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—An open letter to His Excellency Donald Trump, honourable President of the USA
—Copy to: His Excellency Antonio Guterres, honourable Secretary General of the UN
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My dear excellencies,
With deepest sorrows and devastated feelings, I the undersigned would like to inform you about, and beseech you to take into cognizance, the following exigencies posing grave threats to regional South Asian and the global peace at large:
With deepest sorrows and devastated feelings, I the undersigned would like to inform you about, and beseech you to take into cognizance, the following exigencies posing grave threats to regional South Asian and the global peace at large:
1. I draw my authority as a global citizen from Chapter 7 of the UN charter, known as the “Charter for Mankind” (articles 39-51) that makes it incumbent upon the UNSC to “determine the existence of any threat to peace, breach of peace, and act of aggression;”
2. I hereby reiterate, extrapolate and replay the November 2016 finding of a senior UN official, John McKissik, who had accused Myanmar military of conducting ethnic cleansing of minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, and forcibly throwing them out to neighbouring Bangladesh. Burning of thousands of Rohingya houses (pictured below) and killing an authentic number exceeding 1000, from October 9, 2016 to Jan. 2017, are facts well corroborated by multiple UN and other public & private sources;
3. I further quote from another confirmation in March 2018 rendered by the UN’s assistant Secretary General for human rights, Andrew Gilmore, who said: “ I can’t see anything other than an ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Myanmar’s Arakan state”;
4. During those turbulent days, Bangladesh graciously allowed hundreds of thousands of Rohingya from neighbouring Myanmar to settle in makeshift camps in southern Bangladesh. Added to the number that had already entered Bangladesh during many such previous onslaughts on them by the Myanmar military, the total number of Rohingya refugees in the Bangladesh soil exceeded 1.1 million;
5. While Myanmar conducted such mayhems using its military, Bangladesh never even dispatched a regiment of its armed forces to the border to deter or defeat Myanmar’s evil design;
6. Now, as the UN sits for its annual conferencing once again, and, as the US commands respects among other members of the Security Council — as well as with the honourable Secretary General of this last resort to seeking intervention from by the persecuted, for restoring peace and stability in zones of conflicts — I respectfully urge you to impress upon the rogue Myanmar regime to take back its citizens honourably, or, move toward enforcing mandates pursuant to the following recent precedents of “ global humanitarian military interventions:“
6.A. UNSC Resolution 1244 of 10 June, 1999, to prevent ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia;
6.B. UNSC Resolution 1264 of 15 September 1999, to stop ethnic violence in East Timor.
7. Despite those preemptive military and civil deployments of the the UN- mandated wherewithal long before the statutory codification, the most detestable Serbrenica massacre of July 1995 — that had killed over 8,000 innocent Muslims and forced another 20,000 into distressed displacement — and, well over 1400 deaths in the East Timor, couldn’t be prevented.
2. I hereby reiterate, extrapolate and replay the November 2016 finding of a senior UN official, John McKissik, who had accused Myanmar military of conducting ethnic cleansing of minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, and forcibly throwing them out to neighbouring Bangladesh. Burning of thousands of Rohingya houses (pictured below) and killing an authentic number exceeding 1000, from October 9, 2016 to Jan. 2017, are facts well corroborated by multiple UN and other public & private sources;
3. I further quote from another confirmation in March 2018 rendered by the UN’s assistant Secretary General for human rights, Andrew Gilmore, who said: “ I can’t see anything other than an ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Myanmar’s Arakan state”;
4. During those turbulent days, Bangladesh graciously allowed hundreds of thousands of Rohingya from neighbouring Myanmar to settle in makeshift camps in southern Bangladesh. Added to the number that had already entered Bangladesh during many such previous onslaughts on them by the Myanmar military, the total number of Rohingya refugees in the Bangladesh soil exceeded 1.1 million;
5. While Myanmar conducted such mayhems using its military, Bangladesh never even dispatched a regiment of its armed forces to the border to deter or defeat Myanmar’s evil design;
6. Now, as the UN sits for its annual conferencing once again, and, as the US commands respects among other members of the Security Council — as well as with the honourable Secretary General of this last resort to seeking intervention from by the persecuted, for restoring peace and stability in zones of conflicts — I respectfully urge you to impress upon the rogue Myanmar regime to take back its citizens honourably, or, move toward enforcing mandates pursuant to the following recent precedents of “ global humanitarian military interventions:“
6.A. UNSC Resolution 1244 of 10 June, 1999, to prevent ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia;
6.B. UNSC Resolution 1264 of 15 September 1999, to stop ethnic violence in East Timor.
7. Despite those preemptive military and civil deployments of the the UN- mandated wherewithal long before the statutory codification, the most detestable Serbrenica massacre of July 1995 — that had killed over 8,000 innocent Muslims and forced another 20,000 into distressed displacement — and, well over 1400 deaths in the East Timor, couldn’t be prevented.
Based on these and other guidelines of international laws, precedent & jurisprudence, you and other global leaders are hereby humbly requested not to turn a blind eye on the festering Rohingya crisis any more; for the very dormancy and the ‘low profile attached to it’ had already landed cues and casus belli to aspiring super powers like China and India to conduct the same against the minority Uighur Muslims, and the Muslims of Kashmir & Assam, respectively. These constitute added, dangerous dimensions with potential to rendering instability in the entire Asian regions in near future.
The resolution of the Rohingya crisis within the fastest possible time is also of imposing import for global peace and security due to a brewing crisis in the Indian state of Assam already creating the ambiance to prompt another influx of refugees into Bangladesh, following Indian negation to accepting over 1.9 million of its Bengali speaking residents deserving citizenship by birth & unrelinquished residency.
In anticipation of your empathy & prompt pro- activism in this regard, I remain, excellencies, and, wish you and your families the very best to keep dawning on your lots in days ahead.
Shahid Islam
Practitioner of international laws & globally acclaimed author, columnist & political analyst.
(Google search: author Shahid Islam).
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Practitioner of international laws & globally acclaimed author, columnist & political analyst.
(Google search: author Shahid Islam).
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