IN SOLIDARITY WITH ROHINGYA VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE

1. Today , 25th August 2021 , is the commemoration day of the crime of Genocide of the Rohingyas in Myanmar.
2. The henious crime against humanity and culpability of the military and the government of Myanmar has never been brought to the court of justice.
3. The silence of the international community is deafening as the crime is in full knowledge of the world.
4. UN has recorded Rohingya as the most persecuted ethnic in the world.

We call the international community to take a consistent position on the persistent persecution of the Rohingya.

3. The genocide which was executed in 2017 by the barbaric forces of the army, police and state-sponsored militias committed a trail of mass murder, widespread rape and systematic arson attacks of homes and villages.
4. It must be reminded that the atrocities against the defenseless Rohingya community experienced even much earlier , between 2012 to 2016 and in fact as far as the killing of about100,000 of innocent people in 1942.
5. The decimation of the Rohingyas has been decided since the military coup of Burma in 1962 , proceeded with 1982 Citizens Law.
6. The genocidal crime was perpetrated against unarmed people. Village by village were targetted and the crimes committed were allowed unabated. The atrocities were barbaric with impunity as numerous testimonies of survivors were recorded.
7. It is regrettable that early warnings of the possible genocide crime was ignored.
8. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide (1948), was clear. It obliged the international community to act, that is to “prevent and punish” genocide. Unfortunately no action was forthcoming.

9.Regrettably , governments were silent and submitted to the defence of the Myanmar regime as an internal matter.

10. We call the effort by the Republic of Gambia who filed the genocide case in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) , to be fully supported .
11. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) should continue to support this endeavor.
12. The (ICJ) Order on 23 January 2020, has at least moved the world to witness the hearing of the case. However the process will need to be persistantly carried forward for the perpetraters to be charged for the crime.
13. Rohingyas are victims and are still constantly under threat of possible another phase of genocide if the international community fails to act.

Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid
President MAPIM.