Myanmar Muslims persecuted and dying in ocean

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Muslim Woman said:
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just read in our local daily Indonesian Navy
warned Fishermen not to save anyone even if s/he
is drowning in front of them.
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Wa'alaikumsalam.

There is a misunderstanding. Actually what Navy said was, fishermen should not respond a tactic which someone jump from boat and act like drown himself. But if the situation is emergency like, the refugees boat will be sink, or refugess are floating without boat, fishermen should help them.

Yesterday, May 19, fishermen rescued more than 400 refugees again in Kuala Julok, Aceh, and Navy did not forbid them.
 
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ardianto said:
Wa'alaikumsalam.

There is a misunderstanding. Actually what Navy said was, fishermen should not respond a tactic which someone jump from boat and act like drown himself. But if the situation is emergency like, the refugees boat will be sink, or refugess are floating without boat, fishermen should help them.

Yesterday, May 19, fishermen rescued more than 400 refugees again in Kuala Julok, Aceh, and Navy did not forbid them.
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Alhamdulillah , may Allah reward them .
 
Assalaamu alaikum,

(smile) I've been having trouble donating on the ACT site. I have tried to contact them, but have heard no reply as yet. I also looked up the petition posted earlier by Muslim Woman. This is for Malaysian nationals and residents. I also contacted Avaaz. This is a large organization that runs various social justice campaigns, with a fair bit of success. (smile) It's also very easy to donate to!

They only process your donation if they are able to amass enough money to run the whole campaign.

This campaign is not just looking to help the Rohingya, but to work to help refugees in general, particluarly those at sea.

(smile) InshAllah, this will be of help!

JazakAllah khairan for caring.


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Dear friends,

The most persecuted peoples on our earth are right now taking to ‘floating coffins’ to flee violence and seek sanctuary for their families. But instead of responding with humanity, our governments are closing their doors, letting them starve and drown at sea.

The Mediterranean and Andaman Seas are becoming graveyards.

Burma is driving the Rohingya out, and thousands of families are drifting helplessly at sea, forced to drink their own urine because Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia had turned them away. Syrians and Africans risk drowning every week off the coast of Southern Europe, braving the terrifying crossing as their last hope to escape torture, hunger, and traffickers.

We are facing the biggest refugees crisis since World War II, but so far governments have let them die in a climate of rising xenophobia. Now it has reached a crisis, and our community has a unique chance to jam the culture of fear with a wave of compassion.

If we each chip in a small amount now, we’ll help fund rescue operations at sea; build an Avaaz refugee team to assist those missions and resettlement, and create effective lobby cells to get leaders to open up borders; and launch ads to counter the racism.

Together we can help rescue refugees, and rescue our shared humanity.

Unless we act fast, 2015 could become the year of the boat people!

XXXXX -- pledge to urgently launch the Avaaz refugee campaign -- Avaaz will only process your donations if we raise enough to start saving lives:


Avaazers have already kick-started this campaign in the UK. The government has only allowed in 143 Syrians out of the 4 million refugees! In response, over 1,000 Avaazers have joined forces to challenge this disgraceful policy by offering to help refugees resettle, and calling on their local councils to give homes to 50 Syrian refugees each. Already 4 councils have agreed and with our pressure, we hope many more will too.

But this isn’t just a UK and Syria problem. It is a crisis of humanity when our planet’s most vulnerable are treated as criminals and left to die. Here’s a five point plan of the most critical actions Avaaz could take if we raise enough together:
  1. Support organisations that are bravely rescuing the refugees at sea.
  2. Launch Flotillas for Humanity with more private boats to assist rescue operations.
  3. Build an Avaaz refugee team to lobby governments, the EU and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to push for effective search and rescue operations, and increased numbers of refugee places.
  4. Support local groups in Europe and South East Asia to provide assistance to refugees arriving in reception centres, and into communities.
  5. Run hard hitting billboards and newspaper ads to counter the culture of xenophobia.
30 thousand refugees could drown in the Mediterranean this year. These families are fleeing terror and misery, and their choice to board a boat may be the only choice they have. Let’s join forces to stop these tragedies at sea. Pledge now:


Our community is one of the only in the world with millions of citizens in both the countries from which these families are fleeing and the countries they are seeking help. We have already funded extraordinary work to tackle Ebola and humanitarian work in Nepal. Now let’s take on this emergency and catalyse change with acts of inspired love and inspired bravery.

With hope and determination,

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SOURCES:

Myanmar Muslim migrants abandoned at sea have been 'drinking their own urine' to survive (The Independent UK)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ter-thailand-refuses-boat-entry-10249854.html

Syria Refugee Regional Response (UNHCR)
http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php

Mediterranean migrants: Details emerge of deadly capsize (BBC)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32399433

Lost at sea, unwanted: The plight of Myanmar's Rohingya 'boat people' (CNN)
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/19/asia/rohingya-refugee-ships-explainer/

Stranded Rohingya migrants say: 'We're dying on board' (Al Jazeera)
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/05/stranded-rohingya-migrants-dying-board-150517130244345.html

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The neglect of Rohingya Muslims

Asalamualaykum dear brothers and sister,

Recently, the Rohingyan Muslims have made the news and it seems that nobody has tried to help them. Why is this the case when the Muslim population is a great one and indeed, shouldn't we be helping our Muslim brothers and sisters. "The believers in their mutual kindness, compassion and sympathy are just like one body. When one of the limbs suffers, the whole body responds to it with wakefulness and fever." (Al-Bukhari and Muslim). It seems that not many Muslims are applying this hadith to the reality.
 
Asalamualykum

Ameen to the duas of everyone on this thread.

If it brings any comfort to anyone...

Praise be to Allaah.It is proven in the saheeh Sunnah that there are various kinds of martyrs who will attain the status of martyrdom in the Hereafter; this is by the grace and mercy of Allah. It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said:

“The martyrs are five: the one who dies of the plague, the one who dies of a stomach disease, the one who drowns, the one who is crushed beneath a falling wall, and the martyr who is killed for the sake of Allaah.”

Al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Ibn al-Teen said:

All of these are deaths which involve hardship. Allah has bestowed His grace upon the ummah of Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) by making them means of erasing their sins and increasing their rewards, and enabling them to attain the status of martyrdom.
 
Around 400 boat people who consist of single men will be deported to their country, Bangladesh.

Not all boat people who land in Indonesia are Rohingya from Myanmar. There are Bangladeshi job seekers too among them who depart from Cox Bazar with destination Malaysia. Their journey arranged by Thai human trafficking syndicate that also arranged journey for Rohingya asylum seeker who departed from Rakhine, Myanmar. They were joined on the sea. But after they arrived in Malaysian sea area, the syndicate left them without enough food and fuel.

Indonesian govt now decide to rescue the boat people who still on the sea, and will give shelter, co-operate with UNHCR, but only for Rohingya people who lived in Myanmar, while Bangladeshi job seeker or Rohingya who already live in Bangladesh will be deported to Bangladesh.

Now there are around 12,000 Rohingya people in Indonesia.
 
As an ummah that is one ummah we should be doing so much more for our people instead of relying on the kuffar to fix the poblem-
 
Muslim Woman said:
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i found a petition online



Rescue the Rohingyans

  • target: The Federal Government of Malaysia
  • signatures: 7,625


7,625
we've got 7,625 signatures, help us get to 10,000



The link to this petition is:
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Good Post! JazakAllah!

ardianto said:
Around 400 boat people who consist of single men will be deported to their country, Bangladesh.

Not all boat people who land in Indonesia are Rohingya from Myanmar. There are Bangladeshi job seekers too among them who depart from Cox Bazar with destination Malaysia. Their journey arranged by Thai human trafficking syndicate that also arranged journey for Rohingya asylum seeker who departed from Rakhine, Myanmar. They were joined on the sea. But after they arrived in Malaysian sea area, the syndicate left them without enough food and fuel.

Indonesian govt now decide to rescue the boat people who still on the sea, and will give shelter, co-operate with UNHCR, but only for Rohingya people who lived in Myanmar, while Bangladeshi job seeker or Rohingya who already live in Bangladesh will be deported to Bangladesh.

Now there are around 12,000 Rohingya people in Indonesia.
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Alhamdulillah, that is something! May Allah guide us all to the right path that pleases Allah and earns his love and blessings, Ameen.
 
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ardianto said:
Around 400 boat people who consist of single men will be deported to their country, Bangladesh.

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At first , a Bangladeshi Minister said there are very few BD people in the boats ( as if it's ok if few fellow citizens die in middle of sea without food , water ) . Still there is a confusion how many BD citizens are there among the boat people.

Later Prime Minister of Bangladesh said , besides middlemen who arranged these trips - those who degraded the image of the country i. e. boat people , they also will be punished . imsad:omg:




A new item published in Daily Star , Bangladesh on May 25

 Myanmar once again brands Rohingya Muslims as Bangladeshis

Myanmar's same old trick raises concern


Myanmar has once again banked on its old trick to describe Rohingya Muslims as "Bengalis" to avoid responsibilities amid growing international pressure on it to rescue thousands of boatpeople trapped at sea.



Following the rescue of 208 people from a boat on Thursday, Myanmar government officials claimed all of them were from Bangladesh and they would be deported to Bangladesh soon.
But government officials and experts on migrant issues in Dhaka termed it a “ploy” to push Rohingyas into Bangladesh.


Myanmar does not recognise the Rohingya population as its citizen.
Its claim came under fire as Reuters news agency found at least eight Rohingya Muslims among the 208, after interviewing a group of them at Kyauk Taw in Rakhine state where the rescued have been kept.


A team of Bangladesh officials will go there today or tomorrow to interview them, said a top foreign ministry official.
“If anyone is a confirmed Bangladeshi citizen, we'll instantly arrange for his repatriation,” the official added.



In another development, the Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday sought a complete list from Myanmar of those rescued.



Previously, the Myanmar authorities sent an “incomplete” list of 200 people, claiming they were Bangladeshis. The list does not contain particulars of those rescued in detail.


http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/rohingyas-branded-bangladeshis-86866
 
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Muslim Woman said:
At first , a Bangladeshi Minister said there are very few BD people in the boats ( as if it's ok if few fellow citizens die in middle of sea without food , water ) . Still there is a confusion how many BD citizens are there among the boat people.
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Not few, sis. From 1782 boat people that have landed in Aceh in May, 720 of them are Bangladeshis. It has been confirmed by Bangladeshi ambassador who has visited them. All of those Bangladeshis are adult males, young enough, and went 'alone'. I mean, they didn't go with their families. Different than the Rohingyas that consist of men and women, including children and old people. Many of the Rohingyas left Myanmar with their families.

Actually those boat people departed from two different places. The Bangladeshi departed from Cox Bazar, while mostly of the Rohingyas departed from Rakhine. But their journey were arranged by same syndicate, from Thailand. They met on the sea and moved to boats that provided by the syndicate. Their destination was Malaysia. However, when they arrived in Malaysia sea area, the syndicate left them because afraid of Malaysian navy.

Frankly, I wrote about those Bangladeshis because Indonesian govt will deport them soon. It could cause a misunderstanding if I didn't explain that those people are Bangladeshis, not Rohingyas. The Rohingyas themselves can stay in refugees shelter.
 
Salaams all,

Thank you to all that have posted on here about this atrocity. I must admit, I forgot about these poor people 2 years ago. It was brought to light 2 Ramadhans ago, but it seems everyone seems to have forgotten about them.

Thankfully the Imam at my Masjid mentioned it in his Jummah sermon today and my Masjid is going to be doing a Ramadhan month appeal for them. They have asked everyone to donate most of their Zakat to them which is what I will be doing. I've always had a special place in my heart for Gaza, but this year, Rohingiya will take preference for me. It truly is awful what is happening to them.

Please can everyone email/text/whatsapp their friends so they know what is going on in Rohingiya. If they can't or do not want to donate, at least they can say a special prayer for them.
 

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