Asean Group Urges Help For Rohingyas The Jakarta Globe, Saturday, February 7, 2009
The Asean Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus is extremely concerned with the decision by the government of Thailand to deport groups of Rohingya boat people to an unknown location. Similarly, the AIPMC is also concerned with the decision by the Indonesian government to deport some of the Rohingya boat people stranded in Aceh Province to Myanmar despite migrants’ claims of assured persecution and possibly even death. The AIPMC strongly urges the governments of Thailand and Indonesia to treat the Rohingya boat people humanely and accord them protection. The two Asean member states are also urged to cooperate with UN human rights and refugee agencies in seeking a more understanding solution to the matter. Thailand, as Asean chair and a border country with Myanmar, has an opportunity to lead Asean in a new direction to correct the long-standing regional problems created by the Myanmar military regime’s lack of governance and economic mismanagement of the country. Asean must put right its role in relation to this human security crisis, caused in part by Asean’s decade-long tolerance of the Myanmar military regime’s economic crimes, war against civilian communities and systematic persecution of religious, ethnic and political groups. AIPMC strongly recommends that Asean use its regional summit, to be held later this month, to better address the issue of international migrants fleeing the repressive Myanmar regime. Asean has an opportunity to show new leadership by taking this opportunity to strengthen its Asean Charter and proposed Asean Human Rights Body. AIPMC is an organization comprising legislators from various Asean member-states. Roshan Jason, AIPMC executive director Kuala Lumpur Source: THE JAKARTA GLOBE URL: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/opinion/letters/article/8857.html Bersenang-senang di Yahoo! Messenger dengan semua teman. Tambahkan mereka dari email atau jaringan sosial Anda sekarang! http://id.messenger.yahoo.com/invite/
