Newsgroups: bit.listserv.seasia-l
Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 11:40:40 -0400
From:         Soe Myint Aung <ap38@UMD5.UMD.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Burma Massacres Muslims
X-To:         seasia-l@msu.edu

Dear Readers,

I am sorry for my absence to reply each personal email that I have received.
Thank for your advices, encourages, and supports.  I intend to post follosing
news within a couple of days.

     - Tour of Diplomatics to the Myanmar-Bangladesh border
     - Tour of UN convey
     - Views of villagers
     - Moslems' reactions to the false accusations
     - Moslem leaders' demonstrations against to Rohingers
     - Myanmar's booming economy ...
     - Who is Bandoola? [For the burmese who don't know burma history]
     - etc ...

BanDooLa.
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Following is a comment from my friend about Rohinger News.
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It is the funnest joke I have ever heard in my life.
Massacre ! ... Killing ! ...
Give me a break!

If you were head of Burmese troops and had a plan to massacre all Moslems,
what would you do?

Well, the first thing that you would do is to close the border between
Bangladesh and Myanmar.  You can achieve that goal by controlling all boats
that available in the region, conveying Navy ships, and increasing the
number of troops.
Then, you can do whatever you want -- killing, raping, torture, ... whatelse?
Moreover, if you planed to kill the people, you would also make sure nobody
escaped.  You also need to make a plan to handle the response of the other
Moslems from the other regions.

Well, so far, the border is still opening. No navy ships are conveying in the
region.  Some people expecting to get the relief from UN are still crossing
the border and making meaningless accusations. Rohingers, the source of false
information, and Bangladesh, the land of hopeless, still don't get the support
from the Moslem leaders.  As long as they are holding those false accusations,
they will nver get any kind of support from other Moslems!

Moe Htwe Oo
3rd Year, Physics Honor, Yangon University [Main]
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[Original News with comment]

    Reuter, Dhaka, April 8 - Refugees fleeing from Burma have accused
Burmese troops of opening fire on Moslems at prayer in a village mosque
in western Arakan state, killing at least 200 people, Bangladeshi
officials said on Wednesday.

>>> When reporters asked "Why did Burmese troops fire?", Bangladeshi
    officials answered simply "We don't know." They said "We don't care
    whether it is truth or not, but what we are focusing now is to
    picture Rohingers as Refugees. We are expecting to get profict from
    this situation. Because we have double the number of Rohingers who
    fled to our country, they will get the half of profict and we will get
    the rest of profict. You see half to half."

    Officials quoted a refugee, Azizul Huq, as saying the massacre took
place at a prayer meeting on Sunday ending the Moslem month of Ramadan
in Sikderpara village near Maungdaw town, where the Burmese army last
week closed down a mosque.
    "The Moslems offering Eid al-Fitr prayer fell like sitting ducks
when the troops opened fire," Huq was quoted as saying by an official in
Cox's Bazar in southeast Bangladesh near the Burmese border.
    "Our only offence was we used the closed-down mosque as the venue
for the prayer," Huq was quoted as saying.

>>>  Well, Well, Well!  I am woundering why other Moslems don't say
     anything about this.  If that kind of killing was really happening,
     Myanmar Government would face the demonstrations by now. Rohingers
     would suddenly get the support of Moslems leaders.

    He said nearly 150 devotees were wounded in the attack, prompting a
new influx of Moslem refugees, known as Rohingyas, into neighbouring
Bangladesh -- now reluctant host to more than 215,000 refugees.

>>>  215,000 ! The number is more than double!  It seem Bangladesh Gov.
     changes its "Half to Half Plan."

    Refugees alleged the Burmese junta had resumed torturing Moslems
immediately after U.N. Undersecretary-General Jan Eliasson ended his
visit to parts of Arakan to investigate claims of persecution.
    "They just stopped killing and raping of Moslems for a week trying
to show Mr. Eliasson that nothing had happened and life in Moslem
villages is normal," refugee Zafar Ahmed said.

>>>  Good work Zafar! Good work. It might be work to cover your previous
     lies. But the truth is truth.
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