Rakhine government delays IDP

resettlement plan, says ECC

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Ibrahim Sah

--- United Nations special envoy to Myanmar Vijay Nambiar (right) talks with residents of an IDP camp at Myae Pone
Township in Rakhine State on August 24. Mr Nambiar visited Rakhine from August 23 to 25. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Burma Times: Rakhine Chief Minister U Maung Maung Ohn has told the states Emergency Coordination Centre that
a plan to resettle about 170,000 people living in camps for the internally displaced has been delayed, ECC member U
Than Tun told Mizzima on August 27.
U Maung Maung Ohn advised the ECC of the decision at about 6pm the previous day, said U Than Tun.
The State Minister for Transport and Construction, U Hla Han, had announced earlier on August 26 that the Rakhine
government would resettle the IDPs in October as part of the Rakhine Action Plan unveiled on July 23.
Speaking on August 26, U Than Tun criticised the state government for not discussing the plan in advance with the
ECC, which was appointed by the Union government to oversee the activities of humanitarian organisations in
Rakhine after Medicins Sans Frontieres was expelled from the state in February.
IDP camps in the state capital, Sittway, and nine other cities and towns are sheltering more than 140,000 Muslims
and more than 30,000 ethnic Rakhine.
Written By Ibrahim Shah: It is in fact devastation to come across the biased media coverage of Mizzima Media
Co.Ltd concerning Rohingya. Mizzima referred the followers of religious faith Islam as Muslims omitting the original
term Rohingya who have been living densely in western part of myanmar, on the other hand, it directly referred the
followers of religious faith Buddhism as ethnic Rakhine without referring Buddhists.
Apparently, Mizzima itself witnessed that it prefers racism and a political tool of Hitlerite president Thien Sein which
campaigns racism to make Myanmar as a troubled state in South East Asia.
The area now known as north Arakan had been for many years before the 8th century the seat of Hindu dynasties; in 788 A.D. a
new dynasty, known as the Chandras, founded the city of Vesali.
Ref: Mauriee Collis, The 50th Anniversary Publication No.2 of BRSJ, p.486
The western Myanmar was a sovereign state until 1784 in which year Arakan was invaded by Oppressive king
Maung Wei. The Nagri literature of Ananda Chandra inscription witnessed that those who ruled the Arakan was
neither todays ethnic Burmese nor their settlers ethnic Rakhine. In fact they were the Rooinga people of todays
Rohingya community.
The official proof of Rohingya existence in Myanmar: The people living in Mayu Frontier is ethnic Rohingya included in the
announcement of Frontiers Administration office under Prime Minister Office on 20 November 1961. Mayu Frontier is composed
of Buthidaung, Maungdaw and Rathedaung Townships.