Headline Oct. 24/ ''' ROHINGYA'S! SCREAMING RAMPARTS? '''

''' ROHINGYA'S! SCREAMING 

RAMPARTS? '''

OVER ALL THESE MANY DECADES -over all these agonizing decades, the Rohinga's were set up for merciless discrimination.

Myanmar's leaders soon began stripping their rights and blaming them for all the country's shortcomings, claiming the Rohingya were illegal migrant from Bangladesh who had stolen good land.

''YEAR AFTER YEAR, they were demonized,'' Mr. Azeem. Ibrahim a Scottish academic, who recently wrote a book on Rohingya disclosed.

Some influential Buddhist monks said.................... the Rohingya were the reincarnation of snakes and insects and should exterminated like vermin.

THE PERSECUTION fueled a Rohingya movement, which staged attacks against Myanmar's security outposts on Aug.25. 

From her village, Rajuma said she heard explosions from one of those attacks -or at least from the government response to it. 

Over the next few days, Rajuma watched huge fires burn into the horizon. The military was beginning what it called ''clearance operations''.

Rohingya villages all around Tula Toli were burned to the ground, and on the night of Aug.29, an elder came from the mosque to Rajuma's house to deliver a message : The Buddhists say we should go to the river, for our safety.

Her family decided to stay put. ''Nobody trusts a Buddhist,'' Rajuma said.

The next morning, Rajuma was busy making potato curry. As she sprinkled ginger and chiles into a big pot, she sensed something and stopped.

She crept to the window and peeked out : soldiers, dozens of them, jogging toward Tula Toli.

Rajuma and her family tried to run but were quickly captured and marched to a riverbank where hundreds of other terrified villagers had been taken prisoner.

The soldiers separated men from the women. The villagers pleaded for their lives and dropped to their knees, hugging the soldiers' boots. The soldiers kicked them off and methodically killed all the men, said Rajuma and several other survivors from Tula Toli, all interviewed separately.

The *women and young children* were sent into the water and told to wait.

In terms of the tactics used, the weapons fired, the openness of the killings, the gang rapes and level of military organization, the accounts from many different Rohingya areas present a distressing harmony.

''Stories of atrocities are universal,'' said Anthony Lake, the executive director of the Unicef.

*He said he was profoundly troubled by what Rohingya children had been drawing in the camps   -guns, fires, machetes and people on the ground with red streaming out of them*.

In a hospital bed near Cox's Bazar, the biggest town in this part of Bangladesh, Muhammedul Hassan, a Rohingya a shopkeeper from a village called Monu Para, lies on a clean white sheet. Doctors say the fact that he is still alive is a miracle.

On Aug.27, Mr. Hassan said, around 20 soldiers from a nearby army base stormed into Monu Para and ordered all the men and any boys older than 10 to report to the house of a prominent Rohingya cattle trader.

The soldier's tied everyone's hands behind their backs. They made them sit in the yard, heads down.

Around 400 men and boys were hunched over, Mr. Hassan said. They were sweating through their shirts. An army sergeant whom the villagers knew then pulled a long, thin knife.

*''People were calling for help,'' Mr. Hassan said. ''The boy's were screaming out their mother's name, their father's name.''*

Mr. Hassan said that in front of his eyes, dozens of people were decapitated or shot. He was shot three times -twice in the back and once in the chest -but all the bullets missed the vital organs.

Human Rights investigators said the gravest atrocities they have documented were committed from  Aug-25 to Sept 1, the period right after the militant attacks.

Many witnesses described government troops wantonly killing anyone they could get their hands on.

In Tula Toli, Rajuma fought as hard as she could to hold onto her baby, Muhammad Sadeque, about 28 months old.

But one soldier grabbed her hands, another grabbed her body, and another slugged her in the face with a club. A jagged scar now runs along her jaw.

The child was lifted away from her, his legs wiggling in the air.

''They threw my baby into a fire -they just flung him,'' she said.

Rajuma said two soldiers then pulled her into a house, tore off her veil and dress raped her. She said that her two sisters were raped and killed in the same room, and that in the next room, her mother and 10-year-old brother were shot.

At some point, Rajuma thought she had died. She lost consciousness. When she woke, the soldiers were gone, but the house was on fire.

She sprinted out naked, past her families bodies, past burning homes, and hid in a forest. Night fell, but she did not sleep.

In the morning, she found an old T-shirt to wear and kept running.

Many people in the refugee camps have been eerily stoic -seemingly traumatized past the ability to feel. In dozens of interviews with survivors who said their ones had been killed in front of them, not a single tear was shed.

But as she reached the end of her horrible testimony, Rajuma just broke down. ''I can't explain how hard it hurts,'' tears flowing down her cheeks.''to no longer hear my son call me Ma.''

She hunched over on a plastic stool in another family's hut, covered her mouth with a red veil and started sobbing so hard she could barely breathe.

A few other refugees looked over at her but went on cooking or cleaning. Outside, on a road not far away, trucks blared their horns, fighting though traffic.

In Shame and Sadness from the students, professors and teachers of the world. And then, Merium, Rabo, Zilli, Juniper, Dantini, Lakshmi, Haleema, Seher, Zainab, Dee, Saima, Sarah, Eman, Armeen, Shahbano, Tooba, Malala/Oxford, Iqra, Zara, Aqsa.....

Hussain, Ali, Shahryar,  Faraz, Mustafa,  Umer, Wajahat,  Haider, Furqan, Umair, Adel, Toby, Marwin/Germany, Shahzaib, Salar, Jordan, Bilal, Danyial, Zaeem, Hazeem, Vishnu, Ehsan, Ahsen, Ghazi, Reza.........  

With very respectful dedication to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed of Bangladesh.... and the  Students, Professors and Teachers,.......and then of the entire world. 

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