{"id":34426,"date":"2017-08-24T08:50:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T06:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/34426-commission-calls-on-myanmar-to-end-rohingya-restrictions-2.html"},"modified":"2017-08-24T08:50:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T06:50:02","slug":"commission-calls-on-myanmar-to-end-rohingya-restrictions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/34426-commission-calls-on-myanmar-to-end-rohingya-restrictions-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Annan 's Commission calls on Myanmar to end Rohingya repression"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Myanmar must scrap restrictions on movement and citizenship for its Rohingya minority if it wants to avoid fuelling extremism and bring peace to Rakhine state, a commission led by former UN chief Kofi Annan said Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Rights groups hailed the report<\/a> as a milestone for the persecuted Rohingya community because the government of Aung San Suu Kyi has previously vowed to abide by its findings.<\/p>\n

The western state, one of the country's poorest, has long been a sectarian tinderbox and mainly Buddhist Myanmar has faced growing international condemnation for its treatment of the Muslim Rohingya there.<\/p>\n

Annan was appointed by Suu Kyi to head a year-long commission<\/a> tasked with healing long-simmering divisions between the Rohingya and local Buddhists.<\/p>\n

On Thursday it released a landmark report, warning that failure to implement its recommendations could lead to more extremism and violence.<\/p>\n

\"Unless current challenges are addressed promptly, further radicalisation within both communities is a real risk,\" the report said, describing the Rohingya as \"the single biggest stateless community in the world\".<\/p>\n

\"If the legitimate grievances of local populations are ignored, they will become more vulnerable to recruitment by extremists.\"<\/p>\n

Among the key recommendations was ending all restrictions on movement imposed on the Rohingya and other communities in Rakhine, and shutting down refugee camps -- which hold more than hold more than 120,000 people in often miserable conditions.<\/p>\n

It also called on Myanmar to review a controversial 1982 law that effectively bars some one million Rohingya from becoming citizens, to invest heavily in the region and to allow the media unfettered access there.<\/p>\n

The commission's task became increasingly urgent after the army launched a bloody crackdown in the north of Rakhine following deadly October attacks on police border posts by a previously unknown Rohingya militant group.<\/p>\n

More than 87,000 Rohingya have since fled to Bangladesh bringing with them stories of murder, mass rape and burned villages in what the UN says could constitute crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n

The Annan commission's findings will put pressure on Suu Kyi's government to implement its calls for sweeping changes in Rakhine.<\/p>\n

But she faces stiff opposition from Buddhist nationalists, who loathe the Rohingya and want them expelled.<\/p>\n

Suu Kyi also has little control over Myanmar's powerful and notoriously abusive military.<\/p>\n

Many in Myanmar view the Rohingya as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, even though many can trace their lineage back generations.<\/p>\n

Until October's attacks the Rohingya had largely avoided jihadist militancy or violence.<\/p>\n

Rights groups welcomed the report, saying its recommendations tallied with what they had long argued for.<\/p>\n

\"These apartheid-like restrictions drive communities apart rather than together, eroding security and heightening the risk of mass killing,\" said Matthew Smith, from Fortify Rights.<\/p>\n

Phil Robertson, from Human Rights Watch, said Suu Kyi's government faced a \"key test\".<\/p>\n

\"Myanmar needs to throw its full weight behind these recommendations, and especially not blink in dealing with the harder stuff,\" he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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