Rohingya Conference Calls Boycott Myanmar

New York, MINA – An international conference in New York called for a boycott of Myanmar over alleged ethnic cleansing.

The International Conference on Protection and Accountability in Burma was held in New York on Sunday, bringing together famous activists, genocide experts and UN officials. Anadolu reported.

The conference called on international community and companies to boycott and take collective action against the Myanmar government.

The UN Security Council was criticized for not taking serious steps, although there was a United Nations report in 2018 documenting the genocide of Rakhine Muslims.

The participants warned that the previous genocide had been blatant but no steps were taken to prevent it.

Women activists said Myanmar soldiers used rape as a weapon against Muslim women Rakhine and children.

Mentioned at the conference, although the most persecuted people in Myanmar were Rakhine Muslims, other ethnic minorities such as Karen, Kachin and Shan were also targeted by the army.

Azeem Ibrahim, a Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College and a Senior Fellow at the Global Policy Center in Washington, explained the reasons why he wrote his book “The Rohingya: Inside Myanmar’s Hidden Genocide”.

Ibrahim told Anadolu Agency, he began to find out about Rakhine Muslims and realized there were no books about them and he wrote his book in 2016.

He said everyone knew that what had happened in Myanmar was a “slow motion genocide” for decades.

“Myanmar authorities believe that they can get rid of the Rohingya forever,” he said.

Ibrahim also said the reason for the lack of “tastes” of the international community was because they did not see “wealth to really interfere”.

“There is no motivation for the international community, great power to intervene in this situation. Rohingya is not important to anyone. They are not important for the United Nations, the US or even the Muslim world, “he explained.

Ibrahim said, there is not only one solution to the Rakhine crisis and that the perpetrators and managers of this genocide must be held accountable.

He continued by saying that the granting of Rohingya citizenship must also be responded by the international community.

“These people are very vulnerable,” he said.

“You don’t have citizenship, you don’t belong anywhere, you live in a refugee camp. And then when you know you will die in this refugee camp, and after that your children will also go to live here as beggars and they will all die in refugee camps, ”

Tun Khin, President of the Burmese, British Rohingya Organization, was born and raised in Rakhine State, Burma.

He was declared stateless by the 1982 citizenship law.

“We are facing 21st century genocide. “Military criminals in Myanmar and other military criminals must be taken to the International Criminal Court,” he told Anadolu Agency. (T/Sj/P2)

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)