Myanmar’s admission of killing Rohingya prisoners is bad news for the Rohingya

January 13, 2017

In a rare admission, the Tatmadaw has admitted that their soldiers along with Mogh vigilantes have killed ten Rohngya prisoners and buried them on the fringes of Inn Din village in Maungdaw.

While some outside the Rohingya community, many of them desperate to initiate peace building measures with Myanmar, the news of the Tatmadaw’s admission has been greeted with trepidation, and not jubilation by the Rohingyas. The causes of such tensions among the Rohingya is easy to understand – – the international community will once again rejoice at their diplomatic ‘success’, talk about a new reformist Myanmar moving out from the darkness, and the Rohingya will be left to rot until another military operation destroys the unfortunate community.

By now, anyone can decipher Myanmar military’s time tested tactic – punish some soldiers at the bottom echelons of power, bring forward the case that there has only been isolated cases of murder and rape by ‘rogue’ soldiers, while pretending the top brass led by no other than Sen General Min Aung Hlain are trying to reign in the rogue elements while trying to launch a just war against Bengali terrorists intent on destroying Myanmar. Once again, the Rohingyas are watching with apprehension if the Tatmadaw’s diplomacy will bear fruits for those keen on establishing the rhetoric of a reformist and even democratic Myanmar.

Since the bloody riots of 2012, which obliterated the Rohingya  community in the southern Akyab, Kyauktaw, Pauktaw, Mrauk U, and the Kaman in Raimree, the Muslims have been watching helplessly as one country after another came out in praise of the Tatmadaw’s handling of the violence. Feature after feature came out in the newspapers of the free world, with the much respected The Economist naming Myanmar as their country of the year in 2015.

One can only hope now that the world will understand that with the intentional killings of around ten thousand people which included hundreds of children, the Tatmadaw’s admission of their soldiers killing ten Rohingya prisoners is nothing but a diplomatic ploy to stave off international criticism and build up a powerful military machinery that can bring on the final solution with the establishment of a successful fascist state in this part of the world.