By Suhail Reza,
The founder of self reliant modern Malaysia, Mahatir Mohammad who snubbed the US and West to flex the muscles of his country on the path of progress in master-peace speech in OIC meet on in 2005 remarked on Arab Centredness vision, the delineation from rest of Muslim world affairs referred to OIC as “Oh, I See”.
Ironically, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), an umbrella body of fifty seven Muslim Countries feels, when it’s Secretary General, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu appealed to Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Laureate and chairperson of the National League for Democracy in Burma seeking her help against holocaust of Rohingya Muslims. It is a shocking strange whether OIC Chief doesn’t know Aung Kyi? She wears the same boots what Army and Buddhist arsonist wear against ethnic cleansing of hapless
Muslim minority of Rohingya.
However, we feel that when oil was not drilled from the present day’s oilfields of GCC Countries, the matters were more compassionate to Muslim fraternity for other Muslims and elsewhere beyond Arab regions. It was the founding fathers of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who were so sympathetic and humane to give asylum to hundred of thousands persecuted Burmese community in the world. Many of the third generation are living in Hijaz spread from Taif, Makkah to Jeddah and Medinah Munawwarah. They refer the Rohingya as the Palestine of Asia. The Rohingya have been living in Myanmar from as far back as the 8th Century, yet in 1962, the Burmese military junta began a programme of ethnic cleansing.
This issue is much larger than a Myanmar only problem. It is fast becoming one of the worst cases of ethnic cleansing alongside the likes of Rwanda, Bosnia and even the holocaust.
The Burmese under ruthless attacks by Military Junta whenever tried to cross the border of neighbouring Bangladesh are forced and pushed back from Muslim Bangladesh. Now a large number of Rohingya refugees are living in inhuman condition on the boats in river or at no man’s land, near Bangladesh. They want to get shelter but Bangladesh does not allow them to enter their country.
At least Indian Government has assured of no discrimination on Burmese refugees in Kolkata and New Delhi.
What surprises me more with pains that news media of Middle East has completely ignored to at least pressurize the UN body under UNCHR to stop killings of minority Muslims by Buddhists monks engineered genocide?
We blame the Media of Muslims World not to cover it otherwise same Muslim World as it was some sixty fifty years before sheltered Rohingyas in Saudi Arabia.