Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged that the Rohingya villages that have become displaced in the suppression of Rakhine army in Myanmar are being mixed with soil by bulldozers. Their claim, Myanmar is basically ruining the signs of Rohingya violence.
Analyzing satellite imagery taken by an organization called ‘Digital Globe’, the human rights group has found evidence of completely destroying 55 Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine since last year.
However, Myanmar has claimed that these villages are being renovated as part of the reconstruction of the Rakhain state which has been damaged in conflict and clashes.
Meanwhile, in a report published on Friday in the six months of the Rohingya crisis, UNICEF said that due to the coming storm season and violence, at least 7 lakh 20 thousand children in Myanmar and Bangladesh are in dire danger of being at risk. Emergency needs to be taken to help them.
HRW complains, using 55 heavy rakhanga villages, structures and crop fields have been trickled using heavy equipment in North Rakhine. The Myanmar government is doing this because they want to remove evidence of the atrocities of the army there. So immediately the UN Security Council and other UN agencies and donors should ask the Myanmar government to stop this activity. Even before August, hundreds of villages were burned to Rohingyas.
Brad Adams, director of HRW Asia Region, said, “The villages that have been crushed are standing as a sign of horrific cruelty on Rohingyas. Once the Rohingyas lived there, their memory and legal rights marks were now being removed with a bulldozer. But it is very important to save them. Because these indicators are essential for the well-documented crimes at the time of the UN-appointed experts. It is possible to identify the culprits. But in this way, the attempt to destroy the crime signs is in the way of justice. ”
The agency further said, satellite pictures of two villages in the north of Rakhine Minh Hult area have come in hand, which last year saved the army from arson. In the last few days, they were probably rehabilitated. But both of those villages were mixed with soil by bulldozers from 9 January to 13 February.
Meanwhile, UNICEF says the lives of millions of Rohingya children in Myanmar and Bangladesh camps are at risk due to the upcoming stormy monsoon and violence. In the cyclone season, flooding in the southern districts of Bangladesh can cause dizziness and unhealthy Rohingya camps. There will be the increased incidence of water-borne diseases in this area. Besides, clinics, education centers and other facilities available for children may also be closed. So now we have to take action on this.
On the other hand, the foreign secretary urged the international community to raise Rohingyas’ justice for the victims of Rakhine violence. Shahidul Haque, He called on a seminar organized at Bangladesh Embassy in the Hague, the Netherlands on Friday.
