Friday, October 27, 2017
Press Statement
It is a typically cold day in January 2017. Nagihan Gökçek, a mother of five, drives to Sincan prison in Ankara to visit her husband, Abdullah. When she enters the prison, she is detained, and her children are left alone in the car for hours. A video shows one of her children opening the car door in the prison parking lot, showing his brothers crying inside. In tears, he says, “We are five brothers, left alone. We have a disabled brother. I commend those people to God’s punishment.” One of her children has Down syndrome. Later that day a relative picks up the children from the cold car in the prison parking lot.
By the end of August 2017, six hundred sixty-eight (668) children under the age of six are in jails across Turkey with their mothers, detained or arrested as part of the government crackdown on the Hizmet Movement. One hundred forty-nine (149) of these children are infants under a year old.
As we look at Turkey and the Turkish communities around the world today, we’re confronted with an uncomfortable but undeniable truth: Thousands of children’s lives are currently shattered for no other reason than the family or the circumstances into which they were born.
As this release shows, unless the relentless assault on dissent in the country and abroad is not stopped immediately, the future of hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged and vulnerable children– and therefore the future of the society-- will be imperilled. This discrimination and violence against communities and families means these children will not have the opportunity for an education nor the chance to earn a decent living and positively contribute to their respective communities.
The unlawful constraints confronting these children are neither technical nor a matter of resources. They are a matter of political commitment, and the Turkey’s government crackdown on dissent. It is imperative to join forces and make it a priority to end discrimination and ensure that hundreds of thousands of children are not left behind.
Children have the right to a standard of living that is good enough to meet their physical and mental needs. Governments should help families and guardians who cannot afford to provide this, especially regarding food, clothing, and housing.
We are particularly concerned about the situation of the 668 children under the age of 7, who according to the Justice Ministry (August 2017), are being held in Turkish prisons along with their mothers. We estimate149 of these children in prison are under 1 year old; 140 are 1 year old; 124 are 2 years old; 117 children, 3 years old; 77 children, 4 years old; 44 children, 5 years old; and 6 children, 6 years old, the ages of the remaining 11 being unknown. According to the Ministry of Justice, 344 of the children imprisoned along with their mothers are boys and 324 are girls.
Today, 28 of the October and we will do anything we can to stop this crime and witch hunt and we would like to create a world with love, peace and full of life for our children.
Thank you for your support.
Monday, October 09, 2017
Friday, October 06, 2017
Example Request Letter for #FreedomToKaçmazFamily
contact@molaw.gov.pk, solicitorgeneral@molaw.gov.pk, zufpak@gmail.com, InfoDesk@ohchr.org, civilsociety@ohchr.org, dexrel@ohchr.org
Dear Honorable Official,
On the night of 27 September 2017, Mesut Kaçmaz and his family were kidnapped, despite being under UN protection in Pakistan.
Congressman Mr Syed Ali Riza Abidi has raised the issue of the kidnapping of the Kaçmaz family and said that we must all endeavour to do something about the injustice.
Around 15 strangers dressed as ordinary civillians in Pakistan kidnapped the Kaçmaz family. We all want to know exactly what happened to this family, as they were taken without any trial, judgement or official papers.
Kidnapping is an international crime. Furthermore, we want to learn of this innocent family's whereabouts as Mesut Kaçmaz and his family are of Turkish origin; our people, whose only aim is to be qualified teachers that teach people about, and guide people through life. We don’t want to simply abandon these people. And we are now also worried about other Turkish teachers and their families in Pakistan. We want them to be transferred to a safer country as soon as possible.
In Turkey and in other countries, many Turkish citizens have been kidnapped. We cannot keep silent about this issue and we want justice!
Those who have been kidnapped must be released immediately. We await a response from officials in Pakistan providing an explanation of what has happened to the Kaçmaz family, and what measures are being put in place for other families like them facing similar danger and injustice.
We kindly request your help in upholding justice for those who have been denied it.
Regards.
From Hospital to Prison
July 15, 2016, has gone down to history as a coal-black day. That night, one of the terrifying theatre play of human history was on stage in Turkey. In fact, the first statement came from the President Recep Tayyip ERDOĞAN; He found the organizers and criminals of the coup, during the military coup attempt and called them F..... terrorist organization in his statement. While there were 260.000 constables, innocent and defenseless native people were confronted and slaughtered by the ones who are responsible for the treacherous theatrics military coup. The innocent community, unaware of the peril, and the soldiers followed their commanders to death were caused to be offended to each other. That night, 248 of our people were slaughtered, 2196 were injured. The movement which had served worldwide, representatives of peace in the countries it has been, follows universal humanitarian values, has been accepted by 170 countries and opened schools that were branded as a ‘bloody terror organization’ and a high percentage of the community were convinced to this.
After the coup attempt, the numbers of the people whose lives were made miserable are terrifying: 75.000 prisoners and 160.000 expelled. Keeping silence during all of these condemns was another issue. People who are an opponent to the governmental actions from every kind of category were waiting for their turn.
In order to escape from tyranny, tens of thousands of families had to do nothing but to leave their lives behind and move abroad. They sought asylum from the countries they moved. For some of them, it was an exile. For some of them, it was a hejira.
We are all in the situation of mobilizing in order to proclaim all these victimizations to world press by influential activities on social media. To annunciate the victimization to all countries, we are planning to walk for an hour with as much as people we find on the same day and time.
668 babies have been taken directly to the prison as soon as they were born. Our first activity is for the mothers with babies. From hospital to prison. Activity will end up in the cities’ important public squares.
As John F. Kennedy says, children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. In Turkey, the most valuable valuable resources of our world are thrown away in order to create wrong ones. And again in Turkey, the best hopes of our future are growing up unhealthy. If we won't do anything today, these pure innocent souls will fade away and only darkness will rule this world.
With the hope of meeting on days full of activities…
After the coup attempt, the numbers of the people whose lives were made miserable are terrifying: 75.000 prisoners and 160.000 expelled. Keeping silence during all of these condemns was another issue. People who are an opponent to the governmental actions from every kind of category were waiting for their turn.
In order to escape from tyranny, tens of thousands of families had to do nothing but to leave their lives behind and move abroad. They sought asylum from the countries they moved. For some of them, it was an exile. For some of them, it was a hejira.
We are all in the situation of mobilizing in order to proclaim all these victimizations to world press by influential activities on social media. To annunciate the victimization to all countries, we are planning to walk for an hour with as much as people we find on the same day and time.
668 babies have been taken directly to the prison as soon as they were born. Our first activity is for the mothers with babies. From hospital to prison. Activity will end up in the cities’ important public squares.
As John F. Kennedy says, children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. In Turkey, the most valuable valuable resources of our world are thrown away in order to create wrong ones. And again in Turkey, the best hopes of our future are growing up unhealthy. If we won't do anything today, these pure innocent souls will fade away and only darkness will rule this world.
With the hope of meeting on days full of activities…
Thursday, October 05, 2017
Within the State of Emergency in Turkey, 668 Babies are in Prison
Since April
2017 number of the children in prison (the word ‘baby’ is not in use in the
literature so for children in ages 0-6 in prison are called ‘children’) increased
from 560 to 700 just in four months.
Women who
newly gave birth and about to give birth are specially arrested by officials. During
baby birth, police wait in front of the door and arrest the women after a short
while from the birth. Puerpera women are imprisoned with their babies.
This issue came
to the fore by hashtag #668BabiesBehindBars with congresswoman of Party of
Republican People, Gamze AKKUS’s statistics.
Besides, a
petition on change.org with hashtag is started. The aim was to reach Ministry
of Justice. Ahile reaching tens of thousands, Ministry of Justice of Turkey
didn’t even put in the agenda. Almost everyday, a puerpera woman is taken to
prison from hospital. On top of everything, AKP jurisdiction obviously targets
pregnant women to imprison in last four months. The government prefers to deny
all of these.
On August,
Grand National Assembly of Turkey’s Justice Commission Member and congressman
of AKP in Bartın Yılmaz TUNC answered the questions from BBC Türkçe . He said
that the news about imprisoned women with babies were wrong and there was no
application to the Justice Commission about the issue and continued his words:
‘’The
perception tried to create in care of international law indicates that there is
a persecution on imprisoned women in Turkey. All are nothing but agitations of
the arrested people’s situations against Turkey and just a dark propaganda. ‘’
Babies’
situations in prisons are heartrending. As a result of emergency state law, beds
for babies are not available. Diapers and wipes are not been giving on the
time. There is no supplementary food, milk is almost impossible to get. They
have no toys to play, in many cities toys are not given to children. Not only
toys, one the families whose relative had been arrested wished to send a
pacifier for the baby with shipment. But it wasn’t given by the officials.
Babies live
in the cells with overall capacity. So even the area they can crawl is not
enough. Hundreds of babies are in unhealthy situations, terrified by other
prisoners. Most of them can’t talk. If they are sick they are not getting the
cure. They are not taken to the hospital on time. Even if they are taken, they
are not with their mothers. Babies themselves are trying to survive with their
small bodies.
What Do Law
Say About Child Arrest?
The
applicable law of Criminal Execution no.5275 says ‘’Prison sentence is put back
for the women who are pregnant or six months or less puerpera.’’
Besides
this, the United Nations Convention on the Right of the Child and many other
international conventions and Constitution of Turkey’s 41st clause
are violated. The 41st clause of Constitution of Turkey says ‘’Every
child has the right of being protected, cared and making bound with parents and
keep in touch with them for long unless if it causes high benefit to the
parents. Government takes protection for every kind of abuse and violent.’’
Furthermore,
mothers of the 700 babies in prison have no crime, no obvious crime, most of
them even don’t have an indictment. It’s nothing less than mercilessness to put
women in prisons with their babies without crime, even indictment. Turkey’s
current directors are darkening the futures of their country’s future.
Waiting for
a solution from the officials would be just an endless optimism. Within the
TUIK statistics, the numbers of the pregnant women and the women lost their
babies as a matter of prison situations have to be published but TUIK’s
attitude shows us there is a neglect of duty. Hiding this information from
public and sweep it under the mat is nothing but constituting a crime. Rules of
law are ignored. The government doesn’t apply the rules of law, moreover, it
changes the current laws for its benefit with the name of ‘state of emergency’.
What to Do?
Nowadays
there are too much Turkish citizens living abroad. The first thing to do is to
inform the United Nations representative about the situation. Legislation
officers are the ones who disobey. This
victimization must be acquainted with concrete evidences, specially by the
media.
Building a
platform and moving together would be a better way to have a quick result.
Having the
target of reaching the same place, when reacting, would make it more memorable
for worldwide public. As long as we don’t stand back looking for solutions for
our rights and freedom.
Last words;
mothers who have babies between 0-6 ages must be have trials without
arrestment.
Sunday, September 24, 2017
WHERE AND WITH WHOM AM I?
WHERE AM I?
I can no longer call myself 'a journalist'. I don't have my columns anymore.
However, looking from that kind of view licks my wounds. Staying in this camp with the vocational perspective.
Common toilet.
Common bathroom.
Common kitchen.
Thirty-five families, each one from different country.
From Syria,
From Afghanistan,
From Iraq,
From Somalia,
From Nigeria, all makes thirty-five stories.
Women, gave their children birth on their own in this country. Whom came from Nigeria, whom came from Somalia... They are alone like I am. Their spouses are in Italy.
Whom from Afghanistan, a huge family with ten children...
A place that breaking apart from tactlessness makes me question my intention.
Everywhere is dingy. So muddy!
I have no one to call 'my dear friend' around me, except my prayers.
Sometimes, even when I talk or text to people I get impertinent... Sometimes I take offense, sometimes I misunderstand, sometimes I get into unnecessary talks. As a conclusion, I withdraw into my shell.
Time, is time for obligatory retirement.
My feet are stable but my mouth is dumb.
Take root, giant plane tree.
Take root!
Rohingya
The information pollution about Arakan made me feel a necessity to find a source which tells ‘truth’. An amazing person of us made me shocked with his writing. I selected the most crucial parts of a very long article. Tonight, I didn’t sleep for Arakan again...
Link to the article for the curious ones (article is in Turkish, you can use Google Translate for English version):
http://t24.com.tr/haber/6-soruda-arakan-tarihi-etnik-ve-dini-kiyimin-dunu-bugunu,429735
Important parts of the replies by the journalist-author Ibrahim SERDIYANI gave to T24’s questions via e-mail:
‘Rohingya’ is a Kurdish name means ‘the country sun rises’
>>The historians and geographers from the West and the East WROTE that Kurdish merchants ‘Islamized’ the Arakan geography, Kurdish people came from Kurdistan to this land found the country ‘Rohingya’ as it means ‘country of East’ which indicates it’s the place the Kurdish people had ever gone so far to the East. Moreover, Kurdish people called this land ‘Rewsheng/Rusheng’ which means ‘luminous lands’ in order to give this paradise geography a compliment by its natural beauty.
‘’Rohingyas are the most aggrieved population of this world.’’
Muslim Rohingyas, are officially inscribed by the United Nations itself as ‘the most aggrieved population’.
>>The population of Myanmar (Burma) is 54 million which includes 68% Bamar (Burmese), 9% Shan, 7% Kayin, 3,5% Raxine, 2,5% Chinese, 2% Mon, 1,9% Rohingya, 1,5% Kachin, 1,25% Indian and 0,75% Kayah. It’s a multi-faith, multi-language and multi-ethnicity country.
>>There are 64 ethnic origins in this country, more than 200 languages and dialects. Among these, Shans, Kayins and Rohingyas are discriminated and excluded by the government and even their right to have citizenship is taken from them.
>>With the ‘New Citizenship Law’ introduced in 1982, people of Rohingya are expelled from ‘national components’ (Myanmar nationality) category and considered as foreigners in their homeland. Their right to be a ‘natural born citizen’ is taken away from them.
>>Rohingyas receive a special white ID card writes ‘for foreigners’ on it. This ID is only for information, doesn’t have any legal validity.
>>Fundamental human rights such as ‘education in mother language’ and ‘defense in mother language’ are not valid for Rohingyas. It’s forbidden for Muslim Rohingyas to go to university. They can only have the education until high school.
>>Myanmar (Burma) government military forces the minorities in the country to labor and makes religious and national abasement pressure.
>>It’s forbidden to build concrete building/house for Rohingyas. They are obliged to build their houses by wood. Furthermore, these houses belong to the government and in case of any accident happens to house, such as firing, the living in the house get condemned as ‘they have burned the government’s house ‘ and carry a penalty of imprisonment.
>>A Muslim Rohingya cannot start a business. Just if a Rohingya goes into partnership with a Buddhist, it’s allowed. But in that case, the Buddhist has the 50% of the business without paying a cent.
>>Rohingyas have to pay an imperial tax every year for the animals they have. Muslim Rohingyas cannot work at any civil or public office. Today, there is no any Rohingya official in Myanmar government.
>>Rohingyas have no right to have telephone, cell phone, computer or motor vehicle. They’re all forbidden to all Rohingyas.
>>Myanmar (Burma) even inhibits Muslim Rohingyas to get married. For a Rohingya man and a Rohingya woman, it’s so hard to get married that, it’s almost impossible.
>>Rohingyas have to get permission from the government to get married. The government takes high taxes from couples that want to get married (separately, not from both of them). Couples who cannot pay the tax cannot get married. Even if they’re able to pay the tax, they have to wait at least 2 or 3 years. Sometimes, even if they pay the tax fully, the government rejects the petition. It means, even they have already paid the marriage tax; there is no permission for the couples’ marriage. Moreover, the money they paid never comes back to them. Many young Rohingya live in Arakan run to Bangladesh in order to get married.
>>Rohingya families in Arakan have to hand their family photo, includes every family member in it, to the government. For every newborn and every dead member, they have to pay extra tax.
The government of Myanmar (Burma) even forbids Muslim Rohingyas ‘domestic travel’. They have no freedom of travel between two cities. It’s forbidden for Rohingyas to get out of Arakan area and travel to the other areas of Myanmar. They need to have ‘travel card’ to travel, however, the government finds pretexts and doesn’t give this card to any Rohingyas. It’s forbidden for them to see the capital city of the country.
>>Myanmar forbids Muslim Rohingyas to pray with the community and make their Qurban prayers (sacrifice a cattle or small cattle for God). People who pray with a community get arrested and tortured in prison. The Myanmar government never gives permission to build a mosque. If they detect anyone to commit an offense (!) such as praying with the community or making religious speeches in the mosques, which already were built, they destroy the mosque and build pagodas (Buddhist shrines) on its place.
>>Another prohibition is to maintenance and repair of the mosques and madrassahs. For the inspection of this prohibition, mosques and madrassahs have to be photographed habitual three times a year. Punishment of maintenance and repair without permission is imprisonment, changes between 6 months and 6 years. In last 20 years, there couldn’t be any new built mosque and couldn’t repair the ones there already are.
>>Actualizing the assimilation politics, the Myanmar government is changing village and city names in Arakan which are in Rohingya language, into official Burma language which makes them trumped up.
>>The Myanmar government keeps the same pressure and oppression of religion and conscience freedom on the Christians and even the Buddhists who don’t accept the government’s racist-chauvinist political structure to the minorities. There are 300 Bonzes (Buddhist priest) imprisoned in Myanmar just because they advocated justice and opposed to the government because of the oppression it kept on Muslim and Christian communities.
‘’ More than half of the population are refugees.’’
>>Rohingya people immigrate to the neighbor countries or lands in order to survive periodically. They are 2.5 million as a total; 1,5 million are away from their motherland, living as refugees.
>>Most of the Rohingya refugees ‘live’ in refugee camps in Bangladesh. There are two legal (under the UN supervision) and two illegal refugee camps in Bangladesh land. All four of them are close to each other and in the borders of Chittagong, which is also known as ‘Bangladesh’s Arakan’, close to Myanmar.
>>People eat leaves and feed their children with earth in there. They have nothing! And they’re afraid of everyone, every stranger they see. While I was trying to talk to them, they were looking into my eyes with fear. They were so terrified of us; words cannot define what I want to say. Because until that day, they only have seen bad things from the people not from them. Every people, who aren’t like them, were only willing to get closer to burn them, cut them into pieces with an axe and kill them.
Today in Bangladesh, there are 700 thousand Rohingya refugees. 28 thousand of them are in the legal camps which are under the UN supervision and 71 thousand are in illegal camps. Rohingya refugees in camps are 99 thousand. Rohingya refugees not in camps are 601 thousand.
The refugee population of 1,5 million is separated, about half of them in Bangladesh and the rest of them in the other countries nearby.
‘’This problem can only be solved at the government level’’
Non-governmental organizations cannot do anything as it is an issue that governments can solve. The issue going on in Arakan or the ‘Arakan Issue’ is not a kind of issue that communities such as humanitarian aid committees or journalists can give an end. Governments and international forces must take initiative and put an effort to cease the slanders and cruelties going on for Rohingya people and make them have their natural human rights.
Link to the article for the curious ones (article is in Turkish, you can use Google Translate for English version):
http://t24.com.tr/haber/6-soruda-arakan-tarihi-etnik-ve-dini-kiyimin-dunu-bugunu,429735
Important parts of the replies by the journalist-author Ibrahim SERDIYANI gave to T24’s questions via e-mail:
‘Rohingya’ is a Kurdish name means ‘the country sun rises’
>>The historians and geographers from the West and the East WROTE that Kurdish merchants ‘Islamized’ the Arakan geography, Kurdish people came from Kurdistan to this land found the country ‘Rohingya’ as it means ‘country of East’ which indicates it’s the place the Kurdish people had ever gone so far to the East. Moreover, Kurdish people called this land ‘Rewsheng/Rusheng’ which means ‘luminous lands’ in order to give this paradise geography a compliment by its natural beauty.
‘’Rohingyas are the most aggrieved population of this world.’’
Muslim Rohingyas, are officially inscribed by the United Nations itself as ‘the most aggrieved population’.
>>The population of Myanmar (Burma) is 54 million which includes 68% Bamar (Burmese), 9% Shan, 7% Kayin, 3,5% Raxine, 2,5% Chinese, 2% Mon, 1,9% Rohingya, 1,5% Kachin, 1,25% Indian and 0,75% Kayah. It’s a multi-faith, multi-language and multi-ethnicity country.
>>There are 64 ethnic origins in this country, more than 200 languages and dialects. Among these, Shans, Kayins and Rohingyas are discriminated and excluded by the government and even their right to have citizenship is taken from them.
>>With the ‘New Citizenship Law’ introduced in 1982, people of Rohingya are expelled from ‘national components’ (Myanmar nationality) category and considered as foreigners in their homeland. Their right to be a ‘natural born citizen’ is taken away from them.
>>Rohingyas receive a special white ID card writes ‘for foreigners’ on it. This ID is only for information, doesn’t have any legal validity.
>>Fundamental human rights such as ‘education in mother language’ and ‘defense in mother language’ are not valid for Rohingyas. It’s forbidden for Muslim Rohingyas to go to university. They can only have the education until high school.
>>Myanmar (Burma) government military forces the minorities in the country to labor and makes religious and national abasement pressure.
>>It’s forbidden to build concrete building/house for Rohingyas. They are obliged to build their houses by wood. Furthermore, these houses belong to the government and in case of any accident happens to house, such as firing, the living in the house get condemned as ‘they have burned the government’s house ‘ and carry a penalty of imprisonment.
>>A Muslim Rohingya cannot start a business. Just if a Rohingya goes into partnership with a Buddhist, it’s allowed. But in that case, the Buddhist has the 50% of the business without paying a cent.
>>Rohingyas have to pay an imperial tax every year for the animals they have. Muslim Rohingyas cannot work at any civil or public office. Today, there is no any Rohingya official in Myanmar government.
>>Rohingyas have no right to have telephone, cell phone, computer or motor vehicle. They’re all forbidden to all Rohingyas.
>>Myanmar (Burma) even inhibits Muslim Rohingyas to get married. For a Rohingya man and a Rohingya woman, it’s so hard to get married that, it’s almost impossible.
>>Rohingyas have to get permission from the government to get married. The government takes high taxes from couples that want to get married (separately, not from both of them). Couples who cannot pay the tax cannot get married. Even if they’re able to pay the tax, they have to wait at least 2 or 3 years. Sometimes, even if they pay the tax fully, the government rejects the petition. It means, even they have already paid the marriage tax; there is no permission for the couples’ marriage. Moreover, the money they paid never comes back to them. Many young Rohingya live in Arakan run to Bangladesh in order to get married.
>>Rohingya families in Arakan have to hand their family photo, includes every family member in it, to the government. For every newborn and every dead member, they have to pay extra tax.
The government of Myanmar (Burma) even forbids Muslim Rohingyas ‘domestic travel’. They have no freedom of travel between two cities. It’s forbidden for Rohingyas to get out of Arakan area and travel to the other areas of Myanmar. They need to have ‘travel card’ to travel, however, the government finds pretexts and doesn’t give this card to any Rohingyas. It’s forbidden for them to see the capital city of the country.
>>Myanmar forbids Muslim Rohingyas to pray with the community and make their Qurban prayers (sacrifice a cattle or small cattle for God). People who pray with a community get arrested and tortured in prison. The Myanmar government never gives permission to build a mosque. If they detect anyone to commit an offense (!) such as praying with the community or making religious speeches in the mosques, which already were built, they destroy the mosque and build pagodas (Buddhist shrines) on its place.
>>Another prohibition is to maintenance and repair of the mosques and madrassahs. For the inspection of this prohibition, mosques and madrassahs have to be photographed habitual three times a year. Punishment of maintenance and repair without permission is imprisonment, changes between 6 months and 6 years. In last 20 years, there couldn’t be any new built mosque and couldn’t repair the ones there already are.
>>Actualizing the assimilation politics, the Myanmar government is changing village and city names in Arakan which are in Rohingya language, into official Burma language which makes them trumped up.
>>The Myanmar government keeps the same pressure and oppression of religion and conscience freedom on the Christians and even the Buddhists who don’t accept the government’s racist-chauvinist political structure to the minorities. There are 300 Bonzes (Buddhist priest) imprisoned in Myanmar just because they advocated justice and opposed to the government because of the oppression it kept on Muslim and Christian communities.
‘’ More than half of the population are refugees.’’
>>Rohingya people immigrate to the neighbor countries or lands in order to survive periodically. They are 2.5 million as a total; 1,5 million are away from their motherland, living as refugees.
>>Most of the Rohingya refugees ‘live’ in refugee camps in Bangladesh. There are two legal (under the UN supervision) and two illegal refugee camps in Bangladesh land. All four of them are close to each other and in the borders of Chittagong, which is also known as ‘Bangladesh’s Arakan’, close to Myanmar.
>>People eat leaves and feed their children with earth in there. They have nothing! And they’re afraid of everyone, every stranger they see. While I was trying to talk to them, they were looking into my eyes with fear. They were so terrified of us; words cannot define what I want to say. Because until that day, they only have seen bad things from the people not from them. Every people, who aren’t like them, were only willing to get closer to burn them, cut them into pieces with an axe and kill them.
Today in Bangladesh, there are 700 thousand Rohingya refugees. 28 thousand of them are in the legal camps which are under the UN supervision and 71 thousand are in illegal camps. Rohingya refugees in camps are 99 thousand. Rohingya refugees not in camps are 601 thousand.
The refugee population of 1,5 million is separated, about half of them in Bangladesh and the rest of them in the other countries nearby.
‘’This problem can only be solved at the government level’’
Non-governmental organizations cannot do anything as it is an issue that governments can solve. The issue going on in Arakan or the ‘Arakan Issue’ is not a kind of issue that communities such as humanitarian aid committees or journalists can give an end. Governments and international forces must take initiative and put an effort to cease the slanders and cruelties going on for Rohingya people and make them have their natural human rights.
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