One of the world’ minority known as Rohingya are oppress and vicitimise in Myanmar Sikh community forwarding help

The Khalsa Aid Volunteer back home are organizing fundraisers for the Langar Sewa at Bangladesh border, seeing Rohingya condition especially children who haven’t food for days and to provide necessary food , need of requisite funds to carry on langar further.

Guru Sahib Singh a volunteer in Ludhiana said “The Langar there can continue only if we have requisite funds. We request people to donate for the sake of humanity. Please forget about religion barrier and think about children who are sleeping on empty stomachs, they are human” Reported as per Indian Express.

The Rohingya is often recognized as one of the world most persecuted minority. Rohingya are the ethnic group,  the majority of whom are Muslim have lived for centuries in majority Buddhist Myanmar. Though the current report says 1:1 million Rohingya living in South east Asian country. Rohingya are not just Myanmar official ethnic group  but have also been denied citizenship in Myanmar since 1982. Most Rohingya lives in the coastal state of Rakhine where they are not allowed to leave without government permission, as it poorest state of Myanmar and lacks basic services and opportunities.

According to source more than 100 years of British rule there were many labourers migrating to what is now known Myanmar from today’s India and Bangladesh. As British administered Myanmar as Province of India so migration was legally considered during those time but later after independence the government took Illegal and it is on that basis that they refuse citizenship to the majority of Rohingya.

What problem to their recognition is shortly after Myanmar’s independence in 1948 Union Citizenship Act was passed which ethnicities could gain citizenship. As per reports 2015 by International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law school , the Rohingya was not included but there was a clause that those whose family had lived in Myanmar for at least two generation to apply for identity cards. This not like they did not get any  right Rohingya who initially given identification and citizenship under above provision were also served in Parliament. However, situation change in 1962 when a military coup in Myanmar, all citizen required national registration cards And it all from there that the Rohingya were only given foreign identity cards which limit to the job and educational opportunity. After that another law 1982 which effectively rendered the Rohingya stateless and not even given consideration in 135 ethnic group. This  all led for Rohingya to crack down flee to neighbouring Bangladesh Malaysia, Thailand and other such south-east Asian countries. However 1970 nearly one million Rohingya have fled, 168,000 have fled Myanmar since 2012. During crackdown often refugees have often reported rape, torture, arson, and murder by Myanmar security forces. Since the incident of killing nine border police in October 2016 situation as was worse.

By that time UN officials accused the government of carrying out “ethnic cleansing””of the Rohingya. It was not the first  time such accusation has arisen It was reported 2013 HRW said Myanmar was conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya through government refused his claims.

Most recent reported Myanmar’s military has imposed a crackdown on the country’ Rohingya population after police camp and army base were attacked in August. Residents and activists have described scenes  of troops firing indiscriminately at unarmed Rohingya men, women and children.  Government claim of 100 deaths from Arkan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) launch  a raid on police outposts in the region, violence erupted has documented fires burning in at least 10 areas of Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The ARSA formerly knownas al-Yaqeen Faith Movement released a statement under its new name in March 2017 saying it was obligated to defend salvage and protect Rohingya community. According to UN reports 370,000 people have fled violence with thousands trapped in no-man’s land between the two countries (Bangladesh and Myanmar) sounds like the danger zone. Currently seeing violence broke  out last year more 87,000 fled to Bangladesh from October 2016 to july2017 reports per International organisation for Migration. Much more still not have evidence about thenumber and certain 1000 killed in Myanmar itself.

State Chancellor Aung San SU Kyi who is the de facto leader Myanmar has refused to really discuss the light of the Rohingya. Aung San SU Kyi and government do not recognise the Rohingya as an ethnic group instead all violence and crackdown  make them Terrorists  says government. SHE In April interview with BBC said that the ethnic cleansing was  too strong a term to describe the situation in Rakhine.The UN interference is restricted as the country has denied visas to the member of UN probe investigating the violence and alleged abuses in Rakhine.

In March statement the ARSA added that it does not associate with any terrorist group across the world , not commit any form of terrorism against any civilians regardless of their religious and ethnic origin , we declare loud and clear that our defensive attacks have only been aimed at the oppressive Burmese regime in accordance with international norms and principle until our demand is fulfilled.

IT was reported Three days after a Sikh volunteer from Khalsa AID(India) arrived in Bangladesh –Myanmar  border to begin relief work for Rohingya Muslim fleeting Myanmar. The Khalsa Aid team which is camping in border town Teknaf told Bangladesh government gave all clearance and permission required to serve meals to the refuges. IT seems around 3lakh refugees already seeing people dire need of food here The condition is too miserable says one of the aid. The condition at the border is miserable to say least and that their first priority would be to provide food to as many persons as possible.