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SAIRI Report Shakes World Conscience

and Calls on Global Community to Take a
'Moral Stand' to Save Oppressed Rohingya
Children from Mortality, Disabilities &
Enslavement.
Coercive Oppressions and Corpus Atrocities Bear all Major Hallmarks of a ?De-humanizing
Genocidal Clamp-down??The International Community, UN and E.U.-U.S. Hierarchies Urged
to Take Prompt Actions amidst the Worsening Situation?SAIRI Post-doc Multiversity for the
UN-MDGs Studies.
Rakhine, Burma, July 24, 2015 /PressReleasePing/ - The wording and diction of SAIRI's
situation report on 'Rohingya Children Crisis' has well-knocked for the 'humane sentiments' of
the people around the globe.

Quite meaningfully it has shaken the collective conscience of humanity by voicing:

"These effectively 'stateless' and 'restless' entitiesthe Rohingyas and their children - are on
their knees before the collective conscience of the worldthe international communitythe
UN, the governments and the entire humanity".

"These glimmering flowers are being converted to dusky coffins, floating on the Andaman Sea.

The world has become a global village; we are all inhabitants of the same planet to which they
belong, and upon which they are being persecuted, thrashed and beleagueredtheir
homes being burned downtheir heads being smashed on roadstheir bodies being ruined
and crumpled in streetstheir small children being enslavedtheir women being made sexslavesand, due to the unapproachability and inaccessibility to food and water they are
forced to drink their own urine to survive...!!!

They are like us alltheir lives are as precious as our livestheir small babies are as our

own small kidsthe children that are now on their knees 'begging-for-their-lives' are not, but
like ours!!!

And, if by now, we fail, therefore, to respond at this vulnerable hour, or if the global community
continues to shy away from taking a 'moral stand', there can be no more justifiable reason for
the pursuit of a humane society or for persisting and sticking to even the least realms of
humaneness", pleads SAIRI's principal investigator, Professor Qadhi Aurangzeb Al Hafi.

"We have to strive for a 'principal resolve' of the 'Rohingya Children Crisis' as a 'Moral
Imperative'if not a legal requisite," urges and presages categorically Prof. Qadhi A.Z. Al Hafi
in the SAIRI report on Rohingya Children Crisis.

In the wake of the dreadful, harrowing outrages committed by riot groups in the Rakhine state,
thousands of Rohingya children, are extremely prone to infantile mortality, whilst others highly
vulnerable to physical and mental disabilities, as well as at starkly potential peril-menaces of
enslavement, states the first situation report on the 'Rohingya Children Crisis' by SAIRI Postdoc Multiversity for the United Nations MDGs studies.

In the wake of dreadful inter-ethnic violence, sparked by decades-long communal hatred that
was left to simmer, and eventually re-igniting in 2012, an outrageous wave of mass atrocities
sparked and engulfed the entire western Rakhine state of Burma, where a major populace of
the 1.3 million Rohingya are inhabited. A wave of hate-speech incited the riot groups to set
fire not only the homes, shops and yards, but to complete towns, and even in certain
instances, entire villages of Rohingyas were reportedly set-fired and burned to the ground.

The abjuration and contempt of basic human rights across the state has transversely and
diagonally well-reached all of the possible extents of a 'genocidal ethnic annihilation', that;
inhumane massacres, sexual assaults, systematic use of rape, street riots, urban brawling,
merciless blood-butcheries, arbitrary arrests (probably culminating in unlawful killings), tedious
domestic violence, looting of shops as well as homes, sequential kidnapping, forced labour,
and mind-numbing street barbarisms are now well-documented in the U.N. data-records and
the statistic-annals of other rights groups and dependable sources including Human Rights
Watch (HRW), Amnesty International, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide,
Mdecins Sans Frontires, U.S. Refugees International, and the BROUK.

http://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20150505-Burma-Report.pdf
http://refugeesinternational.org/policy/field-report/myanmar-tipping-point-rohingya-rights

The U.N. Special Rapporteur on 'Human Rights in Myanmar', Yanghee Lee precisely summedup what she saw last year during her 10-day visit to Rakhine state," The situation is
deplorable..!",she stated.

And now, this 'beleaguered and oppressed' minority of 'deplorable condition', is passing
through a perpetually worsening 'ongoing crisis' of its own nature.

A 'three-fringed state of detention' has been constituted by: 1) the state-managed detention in
so-called custodial campsites; 2) the trafficker-run hostage camps; and 3) prison sites
contrived and owned by smugglers. Tens of thousands of families have been restrained in this
cramped, three-fringed state of confinement where, besides women and the elderly, it is the
children who are especially vulnerable to enslavement, with undescribed numbers already
having been sold on, notifies the report, which focuses on the children trapped in this
emergency situation.

It is estimated that well-over 1,78,000 children belong to the Rohingya minority.

It remains striking as well as surprising here that neither of the international rights groups, nor
of the UN agencies including UNICEF, WHO or UNHCR seem to be in position to figure out
the exact numbers of the children displaced or those detained in campsites and those at
higher degrees of vulnerabilities involving severe health problems or even to certain extent,
their existence too.

"After a careful analysis and thorough synthesis of the cross-referential data-statistics

obtained from reliable sources, SAIRI's epidemiological experts find that, the children of these
so-called refugees camps are having acute malnutrition rates well-crossing 30 % and hitting
35%, which is far beyond of 15%the emergency level set by the World Health
Organization",describes SAIRI report.

"The European Community Humanitarian Office, even years ago reported that the area had
acute malnutrition rates hitting 23 percent, which was still beyond that of the emergency level
declared by WHO", relates further SAIRI report.

http://www.newindianexpress.com/world/Rohingya-Children-in-Myanmar-Camps-GoingHungry/2014/08/08/article2370085.ece
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/rohingya-children-myanmar-camps-going-hungry

The Desperate Circumstances:

Rohingya people are effectively 'held confined' in a 'state of statelessness', and hence, are
deprived of all kinds of basic civil rights including emergency medical relief, the necessary
provisions of food and water, and other humanitarian aids. The situation escalates and surges
to multiplicative factors when it comes to children, the labouring women or in case of disables.

UNICEF describes the situation of chronic and acute mal-nutrition in the Rakhine state, where
the Rohingyas are largely inhabited.

Children living in Rakhine are more likely to suffer from chronic malnutrition, more likely to be
malnourished than the average Myanmar child, with almost '50 per cent of children being
stunted'.

They are less likely to attend primary school and less likely to access adequate water and
sanitation facilities than children living in other parts of the Union. According to a survey
undertaken in 2010, only 12 per cent of children are likely to be born in a health care facility,
compared to the national average of 36 per cent.

http://www.unicef.org/eapro/media_22655.html

An estimated number of 13,000 to 20,000 children, are confined into the isolated squalid
camps in Rakhine, where, they are sub-humanely dealt with like 'farm animals'.

Not only are people being denied access to public services but they are 'effectively' prevented
from leaving the area to seek emergency medical aid, even in the case of women in labour,
and children.

In an article describing the Ohn Taw Gyi camp outside Sittwe, wrote Esther Htusan from
Japan:
"Conditions in the camps, and elsewhere in Rakhine, went from bad to worse after the
government expelled their main health lifeline, the Nobel-prize winning Doctors Without
Borders. A month later, other humanitarian groups were temporarily evacuated after extremist
stormed their residences and offices".

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/11/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/rohingyachildren-slowly-starving-myanmar-camps/#.Vauz6bXa2Zh

The food rations the pregnant and lactating women get in camps is very little, and sometimes
they even don't get any at all.

In these camps, the children can be seen everywhere with bloated eyes, tiny arms and legs,
and with a face and skin that tightly clings to the bones.

The poor victimized women in the camps, after having lost their husbands, and seen their
lives ruined, are desperate to save their children, marked further Htusan.

Extents of Enslavement:
Some 15,000 to 18,000 younger as well as older children have been resorting to fleeing off
Myanmar through the Bay of Bengal in recent months. These flee-offs often take place on
over-crowded rickety boats that end up adrift and stranded in the Andaman Sea. There are
many recorded incidents of enslavement, with new research revealing the likelihood that tens
of hundreds more children either prone to being enslaved or have already been sold as
slaves, after having been held hostage and tortured in secret jungle precincts and at other
hostage sites.

"The boys are sold for forced-labour and the girls into 'forced-prostitution' as sex slaves",
endorse well-informed sources from in and out of the zone-areas.

The situation, reached the extents that, "The smuggling of Rohingya has become a significant
industry along Thailand's Andaman coast. It's now said to be more profitable and less
dangerous than selling drugs", asserted Alan Morison and Premkamon Ketsara, since in their
reportage published in Phuketwan, Thailand, on the issue

Another 2013's report description by Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison, published in
Phuketwan, Thailand, reveals, "Captive Rohingya are being smuggled out of Thailand in
secret in sales deals negotiated between human traffickers and Immigration officials,
Phuketwan has been told by well-informed sources". "Conversations by mobile telephone
have also confirmed that traffickers are already offering people for sale at 65,000 baht each",

exposed further the reportage.

http://phuketwan.com/tourism/captive-rohingya-sold-thai-officials-people-traffickers-19048/

After being sold, the girls are brought to brothels, where they are beaten, degraded, tortured
and forced into submission for sex activity. Deprivation of food, water and rest are the
instruments that are employed for this forced sexual submission. In addition to these
instruments, some sex-exploiters introduce 'drug use or addiction' for the purpose of gaining
an extra control over them and to take them under more of their command.

Adding to the immediate impacts like psychological trauma, an increased loss in 'personhood'
feelings and a severe damage to an 'affirmativeness of self' are among the long-term
dejection-bearings, in such victims.

Moreover, besides the sex-slavery trade by the smugglers, it has been noted repetitively,
evidently, that, the Burmese army is manifestly involved in trapping the girls into military
camps and then forcibly making them 'sex role-preys'.

Eyewitness 'testimony evidences' have been obtained that from International Labour
Organization (ILO), that strongly imply that Burmese army is imprisoning Rohingya women
and using them as sex slaves in a military camp situated a few kilometers from the town of
Sittwe.

http://www.vice.com/read/rohingya-women-are-being-kept-as-sex-slaves-by-the-burmesemilitary

The De-humanizing Genocidal Clampdown:

Academically viewed, the circumstances in totality, bear, from an end to end all of the major
hallmarks of a complete 'De-humanizing Genocidal Ethnic Clamp-down', endorses SAIRI in
under the referential-codes, principles indicator mark-frames laid out by the UN.

http://www.un.org/tgenocide/adviser/pdf/osapg_analysis...

The Statistical Risk Assessments (S.R.A.) carried out by the Early Warning Project,
Washington, that closely works with the Dickey Center for International Understanding based
at Dartmouth College, clearly reflects that Burma (Myanmar) lands starkly at the multiplicative
highest of the global ranking, through a combination of important predictors that anticipate the
onset of state-led mass killing in a tear or so, by employing a set of statistical models, which,
methodologically entail three different perspectives while hedging against the biases of any
one of them.

http://www.earlywarningproject.com/risk_assessments

Logically, in result of being tough-surrounded by an 'ongoing and ever-worsening state of

affairs' all around, after getting their homes burned down and heads and body-parts smashed
in streets by state-backed marauding gangs and venomously xenophobic riot groups, an
adverse state of dispersion and scattering started to take place parting thousands of families
smattered around. People vied to avail every least chance of escaping from the 'genocidal
clampdown'.

Finding themselves caught in a 'can't-live-can't-leave' situation, many feel they are left with no
option other than to risk their lives in perilous exodus, ignorant of whether they would end up
as an 'object of prey' for the traffickers or a 'subject of collateral damage onslaught' for the
naval security forces.

The people of this long-suffering oppressed minority, finally, have begun to flee in haphazard
way, to end with.

More often than not, the frenzy situation take-offs and the haphazard nature of fleeing-off
comes up with randomized hit-or-miss instances. Here too, the haphazard fleeing is leaving
many children separated from their parents and desperately alienated from everything that is
familiar to them or they are acquainted with.

"Among this long-suffering minority and destitute populace there are disable children, those
who have lost their parents or been detached from their siblings or relatives," notes the
SAIRI's P.I. in the report.

Ireland's eminent analyst, researcher and human-rights defender Mary Lawlor marks in her
report on Rohingya's ongoing persecution issue:

"The world is aghast at the fact that up to 8000 members of the Rohingya people of Myanmar
have ended up adrift in leaky overcrowded boats having to fight for food and being forced to
drink their own urine.

https://prachatai.org/english/node/5086
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/myanmar-muslim-migrants-abandoned-at-seadrinking-their-own-urine-to-survive-after-thailand-refuses-boat-entry-10249854.html

They have been shipped from port to port while the governments of Thailand, Malaysia and
Bangladesh argue over who is responsible for them and the government of Myanmar acts as
if the problem is nothing to do with it, asserts Mary Lawlor, the Berlin's human-rights defender.

The 'Fact-In-Existence' and 'Need-of-the-Hour':

Dr. Muang Zarni, a Burmese analytical expert and research fellow at London School of
Economics, describes the situation as 'Neo-Nazism' being demonstrated by hatemongers. He
has explicitly named the manifestations as 'Hitlerian Tactics', which are being administered to
'purify' the country by getting rid of the Rohingyas, according to Dr. Muang.

"There is a parallel between what we saw in Nazi Germany and what we are seeing today in
Burma", says Dr. Muang quite cautiously.

The entire race of Rohingyas would be massacred if the world doesn't respond, believes
Muang in conjunction with the opinion of many other experts.

Dell Cameron also conveyed it quite sensibly, "Without a doubt, Rohingyas are a persecuted
population in a situation which deserves a higher degree of attention from the international
community".

"What's happening in Burma is an abomination, and the world has turned a blind
eye",maintained Cameron in Vice on Rohingya issue.

Very apt, pertinent and propos was the statement, that was voiced by the operational adviser

of Holland-based 'Doctors Without Borders',Reshma Adatia:

"It's important for foreign governments and international actors to really push that access to
essential humanitarian assistance is required, and it's required today," she said. "We're talking
about hundreds of thousands that are at risk right now," voiced Adatia well-ago but it applies
still!

The Plea:
The testimonial document of SAIRI, now calls on the UN, interregional hierarchies and the
global community to take a 'moral stand' by mounting an urgent response to address the most
'vulnerable hour' of this humanitarian emergency.

About Professor Qadhi Aurangzeb Al Hafi

Qadhi Aurangzeb Al Hafi's name is no stranger to any state of affairs, when it comes to moral
and humane convictions. Incontestably, the epitome watch-word 'Aurangzeb Al-Hafi' has
always stood for raising sane, courageous and upright voice, at the critical most junctures of
the our era's considerations.

Professor Dr. Al Hafi has long been working for children in disastrous emergencies and
cataclysmic situations. Dr. Aurangzeb Hafi was the prime investigatory head of the projects
concerning the disabled population of refugee camps in Sri Lanka, following the Asian
Tsunami of 2004. He also maintained technical liaisons with the UN and other concerned
quarters thereof.

For entirety of the SAIRI report's public version:

http://drhabibsiddiqui.blogspot.com/2015/07/sairi-report-of-rohingya-children-is.html
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2622225

References and Further Readings:

http://www.un.org/tgenocide/adviser/pdf/osapg_analysis
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/01/06/thailand-protect-rohingya-boat-children
http://www.unicef.org/eapro/media_22654.html
http://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20150505-Burma-Report.pdf
http://www.earlywarningproject.com/risk_assessments
http://www.unicef.org/eapro/media_22655.html
http://refugeesinternational.org/policy/field-report/myanmar-tipping-point-rohingya-rights

https://prachatai.org/english/node/5086
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/6/crc/treaties/opsc.htm
http://www.blackradionetwork.com/page.php?storyID=175436&marquee=1
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/myanmar-muslim-migrants-abandoned-at-seadrinking-their-own-urine-to-survive-after-thailand-refuses-boat-entry-10249854.html
http://news.yahoo.com/desperate-rohingya-kids-flee-alone-boat-155932904.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/Myanmar-detains-journalists-covering-boatpeople-rescue/articleshow/47491836.cms
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/world/asia/myanmar-rohingya-refugee-crisismalaysia.html?_r=1
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/11/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/rohingyachildren-slowly-starving-myanmar-camps/#.Vauz6bXa2Zh
http://unicefindonesia.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-story-of-safira-and-ali-two.html
http://phuketwan.com/tourism/captive-rohingya-sold-thai-officials-people-traffickers-19048/
http://www.newindianexpress.com/world/Rohingya-Children-in-Myanmar-Camps-GoingHungry/2014/08/08/article2370085.ece
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/rohingya-children-myanmar-camps-going-hungry
http://genocidewatch.net/2015/07/20/myanmar-update-rohingya-children-at-risk-of-disabilitiesand-enslavement/
http://drhabibsiddiqui.blogspot.com/2015/07/sairi-report-of-rohingya-children-is.html
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2622225
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