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    BURMESE ROHINGYA DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE (BRDA)

    For Immediate Release

    Date: December 10, 2010

    Rohingya Refugees in Malaysia and their Plight

    On the occasion of International Human Rights Day 2010

    Today, people in all over the world mark the 62nd

    anniversary of the Universal Declaration

    of Human Rights (UDHR) which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on December

    10, 1948. We, the undersigned organizations express our firm deed towards full respect

    and implementation of all sorts of human rights norms as declared in the UDHR with a

    view to pursuing the accountability of the declaration.

    It is undeniable that the people of Burma have been experiencing of gross human rights

    abuses in the hands of Burmese military ruler since 1962, while the Rohingya peoples

    experiences are much earlier than that year, even in the times of Parliamentary Democracy

    Period. These inhumanities forced the Rohingya people to be scattered in across the

    neighboring countries, particularly in Bangladesh, Thailand, India, Malaysia, Pakistan,

    Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and etc.

    Wherever, they reach, they are deprived of their basic human rights and human dignity as

    all these neighboring courtiers are not party the United Nations Refugee Instruments.

    These states of Rohingyas refuge are not bound to respect the rights of refugees and

    asylum seekers and thus install inhuman pressures over the Rohingya vulnerable.

    Many quarters express very slight commitments towards temporary settlement ofRohingya refugees by believing Muslim in religion but do nothing except the development

    of modern salvation, which is not only promoted by the authorities but also by every local

    individuals.

    We notices that the US officials and the international community have realized some facts

    of inhumanity, enforcing by the Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh but notably the issues of

    refugee rights violations in Malaysia, Pakistan and Thailand are kept uncovered.

    Among the ASEAN nations, Malaysia is found as extra ordinary and parliamentary

    dictatorship which never considered the appeal of Rohingya refugees in Malaysia for

    advocating their causes to the international community to have permanent solution rather

    unreliable temporary local integration or the development of effective mechanism towardsethnic cleansing or religious tension in near future.

    We also found that the Malaysia is one of the key states which support the Burmese

    military regime to keep in power under the current agenda of the improvement of nuclear

    in the regions in order to strengthen ASEAN regional atomic command.

    Therefore, we appeal to the international community to urgently install pressure on

    Burmese military regime for people elected democracy in conjunction with cheerful

    pressure on Muslim states, particularly Malaysia, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan

    to stop slavery ambition over the Rohingya refugees and to ensure their basic human rights

    and human dignity within a time frame.

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    We appeal the UN Refugee Agency to immediately take step to open refugee registration

    and refugee status determination process in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and other Muslim

    countries to extend international protection for the Rohingya Refugees.

    We also appeal the UNHCR to take necessary measure to refer the cases of the Rohingya

    refugees to the refugee resettlement countries with special provision, particularly from

    Malaysia.

    We appeal the refugee resettlement countries to make spaces for the Rohingya refugees

    who are being marginalized by the concerned quarters for past few decades.

    Signed by:

    1-Arakan Rohingya Refugee Committee (ARRC), Malaysia

    2-Arakan Rohingya Organization-Japan (JARO)

    3-Arakan Rohingya Ulama Council (ARUC), Malaysia

    4-Burmese Rohingya Association in UAE (BRA-UAE)

    5-Canadian Burmese Rohingya Organization (CBRO), Canada

    6-Human Rights Association for Rohingya (HURAR), Arakan Burma

    7-Myanmar Muslim Council (MMC), KSA8-National Council for Rohingya (NCR), Malaysia

    9-National Democratic Party for Human Rights (NDPHR-exile) USA (HQ)

    10-Rohingya Youth Development Forum (RYDF) Arakan-Burma

    11-World Rohingya Congress (WRC), USA

    For further information, please contact:

    1- Kyaw Soe Aung (Tel: 414-7364273)2- Mohammad Sadek (Tel: 60 16-3094599)