I AM AN OUTCAST A NOBODY

I AM AN OUTCAST A NOBODY

All human beings have a fundamental right to life, liberties and creed within the decorum of a civilized society whom follows the laws and norms.  No man has a right to dictate the life live in this society because of hatred, prejudices, or the power one hold sway over another.

The Burma government feels it does not have to follow the norms of society and in a cold, calculating and devious way have done just that to the Rohingya Community (tribe, minority group).  The Rohingya have no freedoms and are held NOT in a refugee camp but live in a concentration camp existence. They are denied the basic human rights of food, clothing, medical treatment, and dignified living conditions.  They are surrounded by armed guards confined to wastelands in the Western part of Burma. This forced confinement does not allow them to leave the concentration camp existence of squalor and disease. The Rohingya community is one of starvation even though the World Food Program supplies them with chickpeas, rice oil and salt hardly covering a smattering of the food groups. The Burmese security forces brutally beat them and they live a life of despair.  This genocide of the Rohingya community is dotted with undocumented deaths and the evicting the group Doctors Without Borders from giving health care.

The most horrendous acts of the Burmese government is to deny a BIRTH CERTIFICATE to about 40,000 blacklisted children or registration that they were ever born. They are restricted from ever getting married, no education (a given), and along with everyone else forced into labor.  These children are punished this way because their families had more than two children thus breaking the law imposed on them. Forced sterilization is also part of living in this concentration camp. 

The actions of the Burmese Government did not stop President Obama just a few days ago while in Burma from lifting of the sanctions against them because of their tilting towards democracy. The Burmese Government cannot openly burn or have mass open slaughter of the Rohingya People how will that look to the democratic tilt?  Burmese Government wants them DEAD AND GONE. 

The dehumanizing and persecution of the Rohingya are denied citizenship and a means of escape.  Their sorrow and suffering knows no end and their bleak existence will go on for generations to come if not wiped out before that. 

  

©Linda Mary Liotino ME A SERVANT OF CHRIST MISSION 2014

© Commissioned pencil drawing for the purpose of this blog…FRANCO JOSEPH