leaders of multinational corporations Burma’s more or less untouched natural resources and future markets loom stronger than the desperate cry from the Rohingya.
Any armed conflict, civil war or natural disaster will cause established international media to rush in crowds to gather information and testimonies from the affected. But the Rohingya are not victims of any of these. They are persecuted only because of whom they are – the worst form of discrimination, oppression and racism. Therefore, this tragedy is so comprehensive, the silence of the world community so damaging.
The plight of the Rohingya must and should concern us all.
Kalle Bergbom: @kbergbom
I mention Burma nine out of ten people will tell me it is home to Aung San Suu Kyi who, thanks to an international outcry, became a global symbol for the oppressed. Two decades of her life were spent under some form of house arrest or detention under the military-ruled Myanmar (Burma). She became a powerful voice and an iconic symbol for peace.
This is why it is all the more tragic that the world is largely silent today over a group of people who are living under an apartheid system in her country where genocide is being committed against them. Not only is it unbelievable that, in the 21st century, this sort of practice continues but it is almost beyond belief that Aung San Suu Kyi appears to have forgotten how important it is to give a voice to the voiceless. We should not rest until the plight of the Rohingya is known in every household around the world. It is up to each and every one of us to give power to the powerless so that their voices will be heard and the oppression against them ends.
Yvonne Ridley: @yvonneridley
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The Northern Part of Rakhine State, where the Rohingya live and the Southern part of Bangladesh, where they are kept in camps and makeshift hovels.
Image No. 1FOREWORD
Protect the Rohingya is a South Africa based awareness organisation that was founded in the wake of the violence in Arakan State in 2012.
According to the United Nations (UN) the Rohingya in Myanmar are among the world’s most persecuted ethnic minorities and the state sanctioned violence against them is symptomatic of a long and oppressive history of discrimination by the Myanmar government. The Rohingya are labeled illegal immigrants from Bangladesh thus rendering them stateless, despite many of them having lived in the country for generations.
Human rights violations of the Rohingya have been recorded since 1978, when over 200 000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh following a military campaign which directly targeted civilians resulting in widespread killing, rape and religious persecution including the destruction of mosques. The vast majority of Rohingya refugees remain in Bangladesh, unable to return due to the negative attitude of Myanmar’s ruling regime.
Despised by the Buddhist majority they are denied citizenship, education, freedom of movement, forced sterilization, employment, the right to own property or marry without state permission and