Rakhine, Burma, August 01, 2015 /PressReleasePing/ - The wording and diction of SAIRI's situation report on 'Rohingya Children Crisis' has well-knocked for the 'humane sentiments' of the people around the globe.

Quite meaningfully it has shaken the collective conscience of humanity by voicing:
"These effectively 'stateless' and 'restless' entities—the Rohingyas and their children - are on their knees before the collective conscience of the world—the international community—the UN, the governments and the entire humanity".

"These glimmering flowers are being converted to dusky coffins, floating on the Andaman Sea.

The world has become a global village; we are all inhabitants of the same planet to which they belong, and— upon which they are being persecuted, thrashed and beleaguered—their homes being burned down—their heads being smashed on roads—their bodies being ruined and crumpled in streets—their small children being enslaved—their women being made sex-slaves—and, due to the unapproachability and inaccessibility to food and water they are forced to drink their own urine to survive...!!!

They are like us all—their lives are as precious as our lives—their small babies are as our own small kids—the children that are now on their knees 'begging-for-their-lives' are not, but like ours…!!!

And, if by now, we fail, therefore, to respond at this vulnerable hour, or if the global community continues to shy away from taking a 'moral stand', there can be no more justifiable reason for the pursuit of a humane society or for persisting and sticking to even the least realms of humaneness", pleads SAIRI's principal investigator, Professor Qadhi Aurangzeb Al Hafi.

"We have to strive for a 'principal resolve' of the 'Rohingya Children Crisis' as a 'Moral Imperative'—if not a legal requisite," urges and presages categorically Prof. Qadhi A.Z. Al Hafi in the SAIRI report on Rohingya Children Crisis.

In the wake of the dreadful, harrowing outrages committed by riot groups in the Rakhine state, thousands of Rohingya children, are extremely prone to infantile mortality, whilst others highly vulnerable to physical and mental disabilities, as well as at starkly potential peril-menaces of enslavement, states the first situation report on the 'Rohingya Children Crisis' by SAIRI Post-doc Multiversity for the United Nations MDGs studies.

In the wake of dreadful inter-ethnic violence, sparked by decades-long communal hatred that was left to simmer, and eventually re-igniting in 2012, an outrageous wave of mass atrocities sparked and engulfed the entire western Rakhine state of Burma, where a major populace of the 1.3 million Rohingya are inhabited. A wave of hate-speech incited the riot groups to set fire not only the homes, shops and yards, but to complete towns, and even in certain instances, entire villages of Rohingyas were reportedly set-fired and burned to the ground.

The abjuration and contempt of basic human rights across the state has transversely and diagonally well-reached all of the possible extents of a 'genocidal ethnic annihilation', that; inhumane massacres, sexual assaults, systematic use of rape, street riots, urban brawling, merciless blood-butcheries, arbitrary arrests (probably culminating in unlawful killings), tedious domestic violence, looting of shops as well as homes, sequential kidnapping, forced labour, and mind-numbing street barbarisms are now well-documented in the U.N. data-records and the statistic-annals of other rights groups and dependable sources including Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, Médecins Sans Frontières, U.S. Refugees International, and the BROUK.

http://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20150505-Burma-Report.pdf
http://refugeesinternational.org/policy/field-report/myanmar-tipping-point-rohingya-rights

The U.N. Special Rapporteur on 'Human Rights in Myanmar', Yanghee Lee precisely summed-up what she saw last year during her 10-day visit to Rakhine state," The situation is deplorable..!",she stated.

And now, this 'beleaguered and oppressed' minority of 'deplorable condition', is passing through a perpetually worsening 'ongoing crisis' of its own nature.

A 'three-fringed state of detention' has been constituted by: 1) the state-managed detention in so-called custodial campsites; 2) the trafficker-run hostage camps; and 3) prison sites contrived and owned by smugglers. Tens of thousands of families have been restrained in this cramped, three-fringed state of confinement where, besides women and the elderly, it is the children who are especially vulnerable to enslavement, with undescribed numbers already having been sold on, notifies the report, which focuses on the children trapped in this emergency situation.

It is estimated that well-over 1,78,000 children belong to the Rohingya minority.

It remains striking as well as surprising here that neither of the international rights groups, nor of the UN agencies including UNICEF, WHO or UNHCR seem to be in position to figure out the exact numbers of the children displaced or those detained in campsites and those at higher degrees of vulnerabilities involving severe health problems or even to certain extent, their existence too.

"After a careful analysis and thorough synthesis of the cross-referential data-statistics obtained from reliable sources, SAIRI's epidemiological experts find that, the children of these so-called refugees camps are having acute malnutrition rates well-crossing 30 % and hitting 35%, which is far beyond of 15%—the emergency level set by the World Health Organization",describes SAIRI report.

"The European Community Humanitarian Office, even years ago reported that the area had acute malnutrition rates hitting 23 percent, which was still beyond that of the emergency level declared by WHO", relates further SAIRI report.

http://www.newindianexpress.com/world/Rohingya-Children-in-Myanmar-Camps-Going-Hungry/2014/08/08/article2370085.ece
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/rohingya-children-myanmar-camps-going-hungry

The Desperate Circumstances:
Rohingya people are effectively 'held confined' in a 'state of statelessness', and hence, are deprived of all kinds of basic civil rights including emergency medical relief, the necessary provisions of food and water, and other humanitarian aids. The situation escalates and surges to multiplicative factors when it comes to children, the labouring women or in case of disables.

UNICEF describes the situation of chronic and acute mal-nutrition in the Rakhine state, where the Rohingyas are largely inhabited.

Children living in Rakhine are more likely to suffer from chronic malnutrition, more likely to be malnourished than the average Myanmar child, with almost '50 per cent of children being stunted'.

They are less likely to attend primary school and less likely to access adequate water and sanitation facilities than children living in other parts of the Union. According to a survey undertaken in 2010, only 12 per cent of children are likely to be born in a health care facility, compared to the national average of 36 per cent.

http://www.unicef.org/eapro/media_22655.html

An estimated number of 13,000 to 20,000 children, are confined into the isolated squalid camps in Rakhine, where, they are sub-humanely dealt with like 'farm animals'.

Not only are people being denied access to public services but they are 'effectively' prevented from leaving the area to seek emergency medical aid, even in the case of women in labour, and children.

In an article describing the Ohn Taw Gyi camp outside Sittwe, wrote Esther Htusan from Japan:
"Conditions in the camps, and elsewhere in Rakhine, went from bad to worse after the government expelled their main health lifeline, the Nobel-prize winning Doctors Without Borders. A month later, other humanitarian groups were temporarily evacuated after extremist stormed their residences and offices".

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/11/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/rohingya-children-slowly-starving-myanmar-camps/#.Vauz6bXa2Zh

The food rations the pregnant and lactating women get in camps is very little, and sometimes they even don't get any at all.

In these camps, the children can be seen everywhere with bloated eyes, tiny arms and legs, and with a face and skin that tightly clings to the bones.

The poor victimized women in the camps, after having lost their husbands, and seen their lives ruined, are desperate to save their children, marked further Htusan.

Extents of Enslavement:
Some 15,000 to 18,000 younger as well as older children have been resorting to fleeing off Myanmar through the Bay of Bengal in recent months. These flee-offs often take place on over-crowded rickety boats that end up adrift and stranded in the Andaman Sea. There are many recorded incidents of enslavement, with new research revealing the likelihood that tens of hundreds more children either prone to being enslaved or have already been sold as slaves, after having been held hostage and tortured in secret jungle precincts and at other hostage sites.

"The boys are sold for forced-labour and the girls into 'forced-prostitution' as sex slaves", endorse well-informed sources from in and out of the zone-areas.

The situation, reached the extents that, "The smuggling of Rohingya has become a significant industry along Thailand's Andaman coast. It's now said to be more profitable and less dangerous than selling drugs", asserted Alan Morison and Premkamon Ketsara, since in their reportage published in Phuketwan, Thailand, on the issue

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