STOP SAVE ROHINGYA NOW

BURMA TASK FORCE BURMA TASK FORCE Burma Task Force (BTF) works to stop genocide in Burma. It is a coalition of 18 Muslim organizations which came together in 2012 at the invitation of Sound Vision in response to systematic attacks by the ultra-nationalist Buddhists supported by government military and security forces in the August of 2012 against the Rohingya.

The Coalition Members: CAIR, ISNA, Burmese Rohingya Association of North America, Free Rohingya Campaign, Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC), Islamic Council of New England (ICNE), Islamic Organization of North America (IONA), Justice For All, DawaNet, Majlis Shura of Atlanta, Michigan Muslim Community Council, Muslim Alliance of North America (MANA), Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), Muslim Leadership Council of New York, Muslim American Society, and Muslim Peace Coalition.

Justice For All is our fiscal agent which is a 501 (C) 3 organization for you tax deductible donations.

Burma Task Force is housed at Sound Vision as were Bosnia Task Force and the Kosovo Task Force.

Burma or ? In 1989, the ruling military government changed the name from Burma (pronounced Bama) to Myanmar (pronounced Myama). However, most people use both names. The US government and pro- supporters use the name Burma.

Booklet Designed by Aqsa Tahir and Hafsa Siddiqi. Written by Imam Malik Mujahid with contributions by others. Edited by Hena Zuberi. Photos by Bubbay Murray, Abdul Malik Mujahid and Shafiur Rahman. Repatriation infographics by Shakil Nundal and researched by Maung Zarni.

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Burma Task Force USA office: 27 E. Monroe St., #700, Chicago, IL 60603, USA (312) 750-1178 • www.BurmaTaskForce.org

Burma Task Force Canada Office: Task Force on Peace and Justice Canada 100-4310 Sherwoodtowne Boulevard, Mississauga, Ontario [email protected] • http://www.burmataskforce.ca/ 2 WE CANNOT SAY WE DID NOT KNOW genocide is happening right in front of our eyes. Before and after satellite images are documenting Athe genocide of Rohingyas live, as villages are torched by the Burmese military and then bulldozed to destroy evidence of the genocide. No genocide has been as well documented in history as this one.

But the world is once again failing to stop a genocide. is happening again.

Failure to act is encouraging other extremists. Burma, intoxicated by the world’s inaction, is now bombing a Christian ethnic group; has declared 13 million of its people—mostly —non-citizens and as I write this, 300 properties of Muslims including mosques have been attacked in .

Thanks to your efforts the United States House of Representatives has the unique distinction of passing two resolutions in support of Rohingya security and citizenship. This is an excellent start. But we must encourage our government to do more. Stakes are high. The whole region may ignite.

We can definitely do better. But that will require all people of conscience to demand action - as we did in Bosnia.

God controls the world. We don’t. But we will be asked what we did to stand up for the oppressed and uphold justice. Please join us today by signing up for our 10 minutes to stop genocide campaign.

Peace, Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid Chair

P.S. And please don’t forget to donate, share this booklet with others, and ask your religious institution to contribute. 3 WHO ARE THE ROHINGYAS? The Rohingya are indigenous people of Burma, living in their ancestral homeland.

he Rohingya are indigenous peo- ple living in their ancestral home- land—. Arakan state, now Tcalled Rakhine, has been an independent Burma/ state where Buddhist and Muslims co-ex- Myanmar isted for centuries ruling themselves.

Historically, Burma was never a coun- Rakhine try but a group of kingdoms. Burmans State occupied Arakan for a mere 40 years before they were defeated by the British, and modern borders drawn. In this sense, Rohingya did not come to Burma but Burma came to them. Currently, 40% of the population of Myanmar are minorities and 60% are Burman.

Rohingyas were citizens in Burma: voted, elected their representatives, served in the military, in government and the police force. However, the 1982 Citizen- ship Act, passed by the military regime, took away their citizenship. This policy launched a slow, increasingly destructive genocide which is in full swing now. Ro- hingyas have been living under for decades. They cannot attend school, hold jobs, marry, or travel freely. A coin with Muslim inscriptions from Arakan. Most Rohingya are Muslims. There are Buddhist kings of Arakan some Hindu and Christian Rohingyas as held Muslim titles and often employed Muslims well, many were among those attacked in prestigious positions and forced to flee to Bangladesh. Since within the administration. 1982, repeated military attacks have dis- [Ref. Yegar, Moshe. Between placed over a million Rohingyas. integration and secession: The Muslim communities of the The U.N. considers Rohingyas the most Southern Philippines, Southern persecuted minority in the world. , and Western Burma]

BURMA It is Illegal to use the word “Rohingya” in Myanmar becasue the TASK FORCE government wants the Rohingya to be known as illegal Bengalis. 4 WHO ARE THE ROHINGYAS? GENOCIDE NUMBERS 1,100,160 Rohingyas Refugees registered by the Government of Bangladesh as of April 11, 2018

687,000 129,000 300,000 Rohingya Rohingyas Other Rohingyas refugees who in Burmese inside Burma arrived after concentration Aug 25, 2017 camps

700,000 144,000 43,000 100,000 Rohingyas Single Missing parents Killed by in Pakistan, mothers Burmese , military and other countries

200,000 138,866 52% 350 At risk Children Of Rohingya Villages because of with acute women bulldozed Monsoon malnutrition surveyed season by the U.N. were raped

72,500 75,584 951 906 Housed Houses Madrasah Masjid’s Destroyed Looted Destroyed burnt

Prof. Penny Green says that Rohingyas detained in Burma are given BURMA calories similar to Nazi camps. Nicholas Kristof of New York Times calls TASK FORCE these camps the “Concentration Camps of 21st Century.” 5 WHAT FATIMA DID NOT TELL US WAS THE REAL STORY! mam Mujahid of Burma Task Force met Fatima a few days after her rickety boat was Irescued by Indonesian fishermen. Why did this young Rohingya girl leave Burma on her own? Why did her parents sell everything they owned to put their beloved daughter on a wooden boat transversing treacherous seas and an uncertain future?

Fatima shared her real name and other details. She, like others, was “I will go anywhere fleeing the genocide in Burma. my Rab would take me.” Throughout the conversation, her eyes remained furious and her face tense. I wish I had remained quiet. Her lowered eyes, her haya or modesty, As has become an instrument was enough to convey her trauma. of genocide in Burma, parents in I asked Fatima about her future. Myanmar are selling all they have to “Where would you like to go?” send their daughters out of Burma so that they are not raped by the military The furious eyes were back. or Buddhist extremists. She looked up. Still silent as if questioning my wisdom, her eyes “That was not in my mind when I asking me why. She finally spoke, asked Fatima why she left Burma. “Anywhere my Rab would take That was the first time her furious me.” eyes started looking downward. It was, however, her silence that spoke My heaving shook my phone as loud and clear, as my heart sank,” I recorded her story. Her face shares Imam Mujahid. blurred. I had to stop. But Fatima was tearless. Her tears long gone. “Ya , I told myself. I did not mean May Allah keep her safe. May Allah to raise that question. I raced to help us keep her in our hearts change the topic and made another and duas. May Allah help us all mistake as a Rohingya refugee to translate our anger into an teacher translating for me started energy of thoughtful struggle to giving words to her silence, telling me liberate the enslaved Rohingyas how the Rohingya women are raped. and to end the genocide.”

BURMAAung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Burma, dismisses sexual assaults BURMA BURMATASK FORCEby the Burmese military as “fake rape”, blames fake news and a TASK FORCE TASK FORCE misinformation campaign for fueling the crisis. 6 UN: 52% RAPED

I Would rather throw myself under a truck!

Anwara is a 13 year old victim of gang rape by Burmese military soliders who came in shifts all night long. Both of her parents and all siblings were murdered. She has learned tailoring in the camps thanks to Burma Task Force. This was her response to the repatriation plans.

Thanks to their united efforts under BTF, Muslims in America were able to get rape declared as a war crime under during the . Many criminals since have been tried and punished.

• The brochure on the left is designed to tell the stories of Rohingya women. Please order in quantity for your community.

The Rohingya Rape Victims of the Burmese Military • We are looking for women volunteer to take this cause forward. Please volunteer today! www.BurmaTaskForce.org

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I have been to 7 disaster zones around the world. I have never seen anywhere what is done to Rohingya “ women.” A nurse with Doctors Without Borders BURMA BURMA TASK FORCE TASKBURMA FORCE The UN investigative team is banned from Burma. Why is TASK FORCE Burma banning them if they say there is nothing going on? 7 HOW BURMA TASK FORCE HAS HELPED ROHINGYAS

Alhamdulillah, thanks to your support we have accomplished a lot for Rohingya Muslims. Here are some of the highlights. Working together insha Allah, we will stop this genocide.

2012-2016 • At the invitation of Sound Vision, 19 organizations joined Burma Task Force USA as a united voice to support Rohingya Muslims. Sound Vision also hosted Bosnia as well as Kosova Task Forces in the past. • Brought the name Rohingyas to the consciousness of Muslims in America. • Engaged 1,000 plus journalist to change their vocabulary of “communal conflict between Muslims and Buddhists” to of Rohingyas. • Trained Burmese monks to stand up against hate. • Regularly demonstrated at the Toronto media hub and successfully convinced the Canadian media to report on Rohingya genocide. • Prevented at least 3 major attacks on Rohingyas in Burma from accelerating through our 10 minutes a day campaign. • Organized a summit of Rohingya leaders in London and Oslo, Norway. • Sponsored conferences at Harvard, London School of Economics & others. • Filed a lawsuit in the USA against Burmese military leaders preventing them from coming to the U.S. • Organized a conference on Rohingya genocide at the Nobel Peace Institute, Oslo, Norway. • At our request, 7 Laureates signed a statement written by Burma Task Force stating “what Rohingyas are facing is a textbook case of genocide.” • Successfully convinced President Obama to speak up for Rohingyas during his trip. • Presented Buddhist Burmese monks who saved Rohingya lives with awards. • Due to our efforts, US House of Representative amended resolution 418 to add support for Rohingya citizenship at our request and passed it (the first elected body anywhere in the world to do so.) • Organized Burma Task Force network in Indonesia to help Indonesians stop their government support for Burma. • Organized world wide rallies in support of Rohingyas.

There are other Muslims in Burma who are not BURMA Rohingyas. They also face as TASK FORCE determined by the International People’s Tribunal on Burma. 8 HOW BURMA TASK FORCE HAS HELPED ROHINGYAS 2017 • Helped pass US House of Representative another resolution in support of Rohingyas. • Sponsored International Tribunal on Burma in London and Kuala Lumpur declaring Rohingya subjected to genocide and crimes against humanity. • President Trump called upon the to take action in Burma. • Urged Bangladesh Commission to count Rohingya casualties. • Started documenting atrocity crimes against Rohingyas guided by a lawyer of the International Criminal Court. • Provided major stories and findings to BBC and CNN on an exclusive basis. • Supported Dhaka Conference on the genocide of Rohingyas. • Senate Bill 2060 and House R 4223 introduced to promote sanctions. • Made presentations to communities, insitutions and officials including Canadian Senate and Global Affairs Institute. • Sponsored 3 documentaries on Rohingya genocide, funded photojournalists. • Organized nationwide rallies and protest at Myanmar embassy in support of Rohingyas. • Ongoing advocacy at the United Nations. 2018 • Organized Summit of Rohingya leaders in Washington D.C. • Rohingya Advocacy Day: Organized visits of 100+ advocates to 60 Senators and representatives. • Organized interfaith delegation of Christians, Buddhist, Jews and Muslims to the Rohingya camps. • Sent an interfaith letter to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh urging her not to send back Rohingyas without citizenship and security. • Delivered thousands of call across the United States to elected officials. • Senate Bill 2060, Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act, passed Senate Foreign Relations Committee. • Successful in efforts to get Fox News and other conservative media to cover the Rohingya genocide. • Met US State department, Canadian Foreign Office, and Bangladeshi Foreign , ambassadors to US, to Bangladesh, to Burma multiple times. • Coordinating efforts so that the International Criminal Court moves forward with the current case.

Before Suu Kyi became the government leader she BURMA stated that the Burmese military uses rape against TASK FORCE ethnic minorities. Now her spokesperson denies it. 9 WITNESS TO GENOCIDE: UNTOLD STORY OF TULA TOLI WHAT BODI SAW he former chair of Tula Toli village council, Bodiur Rahman, estimates that 1,700 Rohingyas were killed in This village alone. That is more than half of all Rohingyas of the village. Many survivors revealed that the Rakhine Buddhist mayor of the village placated the Rohingyas a day before the massacre - their houses would be torched but no one would be killed.

The next day, helicopters heralded the arrival of the military, which massacred villagers as their homes were ransacked and torched. They ran but were easy prey for soldiers. THE FAMILY OF NOOR The somber-faced 16-year-old stood silent in a narrow alley between two recently erected rows of huts at the Bangladesh-Burma border. Noor Muham- mad did not have a hut. He’s one of the younger survivors of the Aug 30, 2017 massacre in Tula Toli, a village on the bor- der of Burma. He is alone. Noor says his mother and father were murdered, along with his four sisters and two brothers and their children. Almost half in any group of Rohingyas interviewed have witnessed a loved one being being killed by the Burmese mil- itary, including children. A UN survey found that there 43,000 parents are missing, presumed dead.

How many Rohingya have to die; how many Rohingya women will be BURMA raped; how many communities will be razed before you raise your voice TASK FORCE in defense of those who have no voice? (from five Nobel Peace laureates - bit.ly/2wWrA7u) 10 WITNESS TO GENOCIDE: UNTOLD STORY OF TULA TOLI WHAT BODI SAW HOW HASINA SURVIVED

wenty-year-old Hasina Begum fled south toward the Dual Toli river with her baby, to escape Burmese Tsoldiers. Unfortunately, the rapidly flowing river was hard to cross and many of her neighbors who jumped in drowned. Sol- diers caught the rest and began killing the men, and forced the women to stand in shoulder deep water. Hasina was one of the women standing in the river. After hours of killing most of the men and throwing their corpses into a fire pit -- even those who were still alive -- the soldiers came for the women. Several soldiers dragged five women, including Hasina, to a hut. One snatched away her 16-month-old and threw the child into the fire. As they began ripping her clothes off to rape her, she resisted them and was hit and thrown into a hut, which was then set ablaze. But she remembers only one blow, saying that she did not feel the ones that damaged her jaw. Finding a small opening in the burning hut, she escaped and hid in a vegetable patch. Late at night and without any clothing, she made her way to a nearby forest where other survivors clothed her. 100 BUDDHIST LEADERS CONCERNED Some Buddhist leaders including Dalai Lama have spoken out in support of Rohingyas: Read more: tinyurl.com/Buddhist3

“Can anyone - can anyone - rule out that elements of BURMA genocide may be present?” – Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, U.N. High TASK FORCE Commissioner for Human Rights 11 APARTHEIDTHE APARTHEID BEFORE GENOCIDE The following comparison of the Buddhist and Rohingya population illustrates how Burmese government policies violate Rohingya’s basic rights BUDDHIST NEIGHBORS ROHINGYA NEIGHBORS

Are Citizens Citizenship taken away in 1982

Have one physician available per Have one physician per 158,000 681 people1 people1

Have the ability to live and own their 120,000 are in Burmese concentration own homes camps, 1 million in Bangladeshi camps and 1 million dispersed elsewhere2

Can marry without a license4 Ten years imprisonment for those who marry without permission. Permission is rarely granted4

Can have as many children as they wish4 Are allowed only two children per family4

Can attend school as they please4 Ban from entering school buildings since 19823

Can be employed Cannot be employed4

Can worship freely Banned from the entering a mosque since 20123

Can travel freely4 Cannot travel freely3

1. Mahmood, Syef S, et al. “The of Myanmar: health, human rights, and identity.” The Lancet, vol. 389, no. 10081, 1 Dec. 2016, www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)00646-2/references. 2. Ellick, Adam B. “21st-Century Concentration Camps.” , The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000002939059/21st-century-concentration-camps.html. 3. “.” Myanmar: Rohingya trapped in dehumanising apartheid regime, Amnesty International, 21 Nov. 2017, www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/11/myanmar-rohingya-trapped-in-dehumanising-apartheid-regime/. 4. Lindblom, Alina , et al. “Persecution of the Rohingya Muslims: Is Genocide occurring in Myanmar's ? A Legal Analysis.” Fortify Rights, Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, Oct. 2015, www.fortifyrights.org/downloads/Yale_Persecution_of_the_Rohingya_October_2015.pdf

The US Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, rescinded its BURMA prestigious from Suu Kyi for failing to speak out against ongoing TASK FORCE persecution of the . www.ushmm.org 12 APARTHEID BEFORE GENOCIDE IT IS GENOCIDE!

The UN first defined genocide in 1948 in The . The treaty outlines that any of the acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group constitutes as genocide. Below are four conditions outlined in the treaty that apply to the Rohingya situation proving that Burma is indeed guilty of committing a genocide.

GENOCIDE: Targeting and Killing Members of the Group: U.N. agencies, independent experts, and human rights organizations have reported the has used lethal weapons against Rohingya in Rakhine State. Research suggest that 48,000 parents are missing. It is close to our estimate that about 100,000 Rohingyas have been killed.

GENOCIDE: Causing Serious Bodily or Mental Harm: Rohingya women and girls are constantly subjected to rape by the Burmese Forces. Rape is used as a weapon to control and demean an entire village, as it often takes place inside mosques or in front of children, causing lifelong trauma. Torture is also used as a means to erase Rohingya identity.

GENOCIDE: Deliberately Inflicting Conditions to Bring About the Group’s Physical Destruction in Whole or in Part: Besides burning of 300 plus Rohingya villages, Rohingya are systemically denied medical care, sanitation, , and paid labor opportunities. They have not been allowed in schools and have been banned from entering a mosque since 2012. Journalists and human rights organizations have described the IDP camps where 125,000 Rohingya are forced to live as “unlivable ghettos”. Myanmar security forces have prevented Rohingya from leaving these camps.

GENOCIDE: Imposing Measures Intended to Prevent Births: In 1993 & 2005, the Border Immigration Control Headquarters and the Township Peace and Development Council of issued population control policies that state the Rohingya population is reproducing faster than “international standards” of population increase. The authorities offered no evidence to support these claims. In order to get married, Rohingya acquire a permit which is rarely issued. Anyone marrying without it are subject to prison sentences of up to ten years. Rohingyas are not allowed to have more than 2 children.

Many scholars have pointed out that Raphael Lemkin, who coined BURMA the term genocide, lobbied with the United Nations to include TASK FORCE efforts to erase a group identity by targeting its culture, its history, and its name - as we have seen with the Rohingya. 13 THe Waves of Genocidal Killings OF ROHINGYAS BY MYANMAR AND THE RESULTANT EXODUS SINCE 1978 Pretext 1978 1991-92 June 2012-15 Oct Oct 2016-17 JAN AUG 2017 SEPT "illegal pro- support "Communal violence" & "Bengali extremist "30 government Pretext immigration check" & "" "Yugoslavia-like transition" militancy" security posts attacked"

200,000 - 220,000 REPATRIATED

EXODUS EXODUS EXODUS EXODUS EXODUS 290,000 260,000 225,000 100,000 582,000 PERSONS PERSONS PERSONS PERSONS PERSONS

180,000 REPATRIATED IDP’s 125,000 + 100,000 refugees

GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT The military gov. of ex-General The military gov. of Sen. General The quasi-civilian gov of The Military - Aung San Suu Kyi The Military - Aung San Suu Kyi Ne Win Saw Maung, V.Sen. General Than ex-general Thein Sein Gov Gov Shwe & Gen. Khin Nyunt

PERPETRATORS PERPETRATORS PERPETRATORS PERPETRATORS PERPETRATORS The or the military The Tatmadaw or the military Organised local Rakhine armed The military (air force, navy and The military (air force, navy and with local Rakhine collaboration. with local Rakhine collaboration. gangs backing from the army) with the collaboration of army) with the collaboration of Tatmadaw or Burmese military. organized Rakhine armed gangs. organized Rakhine armed gangs.

"Citizenship Act of 1982" Spread of Outside MYANMAR 1,096,000 De-nationalized Rohingyas Rohingyas Inside MYANMAR 484,000 Source BBC,19/10/2017

Sources 1) Former Head of Myanmar Military Intelligence; 2) UN; and 3) Media THe Waves of Genocidal Killings OF ROHINGYAS BY MYANMAR AND THE RESULTANT EXODUS SINCE 1978 Pretext 1978 1991-92 June 2012-15 Oct Oct 2016-17 JAN AUG 2017 SEPT "illegal pro-Aung San Suu Kyi support "Communal violence" & "Bengali extremist "30 government Pretext immigration check" & "ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION" "Yugoslavia-like transition" militancy" security posts attacked"

200,000 - 220,000 REPATRIATED

EXODUS EXODUS EXODUS EXODUS EXODUS 290,000 260,000 225,000 100,000 582,000 PERSONS PERSONS PERSONS PERSONS PERSONS

180,000 REPATRIATED IDP’s 125,000 + 100,000 refugees

GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT The military gov. of ex-General The military gov. of Sen. General The quasi-civilian gov of The Military - Aung San Suu Kyi The Military - Aung San Suu Kyi Ne Win Saw Maung, V.Sen. General Than ex-general Thein Sein Gov Gov Shwe & Gen. Khin Nyunt

PERPETRATORS PERPETRATORS PERPETRATORS PERPETRATORS PERPETRATORS The Tatmadaw or the military The Tatmadaw or the military Organised local Rakhine armed The military (air force, navy and The military (air force, navy and with local Rakhine collaboration. with local Rakhine collaboration. gangs backing from the army) with the collaboration of army) with the collaboration of Tatmadaw or Burmese military. organized Rakhine armed gangs. organized Rakhine armed gangs.

"Citizenship Act of 1982" Spread of Outside MYANMAR 1,096,000 De-nationalized Rohingyas Rohingyas Inside MYANMAR 484,000 Source BBC,19/10/2017

Sources 1) Former Head of Myanmar Military Intelligence; 2) UN; and 3) Media How Did BURMa Task Force Get 7 Noble Peace Laureates Agree to Declare Rohingya Persecution a Text book case of Genocide

“What Rohingyas are facing is a textbook case of genocide in which an entire indigenous community is being systematically wiped out by the Burmese government.”

Harvard Nobel Nobel BURMA University Women Peace TASK FORCE initiative Institue

UN Special Radio envoy Parliament of World Religions

Desmond Mairead Maguire Jody tawakkol Shirin Leymah Adolfo Pérez Tutu from from Northern Williams from Karman from Ebadi from Gbowee from Esquivel from South Africa Ireland USA Yeman Liberia

BURMA “They should remember Buddha in such circumstances, TASK FORCE Buddha (would have) helped those poor Muslims” – Dalia Lama 16 WHAT DO ROHINGYAS WANT? 4 STRATEGIC DEMANDS BY BURMA TASK FORCE ADOPTED IN A MEETING OF ROHINGYA LEADERS

1. Declare it is a genocide. The Genocide treaty requires nations to interfere to stop a genocide and punish those who are responsible for it.

2. Rohingya must not be forced back to the genocide zone without security and citizenship. Establish a UN defended safe zone in Burma as called for by the Bangladeshi prime minister.

3. Enforce strong and comprehensive sanctions against the Burmese regime, excluding any sanctions on food and medicine, until the Government stops genocide, accepts safe zones, and restores Rohingya citizenship.

4. Continue aiding Bangladesh to ensure the Rohingyas are treated as refugees with proper relief, , and .

Burma has a population of about 50 million of which nearly 8 million BURMA are Muslims. Of the Muslim population, about 3.5 million (both at TASK FORCE home and at the places of refuge) are Rohingyas of Arakan. 17 Faces of Hate ASHIN WIRATHU TIME magazine described this Buddhist monk as “Face of Buddhist Terror.” He labeled mosques as “enemy bases”. The Burmese government has failed to effectively reign in his hate movement, allowing a ban on public preaching to expire, and never stopping him from traveling to Rakhine State or consorting with military groups. Up to now he has also used to spread his hatred of the Rohingya. Monks, Military & SUU KYI are All together! GENERAL Senior general of Myanmar armed forces walking with Suu Kyi. He led the genocidal operations calling it “ left over business from World War II”.

Rakhine or Rohang are the names of the same area previously BURMA TASK FORCE called Arakan. It lies on the northwestern part of Burma with 360 miles coastal belt from the . 18 AUNG SAN SUU KYI PRESIDING OVER ROHINGYA GENOCIDE

Suu Kyi, the leader of Burma, bowing down to the grand monk of Burma Sitagu Sayadaw who provided theological bases of killing non- Buddhists. He is Burma’s most revered Buddhist leader. Addressing hundreds of officers at a military base in a live broadcast he asked soliders not to fear the sinfulness of taking human life. Sitagu Sayadaw has long made excuses for the military’s abuses against Rohingya Muslims.

• Suu Kyi told CNN that she is a politician not a human rights defender. • Suu Kyi is THE leader of Burma. She supports and does not condemn the genocide • Suu Kyi and head of the armed forces Gen. Min Aung Hlaing could potentially face genocide charges in the future, said the United Nations human rights chief, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. • The City of Oxford has stripped her of a human rights award. • Holocaust Memorial Museaum has stripped her of their award as well. • There have been calls from her fellow Nobel laureates for her peace prize to be annulled.

Suu Kyi “is directly responsible for the crimes perpetrated BURMA TASK FORCE against the Rohingya Muslims,” Shirin Ebadi, a Nobel Peace Laureate. 19 SUU KYI Must be targeted: Geldof

Imam Malik Mujahid with discussing strategies to support Rohingya cause. Bob Geldof is known for raising aware- ness about hunger in Africa. Bob Geldof was honored by MPAC for refusing an honor given to Burmese leader Suu Kyi. He hand- ed the Freedom of Dublin City back in protest at the fact that Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi was also a recipient of the award. The move caused the Dublin City Council to stripped Suu Kyi of her honor. Burma Task Force honored Monks who saved lives

Burma Task Force trained Burmese monks to stand up against hate in Burma. We also honored 3 monks who saved lives of 2,000 Burmese Muslims at the Nobel Peace Institute, Norway where Nobel Peace Prizes are given out.

Burma is a home to numerous ethnic groups and about 60% of BURMA the area is inhabited by nearly 140 ethnic races and Rohingya TASK FORCE is one of them. 20 CALL YOUR SENATORS & REPRESENTATIVE NOW! & THEN KEEP CALLING! Helpful Tips • Learn their position before he US House of Repre- you call or write sentative was the first • Take a delegation to their elected body in the office Tworld which passed a resolu- • Organizational letters tion in support of Rohingya se- are important. Get your curity and citizenship. Burma organization to write a letter Task Force lobbied for Res. 418 and Res. 90. • Follow up is key • Keep us informed We are now looking forward to the passage of Senate Bill • We can develop a custom 2060 as well as House Res. memo for you to give to your 4223. These bills ask the State representatives Department to make a de- termination of genocide and crimes against humanity. They impose sanctions on Burma and allocate $103 million ad- ditional dollars for Rohingya relief.

You can write and call your legislators from our website: BurmaTaskForce.org/congress

You will find calling scripts and other tools there.

BURMA TASK FORCE 21 Take Action & VOLUNTEER WITH US Sign up for our newsletter and action alert to stay updated. There’s always more you can do. This is how you can contribute to the cause and spread the word!

1. Make sincere supplication to God for the relief of our persecuted brothers and sisters in Burma.

2. Distribute our flyers and action alerts online and in print.

3. Donate to Burma Task Force to stop genocide of Rohingyas.

4. Encourage your khateeb to remind the congregation of the plight of Rohingya. Talking points can be found on our resources page.

5. Reach out to personal connections (especially in Canada, , France and Germany, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Nigeria) to pressure influential governments to call the situation what it is: a genocide, and to take action.

6. Organize informative events in your local communities to promote awareness. We can help connect you to Rohingya leaders or to other experts.

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