Ridwan Ali

Professor Caleb Prusso

Date: 04/010/2018

Civic Engagement

I went to a Refuge meeting in downtown friend of mine was hosting the event. They were many

people who came, they were talking about all the refuges in the world but main thing they were

talking about was Burma refuges mostly the focused the Rohingya. In the event, there simple

messages addressing to the Senators in Utah, which says, Dear mike lee I urge you to pass the Burma

Human Rights and freedom Ace. I encourage you to stand up for what is right, and name what is

happening to the Rohingya people a genocide. We cannot stand idly by while hundreds of thousands of

people are murdered, rape and forced to flee from their homes. Another one that goes to Orrin Hatch

which says, after the Holocaust, we said never again.” After the Cambodian genocide, we said “never

again” After Rwandan genocide, we said “never again”. Yet, genocide persists across the globe, We CAN

take Acton, we cannot and will not be silent while the Rihingya suffer from systematic and widespread

murder, rape, expulsion and mass burnings of villages. Pass the Burma Human Rights and freedom Acts.

The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic minority group from Myanmar's Rakhine state. Muslim

people lived Myanmar since as early as the 12th century. So now, time comes the want to kick of

Rohingya people not only throwing them out they beating them children woman elderly people

which is inhuman, people who are doing this are Buddhist. If we really thing about Buddhism

what we know from them is that they are peacefully people who do mediatating peacefully but

really what are they doing to other human. At least 6,700 Rohingya, including at least 730

children under the age of five, were killed in the month after the violence broke out, according to

Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF). That is many children to be killed last month how about now at

this moment how many of them are they killing. Senior General Min Aung Haling is the current
 commander-in-chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces, appointed in 2011. As the commander-in-chief,

human rights violations by the Burmese Army could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Hlaing said “There’s a fear, especially among Burma's Buddhist nationalists, of Burma losing its unique

Burmese culture,” said Knaus. “Whether that’s from Muslims coming into the country or influences from

places like China, and the rest of the outside world, there’s a real fear that Burma is going to be changed

by all of these influences. The Rohinyga are the most obvious examples of this. They’re Muslim and

perceived to be from Bangladesh so to many they are the prime example of this foreign cultural and

social invasion.”He really things having Muslim people in country is going to change their

country, how is country going to lose it uniqueness. I my self is refuge my family moved to

Kenya in 1991 it imagine if Kenyan people kicked Somali people and or killed them, I don’t

think we will existed. In addition, we came to America will that changed about American people

believes no I do not believe so. Five years ago, clashes between Buddhist and Muslim

communities left hundreds dead, mostly Rohingya. With their mosques and villages torched,

120,000 Rohingya were forced into makeshift camps inside Myanmar (also known as Burma).

Not only Burma people but also there is Syrian refuges which they thrown from their own

country that should not happening. Even our president does not want refuges people in America,

he said making America Great again, without having refuges people in country is going to be

better because those people will make it difference and bring new things. My uncle went to

Kenya and came back to Utah they refused him to enter the country a country which he lived in

his most of his life and has a American passport, it was a ridicules. In Salt lake community, there

is a lot of refuges student and international student who wants to come to this school and learn

other new things in America. This essay is related to Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo,. Miné

Okubo’s everyday life in the Japanese internment camps from 1942-1944; the book begins when

England and France declare war on Germany in September 1939. Coming in country where you
 will be a refuge and people will treat you difference is going to be hard life, but people who

come in country they only thing they want is having safety and food, the reason why the left their

country is because of that not having safety. Going to this event I know what I was going in I

was expecting it because like I said I myself am refuge and I know what other refuges are felling

but I can’t relate how they are felling now because what Burma are hearing is a bomb and I not

they are suffering and am not so that’s the different thing between them and I. they need help if a

country is doing good at the moment we should help others who are sulfuring because they need

our help. The letters we wore writhing for the senators is asking them to make A change but not

the president of the united of states he should be the one who supposed to help them and not

waste the time and should not blame them because people look up to America all the nation does.

I really enjoyed this event and all love to go every event that consider Human Rights. B4ecuase I

think human should help each other even though the person is not the same race as you or same

religion as you help them as they way you want ted to be help, treat them the way you wanted to

be treated. Here is quote I like “For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in

a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

― Nelson Mandela