Why are Muslims killed in Myanmar. Muslims are burned alive in Myanmar. Black and white

Suddenly, the topic of the oppression of Muslims in Myanmar came to the fore in the media. Both Kadyrov and Putin have already taken part in this topic. Accordingly, everyone has already discussed the words of one and the other.

In general, the conflict between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar has been going on since 1942. And as always, there are a lot of fakes in the media, distortions and aggravation of the situation by all parties.

Here are some examples:

In Myanmar, unfortunately, inter-communal clashes between Muslims and Buddhists do take place. Muslims themselves are often responsible for these clashes.. As a result of these clashes, both Muslims and Buddhists suffer.

Unfortunately, Buddhists do not have their own Al Jazeera or Al Arabiya, as one Yangon resident rightly noted, and the world often perceives what is happening in Myanmar one-sidedly. In fact, the Buddhist population suffers no less, but few talk about it.

Against the backdrop of these sad events in Myanmar, online mujahideen are fueling anti-Buddhist hysteria with the help of banal lies. Why be surprised here? After all, after all

Allah is the best of tricksters (Quran 3:51-54)

But some of the warriors of Allah, leading such a propaganda jihad, are far from the best of the cunning. Their primitive methods only affect the orthodox gopota, who loves to shout “Allahu Akbar!” for any reason and for no reason. coupled with threats against infidels.

Consider a few "masterpieces of Islamic propaganda" about the mass genocide of Muslims in Burma.

Reading: “Over a thousand Muslims killed in Burma yesterday”.

This is actually Thailand, 2004. Pictured are protesters dispersed by police with tear gas outside the Tai Bai police station in Bangkok.

In fact, the photo shows the detention of illegal Rohingya immigrants by the Thai police. The photo is taken from the site about the protection of the rights of the Rohingya people.

Attached is a screenshot just in case:

Another photo of the "suffering" of Muslims in Burma. The photo shows the suppression of the rebellion in Thailand in 2003.

Let the network Mujahideen first figure out for themselves in which country their co-religionists were allowed to sunbathe.

It's good that there is such a country as, which is so rich in photographs of this subject. The uniform of the policeman is not at all the same as that of the Myanmar police.

Another masterpiece of Islamic propaganda. Under the photo there is an inscription that this " Poor Muslim man burned to death in Burma".

But in fact, a Tibetan monk set himself on fire in protest at the arrival of ex-Chinese President Hu Jin Tao in Delhi.

On Russian-language sites, somehow:

and many others, whose name is legion, we can also get acquainted with amazing photo galleries about the “Muslim genocide in Burma”. The same photos are published on many sites, and judging by the comments islamic people hawaet all this information with pleasure.

Let's take a look at these masterpieces.

Any attentive person who has been to Myanmar will understand that this is not Myanmar. The people standing near the unfortunates are not Burmese. These are black Africans. In the picture, according to some sites, the consequences of a blatant genocide by the Islamist group Boko Haram against Christians in Nigeria. Although there is another version of “230 deaths due to a truck explosion in the Congo”, see here: news.tochka.net/47990-230-p... . In any case, this picture has nothing to do with Burma.

Cm. . On the thief and the turban is on fire!

Does this black guy look a lot like a Burmese Buddhist?

And this is not Burma. The police uniform in Myanmar is not like that at all.

And here where does the information come from that this is Myanmar, and that this unfortunate woman is a Muslim? Does a yellow baseball cap and blue gloves give away a Myanmar citizen?

And these are the real events in Myanmar:

However, where does the information come from that the photo shows the beating of Muslims? There were many anti-government demonstrations in Burma, which were dispersed by the police. Moreover, several women in the dispersed crowd are not dressed in Islamic style at all.

Are they lying Allah's slaves consciously, or out of stupidity, in the context of this topic, it does not matter. The main thing is that they lie.

What conclusion suggests itself, let everyone decide for himself.

History of the conflict:

1. Who are the Rohingyas?

Rohingya, or, in another transcription, "rahinya" - a small people living in remote areas on the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh. Once all these lands were the possession of the British crown. Now local officials assure that the Rohingya are not natives at all, but migrants who arrived here during the years of overseas domination. And when in the late 1940s the country, together with Pakistan and India, gained independence, the British drew the border "competently", including the Rohingya areas in Burma (as Myanmar was then called), although in language and religion they are much closer to the neighboring Bangladesh.

So 50 million Burmese Buddhists found themselves under the same roof as 1.5 million Muslims. The neighborhood turned out to be unsuccessful: years passed, the name of the state changed, a democratic government appeared instead of a military junta, the capital moved from Yangon to Naypyidaw, but the Rohingya were still discriminated against and squeezed out of the country. True, these people have a bad reputation among Buddhists, they are considered separatists and bandits (the land of the Rohingya is the center of the so-called Golden Triangle, an international drug cartel that produces heroin). In addition, there is a strongly Islamist underground, close to the ISIS group banned in the Russian Federation and many other countries of the world (an organization banned in the Russian Federation).

“Traditional Muslims of Myanmar, such as Malabar Hindus, Bengalis, Chinese Muslims, Burmese Muslims, live throughout Myanmar,” explains Myanmar-based orientalist Piotr Kozma, who maintains a popular blog about the country. “Buddhists have had coexistence with this traditional Muslim ummah for many decades, therefore, despite the excesses, it rarely came to large-scale conflicts.”

According to Piotr Kozma, for many years the Myanmar government did not know what to do with the Rohingya. They were not recognized as citizens, but it is incorrect to say that they did this because of religious or ethnic prejudice. “Among the Rohingya, there are many who defected from Bangladesh, including due to problems with the law,” says Piotr Kozma. “Just imagine enclaves where radicals and criminals who escaped from a neighboring state rule the show.”

The expert notes that the Rohingya traditionally have a high birth rate - each family has 5-10 children. This led to the fact that in one generation the number of immigrants increased several times. “One day this lid was torn off. And here it doesn’t even matter who started it first, ”concludes the orientalist.

Escalation of the conflict

The process got out of hand in 2012. Then in June and October, more than a hundred people died in armed clashes in Rakhine between Buddhists and Muslims. According to the UN, approximately 5,300 houses and places of worship were destroyed.

A state of emergency was declared in the state, but the tumor of the conflict had already spread throughout Myanmar. By the spring of 2013, the pogroms had moved from the western part of the country to the center. At the end of March, riots began in the city of Meithila. On June 23, 2016, the conflict broke out in the province of Pegu, on July 1 - in Hpakant. What the traditional Myanmar ummah feared most seemed to have happened: Rohingya discontent was being extrapolated to Muslims in general.

Intercommunal controversy

Muslims are one of the parties to the conflict, but it is incorrect to consider the unrest in Myanmar as inter-religious, says Dmitry Mosyakov, head of the department of regional studies at Moscow State University: “There is a significant increase in the number of refugees from Bangladesh who cross the sea and settle in the historical region of Arakan. The appearance of these people does not please the local population. And it doesn’t matter if they are Muslims or representatives of another religion.” According to Mosyakov, Myanmar is a complex conglomeration of nationalities, but all of them are united by a common Burmese history and statehood. Rohingya fall out of this system of communities, and this is the core of the conflict, as a result of which both Muslims and Buddhists die.

Black and white

“At this time, the world media hears the theme of exclusively affected Muslims and says nothing about Buddhists,” adds Piotr Kozma. “Such one-sided coverage of the conflict gave Myanmar Buddhists a sense of a besieged fortress, and this is a direct path to radicalism.”

According to the blogger, the coverage of the unrest in Myanmar in the world's leading media can hardly be called objective, it is obvious that the publications are aimed at a large Islamic audience. “In the state of Rakhine, Muslims were not killed much more than Buddhists, and in terms of the number of destroyed and burned houses, the sides are approximately equal. That is, there was no massacre of "peaceful and defenseless Muslims", there was a conflict in which both sides distinguished themselves almost equally. But, unfortunately, the Buddhists do not have their own Al Jazeera and similar world-class rating television stations to report this,” says Piotr Kozma.

Experts say that the Myanmar authorities are interested in smoothing out the conflict, or at least maintaining the status quo. They are ready to make concessions - peace agreements have recently been reached with other national minorities. But in the case of the Rohingya, this will not work. “These people get into junks and sail along the Bay of Bengal to the Burmese coast. A new wave of refugees provokes new massacres of the local population. The situation can be compared to the migration crisis in Europe - no one really knows what to do with the flow of these foreigners, ”concludes the head of the department of regional studies at Moscow State University

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Before Kadyrov, Erdogan stood up for the Rohingya people

Kadyrov's speeches on the Internet, Sunday's standing at the embassy of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar in Moscow and a mass rally in Grozny in defense of Muslims persecuted in a distant country unexpectedly forced Russians to pay attention to a problem little known to the general public.

In fact, the history of the standoff in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar with a persecuted Muslim minority has long been a concern in the world - both at the government level and in the human rights environment.

What is Myanmar? At one time, this country in Southeast Asia was known as Burma. But the locals do not like this name, considering it foreign. Therefore, after 1989, the country was renamed Myanmar (translated as "fast", "strong").

Since the country gained independence in 1948, a civil war has been waged in Burma, in which the Burmese authorities, communist guerrillas, and separatist rebels participated. And if we add to this explosive “cocktail” the drug dealers of the “Golden Triangle”, which, in addition to Myanmar, also included Thailand and Laos, it becomes obvious that the situation on Burmese soil did not symbolize peace and quiet.

From 1962 until 2011, the country was ruled by the military, and the head of the opposition Democratic League that won in 1989, the future Nobel Peace Prize winner, Do Aung San Suu Kyi, was placed under house arrest for a long time. The country found itself in a rather noticeable isolation from the outside world - including in connection with Western sanctions. But in recent years, noticeable changes have taken place in Myanmar, elections have been held. And last year, Aung San Suu Kyi became foreign minister and state adviser (de facto prime minister).

In a country with a population of 60 million people, there are more than a hundred nationalities: Burmese, Shan, Karen, Arakanese, Chinese, Indians, Mons, Kachins, etc. The vast majority of believers are Buddhists, there are Christians, Muslims, animists.

“Myanmar, as a multinational country, is experiencing a load of problems of this kind,” comments Viktor Sumsky, director of the ASEAN Center at MGIMO. - The new government of the country is making attempts to resolve conflict situations, but in fact it turns out that it was the problem of the Rohingya that came to the fore ...

So who are the Rohingyas? This is an ethnic group living compactly in the Myanmar state of Rakhine (Arakan). The Rohingya practice Islam. According to estimates, their number in Myanmar ranges from 800 thousand to 1.1 million people. It is believed that most of them moved to the territory of Burma during the British colonial rule.

The Myanmar authorities refer to the Rohingya as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh - and on this basis deny them citizenship. The law forbade them to have more than two children. The authorities tried to resettle them in Bangladesh, but no one expected them there either. It is no coincidence that the UN calls them one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Many Rohingyas flee to Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand. But a number of countries in Southeast Asia - including Muslim ones - refuse to accept these refugees, and ships with migrants are deployed at sea.

During the Second World War, when Burma was occupied by Japan, in 1942 there was a so-called. "Arakan massacre" between Rohingya Muslims who received weapons from the British and local Buddhists who supported the Japanese. Tens of thousands of people died, many people became refugees. Of course, these events did not add trust to relations between the communities.

From time to time, serious tensions flared up in the places of compact residence of the Rohingya, often reaching bloodshed. While Buddhist Burmese are staging Muslim pogroms in Rakhine, the Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, has urged Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to support the Rohingya. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also spoke out in defense of the Burmese Muslims. The West, both in the European Union and the United States, were not silent on this issue (although, of course, it was not the problem of the Muslim minority that played the first role in the sanctions imposed against Myanmar at the time). On the other hand, the problem of Muslims in Burma in the past decades was actively used by various theorists of "global jihad" - from Abdullah Azzam to his student Osama bin Laden. So it cannot be ruled out that this region may become a new point of conflict, where supporters of the most radical jihadist groups will reach out - as happened, say, in the Philippines.

The situation became especially aggravated after dozens of people attacked three Myanmar border posts in October last year, as a result, nine border guards were killed. After that, troops were brought into Rakhine State. Over 20,000 people fled to Bangladesh. In February 2017, a UN report was published, created on the basis of surveys of refugees: it provides shocking facts of extrajudicial killings of the Rohingya by local nationalists, as well as security forces, gang rapes, etc.

In recent days alone, about 90,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh. This came after rebels from the Arakanese Rohingya Solidarity Army attacked dozens of police posts and an army base in Rakhine on August 25. The ensuing skirmishes and military counteroffensive claimed at least 400 lives. The authorities accuse the militants of burning houses and killing civilians, while human rights activists blame the army for the same. And even before Ramzan Kadyrov, Turkish President Erdogan spoke last week in defense of Burmese Muslims, calling what is happening a genocide about which "everyone is silent"...

After a spontaneous Muslim rally at the Myanmar embassy in Moscow in defense of fellow believers, a rally was also held in Grozny - about a million people took part in it.

It's hard to imagine a Buddhist monk with a can of gasoline going to set fire to a living person... Isn't it? (not to look nervous!!!)

XXI century and pogroms? A common occurrence...

It's hard to imagine a Buddhist monk with a can of gasoline going to set fire to a living person... Isn't it? It is also difficult to imagine a Muslim as a victim of this aggression. Undoubtedly. Stereotypes work magically. A peaceful Buddhist and an aggressor Muslim is, yes, a completely understandable image that fits in the mind. However, the brutal events in Burma have eloquently shown that our beliefs do not always correspond to reality. And although someone may try to shift the blame on the victim, it is still obvious that it will be difficult to repaint black into white.

For some reason, the terrible events did not stir up, as it is fashionable to say, progressive humanity, did not cause a wave of indignation among law-abiding citizens, which is why there are no protests or pickets in defense of the persecuted and oppressed people. Then, as well as for lesser sins, some countries turn into outcasts, the government of Myanmar did not even think of declaring a boycott. I would like to know why such injustice occurs against an entire nation, and why this problem has not been solved so far? Let's try to understand...

Problem History

The Rohingya are an Islamic people in Myanmar, the indigenous inhabitants of the territory of the modern state of Rakhine, before that they had their own state called Arakan. The area inhabited by the Rohingya was only annexed to Burma in the 1700s. According to the 2012 census, the number of Muslims living in Myanmar was 800,000, according to other sources, there are exactly one million more. The United Nations considers them to be one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. And this persecution dates back to World War II, when Japanese troops invaded Burma, which was then under British colonial rule. On March 28, 1942, about 5,000 Muslims were killed by Rakhine nationalists in the cities of Minbaya and Mrohaung.

In 1978, 200,000 Muslims fled from a bloody military operation in Bangladesh. In 1991-1992 another 250,000 people went there, and 100,000 went to Thailand.

Last summer, with the connivance of the local authorities, there was a new outbreak of massacres of Muslims. In the spring of this year, the violence that had subsided gained even greater momentum. According to some reports, 20 thousand (!) Muslims have already been killed, and hundreds of thousands of refugees cannot receive humanitarian assistance. Modern oppression is conducted on a different level and with more sophisticated methods. The authorities are inciting Buddhist monks into the massacre, the police and the army are indifferent to the pogroms, and sometimes even take part on the side of the oppressors.

The Rohingya are not only being physically exterminated, for decades these unfortunate people have been ostracized, oppressed, subjected to horrific physical and emotional abuse by the government of Myanmar. Declaring Muslims as foreigners, as they are considered only immigrants from Bangladesh, the Rohingyas were deprived of their citizenship. Myanmar is home to a huge number of indigenous peoples. The government recognizes 135 different ethnic minorities, but the Rohingya is not among them.

The persecuted people are "subdued" in a variety of ways, including the absolute and unjustified prohibition by most Buddhist communities of Muslims from working in the private or public sector, as well as a ban on serving in the police or the armed forces. Or if someone is hired in rare cases, then they are charged with observance of Buddhist rituals, which, of course, is incompatible with Islam. They are subjected to modern slavery through forced labor. Due to the fact that the national government denies them the right to citizenship in their home country, many of their lands are confiscated and their movement within the country is restricted, there are discriminatory restrictions on access to education. There is also a strict limit for every Muslim family to have no more than two children, according to Burmese law. And to start a family they need to pay a few hundred dollars. Those who live in nikah, who are not in a “legal” marriage, are severely persecuted and punished with a prison term.

And the civilized world pretends...

And persecution on religious grounds, infringement of the rights both as citizens and as a person could somehow be tolerated. However, murders and pogroms cannot leave anyone indifferent. They don't kill in a war, whole villages are destroyed by peaceful, innocent people, women and children are dying. They are being burned alive! And what a cynic or scoundrel one must be to somehow try to justify such outrage!

Depending on who submits the information, the picture of the conflict varies greatly and reflects the political (religious) position of news agencies. Burmese non-state media refer to the situation as "immigrant versus master" instigated by the ethnic Rohingya. Yes, there was the rape of a Burmese woman by two Rohingyas. For this they were sentenced to death. The criminals got it in full. This year there was a dispute in a jewelry store. It is clear that crime is everywhere and Burma is no exception. And this is a reason, but not a reason for the massacre, the inhumanity of which cannot be compared with anything. Where did yesterday's neighbors get such hatred, such heartlessness? Imagine how you can douse with gasoline and set fire to living people, those who are not guilty of anything, those who have families, children, the same as yours?! Do they consider them to be animals or cockroaches that need to be crushed? Those yelling in horror, screaming, in agony, in agony ... It does not fit in my head.

What is nightmarish for Europeans or Americans for other people is like a game? They have the same skin, nerves and pain. Or should they not be shown on the news? Why, then, does the Western world, the master of our ether, not boil with indignation? The timid voices of human rights activists are heard in narrow circles, inaudible to a wide audience. Amnesty International says: "The situation in the northern state of Rakhine remains very tense." The organization Human Rights Watch made an extensive report on how the rights of the Rohingya are being violated, documented the facts of cruelty and violence by the authorities. But even they manage to accuse them of bias, they talk about some sort of arms depots...

Again the unfortunate double standards. So what if Burma looks like a tasty morsel for the economy and politics of the West. The country is attractive in terms of oil, gas, copper, zinc, tin, tungsten, iron ore, etc. It turns out that 90% of the world's rubies, which are mined in Burma, are more expensive and more valuable than human lives. The Rohingya are not visible behind these shiny pebbles.

What can I say, even if the leader of the Burmese opposition and Nobel Prize winner in 1991, Aung San Suu Kyi inexcusably ignored the plight of the Rohingya Muslims and did not say a word about the difficulties and injustice that befell them ...

Islamic countries will not be silent

The guardians of human rights, the world gendarme - the United States, instantly reacting to the infringement of human dignity, did not even consider it necessary to turn to the Burmese authorities on this matter. The European Union has taken diplomatic initiatives to stop the massacre of Rohingya Muslims. And several experts were even sent to Myanmar to study the circumstances of the incident.

Maybe not as loudly as we would like, but nevertheless, representatives of the repressed Muslims of Myanmar are trying to take feasible actions in the fight against the ongoing lawlessness. One of them, Muhammad Yunus, turned to the leadership of Turkey for support, urging him and the whole world to intervene in the situation with the destruction of the Rohingya. In turn, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan appealed to the UN demanding to resolve the situation in western Myanmar, comparing what is happening there with the massacres in Gaza, Ramallah and Jerusalem.

Thousands of demonstrations against the genocide of Muslims in Myanmar also took place in a number of countries: Iran, Indonesia, Palestine, Pakistan, Thailand, etc. In a number of countries, the demonstrators demanded that their governments put pressure on the leadership of Burma in order to protect people professing Islam.

Not a single true person can remain indifferent to the evil done in relation to brothers in faith. And he will not allow injustice to non-brothers either. Someone will make a dua-plea in defense of the oppressed, the other will support with a word. There are those who are able to defend with weapons. The world is such that harassment and even killing of people, in particular Rohingya Muslims, can easily go unpunished. Will it continue like this forever? Nothing lasts forever, as the wise Chinese friends of the Burmese say.

Sacrificial meat distributed among more than 3 million people in need

Turkish Red Crescent on Eid al-Adha distributed the meat of 125 thousand heads of cattle in 33 countries, including Turkey, said the head of the Turkish Red Crescent Kerem Kinik.

“Sacrificial meat has been distributed among more than three million people in need,” Kynyk said.

According to him, 2,275 heads of cattle have been sacrificed this year in Bangladesh, the meat of which is distributed among refugees from Arakan.

Refrigerators delivered 22,000 packages of sacrificial meat to the border of Bangladesh and Myanmar.

In Pakistan, the Turkish Red Crescent has distributed the meat of 14,000 cattle to some 200,000 people in need.

In Niger, meat from 14,000 head of cattle has been distributed among the needy, in Chad - 5,250, and in Burkina Faso - 3,500.

In the Syrian city of Aazaz, the Turkish Red Crescent distributed the meat of two thousand heads of cattle among the needy, in Iraq - 1050 heads, in Palestine - 420.

The Turkish Red Crescent (tour. Türkiye Kızılay Derneği) is the largest Turkish medical care organization that is part of the international Red Cross and Red Crescent movement.

The Turkish Red Crescent was founded on June 11, 1868 in the Ottoman Empire under the name Osmanlı Yaralı ve Hasta Askerlere Yardım Cemiyeti (Ottoman organization for wounded and sick soldiers). Since then, it has changed its name several times. In 1877 it became known as Osmanlı Hilal-i Ahmer Cemiyeti (Ottoman Red Crescent Organization). The name Türkiye Kızılay Cemiyeti (Organization of the Red Crescent of Turkey) received in 1935 after the formation of the Turkish Republic from its leader Kemal Atatürk. Its first leader was a Greek by origin, Marko Pasha (Markos Apostolidis). It received its current name in 1947.

The Turkish Red Crescent is led by an 11-member commission (Yönetim Kurulu). Its current chairman is Kerem Kınık. There is also a Red Crescent Supervisory Board (Denetim Kurulu), a Directorate General for Management (Genel Müdürlük) and a Council for Women and Youth Affairs. The governing bodies of the organization are located in Ankara. There are more than 650 branches of the Red Crescent throughout Turkey. Its supreme body is the General Assembly (Genel Kongre), which brings together representatives of all departments and governing bodies of the Red Crescent. The General Assembly takes place annually in April.

The goals of the organization are expressed as follows:

Turkish Red Crescent Society is a humanitarian organization that provides relief to the vulnerable and those in need by mobilizing the power and resources of the community to protect human dignity anytime, anywhere, under any conditions and support the enhancement of the community's capacity to cope with disasters .

The work of the Turkish Red Crescent is also based on the seven basic rules adopted at the XX International Conference of the Red Cross Societies in 1965 in Vienna: humanism, non-partisanship, neutrality, independence, voluntariness, unity and universality.

The Turkish Red Crescent sees its tasks in providing all possible assistance in overcoming natural disasters and their consequences, organizing donation, measures to restore health (rehabilitation), conduct educational activities in the fields of sanitation and health hygiene.

The Turkish Red Cross is financed not by the state, but by private donations, membership fees, charitable events, special stamps, etc.

President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov congratulated the people of Tatarstan on the blessed holiday of sacrifice Eid al-Adha.

The President of the Republic noted that today the desire of believers for peace and unity is especially felt. “All of us, both those who make the expiatory Hajj and those who celebrate Eid al-Adha at their homes, are waiting and hoping that the Almighty will hear our sincere prayers and give us faith and strength to do good deeds, setting a pious example for our children and grandchildren, ”the congratulation says.

The eternal values ​​professed by Muslims, Christians and representatives of other traditional religions form the basis of human existence, cultivating a high sense of responsibility for our families, the future of the republic, the country and the entire world civilization, Minnikhanov continued.

“In Tatarstan, which has become a common home for people of many nationalities and religions, Eid al-Adha is one of the most revered and widely celebrated holidays. May our souls open completely before Allah, and our good deeds make us spiritually richer and cleaner!” - said the President, wishing the inhabitants of the republic optimism, happiness, health and well-being!

In the state of Arakan in Myanmar, over the past three days, about two to three thousand Muslims have died as a result of military attacks, more than 100 thousand Muslims have been evicted from their homes.

As transmits website Anita Shug, spokeswoman for the European Rohingya Muslim Council (ERC), told Anadolu News Agency.

According to her, in recent days, the military has committed more crimes against Muslims in Arakan than in 2012 and October last year. “The situation has never been so dire. A systematic genocide is practically being committed in Arakan. Only in the village of Saugpara in the suburbs of Rathedaung the day before there was a bloodshed, as a result of which up to one thousand Muslims died. Only one boy survived,” Shug said.

According to local activists and sources, the Myanmar army is behind the bloodshed in Arakan, an ERC spokeswoman said. According to her, at the moment, about two thousand Rohingya Muslims evicted from their homes in Arakan are on the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh, since official Dhaka decided to close the border.

The spokeswoman also said that the villages of Anaukpyin and Nyaungpyingi are surrounded by Buddhists.

“Local residents sent a message to the Myanmar authorities, in which they noted that they were not to blame for the events, and asked to lift the blockade and evacuate them from these villages. But there was no answer. There is no exact data, but I can say that there are hundreds of people in the villages, and all of them are in great danger,” Shug added.

Earlier, Arakan-based activist Dr. Mohammed Eyup Khan said that Arakanese activists living in Turkey called on the UN to help immediately end the bloodshed against Rohingya Muslims in Arakan state by Myanmar military forces and Buddhist clerics.

“There is an unbearable atmosphere of persecution in Arakan: people are killed, raped, burned alive, and this happens almost daily. But the government of Myanmar does not allow into the state not only journalists from other countries, representatives of humanitarian organizations and UN employees, but also the local press,” Eyup Khan said.

According to him, in 2016, several young Muslims, unable to withstand the pressure of the authorities, attacked three checkpoints with clubs and swords, after which the Myanmar government seized the opportunity to close all checkpoints, and security forces began to attack towns and villages in the state. Arakan, killing local people, including children.

The activist recalled that on July 25, the UN established a special commission of three people, which was supposed to identify the facts of persecution in Arakan, but official Myanmar said it would not allow UN employees to the state.

“Taking advantage of the inaction of the international community, on August 24, government forces besieged another 25 villages. And when the locals tried to resist, bloodshed began. According to the data we received, about 500 Muslims were killed in the last three days alone,” Eyup Khan said.

According to UN norms, genocide-affected countries should be sanctioned, but the international community does not accept the fact that Rohingya Muslims are being genocided in Myanmar, the activist said. “The UN prefers to call what is happening here not genocide, but ethnic cleansing,” Eyup Khan said.

According to him, about 140 thousand people in Arakan were expelled from their places of permanent residence. Muslim houses are burned in the state and placed in camps.

According to the activist, the Islamophobic sentiments that have prevailed in Myanmar since the early 1940s are part of a special plan, according to which the Myanmar government and Buddhists are trying to purge Muslims from Arakan state using the most brutal methods.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said that Ankara strongly condemns the massacres of Muslims in Myanmar, which are "in many ways similar to acts of genocide."

“Turkey is concerned about the increase in violence, killing and injury of Myanmar residents. The UN and the international community should not remain indifferent to these events, which in many ways resemble genocide,” Bozdag said.