Challenges of UN Security Council on Rakhine Crisis; Need Tougher Stand

- July 03, 2019 https://arakanic.blogspot.com/2019/07/challenges-of-un-security-council-on.html

Challenges of UN Security Council on Rakhine Crisis; Need Tougher Stand  

UN Special Envoy to Myanmar Christine Schraner-Burgener

July 3, 2019. Sittway

It is more than a thriller but not a movie on the screen; it is a reality of endless human rights abuse thriller by Myanmar military in Rakhine State while entire region is blacking out.

On the other side of the world, UN Special Envoy Christine Schraner-Burgener is briefing UN Security Council over optimistic view on Myanmar government, handling violence and refugee repatriation. She even misleads fighting with Arakan Army is hindering refugee repatriation process.

“Meanwhile, I am concerned that the heavy fighting with Arakan Army (AA) will further impact effort toward the dignified, voluntary and safe return of refugees,” she writes on her briefing.

In fact, the refugee repatriation is already damaged credibility by the leadership of Myanmar unwillingness and lack of fully accepting international cooperation before the fighting broken out with AA in earlier months of 2019.

Mrs. Schraner-Burgener tends to forget both the government and military leaderships are parts of problem and accountable for violence and forced relocation of the Muslim refugees.

Without the punitive actions against perpetrators through criminal procedure but proving carrots to it alone cannot guarantee the system of deterring further violence and maintaining justice.

Even worse, two temporary detainees Rakhine villagers are killed during the military detention and over 5,000 villagers seeking for shelters while internet blackout very recently.

Myanmar army arrested 10 villagers from Packtaw Pyin village on June 20. Among the 10 arrested, Nay Myo Tun, 23, was tortured and killed in the army custody on June 25.

Zaw Win Hlaing, 28, was killed by Myanmar soldiers while in detention in Sittway hospital. He was arrested by the army on June 20 along with other 8 villagers in Waythali village near Mrauk U township.

Zaw Win Hlaing badly and internally wounded while interrogation. He was taken to Sittway hospital on June 30 but died on July 2. He was severely beaten by stones and iron bars during detaining.   

On June 29, 3,000 villagers from Lin Gonn and Kyauktan villages, Rathidaung township, ran away when the government soldiers were entering into the villages.

Similarity, 1,500 villagers from Taw Phua Chung village and 1,200 villager Paw Hree Pyin village, Pannaygun township, ran away and took shelter in IDP camps in the last week of June.

On June 30, government soldiers burned down 23 farm-huts and 24 hey-straw-reserved near Min Thar Daung village, Kyawtaw township.

All these atrocities happened in Rakhine State after the internet blackout.

UN Special Envoy Christine Schraner-Burgener is fail to mention the war crimes Myanmar army committing persistently in Rakhine State and their accountabilities.

There are people dying and starving every day. Myanmar government does the killing and starving the people.

Meanwhile, UN agencies are silence to protect the civilians and fail to provide humanitarian assistances. Instead, Christine Schraner-Burgener calls for unified supports of her effort to pleasing the conflicting-party government that drove out over a half million refugees from Myanmar to Bangladesh.

More rights abuses are predictable in Rakhine State since the same leaderships of both government and Tatmadaw are in-charge of fresh conflicts of waring with Arakan Army, which once targeted Muslim populations.

UN Security Council requires careful and reasonable doubts before it shifts policy on Myanmar. Possible war crimes and to refer those cases to International Criminal Court is thoughtful and long-term resolution that will prevent Myanmar army to halt lasting violence toward civilians in Southeast Asia region. 

Aung San Suu Kyi blocks internet in northern Arakan

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Since six months ago, Myanmar Army – war criminal – launched offensive attacks against the Arakan Army in Arakan (western Myanmar). During the period of within six months, it had lost number of its soldiers and arms and ammunitions. 

According to Arakan Army, the death toll of Myanmar Army reached nearly 1500 during the period of six months but Myanmar Army denied it even if every media expressed.

When all attempts to fight against Arakan Army have failed, Myanmar government led by Aung San Suu Kyi and her Army led by Min Aung Haling imposed internet ban in northern Arakan as a last resort. It was stupidity of Myanmar government and its Army that imposed internet shutdown in Arakan to crush Arakan Army without caring will of public.

After Myanmar government and its Army banned internet services, they started air strikes again against the Arakan Army in northern Arakan, killing villagers and wounding minor boys and girls.

On Monday, the UN’s special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar released an announcement. “The entire region is in a blackout,” said rapporteur Lee. “I fear for all civilians there, cut off and without the necessary means to communicate with people inside and outside the area.”

Arakan Chief Minister lets police to send villagers into jail

The appointee of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Arakan is Arakan State

Government led by Chief Minister Mr. Nyi Pu who carries out whatever Aung San Suu Kyi instructs to him.  So, he arrested Arakanese political leaders, religious monks and villagers even if his blood is Arakan’s.

After Aung San Suu kyi called for her brutal war criminal Myanmar Army to launch

offensive attacks against the Arakan Army -

which was given birth by the Arakanese

people to free Arakan from the yoke of Myanmar colony -    Arakan Chief Minister Mr. Nyi Pu ,out of the blue, was arresting villagers in cooperative activity with notorious Myanmar Army.

Myanmar Army is nowadays shelling mortars on the villages in revenge for attacks made by commandos of  Arakan Army and then it is burgling into villages to kill, loot and arrest villagers.

The poor villagers, in fear, are just to flee from their villages to IDPs camps with just only cloth on their bodies. They are to leave their plantations, paddy fields, animal husbandry, so on. Myanmar Army feeds itself vegetables from plantations of villagers and also it feeds itself chickens, pigs, goats, cows and buffalos from villages  when villagers are running away from villages. Moreover, from the every house in villages, Myanmar Army’s dacoits steal golden rings, earring, bangles and local currency notes.

By the time poor villagers reach IDPs camps to take refuge, Myanmar police and Army including immigration officers arrest villagers because of most of villagers have no registration card  of Myanmar and no family tree chart recognized by Myanmar  . They are being accused as members of Arakan Army and are produced before the court after Myanmar Army men make investigation by beating and persecuting.

Chief Minister Nyi Pu whose under the nose, villagers are being everyday arrested from villages and IDPs camps. But, in cooperative activity with Myanmar Army and Aung San Suu Kyi, Mr. Nyi Pu allows police to send villagers into prison.

3,000 Refugees Rounded up by 700 Myanmar Soldiers in Rakhine, Myanmar

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Army officers, police, and immigration officers inside the temple where 3,000 IDPs inside 

3,000 Refugees Rounded up by 700 Myanmar Soldiers in Rakhine, Myanmar

June 11, 2019

Myanmar army LID 11 and 22 with 700 soldiers have been rounded up 3,000 IDPs inside the Buddhist temple in Puaktaw Pyin village, Pannaygun township, since June 10, 2019.

Three hundred soldiers are taking positions on the front gate and around the village while other 400 troops are in the mountains and forests behind the temple.

The thousand refugees from several villages have been taking shelter in the temple since last week after clashes were broken out between Myanmar army and Arakan Army. Some shells and gunfire landed inside the villages.

On June 10, thirty soldiers and four police approached the gate of the temple and attempted to enter inside where 3,000 refugees are inside.

Then, the chief monk asked whether they had a search warrant from the court and quested them to put off the guns before they entered into the temple because it is religion premises and for due respect.

However, over 80 soldiers sneaked secretly into the temple last night and stationed on the hell overnight. The chief monk and refugees worried the soldiers might shoot them kill last night.

All Buddhist monks took guards as night-watch around the temple for the whole night.

“We could not sleep the whole night; all refugees did not sleep the rest of the night too. They were very worry for something would happen to them badly,” one of the monks in the temple tell our Information Center.

After 10 am on June 11, five soldiers, four policemen, and two immigration officers were allowed to enter into the temple.

“They carry guns; there is a major from LID 22, and he leads the team; they do not check the refugees one by one, but speaks to our chief monk; I do not know why, and they may have other purposes,” a novice said.

The soldiers are still surrounding around the IDP camp. Three hundred soldiers are in front and around the village. The other 400 stoops are in the mountain and the forests.

All IDPs are worry some big and terrible things may happen to them as long as the soldier stay near the camp.

The refugees wish the soldiers go away and do not want to see them at all neat the camp.  

700 soldiers surrounding village and IDP camp of Buddhist temple

Myanmar Army dares to kill Arakanese villagers continually

By the time innocent villagers from Sabar Htar village in Minbra township, Arakan( western

so-called Myanmar) took refuge at village monastery after clash between the Myanmar Army

and Arakan Army near the village on 3.6.2019 , Myanmar Army intentionally shelled mortars

into premises of village monastery , killing six villagers and wounding nine villagers.

Four villagers were died on the spot and two other killed after awhile. Nine injured villagers

were admitted to hospital. It was Myanmar Army which killed people and villagers when it launches military operation against the Arakan Army. The world leaders and analysts

had already realized how Myanmar Army killed civilians in cruel and inhuman way  and how Myanmar Army committed war crimes against the humanity.

Those victims who killed in the monastery are U Maung Phyu Tun, U Maung Maung Than, Maung Aye Nu, Daw Hla Pyae Sein and U Hla Maung along with Ma Pe Si @ Ma San San Win (13) years old died in Minbra Hospital yesterday said by U Myo Zaw Aung, the village’s administrator.

Karen Border Guard Force’s Fighter Wounded in Rakhine State, Myanmar

- June 03, 2019

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Second right is Maj Mouk Thone and second left is Zaybabo Khin Shwe meeting in Bangkok in May last week

Karen Border Guard Force’s Fighter Wounded in Rakhine State, Myanmar

June 1, 2019. Sittway

Local villagers reported that one of the Karen fighters, who worn Myanmar army uniform of LID 11, 

was captured by Arakan Army during the fight near Yawtayoke village, Pannaygun township, on May 30.

The captive Karen fighter after interrogated by AA members found out he was a member of Myawaddy based BGF, splinter group of Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA).  

News of Snr Gen Min Aung Hlaing’s request of 1,000 fighters from BGF has been circulated on local and social media since May.

In connection with the top bass request, the leaders of BGF held a secret meeting in Myawadday on May 1.  Commander Gen Htin Maung Htoo, Bo Chit Thu, and Bo Mouk Thone participated in the meeting at their headquarter in Karen State. The meeting reaffirmed the BGF would sent more troops to Rakhine State.

Rakhine villagers have been noticing unusual and irregular fighters with accents who have been seen in Rakhine State for several months along with the Myanmar army fighters.

According to close sources to BGF, 400 troops have been deploying in Rakhine frontlines under the command of LID 11 and 22 since March.

Local people reported 60 fighters of BGF were wounded, and 15 men were already killed during the fights with AA for last a couple of months.

The local people started to notice they could not speak neither Burmese nor Rakhine while they were buying groceries at local markets. Some wounded men also told nurses at local hospitals they were from Karen state.

Since then the local people talked and posted their encounters on social media.

Related to this news of BGF presences in Rakhine state, some photos of Indian looked and very rough men with long hairs who were called as tough army officers by some military supporters Facebook were appeared on online for several months ago.

Some speculators wrote these men must be from Indian army that was helping Myanmar army. But these leaks of photos are in fact from BGF troops who have already been Rakhine State.

Very recently, a Myanmar business man known as Zaykabar Khin Shwe, who is supporter of Myanmar, and BGF commander Major Mouk Thone met in Bangkok. The meeting, many close observers, is believed to be funded to BGF troops via business rewards by Myanmar army.

These news of BGF presences in Rakhine State has been circulated for several weeks on local news and social media, but none of the sources of Myanmar army and BGF itself has yet revealed about it, nor further independent verification was disclosed.

Zaykabar Khin Shwe on the far left and Maj Mouk Thone on far right meeting in Bangkok in May last week

Arakanese villager was killed by Myanmar Army

Arakanese villager from Min Thar Taung village, KyaukTaw township, Arakan ( western so-called Myanmar) was killed by Myanmar Army on 26.5.2019.

By the time the Arakanese villager named U Kyaw Haling was going to fetch bamboos from the hill, he was arrested at gunpoint by Myanmar Army men who was already deployed on the hill to launch offensive attacks against the Arakan Army by their chief war criminal Min Aung Haling after Aung San Suu Kyi  called for her Army to crush Arakan Army.

The poor Arakanese villager was beaten to unconscious by Myanmar Army Men and was later handed over to police to file charge sheet against him before the court.

When the poor villager was handed over to police, he was unconscious and never ever came back conscious. His wife, Saw Saw Than, was waiting for him since he went to hill to collect bamboos.  

The wife became the widow when she saw her husband’s dead body in the Kyauk Taw hospital. Her husband was beaten on the face and entire body. His right eye was gouged

out and his chest was stabbed with muzzle of barrel of gun and his belly was kicked by Myanmar Army Men.

Myanmar Army kills Arakanese children after Aung San Suu Kyi called for her Army to crush Arakan Army

The ten year old Arakanese girl named Ma Athin Chay was killed by Myanmar Army

at 5:45 pm on 19.5.2019 in Myuk Chaung village, Kayk Taw township, Arakan (western

Myanmar) when she and her brother named Soe Soe Aung returned home from village monastery.

The sibling were on the way to home back after donating juices to abbot and monks including novices while Myanmar Army  opened fire them. As soon as they heard gunshot, the sibling ran into bushes to hide. 

But, from the back, Myanmar Army men shot at them. The bullet perforated through the head of the girl from back of head. Her brother hugged her sometime and tried to carry her back home. Due to soldiers of killer Myanmar Army approached to hiding bushes, he had to leave his sister dead body and ran to home. 

When he reached home, he told his parent and villagers and then villagers tried to collect girl body but from the outside of village,Myanmar Army shelled artillery fire on the village and around the village therefore they could not pick up girl body until next morning.

Those artillery shells landed  village named Mala village, wounding three boys and their mother. Myanmar Army is killing Arakanese children and women everyday without distinguishing after so-called Myanmar Leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for her Army to crush Arakan Army in Arakan.

Arakan Americans protest at Myanmar Embassy in Washington D.C for killings of Arakanese people

Arakan American community (AAC) has held once demonstration against the war criminal

Myanmar Army’s brutal killing in Arakan (western Myanmar) in front of Myanmar Embassy in USA after Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi instructed Myanmar Army to eliminate Arakan Army , which was given birth to free Arakan from Myanmar by Arakanese people, on 25.3.2019.

Now, it again demonstrated against the notorious Myanmar Army’s bloody massacre of innocent Arakanese villagers.   Six out of 275 men from Kyauktan village were killed and eight others injured by gunfire during 14 days of interrogation and three out of 27 villagers from Letka village died during the Myanmar Army’s detention for questioning. 

The poor Arakanese families were not allowed to see dead bodies of their relatives and bodies were not handed over to families. In a cruel and inhuman way, Myanmar Army effaced bodies and destroyed all evidences because it does not want people to know how it commits crime by beating and shooting villagers. 

Poor relatives were unable to perform the last rites for their dear ones. Therefore, the protesters performed a funeral service for nine villagers recently killed while being detained by killer Myanmar Army in front of Myanmar Embassy in Washington D.C.USA on 13.5.2019.

The protesters demanded five key factors and according to the ACC statement, to release immediately of all detainees and halt the targeting of civilians by Myanmar Army, to take actions for those who have committed war crimes and rights abuses from Myanmar Army. To response humanitarian aid for the growing numbers of Rakhine IDPs by the government and open trends for INGOs, NGOs and aid organization to assist freely the IDPs along with the establishment of an independent inquiry without bias for hearing, are issued.

 

Myanmar Army massacres Arakanese villagers

By the time Myanmar Army was hijacking 275 civilians in Rathedaung township’s Kyauk Tan village, Arakan (western Myanmar) on 2.5.2019, Seven detained Arakanese villagers were killed and eight were wounded. Since Tuesday, Myanmar Army detained to interrogate them about possible links to a nearby alleged Arakan Army (AA) training camp. Civilians were taken to village school premises and surrounded by over 300 Myanmar forces. Poor villagers were ordered to stay under the burning sun and under the open sky at night too.

At 2 a.m ,on 3.5.2019, a village woman heard gunshots from school premises. “It was over 20 shots” she said.

Myanmar Army’s irresponsible spokesman Zaw Min Tun said “ villagers attempted to grab

guns from soldiers”. But nobody believes him because his information was always complete fabrication. Arakan Army’s spokesman Khaing Thuka said “we think this is a plot made up by the Myanmar military to cover up their atrocities against the villagers” 

Myanmar Army is now regularly killing Arakanese people after Aung San Suu Kyi called for her Army to launch military operation against the Arakan Army in Arakan. Moreover, Myanmar Army is burgling every village while clashes happen with Arakan Army nearby villages and loots by massacring villagers.