Myanmar blames Rohingya militants for border attack

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Myanmar blames Rohingya militants for border attack


Myanmar accuses the Muslim Rohingya Solidarity Organisation of carrying out attacks against Buddhists near the Bangladeshi border

AFP , Friday 23 Nov 2012

Myanmar authorities on Friday accused a Rohingya militant group of carrying out an attack that left one dead and three people missing -- including a soldier -- near the Bangladesh border.

The incident in Rakhine State, where scores have died in two rounds of communal unrest between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists, took place on November 6 as the soldier and civilian engineers inspected a border fence near Maungdaw.
"One of the civilian staff was killed. We assume he was shot in the back when he tried to run away," presidential office spokesman Zaw Htay said.
There has been no news on the whereabouts of the missing trio despite Bangladeshi border guards joining the hunt.
He said the authorities were blaming the RSO (Rohingya Solidarity Organisation) "which is illegally moving across the border. But we cannot say exactly yet."
Tip-offs and bullet cases found at scene indicated the group carried out the attack, he added, without providing further details.
The US State Department has described the RSO as a Bangladesh-based militant group that has conducted attacks in the border area since tens of thousands of Muslims fled Rakhine to the neighbouring country after a Myanmar's military crackdown in the early 1990s.
Two major outbreaks of violence in Rakhine since June this year have left 180 dead and more than 110,000, most of them the Muslim Rohingya, crammed into makeshift camps.
The international community has urged Myanmar, which does not recognise the Rohingya as citizens, to address the group's plight and the world's top Islamic umbrella group has described their treatment as a "genocide".
ASEAN chief Surin Pitsuwan has said "disturbing" ethnic violence against the Rohingya risked radicalising the stateless group, while Bangladesh has been criticised for pushing back boatloads of Rohingya refugees from Rakhine.
The Rohingya stateless are viewed by the UN as one of the world's most persecuted minorities.
Myanmar's government considers the estimated 800,000 Rohingya in the country to be foreigners while many citizens see them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and view them with hostility.

[Shah-i-Kot]

I think the evental outcome will be an independent Rohingya Islamic state which will be recognized by many bordering nations considering the fact that Myanmar(Burma) has terrible relations with those nations.

The US and Western new friendship with the Budhist Myanmar regime is frankly a worthless effort at trying to contain China.

[Shah-i-Kot]

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Rohingya: Suu Kyi’s comments irk Dhaka

Haroon Habib
Bangladesh has expressed surprise over Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s comments about Rohingyas — calling them illegal migrants from Bangladesh.
The Foreign Ministry, Dhaka, said the Rohingya Muslims had been living in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine for centuries and that they could not be Bangladeshis as the country was founded only in 1971.
During her historic visit to India, Ms. Suu Kyi had, on November 13, described the recent violence in Myanmar between Buddhists and Muslims as a “huge international tragedy”, but suggested that “illegal immigration from Bangladesh” had to be stopped.
Dhaka said such comments were clearly inconsistent with the position of the Myanmar government, and the action taken by them to resolve the issue over the past several years. Bangladesh has also mentioned that Myanmar had accepted 236,599 refugees of Rohingya ethnicity from Bangladesh after their own process of verification.
Sincere expectation
The foreign office statement also said it is the “sincere expectation” of Bangladesh that all concerned will refrain from making statements that are without any basis in fact. Dhaka also said it would remain engaged with Nay Pyi Daw for a durable solution to this outstanding issue in the spirit of good neighbourliness.
There had been occasional influxes of Myanmar nationals of Rohingya ethnicity from Myanmar to Bangladesh due to internal situations in Myanmar, the statement read.
The last such major influx took place in 1991-92 when 250,877 Myanmar nationals of Rohingya ethnicity took refuge in Bangladesh, it said.
In many discussions at the official levels, including during the visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Myanmar in December 2011, the statement claimed, Nay Pyi Daw had assured Bangladesh to take back these undocumented Myanmar nationals after verification of their origin.
Bangladesh has also appreciated the recent decision of the Myanmar government to review their citizenship laws to ensure inclusive nationality for all members of Myanmar society.

[asad71]

1.This was a False Flag op staged by the Burmese junta through a Buddhist insurgent group, ALP.

2. Yes, this is now getting a lot of attention because Arakan is rich in untapped gas and oil among other things. Americans have successfully jettisoned the Chinese out of Burma. Now they would probably work for a Kosovo or E Timor sort of solution. Yes, the Americans have now gained a leverage here - in fact two if you counted Suu Kyi.