Myanmar still enjoys killing Arakan while the world is reeling from coronavirus

Myanmar still enjoys killing Arakanese people while nations, all over the world, are attempting to save their people in the situation of coronavirus pandemic. Myanmar seeks this predicament as an opportunity to commit genocide on Arakanese people when the whole world is struggling

to overcome killer virus. During the period of  the world’s concentration on coronavirus, Myanmar has killed people of Arakan by shelling bombs on villages, setting fire to villages and shutting down internet communication in northern Arakan.

There are four short rivers in northern Arakan, flowing in a particular direction into Bay of Bengal. From the each river mouth or from the river basin, Myanmar Navy’s small side warships are sailing up and down in the rivers nowadays, firing artillery shells on villages which are situated on the riverbanks . Since then, Arakanese villagers have to flee their villages to nearby places with only cloth on their bodies. When villagers are fleeing, Myanmar soldiers set fire to those villages. People lose everything and their houses. No one can go towards them to help because Myanmar blocks humanitarian aid and workers to assist them.

At the same time, the oppressed Arakan in their patrimony land under the Myanmar rule are being attacked by Myanmar air force which strafes firebombs on almost every village in Northern Arakan, killing villagers, women and children everyday.  Besides this, Myanmar soldiers abduct Arakanese villagers every time when they forcefully enter into villages, firing gunshots to entire village even religious temple and medical clinic.  

Monks and medical staff also were just to flee just a few days back when Myanmar Army shot at temple and medical clinic. During the shooting of Myanmar Army to medical hospital in northern Arakan, a relative assist of a patient was hit bullet on her neck and she was killed. Patients are to shift under the firing from Myanmar Army.

Myanmar has killed Arakanese people 250 just in a few months and injured 500 and 700 arrested so far. And due to Myanmar Army’s shooting and setting fire to villages, there are almost 200,000 Internally Displaced Persons in Northern Arakan without sufficient food and shelters.

With the genuine determination and a motto

An oppressive Myanmar regime and its Army continue to kill Arakanese people in the lost Arakan to Myanmar, Western Myanmar, after so-called Myanmar Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi instructed her notorious criminal Myanmar Army to launch military operation against the Arakan Army and directed to do internet shutdown in the entire Northern Arakan nowadays.

Moreover, Myanmar Army is setting fire to Arakanese villages every now and then.

 At the same time, Myanmar Army shelled firebombs on the villages while it clashed with Arakan Army. Houses in the villages were burnt to ground due to firebombs shelled by Myanmar Army.

Villagers including children and women are being killed almost everyday when Myanmar Army drops or shells firebombs from air and fires close-ranges mortars shots.

Since racist and Burmese nationalist Aung San Suu Kyi instructed Myanmar Army to crush Arakan Army in the lost Arakan to Myanmar- western Myanmar- her barbarous criminal Myanmar Army is committing crimes against humanity in Arakan.

The violent killing over the innocent Arakanese people everyday in Arakan is suffering unjust among the Arakanese people. Moreover, from time to time, Myanmar has killed Arakanese leaders by sending into jail and poisoning them cruelly. Look at these days! Leader of Arakan politic, Dr. Aye Maung , sentenced for 22 years in prison for his free speech is just a matter  how  Myanmar oppresses Arakanese people.

After Myanmar or Burma had occupied Arakan in 1784s by killing 2 million Arakanese people, Myanmar or Burma knows very much in its memory that Arakan is not Myanmar or Burma but just different race and national. Therefore, Myanmar always treats Arakan as their colony and continues to exploiting and oppressing. 

So, there is no way for Arakan to be free human except independence from Myanmar.  The  * Arakan Army*  -   which is given birth to free Arakan from Myanmar by people of Arakan – is still now struggling for freedom of Arakan from the yoke of Myanmar colony with genuine determination ( We will never ever give up) and also with a motto (We fight, we win).

Vox Pop: ‘Cutting off internet access makes people blind’

https://www.dmediag.com/interview/1227-vp-cutting?fbclid=IwAR1oOgEG5g8WMQLbecZyueHQXD95e8-0aG0dIR0acLZ6DA_LQ9Md770RyTcOn June 21 last year, the Myanmar government cut off mobile internet access in eight Arakan State townships and Chin State’s Paletwa Township. 

With the internet blackout now in its ninth month, DMG interviewed human rights campaigners, civil society activists and a member of Parliament about how the shutdown has impacted the daily lives of people in the affected townships. Because many of those townships are also considered conflict zones, the human rights implications of the internet blackout was top of mind for several of the interviewees.

The interviews were compiled by freelance reporter Khaing Myat Naing, and edited for length and clarity. Some of those DMG spoke to used the word “Rohingya” but in its place “Muslim” has been used after receiving approval from individual interviewees, in accordance with DMG’s editorial policy.

Ko Myat Hein Tun (General Secretary, Arakan Students’ Union [Universities–Yangon])

It seems like the government’s internet shutdown is for the military’s sake. Cutting off internet access makes people blind. The government is deliberately obstructing our freedom of expression and rights.

It is like the government has hushed up what Tatmadaw (Myanmar Army) troops have done to Arakanese people. For example, students from a school in Buthidaung Township were injured by an artillery shell fired by the Myanmar Army. People cannot access such information in a timely manner due to the internet shutdown.

Maybe the government wants to cover up what the Burmese Myanmar Army has done to Muslims. It is like not only the Muslim community but also the Arakanese community in Arakan State are being threatened now.

The government has covered up the crimes committed by the Myanmar Army and that’s why more war crimes against Arakanese people and genocide against Muslim people may occur. It has been a long time that the government has cut off internet access. As a government calling itself as a democratic government, it should not do like that. If the government itself believes it governs people equally, it should restore internet access as soon as possible.