Comment worth noting: Rohingya are
economic migrants, fake refugees, do not admit to US by Ann Corcoran 2/27/17
The other day I told
you that I believe that the Trump team doesn’t have a good understanding of
where all of the questionable ‘refugees’ might be coming from.
We have been taking
tens of thousands of refugees from Burma (Myanmar) over many years. Most have
been Christian minorities that the Buddhist government there was forcing out.
Now we are stepping up and taking Rohingya Muslims from Burma and Bangladesh.
I told you about
it here just the other day. Bangladesh
is a Muslim country and so is Malaysia, one of several countries in the region
harboring Rohingya boat people.
Why are the
Rohingya our problem?
I have followed the
Rohingya story since I first began writing RRW in 2007 and I can assure you the
media has skewed the news to make it appear that the Rohingya are pure as the
driven snow. They never mention that the latest round of conflict began
when Muslim men raped and murdered a Buddhist girl. I have no time to go
back over the 194 previous
posts in my Rohingya reports category,
you might want to have a look yourself. The writer, below, reports things that
I found to be true over the years.
This is a comment we
received in response to my post here (I don’t know this person). Emphasis is
mine.
Winthan Aung:
Those so-called Refugees “Rohingya” Muslims
are “economic” refugee. Basically, they are from Bangladesh. They will claim
they are from Myanmar, for getting a refugee status and blame Myanmar
government with bias fake stories. Trump must not take them into the US
anymore. These people are good for nothing, and but for troubles. In Myanmar,
they have caused a lot problem. They are with Mujahideen Terrorists.
The “Rohingya” name
pop out not long ago, ridiculously they wanna claim themselves as new ethnic of
Myanmar. In fact, The “Rohingya” word is not mentioned in any dating back to
Arakan (now Rakhine) Kingdom years, not long before 1950 as well. In fact,
there was no historical report about fighting for Burma Independent movement at
all. The ‘Rohingya’ was totally unknown to the British administration of Burma.
In WWII, British India
region merged Burma/India border, that opened freely Western border of Myanmar.
The people who lived Chittagong of Bangladesh and India got opportunities to
travel and work in Western of Myanmar.
The Partition of India
gave East Chittagong Bangladeshi people ideas that they could take advantage on
the Western part of Burma as well. There was 1971 Bangladesh genocide, the
Urdu-speakers was “Non-Bengalis” that time. That worries for Chittagong
Bangladeshi, they wouldn’t be considered as Bangladeshi in Bangladesh.
From 1946 a separatist, the jihadist uprising
had gripped Arakan and in support of their political agenda, the ‘Rohingya’
myth was created after.
At Uprising of
jihadist Chittagong Bangladesh (now Bengali Muslims) chanted “Pakistan
Zindabad” while killing Rakhine Citizen. Mujahideen took advantage and
encroached Rakhine land at WWII. There were the mass killing of Rakhine people
and hundreds of villages burned down in 1942. On 28 March 1942, Bangladeshi
Muslims from Northern Arakan massacred around 20,000 Buddhists in Buthidaung
and Maungdaw townships. At the same period, around 5,000 Muslims in Minbya and
Mrauk-U Townships were also killed by the Arakanese Buddhists.
However, Myanmar
government intervened the Mujahideen movement by the time of 1962. The Myanmar
Government banned all Bangladeshi illegal immigrants who are already in Rakhine
state (Western Part of Myanmar) not to travel all states of Myanmar. The
economic illegal immigrants stuck in Rakhine state, mostly Maungdaw township,
Buthidaung and Rathedaung Townships of Northern Rakhine State.
Due to the poverty of
Bangladesh, the economic immigrants from Bangladesh never stop coming to the Western
part of Burma. More than 26 million live under the poverty line in Bangladesh,
they live on less than $1.25 a day. the Government is not willing to do
anything for them.
On the other hands,
Myanmar Government was totally corrupted and the Junta was notoriously
threatening to all ethnic groups in Myanmar. The Shan, Kachin, Kaya, Kayin,
Chin, Rakhine ethnic groups suffered and they become refugees in Thailand and
Malaysia. Real ethnic groups of Myanmar got opportunities to settle down in
third countries after suffering.
When UNHCR focuses on
Myanmar for ethnic crisis, Bangladeshi fake refugees approached and got aids by
UNHCR as well, the people who didn’t make $1.25 a day got the opportunity to
live with UN aids in Burma is their fortune, as long as they fabricated with
fake stories to convince UNHCR staffs of their so-called people beaten up by
Junta and harsh treatment of Myanmar Government. In order to convince UNHCR,
they had pretended they were one of ethnic, “Rohingya”, which never existed in
History of Burma.
When refugees crisis is the focus by
internationals. They take advantages of getting resettlement. Fake media will
promote for their rating. Their advocates gain access to so many political,
social and academic platforms to promote their sole agenda. Meanwhile, Myanmar government unethically
approached them as well, issue “White card” as temporary identity card and
forced them to vote for their Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) at
Election. On the other hand, Global Muslims (grassroots to imams) gang up on
the people of Myanmar (all over internet and media). Speaking of “Rohingya”,
there is no ethnic name in Myanmar, If you have ethnic, you must have own
language, they don’t have Rohingya language, they speak only as Chittagong Bengali,
breath as Chittagong Bengali, they are only recognized as Bengali in Myanmar,
nothing more than that. They are not really stateless, their motherland is
Bangladesh.
By staying in the refugees camp in Bangladesh
or getting aids from UNHCR office in Myanmar couldn’t make them satisfied. In
Myanmar, they cannot travel only in Rakhine state. They later learned about
resettlement program of UNHCR. But UNHCR in Myanmar didn’t have any
resettlement program for them. However, UNHCR at Malaysia and Thailand provides
the refugee to resettlement in third countries.
Getting into Myanmar
is easy, bribery helps them to get inside of Myanmar easily. Or just cross over
the river where there is no border guard. However, getting to Malaysia is hard
for them. Smugglers convinced Bangladeshi how they could earn $1000 in a month
in Malaysia. Indeed the Bangladeshi who made to Malaysia could get a better
living. Thus, Bangladeshi are deliberately paying smugglers about US$200 to
$250 to travel to Malaysia to become economic Refugees. The people who move in
this route, bet with their lives at risk. But this is the only way they could
effort to travel. If they got lucky, they will get a chance to get resettlement
in third countries instantly.
Any Refugees coming to Malaysia/Thailand are
usually sent to countries like Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, New
Zealand, Norway, and the United States for resettlement. However, Thailand route has long wait time to
get to third countries. Their best destination is the Malaysia. There is already 42,230
Rohingya under UNHCR protection in Malaysia. That is the main motivation for
them to get to there, and it is the cheapest way for traveling to Malaysia if
they are not very lucky, they usually end up in Thailand, wait for more years
to get the resettlement or travel again to Malaysia.
After arriving in Malaysia, they filed asylum
(application) at UNHCR for refugee status, UNHCR aid these refugees, and
provides monthly allowances for them until they get the settlement in third countries. Anyhow, they could easily go back
without problems if they don’t get refugee status (but they are not willing to
go back, even without refugee card, they could earn money) or if they have
money, they usually buy refugee status in Malaysia. Some smuggler applied UNHCR
card for selling the Refugees status in Malaysia. They usually pay Malaysia
RM-3,500 for the card. UNHCR aware about those fraudulent activities, but they
kept on silences.
The economic refugees
are traveling again and again to Malaysia until international leaders push
pressure to Bangladesh. Sooner or later, you will see another boat come out
from Bangladesh, and claims they are from Myanmar since the topic is hot. In
that case, Myanmar government is easy to blame. They have kept doing for the
decade. This time they got caught by authorities (Thai, Malaysia, Indonesia)
who got enough of their problems (too many crimes cases with Rohingya in Thai,
Malaysia), and push back to sea.
The people are sneaking into other countries
without papers by boats, they left the Bangladesh, they have only 2 points in
this immigration – firstly try to get UNHCR status or get a chance to work in
any country, because they don’t get enough to make living in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has been overcrowded you can
view the Dhaka video – https://www.facebook.com/Rmbds/videos/1245958078756125/, they cannot make up living at there, some of
Bangladeshi in that country even sell their organs just little as $5000 well.
If you call these fake people a “Refugees”,
then we fail to support real refugees who really need for. We must save cards
for real one, not these fakes.
This post is filed in
our ‘Comments worth noting’ category here, and in our Rohingya Reports category, here.
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