Muslims – Rochinya inhabiting the Myanmar state Arakan, risk losing their homeland if the international community does not solve the problem that this nationality has to face.
About this, in an interview with the correspondent of the Anadolu agency, said an activist for the protection of the rights of Rochinya, co -founder of the organization “Coalition for Roachinga Coalition) Naista Lvin.
According to him, as a result of violent movements in the region, about 600 thousand Muslim-Rochini remained. About 10 thousand of them last week were forced to go to Bangladesh in search of asylum.
“If the international community does not solve this problem, we will lose our homeland. The most important problem is impunity. Myanmar army has been operating with impunity since 1978,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
Lvin said that international trials are currently being held regarding the atrocities that the community of Rochini has undergone. However, the deadlines for the completion of these processes remain vague.
Activist emphasized that the intervention of international organizations, corresponding to the UN Security Council’s resolution or the formation of an international coalition to assist Aracan Muslims, may be a decisive step for Muslims-Rokhin.
If there is no intervention, then the level of violence can go beyond 2-2.5 thousand deaths recorded over the past three to four months, Lvin warned.
He added that half of the remaining Rochini – about 300 thousand people in Butidang and Mowungdo – will also be forced to run to Bangladesh.
“If we lose these two cities, we will have nowhere else to return. It all depends on the international community. It must decide how to protect Rochinya and how to ensure their return to their homeland,” he said.
Lvin noted that since November 2023, the army of Myanmar and the Buddhist army of Arakan turned the areas inhabited by Muslim Rochini into the conflict zones.
According to him, the actions of the Arakan army, aimed at establishing control over the entire region, led to forced movements, mass killings, atrocities and violations of human rights. The population has lost access to first necessities, including humans and healthcare.
Lvin recalled that in 2017, the Myanmar army burned about 400 villages in Arakan, committed murders of babies and sexual violence over hundreds of women.
“International intervention remains the only hope of the community,” he repeated.
Lvin said that 600 thousand Rochinya, still living in Myanmar, are in very difficult conditions. About 130 thousand of them are contained in camps surrounded by barbed wire, as well as in the detention center equipped with observation towers.
According to him, the Rochini in Arakan actually stay in the open -air prison. A particularly difficult situation has developed in the areas controlled by the Arakan army.