Huge groups of Islamic leaders and activists took to the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta over the weekend to demand an end to the genocide being perpetrated against the Rohingya Muslim population in that country. They have threatened to attack the embassy in order to push their support forward.
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Some 50 Indonesian police stood in front of the building to block the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT) from getting close to the diplomatic building. The two organizations, who made international headlines earlier this year by criticizing and eventually forcing Lady Gaga to cancel her Jakarta performance, claimed they would start a jihad against the Myanmar government if the violence does not end.
If embassy officials refuse to talk with us, I demand all of you break into the building and turn it upside down, a leader on a loudspeaker told protesters. Every drop of blood that is shed from a Muslim must be paid back. Nothing is free in this world, the man shouted, as protesters carried banners that read FPI is ready to wage jihad.
Go to Myanmar and carry out jihad for your Muslim brothers, the man said.
Myanmar: These Rohingyas are not our people, if any countries want they can have them
Communal violence between ethnic Buddhist Rakhine and local Muslims, including the Rohingya, swept Myanmars Rakhine state in June, leaving dozens dead and tens of thousands homeless. Around 800,000 Rohingyas live in Myanmar and are considered to be some of the worlds most persecuted minorities.
Myanmar President Thein Sein told the UN on Thursday it was impossible to accept the illegally entered Rohingyas, who are not our people, saying they should be sent to refugee camps or be deported. Myanmar considers the Rohingyas as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, claiming it is unimaginable to give citizenship to illegals.
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Village burnt in Myanmar
Decades of discrimination have left the Rohingya stateless, with Myanmar implementing restrictions on their movement and withholding land rights, education and public services, the UN says.
The recent conflict was started in May 28, when a group of three Muslims including two Rohingyas, robbed, raped and murdered an ethnic Rakhine Buddhist woman, Ma Thida Htwe, near the Kyaut Ne Maw village. On June 4, a Buddhist mob attacked a bus in Taungup, mistakenly believing those responsible for the murder were on board. Ten Muslims were killed in the reprisal attack prompting protests by Burmese Muslims in the commercial capital, Yangon.
Calling for revenge, on June 8, a large mob of Muslim Rohingyas went rampage and burnt 14 Rakhine Buddhist villages and nearly 1,000 houses over the course of the next few days. Outraged, the Rakhine Buddhists retaliated, leading to the Rakhine state riots. From June 12 onwards, the tide was reversed, it is now Rakhine Buddhists burning Muslim Rohingya villages and houses.
Rohingya Muslims want Rakhine Buddhists to stop killing
By June 15, the Rakhines overwhelmed the Rohingyas, leading to 30,000 of them fleeing to nearby Bangladesh. As of June 28, this figure increased to an estimated 90,000 people. The death toll, meanwhile, topped 80. Bangladeshi authorities refused the Rohingyas entry into their country. Dipu Moni, Foreign Minister of Bangladesh, said at a news conference in the capital, Dhaka, that it was not in Bangladeshs interest to accept any refugees because the impoverished countrys resources already are strained.
Myanmar’s ASEAN neighbors have largely been silent. One of the most preferred destination for the Rohingyas is Malaysia, and that country has been trying to steer clear from Myanmar’s inter-ethnic issues, so to avoid the possibilities of absorbing an influx of stateless refugees.
Singapore, who recently signed multi-billion dollar contracts to tap into Myanmar’s extensive resources, refused to criticize the Burmese regime. Thailand, worried that the Rohingyas may flee en masses and cause instability across the Thai border, is reluctant to put restraint on the Burmese government or being involved in the issues.
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Rakhine Buddhists want Rohingya Muslims to stop committing crimes
Philippines, who has its very own Muslim separatist problems in the south, has so far been relatively quiet. Indonesia, whose government is growing impatient with the 10,000 or more asylum seekers using its country as a waiting room, and wants Australia to accept more of them to reduce that numbers, frets on the slightest notion of Rohingya refugees entering Indonesia.
“We (Indonesia) hope that the Myanmar government will solve their own domestic problem.” The outgoing ambassador of Indonesia in Dhaka Zet Mirzal Zainuddin said. Brunei, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos expressed no opinion.
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