Monday, October 24, 2011
Rohingyas, Harn Yawnghwe, and Fraudulent Claims?
(Direct translation of Aung Than Oo’s article “Human Rights and Self Interest”.)
EBO-OIC Signing in Saudi Arabia for Rohingya Claims? |
The
topics I’m going to write about in this article basing on my past
experiences and what I could intellectually think of are the dishonest
land claims of foreign-born Bengalis illegally entering Burma from the
neighboring Bangladesh.
In
this article I tried my best to avoid the two common prejudices of race
and religion even though my aim is to prolong our race Burmese and our
religion Buddhism, and at the same time I am extremely careful not to
attack or insult other races and other religions.
Principally
I am going to write about the so-called Rohingyas who under the cover
of human-rights issues in Burma are recently and presently claiming that
they are an authentic ethnic race of Burma while hiding their original
Bengali roots, especially now that they are making so much noise and
attracting undeserving international attentions and Arab money
generously as Muslims.
We
could even accept them in Burma as the settlers if they honestly admit
that their ancestors were and they themselves are the cheeky illegal
migrants from Bangladesh into our naturally-endowed Burma. But their
lies as a true ethnic group trying to demand aboriginal rights and to
impose their dominating religion Islam onto us Burmese Buddhists
brazenly and dishonestly are totally unacceptable.
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Harn Yawnghwe with Burmese-Muslims in Saudi Arabia. |
And they would often greet me in Bengali, “Sar-lar (Pussy),” and I would reply, “Ma-sar-bu (Not hungry in Burmese),” as a joke back.
In
reality those words are extremely-rude Bengali swear words but for us
those were just friendly greetings between us Burmese and them Bengalis.
We could say those words to each other, for we didn’t really hate each
other as different races and religions and we knew very well that we
respect each other and treat accordingly.
But
nowadays there have constantly been many religious-terrorism cases
breaking out all over the world because of the
Islamic-fundamentalist-driven religious extremism. For example Islamic
Afghanistan was once a very Buddhist country since ancient times more
than two thousand years ago.
Blowing Up of Two Bamiyan Buddhas. |
(Translator’s
Notes: The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two sixth century monumental statues
of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan
Valley in the Hazarajat region of Central Afghanistan, situated about
150 miles northwest of Kabul. They were dynamited and destroyed in March
2001 by the Taliban on orders from Mullah Mohammed Omar declaring that
they were Buddhist Idols.)
But
since Mullah Omar-led Taliban became the rulers after the Soviets’
departure the extreme Islamic fundamentalism has arrived in Afghanistan.
And the Islamic fundamentalists hate other religions especially the
Buddhism.
And
despite their respectable religious iconic status and their high
historical values the more-than-100ft-tall Buddhas of Bamiyan were soon
smashed into thousand pieces by the Islamic Taliban with tanks and
cannons and dynamites so that the truly-visible historical evidence of
their Afghanistan once being a proud Buddhist country is permanently
deleted.
The
fact that, despite all the desperate pleads from the Buddhists all over
the world and Christian organizations and world heritage organizations
and even UNESCO, the extremist Taliban ignored the world and brutally
destroyed the famous Buddhas of Bamiyan.
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Famous Borobudur in Indonesia. |
That
act alone has proved the undeniable fact that a Buddhist country like
Afghanistan could easily be turned into a Muslim country by brute force.
Indonesia is another country that met the same fate as Afghanistan.
World famous Borobudur is the proof of once thriving Buddhist society in
now Islamic Indonesia.
Another
country turning Muslim in modern time is Lebanon. Originally Christian
but in Lebanon the Muslims gradually outnumbered the Christians as the
Palestinians slowly moved in after all the Arab-Israel wars. Finally a
long civil war broke out between Christians and Muslims and Christian
lands were forcefully taken over by the Muslims.
I
strongly believe that it is the patriotic duty of every citizen of a
country or society to defend their race and religion, and to fight back
if the foreigners illegally entering their country have either conspired
or even intended to swallow up the original inhabitants by imposing
their race and religion through the cross-marriages with local women and
then forced-conversions.
NLD Tin Oo with ASSK (1988). |
Retired
General Tin Oo (Now NLD Vice-President) who once took stern actions
against illegal Bengali Mujahedins from neighboring Bangladesh in 1950s
as the Commander of Burmese Army Western Command was recently condemned
by so-called Rohingya Dr. Waka Hudin, a naturalized Bengali-American, on
RFA (Radio Free Asia).
I
have decided to write this article when I heard the rude demands of
Waka Hudin on the RFA for our U Tin Oo to apologize him as U Tin Oo’s
mentioning of so-called Rohingyas as the Bengali descendants was an
insult.
Dr.
Waka Hudin also persistently maintains his fraudulent and make-believe
theory that the so-called Rohingyas are the descendants of seagoing Arab
traders shipwrecked and stranded on the Arakan Coast and ended up
settling there with the local women whoever they were.
But
Arabs are basically a Caucasian race and they are generally tall and
white. But the so-called Rohingyas are short and dark like the Bengalis
from neighboring Bangladesh. Not only that they do speak fluent Bengali
and do not speak Arabic at all and do not speak Burmese well like any
other ethnic nationalities of our Burma. Everything about their behavior
and culture and appearance is exactly same as the Bengalis from
Bangladesh.
Fenced Burma-Bangladesh Border Line. |
Oh
one more thing! I had to laugh out loud when Waka Hudin added in his
interview on RFA that his Rohingyas also wear lon-gyi (sarongs) like the
Burmese. Our honorable Dr. Waka Hudin had forgotten the fact that the
Bengalis also wear lon-gyi.
My
proposal to end this controversy of whether the so-called Rohingyas are
the Arabs as they themselves have fancied in recent years or the
Bengalis as Burmese have been labeling them for hundreds of years is the
scientifically-proven and time-honored DNA test.
Just
do DNA tests on the blood samples of those fanciful Rohingyas and my
challenge to them is if the DNA test said they are non-Bengalis then we
will let them stay in our Burma and if they are Bengalis will they go
back where they came from, the miserably crowded Bangladesh?
(Translator’s
Notes: Please do look carefully at the following comparative population
densities i.e. Population per square mile in 2010.
Whole Bangladesh (Muslims) 1,217
Maungdaw Township (Muslims) 870
Taungbyo Township (Muslim/Buddhists) 700
Whole Arakan State (Buddhists) 233
Whole Burma (Buddhists) 191
Like
water people must naturally flow down from the higher level of
population density to the lower level of population density. Not just
natural migrant flow, the Muslim reproduction also is much much higher
than the Buddhists for the obvious religious reason. Our Burma is the
last bastion of Buddhism against unrelenting tide of Islam.)
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Ilegal Immigrants on the US Border. |
Just
look at the United States of America. Thousands of Mexicans from Mexico
are illegally entering the neighboring states of Texas and California
and Americans are using their Border Guard Forces to capture them and
send them back.
Even
with such tough measures the Spanish-speaking Mexicans and other
Latinos are now rapidly filling the states of Texas and California.
Nowadays California is 50% Mexicans and 50% Americans. But these
Mexicans still call themselves American-Mexicans. They have never
claimed they were the Natives of North America. Even the American-Whites
do not call themselves Natives. Because everyone knows that the true
Native Americans are only the Red-Indians.
Dr.
Waka Hudin has claimed the so-called Rohingyas have been living there
in the Arakan State of Burma for thousands of years. But in reality the
term Rohingya was not even mentioned once in the well-established and
extensively-studied history of Arankan State and her Yakhine people.
Now
this Waka Hudin guy, who can speak only broken-Burmese and who is
constantly telling the porkies about his great fanciful Rohingya race,
is demanding that our NLD leader U Tin Oo apologize him for saying the
truth about the so-called Rohingyas being the illegal Bengalis. For me
it is the rudest insult possible to throw at us Burmese by a so-called
Rohingya.
(Translators’
Notes: Maybe after a few more years there in America Dr. Waka Hudin
will eventually be claiming his great-great-great-------grand parents
were a shipwrecked Arab trader and Pocahontas, just kidding. One thing
about these Musulamen is they will take any racial cover to suit their
environment but never abandon their religion and thus they always need
an Arab male, preferably a Saudi for financial convenience, at the root
of their blood line.)
At
the same time I would like to report to the readers the related case of
unscrupulous dealings between so-called Rohingyas and Harn Yawnghwe’s
EBO (Euro Burma Office). The whole thing had been bottling inside of me
for so long and now this wild insult spitted at our great NLD leader by
broken-Burmese-speaking Waka Hudin had prompted me to blow the whistle
on both Harn Yawnghwe and Waka Hudin’s so-called Rohingyas.
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The
existence of EBO in Brussels was mainly due to the financial and
humanitarian aids given generously by the NGOs and the governments of
European democracies since our LDC (Least Developed Country) listed
Burma the rare military-ruled Socialist country has fallen so far from
being a star of SE Asia to one of the poorest countries of the world.
Harn
Yawnghwe became active very early in Burmese-Exile politics by forming
ADDB (Associates to Develop Democratic Burma) in Quebec City and
publishing Burma Alert journal.
(Translator’s
Notes: 100 US$ a pop for annual Burma-Alert subscription direct to his
bank account had once made him a rich exile in Canada and given him a
taste of blood money or political funds from the sympathetic donors.
Being the youngest son of Burma’s former President late Sao Shwe Thaik
the last saw-bwa of Nyang Shwe also helps his cause.)
Because
of his western education and his English proficiency and his famous
Shan background he was picked by so-called Burmese Exile Government
(NCGUB – National Coalition Government of Union of Burma) as their sole
Representative in Europe.
His
successful approaches to the EU and the European governments to
economic-blockade Burma by submitting the Burmese military government’s
serious violation of human rights in Burma had made him an exile
politician trusted and relied on by us the Burmese democracy activists
here in Europe.
We’ve
also known the fact that he has received substantial amount of funds
donated by the European Union (EU) and also other European governments
for restoration of democracy in Burma.
Even
though Harn Yawnghwe had received millions of Euro for NCGUB and also
to implement many of his proposals with various titles, we’ve never seen
or heard how much he got, or from which organization, or how and where
he’d spent that millions of Euro. Not a word about their accounts from
Harn Yawnghwe or NCGUB.
Later
when the EU countries especially my Germany have changed their Burma
policy from isolation to engagement and started diverting their funds to
the NGOs and other democratic organizations inside Burma our Harn
Yawnghwe has again followed the money trails and started cooperating
with so-called the Third Force inside Burma.
VAHU's Dr. Zaw Oo |
Then
I had another shocking experience of Harn Yawnghwe’s alarming behavior
at the Burma Day Discussion chaired by East-Timorese President Ramos
Hose at Belgian Brussels on 5 May 2010.
During
that discussion our group had tabled two proposals against Military
Government in Burma. One was for the international community to neither
recognize nor accept the 2010 Burma’s election based on 2008 sham
Constitution. Other one was for the European countries to support
forming the International Inquiry Commission to investigate war crimes
and war criminals in Burma.
But
we all were unbelievably shocked when Harn Yawnghwe stood up and
demanded if Burmese war criminals were to be listed for prosecution in
the International Court our NLD Vice-Chair General Tin Oo must also be
listed as a war criminal and charged.
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Now
what Waka Hudin said on the RFA (Radio Free Asia) demanding U Tin Oo to
apologize for saying a lie that his so-called Rohingyas are just common
vanilla Bengalis from Bangladesh was exactly same as Harn Yawnghwe’s
calling our U Tin Oo a war criminal.
Obviously
what Harn Yawnghwe has been doing recently is actively recruiting
non-Burman groups, both ethnic and non-ethnics, by throwing donated
Euros from Europe at them so that they would all be bitterly against the
majority Burmans. We are now even so concerned about Harn Yawnghwe’s
involvement in our UNFC (United Nationalities Federal Council).
(Translator’s
Notes: UNFC was formed in mid-February 2011 by KIO (Kachin Independence
Organization), NMSP (New Mon State Party), SSA-North (Shan State
Army-North), KNU (Karen national Union), KNPP (Kareni National
Progressive Party), CNF (Chin National Front), and few other ethnic
organizations.)
OIC Emblem. |
As
I have said before I do not have any hatred towards Muslims. But I
bitterly hate the extremist fundamentalist Muslims like Afghan Taliban.
Accordingly the Burmese Muslims should not be lying to the world by
re-labeling themselves as Rohingyas. For us Burmese they could only be
acceptable if they honestly admit they are just Bengali-Burmese-Muslims
born in our Burma.
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Harn Yawnghwe & Daughter at Rangoon Airport. |
I
honestly believe this Rohingya fiasco is dangerously pushing to create
not just the racio-religious clashes between Burmese Buddhists and
Burmese Muslims but also the serious threats on the racial, religious,
and territorial integrity of our Burma. The whole Rohingya issue is also
mucking up our democratic struggle as the complex religion and race
issues do not mix well with politics.
Right
now Harn Yawnghwe and his daughter are in Rangoon taking the first
concrete steps to open an internal hunting-ground for them together with
Ne Win Maung’s Egress and Zaw Oo’s so-called VAHU think-tank.
They
are well used to receiving foreign funds from international donors and
now they can foresee the money coming as social-aid for Burma. Obviously
they can also smell the generous amount of easy money coming from
Europe as the European countries started diverting their aids from the
exile groups to the social organizations inside Burma.
By
this article I have gathered and highlighted the dishonest and
self-serving activities of EBO’s Harn Yawnghwe and the so-called
Rohingyas so that Daw Aung San Su Kyi and her NLD as a political party
could avoid them at all cost.
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(The
author Aung Than Oo now residing in Germany is one of the founders of
FBE (Forum for Burmese in Europe) and also a prominent student leader of
the Shwedagon Strike in June 1975. Then a GTI (Government Technical
Institute) Civil Engineering student he was captured and jailed for a
long time by the Ne Win’s Military Government till 1980. He left Burma
in 1987 for political asylum in Germany.)
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