Rohingyas and the UNO
At the request of Great Britain and Sweden, the UNO held a meeting of the Security Council on 28 September 2017 to discuss the issue of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. This meeting did nothing for the Rohingyas. There was no outcome of the meeting. It could not help the Rohingyas who are humans and members of the mankind. Humanity grieved, suffered and died in the meeting. The meeting could not make any decision. They could do nothing to help the Rohingyas.
We find that the UNO played a passive role. We need UNO to be active and effective.
This is United Nations Organization, but first of all, we are humans. Then we become nations in course of time. The UNO is an organization of humans in the first place. Then it is an organization of nations too. The basic purpose of the UNO is human welfare, but there was no welfare for the Rohingyas, no welfare for Bangladesh. Humanity was oppressed and suppressed every moment.
The UNO seems to have lost its effective entity. It is not able to help people when they are persecuted brutally. Besides, in a way, it harmed them. The Military Junta of Myanmar will escalate violence against the Rohingyas. They will feel encouraged to do so.
The Myanmar army is killing the Rohingyas ruthlessly. They are slaughtering them and burning them alive. They are burning Rohingya villages and their homes. They are raping women and children. Everyday dead bodies of the Rohingyas are floating to the shores of Bangladesh. They put landmines on the border. They erected electrified barbed wire fence on the border too. Many Rohingyas lost their lives due to the explosion of these mines. Some Rohingyas lost their limbs for the same reason,
At present we have more than 900,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. 400,000 had already been living in Bangladesh. After 25 August 2017, another 500,000 were added.
Five hundred Hindu families also arrived. Their ancestors had been living there before the 8th century during the Hindu dynasties.
The UNO has a mouth. It uttered good words, but it has no arms and legs. So, it can neither stand nor walk. It seems to be a dead body that needs to be buried soon.
The UNO is a big organization. Many people are working for it. They are paid for their jobs. Besides, there are other administrative and infrastructural expenditures. We do not know how much cost effective it is. Instead, this money could be spent for all refugees of the world or to help people who need it.
There is evidence that the Rohingyas are the most persecuted minorities on earth, but the Security Council of the UNO could not say anything or do anything effectively.
The Security Council is a club room of the rich people. There are five permanent members in the UNO. These members are the USA, UK, Russia, France and China. All are rich. They are permanent members of the UNO because they can subscribe money more than the other countries. Money bought power. They have the power to veto. They are the dictators of the UNO. This is a dictatorship. They always abuse power like other dictators of the world. They are nothing less than Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Marcos etc. They have the power to do injustice. These permanent members have autocratic powers. They are autocrats.
I think that this autocracy should be dismantled so that justice can be ensured. There should be equal justice for all. The UNO always facilitates and promotes injustice. The Muslims are discriminated. I am not a religious person. I view it in the way that humans are discriminated. Palestinians are discriminated. The UNO is acting like an unconstitutional monarch. They treat Israel as their own baby. They work against the Palestinians.
They are doing the same with the Rohingyas. They are silent on the brutal atrocities of Myanmar Military Junta on the Rohingyas. Verbal words do not help people. The UNO is communal. They made East Timor and South Sudan independent because the people of these countries are Christians, but they are not helping the people of Kashmir.
It seems that the permanent members should be selected from all religious groups. It should represent all regions of the world equally. There should be no monetary condition for membership of the Security Council. If representation can be purchased by money, it must be discriminatory. Everyone must agree that the system is not working. It has failed miserably. A new system must emerge. It can be discussed and reviewed.
Russia and China said that ARSA (Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army) was responsible for the violence. If so, they could punish ARSA. why did they persecute the innocent people? Why did they kill, torture and burn innocent people alive? Why did they rape girls and children? Is it not terrorism? Are not they criminals? Should not they be brought to justice?
Not only the Rohingyas are persecuted, it is a great problem for Bangladesh too. Bangladesh is an overpopulated country. Her economy is not developed. How can we cope with the burden of so many refugees? Our economic growth will slow down. If the Myanmar Government do not allow them to go back and if the Rohingya refugees become like the Palestinian refugees, what should we do then? We will have to arrange food, clothing, shelter, education and health services for them. If we do not educate them they can commit social crimes. It will create social imbalance, discrimination, injustice and unrest. How shall we manage and coordinate so many tough issues?
In the end, we condemn the Myanmar army, China and Russia. We condemn the inactive passive role of the UNO too.
