After an inordinate delay of eight days following his abduction by Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) from the Naf river in Cox’s Bazar, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) soldier Abdur Razzak was returned subsequent to a flag meeting between the two border guard forces at Maungdaw, just across the border in Myanmar. Though all the patriots were incensed at the abduction of Nayek Abdur Razzak by the belligerent BGP which also left Biplob Kumar, another BGB soldier injured; nevertheless a rather relaxed, vacillating and irresolute mode of routine or business-as-usual response to this matter by the incumbent government hurt the nation’s pride. This lethargy of the foreign office mandarins once again manifestly demonstrated the usual frail weak-kneed foreign policy.
The incident aroused extensive criticism and protests by people from the people particularly after BGB high-ups and the government said it was a matter of “misunderstanding”. Myanmar was not heeding Bangladesh’s request for flag meeting for long. Once, they had told of conditional release of Nayek Razzak if Bangladesh would take back 550 human trafficking victims held from sea.
To flash back, in June last year a BGB Nayek Mizanur Rahman, who hailed from Debidwar upazila of Comilla, was shot dead by Myanmar soldiers. Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) shot him on Wednesday and took him away intruding Bangladesh territory. Myanmar border forces returned the body of Mizanur to the officials of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) at Painchhari in Naikkhangchhari amid high tension.
According to the Geneva Convention, no outrage upon dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment, is permissible—-but Aziz was maltreated.
“Burmese security men filled mass graves with Muslims” reported Damien McElroy in The Daily Telegraph of London on 22 April 2013 Burmese security forces organised and stood guard over Buddhist attacks on Muslim settlements before burying scores of bodies, some with their hands tied behind their backs, in mass graves, Human Rights Watch said in a report.
Myanmar’s Opposition leader Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi knows how the stateless Rohingyas have been enduring for the last 34 years; but it is reprehensible that the “moral voice” Suu Kyi, as described by Norwegian Nobel Committee, is yet to take a stand about the fate of the persecuted Rohingya Muslims of Arakan, victims of Myanmar pogrom, who had supported Suu Kyi’s candidates and they won all the 23 seats of Arakan some years ago. So loyalty, allegiance and courtesy backfire too!
By all definitions it is a Burmese problem in the first place; Myanmar cannot and must not force mass exodus of this minority Muslim groups. More importantly, the onus is on the UNHCR in particular and the UN General Assembly to resolve this long-drawn-out human crisis. The US and the EU too should adopt positive steps towards lasting solution of this serious humanitarian tragedy which has inflicted the Rohingya Muslims for the last seven decades—- deplorably, OIC is indifferent.
Source: Weekly Holiday
