Buddhist Monks block humanitarian assistance

Monks who played a vital role in Burma’s recent struggle for democracy have been accused of fueling ethnic tensions in the country by calling on people to shun a Muslim community that has suffered decades of abuse.

In a move that has shocked many observers, some monks’ organisations have issued pamphlets telling people not to associate with the Rohingya community, and have blocked humanitarian assistance from reaching them.

The outburst against the Rohingya, often described as one of the world’s most oppressed groups, comes after weeks of ethnic violence in the Rakhine state in the west of Burma that has left more than 80 dead and up to 100,000 people living in a situation described as “desperate” by humanitarian organisations

“In recent days, monks have emerged in a leading role to enforce denial of humanitarian assistance to Muslims,

Ms Suu Kyi has also been criticised for failing to speak out. Amal de Chickera of the London-based Equal Rights Trust, said: “You have these moral figures, whose voices do matter. It’s extremely disappointing and in the end it can be very damaging.”

The Rohingya have lived in Burma for centuries, but in 1982, the then military ruler Ne Win stripped them of their citizenship. Thousands fled to Bangladesh where they live in pitiful camps. Foreign media are still denied access to the conflict region, where a state of emergency was declared last month, and ten aid workers were arrested without explanation.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/burmas-monks-call-for-muslim-community-to-be-shunned-7973317.html

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called for laws to protect the rights of ethnic minority groups in her first statement in parliament.

Aung San Suu Kyi made no specific mention of the Rohingya in her speech, and has to date remained relatively quiet on the issue.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18979410

Aung San Suu ky is a political activist  who remained under house arrest in Burma for almost 15 of the 21 years from 20 July 1989 until her most recent release on 13 November 2010, becoming one of the world’s most prominent (now former) political prisoners.

Key points

The people advocating democracy and human rights once again show silence to the oppression of Muslims by the so called peaceful Buddhist.

Buddhism is not a ideology  it doesn’t provide detailed rules pertaining to life’s affairs which leaves it to be the subject of the political culture of it time be it anti Muslim or otherwise.

Buddhism provides no  answers and guidance for mankind.

Buddhists monks are far from peaceful people, and if it was Muslims oppressing a Buddhist minority then the media would of had a field day.

This is not a Rohingya problem rather

Sahih Al Bukhari Volume 8, Book 73, Number 40 :

Narrated by An-Nu’man bin Bashir

Allah’s Apostle said, “You see the believers as regards their being merciful among themselves and showing love among themselves and being kind, resembling one body, so that, if any part of the body is not well then the whole body shares the sleeplessness (insomnia) and fever with it.”

The Muslims of this region are not strangers or statistics they are our brothers, sisters and children we should all take time and reflect on this.

Below is a gut wrenching you tube video regarding the conflict.