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Asia Watch calls for sanctions against Myanmar
WASHINGTON, May 7 : The Myanmar military Junta Is try Ing to drive 1.4 million Rohingya Muslims out of the north western Arakan state by a systematic campaign of tor ture, rape, murder and reh gio us persecution, a human rights group said reports AFP
In a report released Thursday. Asia Watch rejected -s blatant Ites the Myanmar military Junta's claim that the refugees arc Illegal Immigrants who belong to Bangladesh
• The refugees are leaving because they are being raped, tortured made Io work as slaves and banned from prac using their religion.' the report said
The group called upon the world community to assist neighbouring Bangladesh tn providing for some 200.000 Rohingyas who fled thetr country since late 199 1 and to enforce an international arms and trade embargo against Myanmar until perse cution of the Muslim minority slops
In Ils report, prepared on the basis of the testimony of numerous refugees, the US based human rights group said, "the Myanmar military has < k-arlv embarked on a policy of ridding the country of ethnic Rohingyas by any possible means."
It said the persecution of the Muslim minority surpassed even that of the Karen guerillas in the eastern part of the country, which sparked off an exodus of refugees into Thailand.
The sheer scale of the human disaster resulting from the Muslim persecution, with hundreds of thousands fleeing to one of the poorest countries tn the world (Bangladesh), has no parallel elsewhere In Myanmar." the report said.
The Rohingyas crowded In 13 refugee camps In Bangladesh, administered by the under-funded UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the report said.
Unless the UNHCR receives 27 million dollars from donor countries — It had received only eight million dollars as of mid-April — Bangladesh may be tempted to force the refugees to return to their homes through a policy of star vation, Asia Watch said.
In 1978, some 10,000 people of Myanmar starved to death In Bangladeshi camps before all the refugees decided to return home.
The group urged Bangla desh not to repatriate any refugee against his or her will until safeguards were In place for International monitoring of their safety and well-being.
Asia Watch urged the United States and Japan to spearhead an international strategy to Improve the human rights situation throughout Myanmar by curtailing military aid. trade and Investment benefitting the military Junta.
For such a strategy to be effective. the report said, it "must involve those key Asian countries which provide Myanmar with the bulk of Its economic and military support," chiefly China, Thailand, Singapore and Japan.
The United States should promote an International arms embargo against Myanmar un der the auspices of the United Nations and encourage the Association of South East Asian Nations to support such an embargo at its foreign minis ters meeting scheduled to be held on July 22 27 in Manila. Asia Watch said.