Burney visits Rohingya migrants’ camps

KUALA LUMPUR: Ansar Burney Trust International Chairman Ansar Burney has strongly condemned the act of Myanmar government in that Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims continue to face extrajudicial killings, deaths in police custody, rape, human trafficking for ‘modern day slavery’, sexual exploitation, arbitrary detentions, torture and mistreatment during detention,
says a press release on Saturday.
After visiting and meeting with Rohingya migrants in different camps Ansar Burney said the condition of the Rohingya migrants in Malaysia is much better compared to the conditions in other neighbouring countries camps.
He said he and his
wife Shaheen Burney along with team members surprised by the generosity of Malaysian government and how
rapidly the general public of Malaysia has organised and sent aid to the Rohingya immigrants.
Burney, after visiting some of the migrants camps in Malaysia, said Myanmar government should treat minority Rohingya Muslims as its citizens to solve the root cause of the worst crisis in Southeast Asia. He also requested the UN and all Myanmar’s NGO’s and political leaders to speak on human and civil rights issues.
Many of the Rohingya Muslims who tried to flee Myanmar in search of a better life are paying off human traffickers and the Myanmar government and security officials, acting in conjunction with Rohingya and Rakhine criminal elements, trafficked thousands of Rohingyas Muslims out of the country, often for profit from $400 to $1,000 and for those who wanted to return back home these human traffickers are charging between $200 and $300 per person.
Eye witnesses said the crews on human trafficking boats beat them with metal rods and engine chains when they asked for food. Many were starving, surviving on three cups of water and two handfuls of rice a day for up to three months.