The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Inter-Parliamentary
Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) supports the United Nations’ calls for urgent action to
deliver humanitarian aid to displaced people in Burma.
While expressing her appreciation
of progress in Burma, AIPMC President Eva Kusuma Sundari urged the Naypyidaw
government to quickly realize the recommendation in the resolution.
“We call on Myanmar’s authorities
to improve human rights conditions within their country, especially for
thousands of Rohingya Muslims who are facing systematic violence in Rakhine
[Arakan] State,” she said on Sunday. “The government should guarantee
protection and basic rights of their own people, including the Rohingyas.”
The AIPMC is comprised of
legislators from the 10 Asean member states.
According to the UN Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, there are more than 400,000
internally displaced people in Burma. The UN body said that some 115,000 have
been forced to flee their homes in Arakan State since intercommunal violence
broke out in June.
Meanwhile, more than 235,000 have
been run out of their home towns in Karen State, while more than 75,000 have
been displaced by the ongoing war between the Burma Army and Kachin
Independence Army in the country’s far north.
“People should not be prosecuted
because they come from different ethnic and religious groups,” said Eva.
AIPMC Vice-President Kraisak
Choonhavan also spoke out against the prejudices on the Muslim Rohingya
community.
“The government’s denial of the
very legitimacy of the Rohingya ethnic group constitutes a major barrier to
finding a long-term solution to the intercommunal problems in Rakhine state and
betrays an inherent ethno-nationalist superiority complex of the predominantly
Buddhist-Burman government of Myanmar,” he told the Mizzima news agency. The
Thai legislator added that the immediate concern was the need to get urgent
humanitarian assistance to those displaced by the violence.
“But the greater fear is that if
the government, ethno-nationalist political parties as well as elements in the
Buddhist clergy continue to label these people as ‘Bengali’ interlopers with no
rights, then this violence could spread so much further, putting the safety,
dignity and lives of hundreds of thousands of people at risk,” he was quoted as
saying.
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