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Pakistan condemns silence about Rohingya persecution
Pakistan’s UN Representative condemns the international community’s shameful silence at the plight of Rohingya children in Myanmar
Myanmar’s savagery toward desperate Rohingya exposed by Pakistani report.
13 Aug 2015
Image: The spokesman said Pakistan strongly believes that peaceful coexistence of all communities in Myanmar is essential to peace. – AFP/File (Dawn.com)
Pakistan has taken a leading role in criticizing the oppression of the Rohingya of Myanmar, particularly the enslavement of children. Young boys are sold into forced labour while young girls are forced into sex slavery and prostitution.
According to an analysis of the Rohingya situation prepared by Pakistan’s SAIRI Post-doc Multiversity, over 178,000 children are victims of Burmese state sponsored persecution. The report charged Myanmar with multiple ‘crimes against humanity,’ including de-humanization and systematic cruelty towards Rohingya children.
Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN, Dr. Maleeha Lodhi, said:
“A large number of Rohingyas are reported dead or missing as they made their journeys of escape from persecution, confinement and waves of deadly violence directed at them.”
“Of the world’s refugees, more than half are children, up from 41 per cent in 2009, the highest figure of all time,” the envoy added.
“But the international community is not doing enough and is not acting decisively,” stated Dr. Lodhi.
“The international community, to its shame, ignored massive human suffering in the past. We are reminded of Rwanda and Srebrenica, among other crises. The current crisis of refugees erects a new flag of shame,” Dr. Lohdi added.
“Pakistan took the initiative to convene this discussion because the world is confronted with a humanitarian crisis of historic proportions. Why have we not seen a decisive response to this humanitarian catastrophe?” Dr. Lodhi asked.
“Why is the present toolkit of political, legal, diplomatic and economic measures, falling so short of what is needed? Why has the global response not been able to decisively address even symptoms, much less deal with the underlying causes of this humanitarian crisis,” she questioned and earnestly declared: “I would like to speak out today.”
The UN General Assembly’s 70th session’s elected president Mogens Lykketoft (former Dutch parliament speaker) attended the panel discussion led by Dr. Lodhi. Many senior UN officials and representatives from other nations were also present at the discussion.
A shocking presentation of the horrific state-of-affairs in Myanmar provoked significant response from international dignitaries on the plight of Rohingya children. The evidentiary document titled ‘SAIRI Situation Report on Rohingya Children’s Ongoing Crisis’, was compiled by SAIRI Post-doc Multiversity, led by Pakistani researcher Dr. Qadhi A. Z. Al Hafi, principal investigator at SAIRI.
The SAIRI report “calls on the UN and regional organizations, and the global community, to take a ‘moral stand’ by mounting an urgent response to resolve this humanitarian emergency.”
“These long suffering ‘stateless’ persons—the Rohingyas and their desperate children—are on their knees before the collective conscience of the world. They are like us all. Their lives are as precious as our lives. Their babies are our own infants. These glimmering flowers are withering, dying, and sinking beneath the waves of the Andaman Sea.”
“The world has become a global village. We are all inhabitants of the same planet to which the Rohingya belong. They are oppressed, tortured, sold, and de-humanized. Their homes are burnt down. Their heads are smashed on roads. Their bodies are crumpled in streets. Their small children are enslaved. Their women are made into sex slaves. Due to inaccessibility to food and water they are forced to drink their own urine to survive.
“We must consider the ‘Rohingya children crisis’ as a ‘moral imperative’—if not a legal duty,” urged Prof. Al Hafi. “If we fail to respond, if the global community continues to shy away from taking a ‘moral stand’, then we have failed the fundamental test of our own humanity!”
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