مجلس الأمن يدين العنف المفرط في ميانمار ضد مسلمي الروهينجا UNSC Expresses 'Deep Concern' Over Rohignya Crisis in Myanmar

أعرب مجلس الأمن الدولي، اليوم الأربعاء، عن قلقه العميق إزاء العنف في ولاية راخين "راكان" في ميانمار، حيث اضطر حوالى 400 ألف من مسلمي الروهينغا إلى الفرار إلى بنجلاديش.

وفى بيان، أعرب المجلس المكون من 15 عضوا "عن قلقه إزاء تقارير عن أعمال عنف مفرطة خلال العمليات الأمنية، ودعا إلى اتخاذ خطوات فورية لإنهاء العنف في ولاية راخين "راكان"، وتخفيف حدة الوضع، وإعادة القانون والنظام، وضمان حماية المدنيين".

وقال السفير البريطاني لدى الأمم المتحدة ماثيو ريكروفت، "إنها المرة الأولى منذ 9 سنوات، التي وافق فيها المجلس على بيان حول ميانمار".

وفى وقت سابق اليوم، عقد مجلس الأمن الدولي مشاورات مغلقة حول وسائل معالجة العنف ضد الروهينغا فى ميانمار.

ويرحب أعضاء مجلس الأمن  أيضا بالجهود التي تبذلها بنغلاديش لمساعدة الأشخاص الفارين من العنف في ميانمار، مشيرين إلى أهمية  التزام ميانمار بتقديم المساعدة الإنسانية إلى جميع المحتاجين دون تمييز.

وكانت قد مصر والسويد وبريطانيا، قد دعوا مجلس الأمن إلي عقد جلسة طارئة، اليوم  الأربعاء، لمناقشة تطورات أزمة مسلمي الروهينغا.

ودفعت هجمات شنتها جماعة جيش إنقاذ الروهينغيا في أراكان على مواقع للشرطة وقاعدة للجيش يوم 25 أغسطس الجيش إلى شن هجوم مضاد كما أدت إلى هجرة جماعية للقرويين إلى منطقة كوكس بازار بجنوب بنجلادش.وتقول ميانمار إن قواتها الأمنية تقوم بعمليات تمشيط في مواجهة الجماعة التي تصفها الحكومة بأنها تنظيم إرهابي.

وكانت مفوضية الأمم المتحدة لشؤون اللاجئين أعلنت الثلاثاء الماضي عن وصول 123 ألف لاجئ من قومية الروهينغا إلى بنغلاديش منذ اندلاع أحداث العنف في ميانمار في 25 أغسطس الماضي.وتعتبرهم الأمم المتحدة من أكثر الأقليات اضطهاداً في العالم، في ظل الحكم العسكري، ويعيشون كلاجئين في مخيمات في بنغلاديش المجاورة، وعدة مناطق داخل تايلاند، على الحدود مع ميانمار.

أمين عام الأمم المتحدة يحذر من التطهير العرقي في ميانمار

ناشد الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة، أنطونيو غوتيريش، السلطات الميانمارية، اليوم الثلاثاء، لإنهاء العنف في ولاية راخين في البلاد التي حذر من أنها "تخلق وضعا يمكن أن يزعزع استقرار المنطقة".

وقال غوتيريش للصحفيين إنه كتب إلى مجلس الأمن الدولي للإعراب عن قلقه واقتراح خطوات لإنهاء العنف. وردا على سؤال حول التطهير العرقي قال غوتيريش "إننا نواجه ذلك الخطر، وآمل أن لا نصل إلى ذلك".

بدأ العنف الأخير في ولاية راخين شمال غربي ميانمار يوم 25 أغسطس عندما هاجم متمردون من الروهينجا عشرات مراكز الشرطة وقاعدة للجيش. وأسفرت الاشتباكات التي أعقبت ذلك والهجوم العسكري المضاد عن مقتل ما لا يقل عن 400 شخص وأدت إلى نزوح القرويين إلى بنغلاديش.

روسيا ضد العنف في ميانمار

قال الرئيس الروسي فلاديمير بوتين، تعليقا على الاشتباكات في ميانمار، إن موسكو والقاهرة ضد أي ممارسات عنف، كما حث سلطات ميانمار على السيطرة على الوضع.

وأضاف بوتين في مؤتمر صحفي "كان على دائرة الصحافة أن تصدر بيانا حول تعاوننا مع مصر في تقييم الأحداث الجارية في ميانمار، نحن ضد أي شكل من أشكال العنف وندعو السلطات في هذا البلد لإعادة الوضع تحت السيطرة".

وفي وقت سابق، نفذت قوات جيش ميانمار (بورما) حملتها العسكرية ضد الروهينغا قبل أسبوع، مما أسفر عن مقتل ما يقرب من 400 شخص منهم 370 من المسلحين و15 شخصا من القوات الحكومية. وبالإضافة إلى ذلك، تم اتهام المسلحين بقتل 14 مدنيا.

After the UN Security Council held closed consultations on the violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, the president of the UNSC voices the states' concern over the situation in the country.

UNITED NATIONS  — The UN Security Council is deeply concerned about the situation in Myanmar where Rohignya civilians are exposed to extreme violence, UN Security Council President and Ambassador of Ethiopia to the United Nations Tekeda Alemu said on Wednesday.

"Members of the Security Council expressed deep concern about the situation in the Rakhine state, acknowledging the initial attack on Myanmar security forces on 25 August they condemned the subsequent violence which has led to over 370,000 people being displaced," Alemu said.

Earlier on Wednesday, the UN Security Council held closed consultations on the means of addressing violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar. Members of the Security Council have advocated urgent steps to end the violence, de-escalate the situation, re-establish law and order, ensure the protection of civilians, restore social-economic conditions and address the refugee problem.

The members also welcome the efforts by Bangladesh to help people fleeing the violence in Myanmar, but have also taken notice of the commitment of Myanmar to provide humanitarian assistance to all people in need without discrimination.

On August 25, Rohingya Muslim insurgents attacked security posts in Myanmar’s eastern state of Rakhine. The attacks prompted a response by Myanmar’s authorities, resulting in clashes and deaths of hundreds of Rohingya while thousands have fled the area. According to the International Organization for Migration, 313,000 refugees have already entered Bangladesh from Myanmar.

A "South Asian Kosovo"

It's impossible to tell at this moment exactly what's going on in Rakhine State and part of the reason is because of the heavy information war against Myanmar right now and Naypyidaw's refusal to let independent journalists into the region out of what it says are security concerns, but the general dynamics at play right now are oddly reminiscent of the run-up to NATO's 1999 War on Yugoslavia in carving the West's protectorate of Kosovo out of what is now Serbia.

Back then, the world suddenly became aware of a newly popularized sub-identity of Muslims called "Kosovars," just as they're now becoming quickly acquainted with the "Rohingyas" and they too claimed that their rights were being violated and that this therefore justified them committing acts of violence against the state and sometimes even civilians.

Another common thread is how much-publicized mainstream media images and stories, many of which were later proven to be fake or totally decontextualized, served to inspire the global Muslim community (Ummah) to rise up in rage and send volunteer fighters to help their co-confessionals, as is the traditional duty of this religion when they believe one of their own is being persecuted.

The problem, however, is that the situation is never as black and white as it's made out to be by the mainstream media, as anyone following the war on Syria for the past six and a half years knows by now, especially when it comes to the never-ending accusations that President Assad is also carrying out a "genocide" against Muslims like Milosevic before him and now the Tatmadaw apparently too. The intrinsic human urge for people to get upset by what they believe to be the senseless and deliberate killing of an entire identity group is often abused by "perception managers" to gin up support for their patrons' upcoming wars, and this is especially so when Muslim victims are involved.

Unfortunately, these sorts of situations have a track record of attracting international terrorists and leading to the explosion of domestic ones, like what happened with the "Kosovo Liberation Army" and its al-Qaeda backers in Yugoslavia; the "moderate rebels," al-Qaeda and eventually Daesh in Syria; and now the "Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army" and what increasingly looks to be Daesh's next Asian hot spot in Myanmar.

Correspondingly, each conflict was linked to either capturing the whole country or partitioning off a strategic corner of it, with post-conflict Kosovo hosting the US's gigantic Camp Bondsteel; all of Syria at one time being planned to become the US's pivot of control over the entire Levant; and a future "South Asian Kosovo" of "Rohingyaland" giving its patron powerful influence over the two oil and gas pipelines from coastal Kyaukphyu to China's Kunming and accordingly dominating this envisioned New Silk Road hub.

Yugoslavia 2.0

The point here isn't to whitewash what might eventually turn out to be proven is the Tatmadaw's excessive and disproportionate counterinsurgency operations against civilians, but to draw attention to how the overall conflict momentum is being guided in the direction of an externally provoked identity-centric hybrid war through a coordinated and one-sided information campaign. This is aimed most immediately at demonizing the Myanmarese state while deflecting attention away from the attacks of Rohingya "rebels," which contributed to the rapidly deteriorating military and humanitarian situation.

The medium-term purpose behind provoking such targeted global outrage is to inspire countless Muslim "volunteers" (some of whom will undoubtedly be actual terrorists) to flood into Rakhine State and then set the stage for a multilateral "humanitarian intervention" following the Kosovo model or an anti-terrorist campaign like what the US-led coalition experimented with in Syria in order to ultimately gain control of a territory indispensable to China's One Belt One Road global vision of New Silk Road connectivity.

Furthermore, remembering how none of this is taking place in a vacuum and that the country is still engulfed in a multi-sided civil war all along its periphery, it's possible that the ongoing federalization talks could give way to the all-out "Balkanization" of the former Burma along the lines of what happened to the former Yugoslavia. The end result of this tragedy would be the birth of a host of new states through their own bloody baptisms of fire, which would allow hostile foreign powers to more easily control this strategic space at the juncture of South, Southeast and East Asia.

Moreover, another fault line would instantly emerge in the so-called "Clash of Civilizations" (itself nothing more than a blueprint for dividing and ruling the Eastern Hemisphere through identity-centric Hybrid War) between not only Muslims and Buddhists in Rakhine State, but possibly even eventually the Buddhists and Christians in the central part of Myanmar and its Northern-Eastern peripheries respectively. In addition, one could expect Buddhist and Christian "volunteers" from abroad to flood into the battlefield too, potentially catalyzing what might go on to one day become their religions' own form of isis.

Other than the geopolitical removal of Myanmar from the world map and the untold suffering of its over 50 million people, the other victim would of course be China, which would have to confront a Syrian-like Hybrid War along its porous southwestern border on top of the other many security challenges ringing its periphery (North Korea, East China Sea, South China Sea and India). Any plans for a CPEC-complementing Myanmar Corridor to the Indian Ocean would also be dashed, and Buddhist troublemakers in Tibet might become radicalized and inspired to commence another round of violence.

The likelihood of these forecasted scenarios could naturally compel China to take the lead in jump-starting emergency conflict resolution measures in Myanmar if the situation continues to spiral out of control there, which might help establish exactly which of the two sides started this whole mess and hopefully bring justice to all the perpetrators without the large-scale geopolitical consequences that threaten to unfold otherwise.

Soros and Hydrocarbons What's Really Behind the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar

The Rohingya conflict in Myanmar, which had caught its second wind in August 2017, appears to be a multidimensional crisis with major geopolitical players involved, experts say, referring to both internal and external reasons behind the recent upsurge in violence in the country.

The Rohingya conflict, which erupted between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar's western Rakhine state in late August, was apparently fanned by external global players, Dmitry Mosyakov, director of the Centre for Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told

According to the academic, the conflict has at least three dimensions.

"First, this is a game against China, as China has very large investments in Arakan [Rakhine]," Mosyakov told . "Second, it is aimed at fuelling Muslim extremism in Southeast Asia…. Third, it's the attempt to sow discord within ASEAN [between Myanmar and Muslim-dominated Indonesia and Malaysia]."

According to Mosyakov, the century-long conflict is used by external players to undermine Southeast Asian stability, especially given the fact that what is at stake are vast reserves of hydrocarbons located offshore of the Rakhine state.

"There's a huge gas field named Than Shwe after the general who had long ruled Burma," Mosyakov said. "Additionally, the coastal zone of Arakan [Rakhine] almost certainly contains oil hydrocarbons."

After the massive Rakhine energy reserves were discovered in 2004 they attracted China's attention. By 2013 China completed oil and natural gas pipelines, which connect Myanmar's port of Kyaukphyu with the Chinese city of Kunming in Yunnan province.

The oil pipeline allows Beijing to deliver Middle Eastern and African crude bypassing the Malacca Straits, while the gas pipeline is transporting hydrocarbons from Myanmar's offshore fields to China.

The development of the Sino-Myanmar energy project coincided with the intensification of the Rohingya conflict in 2011-2012 when 120,000 asylum seekers left the country escaping the bloodshed.

The Rohingya Crisis: Reality, Rumors and Ramifications

The world, and especially the Ummah, is incensed at what is being portrayed as genocide against Muslims in Myanmar, but the reality of what's happening there is a lot more complex than the simplistic rumors lead one to believe, and the geopolitical ramifications of this crisis could become very far-reaching.

Right off the bat, killing innocent people is wrong, and everyone is justified for feeling outraged when they believe this is happening, as it plainly is in some cases in Myanmar's coastal Rakhine State. The question, though, comes down to identifying who's doing the killing and why, and whether the victims were intentionally targeted or "collateral damage," be it from a military "anti-terrorist" operation or a "rebel" one against the government. It's also important to ponder what the geopolitical ramifications of all of this could be in terms of the larger dynamics at play in the New Cold War.

Rakhine Review

To oversimplify the situation for brevity's sake, the Rohingya are Muslims who live in the northern part of Rakhine State and claim to be native to the region, though the Myanmarese government says that they're just Bengali migrants and their descendants who began moving into the area after the late-19th-century imposition of British colonial rule. The other main demographic group in this territory is the Rakhine people, who are Buddhists that inherited the legacy of the long-standing Kingdom of Mrauk U.

The immediate post-independence period in Myanmar, called Burma until 1989, saw the many ethno-religious minorities of the country's resource-rich periphery rebel against the central authorities in favor of federalization or, as the Rohingyas wanted, unification with the neighboring state that they more closely identified with (East Pakistan, but Bangladesh since 1971), thereby setting off the world's longest-running and still-unresolved civil war.

Pertaining to Rakhine State, this conflict has ebbed and flowed throughout the decades, most recently climaxing in 2012, 2015 and just recently this summer, with the latest three escalations seeing reprisal violence by some of the hyper-nationalist Buddhist majority against the minority Muslim population. In response, the more impoverished Rohingya, who don't have citizenship rights because most of them don't qualify for such under the country's pertinent laws, had little to leave behind in Rakhine State and would flee en mass to Bangladesh for safety.

It's worthwhile here to point out that the Myanmarese military, known as the Tatmadaw, claims that its operations in their locales are triggered by the deadly attacks that Rohingya rebels — seen as terrorists by Naypyidaw and accused of having links to al-Qaeda and other such notorious groups — carried out against them and Buddhist villagers. The fog of war is such that civilians are obviously getting killed as a result, but it's unclear whether this constitutes genocide, or who's actually behind it all.