The reality!Rakhine people, originally Bengali themselves, are calling Rohingya Bengali. Even Aye Maung, a prominent Rakhine leader, was born in Bangladesh's Bandarban district. #RakhineBengali#Rohingya#Identity
In Maungdaw Township's Pan Taw Pyin village, around 12 noon today, a fight between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) began. The Myanmar military took positions in Nyaung Chaung village, while the AA is in Pan Taw Pyin. The Rohingya are running to save their lives ..
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We must do more to give refugees hope.
We must do more to give refugees opportunities.
Including refugees in our schools, workplaces, health systems and communities is part of how we can do this.
General Twan Mrat Naing interviewed by VOA - June 3, 2024
Q: As the Buthidaung-Maungdaw region is fraught with sensitive racial issues, what are your thoughts on social cohesion? Do you have plans to have dialogue with Rohingya leaders?
A: Yes, we have plans to have dialogue but we have more pragmatic things to do also right now. On the ground, the Muslims in Arakan wish to live in peace with other communities and fully understand our policies. We have the participation of Muslim community members in administration, judiciary, security, policing, education, healthcare, and other public services. But we need loyal people, and by "loyal," we mean loyal to Arakan, our country. It would be difficult to grant citizenship for people who live abroad but keep talking about rights here though having allegiance to a foreign country. No country accepts that.
Yes, we have serious considerations about dialogue. The ways of thinking and consideration of benefits between the community inside Arakan and those abroad are not the same.
For us, we are a responsible and accountable organization—if we make a mistake, we take responsibility. But where is the leadership they often talk about? For example, there is an organization that the Bangladesh has recommended to us for discussions. But we know that if we accept it, soon enough there will be another to proclaim itself. It didn't take long, like within two weeks, other groups issued statements saying that they do not represent them. We don’t want to talk about it as it is their politics and we don't want to differentiate “us” vs. “them,”, but we have to use this to pinpoint here.
When it comes to the Muslim community in Arakan, we do not talk like “us” and “them” because they are our people. Our priority is to work with educated leaders from the Muslim community in Arakan who give allegiance to Arakan. They will become police chief, senior administrators and so on. And we are seriously thinking about how to train the rest from their community to govern together over the places we have fought to liberate.
#AA #Arakan #Rakhine #Myanmar #GeneralTMN @VOA@Rohingya #Rohingya
General Twan Mrat Naing interviewed by VOA - June 3, 2024
Q: As the Buthidaung-Maungdaw region is fraught with sensitive racial issues, what are your thoughts on social cohesion? Do you have plans to have dialogue with Rohingya leaders?
A: Yes, we have plans to have dialogue but we have more pragmatic things to do also right now. On the ground, the Muslims in Arakan wish to live in peace with other communities and fully understand our policies. We have the participation of Muslim community members in administration, judiciary, security, policing, education, healthcare, and other public services. But we need loyal people, and by "loyal," we mean loyal to Arakan, our country. It would be difficult to grant citizenship for people who live abroad but keep talking about rights here though having allegiance to a foreign country. No country accepts that.
Yes, we have serious considerations about dialogue. The ways of thinking and consideration of benefits between the community inside Arakan and those abroad are not the same.
For us, we are a responsible and accountable organization—if we make a mistake, we take responsibility. But where is the leadership they often talk about? For example, there is an organization that the Bangladesh has recommended to us for discussions. But we know that if we accept it, soon enough there will be another to proclaim itself. It didn't take long, like within two weeks, other groups issued statements saying that they do not represent them. We don’t want to talk about it as it is their politics and we don't want to differentiate “us” vs. “them,”, but we have to use this to pinpoint here.
When it comes to the Muslim community in Arakan, we do not talk like “us” and “them” because they are our people. Our priority is to work with educated leaders from the Muslim community in Arakan who give allegiance to Arakan. They will become police chief, senior administrators and so on. And we are seriously thinking about how to train the rest from their community to govern together over the places we have fought to liberate.
#AA #Arakan #Rakhine #Myanmar #GeneralTMN @VOA@Rohingya #Rohingya
Millions of stars can't brighten the earth
A single sun can brighten the earth and give all the necessary energy
Similarly Rohingya don't need thousands of politicians and leaders like stars
Rohingya need just one leader who brightens the Rohingya community like the sun