UN Headquarter
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The United
States of America
Dear Honorable Secretary General Ban Ki-moon;
Subject: : An alternative vision
of solving the so-called Rohingya
problems by the international body of UN, including ASEAN, IOC, the neighboring
Bangladesh and Pakistan.
With respect, on behalf of my organization and the Arakanese
(Rakhine) communities in Malaysia, I would like to express our sincerity and
envision you how to solve these Bengali immigrant (Rohingya) problems in Burma whereas
the international community has the role to play for these solutions.
In fact the international community has been wrongfully approaching
the Rohingya problems in line with the previous military junta’s rights abuses
and international condemnation for over the last two decades. It is 2012 and the new quasi civilian government
managing the state affairs. You are kindly requested to envision a new approach.
The United Nations even extremely terms the Rohingya “the
most persecuted” people in the world. It is side taking and even fueling the
Burma’s internal illegal immigrant issues to the international dispute. If this
goes on for the long term dispute, it may even lead to a regional conflict and
instability. We urge the international body to be neutral, pragmatic, and reasonable.
Burma has been founded by the eight main ethnic people,
Burman, Chain, Kachin, Karen, Karenii, Mon, Rakhine, and the Shan, since 1947.The
founding father nationalities and their national values make the Burma as of
the present sovereign state. Their values and aspiration of the founding father
nationalities should be respected, of which the 1948 and 1982 citizenship laws
is enumerated whereas after the date of the Yandabo peace treaty signed between
the British and the Burmese on 24 February 1826, whoever comes to the Burma are
the new comers but not the natives. For those who want to be citizens of Burma
should follow the eligibility of the citizenships laws.
As the Interior Minister U Khin Ye said during the press
conference in Rangoon on 1 August 2012, there is no such name of Rohingya
ethnic. But the new term Rohingya recently created by the some Bengali leaders has
its own meaning and political objective, creation a new ethnic status and a news
Rohingya statehood within the Rakhine State. This mislaid and myth becomes the
main concern of the local Rakhine people and the government as a treat to the
union future existence, hindering the reform process, and the national
reconciliation process that has been gained momentum.
If Burma is forced to break the origin of the founding father spirit of the ethnic nationalities
but recognize the Rohingya as a new ethnic status and create a separate state, the commitment
of the founding nationalities will be faded away and the union unavoidably be
collapsed. We do not think the international community wants Burma dissolution of
the union and reverse the reform process.
The international community should carefully look at the
problem as an immigration issue only. This is the rightful remedy of the violence
in the Arakan State and long term solution.
On the other hand, the heavily populated with the 180
million people of neighboring Bangladesh is the root cause of the illegal
immigration problem in the Arakan State. The massive influx of the illegal
Bengali immigrants into the Rakhine State for the last several decades
eventually escalated the recent sectary violence, 77 deaths and 80,000 internally
displaced since June.
These immigration issues should be addressed urgently by the
Burmese government. At the same time, the international community should urge the Burmese
and the Bangladesh governments for bilateral dialogue to accept deportation form
both sides.
With your expertise, the international body should assist
the Burmese government technologies and the logistic supports to control the borders,
and immigration record keeping and screening systems. The international community should even step
up and monitor the immigration process of the eligibility of the Muslim
citizenship status and the illegal immigrants in the Western Burma.
In short, we would like to thank you for your valuable times
to receive our letter and hope you probably read it and ponder our sincerer
expression and our vision to solve these overdue problems in the Western Burma.
Sincerely,
Maung San Win
General Secretary
Arakan National Supporting Committee and Arakan Refugee
Relief Committee
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
cc: UN SG Office-email: ecu@un.org
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