Sittwe (Myanmar): The shadow government violates taboo in Myanmar the majority of Buddhists by welcoming Rohingya into the anti-junta coalition, but many in a Muslim minority that has long been wary after living for decades of deadly discrimination and violence.
Myanmar has been in the chaos because the Government Aung San Suu Kyi was overthrown in the February coup, triggering large pro-democracy protests and bloody military cracks.
The members of the dissident parliament from it dominate the “national unity government” in exile, demanding support for resistance between foreign governments and international news broadcasts.
Last month they invited Rohingya to “join hands” to end the military government, promising to repatriate those who fled to Bangladesh after a deadly 2017 military attack in their countries in the Rakhine state.
They also promised to provide citizenship to the minority, which has long been citizenship after decades of discriminatory policies.
The use of the word “Rohingya” is a new – alert to sentiment among the majority of the majority of Buddhists, the majority of ethnicity, the Government of Suu Kyi has referred to the community as “Muslims living in Rakhine.” But the suspicion of lingers among those who are Rohingya are still in Myanmar, where they are widely seen as interlopers from Bangladesh and have been denied citizenship, rights and access to services.
“Providing an appointment and then getting support from abroad – it’s like placing feedback for fish,” said Wai Mar, who has lived in a displacement camp for almost a decade.
It is reached by a wavy and hollow road from the western city of Sithwe, a wooden hut from Helly Camp Pyin Kay Rohingya was chased or burned out of their home during the previous clashes with ethnic Buddhist Rakhine in 2012.
“We’re worried that we only have a human shield or scapegoat , “Wai Mar added The mother of four San Yee, who struggled to provide her children even with the remittances sent by her husband from Malaysia, agreed.
“We cannot put our trust and hope in it because we have been oppressed for so long.” Apart from delay, there were no Rohingya representatives among the 32 cabinets members of the national unity government.
“We understand that we will not complete everything” After the National League Suu Kyi for democracy to get rid of a military-backed party in the 2015 poll, another resident of the camp, Ko Tun HLA, told AFP.
“But we don’t even get fundamental human rights, for example, freedom of movement, become a citizen, return to our original home – we don’t get it.” From the camp, they heard reports on terrible harsh acts that sent 700,000 their relatives on the border to Bangladesh, bringing the story of rape, combustion and murder.
The Myanmar public is largely unscrimically with the fate of Rohingya, while activists and journalists report problems faced by vitriolic abuse online.
After the military was accused of genocide, Suu Kyi went to Den Hague to defend the generals at the UN summit.
The month later they toppled him in the coup.
With the protesters of anti-junta in the city of Bamaritas majority like Yangon and Mandalay are displayed without the quarter by the military, many in Thet Kay Pyin are afraid.
“When they kill their own people cruel and brutal without hesitation, they will do more to us because they don’t care about us,” said Tun Hla, another resident of the camp.
A few days after the February coup, the army came to Thet Kay Pyin and held a meeting, at first convincing people and asked them to remain calm, Maung said.
“But when we asked for our rights, they spoke in a threatening way.” “They said we were Bengali, not Rohingya, and they threatened to shoot us too.” Bengali is a demeaning term for Rohingya in Myanmar which falsely implies that they are immigrants recently from Bangladesh.
Leader of Junta Min Aung Hlaing – who is the head of the armed forces during the 2017 crackdown – has fired Rohingya’s word as “imaginary term”.
For many people in Thet Kay Pyin, after almost a decade of Limbo, political loyalty appeared second.
“If they will give our rights, we will work with the military, NLD or Nug,” Ko Tun Hla said.
“If our rights will be given, we will work with anyone.” Adding San Yee: “I want to go back and live my life as before – it’s my hope.” But when will our expectations come true? “He sighed.” Only after we die? “