Kabar dan Dosa

Kabar-kabar tentang azab yang mengerikan

Orang-orang yang menutup mata hati dan indranya (deria)

Berpaling dari seruan kebenaran ajaran tuhan

Kehancuran dan malapetaka baginya

Kabar-kabar tentang nikmat kemuliaan

Orang-orang yang menakhlukkan nafsunya dengan takwa

Melaksanakan seruan kebenaran ajaran Tuhan

Maka kedamaian dan kebahagiaan lah baginya

Mengejar kedudukan, menjual kehormatan

Mengejar popularity,  menjerumuskan teman

Berdusta itu dosa, Menghina juga dosa

Menipu itu dosa, mengganggu juga dosa

Berjudi itu dosa, mencuri juga dosa

Menfitnah itu dosa, berzina juga dosa

Dosa dosa dosa……

Khabar duka dan gembira

Sering sudah disampaikan

Cobalah menganalisis 

Memetik suri tauladan

Sudahkah anda yakin dan percaya

Surga dan neraka itu ada

Syaitan durjana musuh yang nyata

Iman yang lemah jadi mangsanya

Kekuasaan sewenang-wenangnya

Pasti datang kebinasaan

Kemunafikan, kedurhakaan

Pasti datang kutukan Tuhan

Kabar-kabar tentang kejayaan yang tumbang

Sedu sedan penyesalan mohon ampun, sia-sia
…
Azab yang pedih berlaku karena ingkar kepada tuhan

Utamakan kesadaran agama

Segala kekacauan segera dimusnahkan

Betapa kerusakan korban bergelimpangan…

Mengapai Matahari

Tiada hujan tanpa berawan

Tiada bulan tanpa berbintang

Tiada juang tanpa rintangan

Tiada menang tanpa cabaran 

Tiada kumbang tanpa penyengat

Tiada bunga tanpa mahkota

Tiada senang tanpa keringat (peluh/lelah)

Tiada jaya tanpa bekerja

Dalam musibah pasti kan ada hikmah

Habis gelab pasti kan terbit terang

Setelah malam pasti akan ada pagi yang menanti 

Smoga diberikan kemudahan

Kemudahan serta kelapangan

Didalam menggapai matahari

Menggapai segala cita-cita 

Dengan Rahmat Tuhan yang maha Esa.

STOP!

Hentikan perdebatan. Hentikan pertengkaran

Hentikan permusuhan, Hentikan pertikaian

Mari kita saling berkasih sayang dan menumbuh 

Hargai pendapat orang

Bila terdapat beda pandangan

Belajarlah untuk bertoleransi sesama

Sejauh tidak ada yang dirugikan

Jangan kita saling benci

Jangan kita saling dengki

Bersikap baiklah kepada setiap insan sebagai kau ingin 

diperlakukan

Tebarkanlah budaya kasih dan sayang…

Aduhai sayang waktu yang berharga

Habis terbuang dibakar angkara (tamak)

Tunjukkan pandang arah masa depan

Masih banyak yang harus dikerjakan

Agama bangsa dan Negara

Menagih baktimu wahai sahabat

Mari kita berlomba-lomba

Tuk menggapai kebajikan

Keimanan dan kesabaran

Jadikanlah itu sebagai landasan menuju kejayaan

Pengabdian

Hidup laksana satu jalan
berlembah jurang dan likuan
penuh onak duri merintang
hidup memang penuh tantangan (cabaran)

Tetapi inilah suratan
berlaku bagi tiap insan
hidup adalah pengabdian
pengabdian kepada Tuhan (Allah)

Dalam rumah tangga ada pengabdian
sesama keluarga
dalam pergaulan ada pengabdian 
diantara teman
dalam negara ada pengabdian
sesama warganya
dalam agama ada pengabdian
hamba pada Tuhan (Allah Yang Satu)

Sesama manusia ada kewajiban
memberi dan menerima
begitu juga dengan alam kita berkaitan
pasti saling membutuhkan (memerlukan)

Di dalam pengabdian ada pengorbanan
itu sangsi (hukuman/kecurigaan) kehidupan
agar tak sia-sia semua pengorbanan
lakukanlah pengabdianmu seamta-mata lillah…….

Romantik

Yang menangis dan yang tertawa

Yang bersedih dan yang gembira

Selalu mewarnai hidup manusia

Baik ia miskin ataupun kaya

Yang jelata dan yang ternama 

Yang tak punya dan yang berada

Pasti merasakan suka dan duka

Itu kisah cinta hidup di dunia

Jangan lupa daratan
 
Apabila dalam kegembiraan

Dan jangan putus asa

Apabila didalam kesedihan

Sedih dan gembira tak kan selamanya

Semua kan sirna ganti dan berubah

Tidak peduli siapapun dia

Tak berarti yang kaya 

slalu hidup di dalam kegembiraan

tak berarti yang papa

slalu hidup di dalam kesedihan

disana letaknya keadilan Tuhan

sedih dan gembira sama diberikan

keduanya itu sebagai ujian

Stateless Rohingya

Who are the Rohingyas?

The Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted communities in the world. Although, they have been living in the state of Arakan since the 8th century (which is now part of Burma), the Rohingyas have been under extreme scrutiny by the Burmese government. They haven't been recognized as citizens of The Union of Burma since the 1962 coup d'etat by General Ne Win. After decades of oppression and marginalization, the passing of the 1982 Citizenship Law deemed them officially stateless.

Timeline

• 8th century: Dated Rohingya ancestry in Arakan
• 1799: A Comparative Vocabulary of Some of the Languages Spoken in Burma Empire published by Francis Buchanan- The first historical document mentioning the Rohingya or today’s Rohingya.
• 1947: Constitution of the Union of Burma is proclaimed with some of Burma’s first citizenship laws. The Rohingya vote in the 1st Constituent Assembly Elections.
• 1948: Independent Union of Burma is created.
• 1959: Rohingya recognized as a race with equal rights, by Prime Minister U Ba Sue.
• 1962: General Ne Win overthrows U Nu government in a military coup.
• 1978: Operation Naga Min was launched, Rohingya targeted and massacred; 250,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh
• 1982: Burma Citizenship Law enacted, no longer recognized Rohingya as citizens; 800,000 Rohingya left stateless
• 1982 onwards: Rohingya subjected to abuse, forced labor, harassment, rape, arbitrary land seizure, destruction of property
• 2012: 2 waves of violence erupted between the Rohingya and Rakhine in Arakan, devastating both communities resulting in mass killings and torture, 135,000 Rohingya displaced whom now live in IDP camps in the Sittwe township.

WARNING: There are distressing images in the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vntGrS2nvY 

Why are they in trouble?

Human rights abuses against the Rohingya have been entrenched into the social, political and economic systems of Burma or Myanmar for decades. Pushed to the margins of society, they are:

• restricted in their movement
• required to attain permission to marry from the NaSaKa (Arakan border force)- failure to do so will result in arrest
• denied the right to work
• denied education
• denied freedom to practice their religion and cultural customs

This is simply because of the Rohingya- as one of the many ethnic minority groups in Burma, are different in:

• race (Rohingya are darker in appearance to the majority Burmese, with different physical and facial features.
• their language
• their faith (Rohingya community follow the religion of Islam)
• their traditions and culture

As a result of these difference which many racist claims claim makes them, not Burmese, but in fact Bangladeshi, the Rohingya are subjected to living as ‘non- citizens’ in their own homeland.

Situation in Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, the Rohingyas are faced with hardly any protection from their host country. A burden to the densely populated country, the Rohingyas are living a harsh life in refugee camps, struggling from malnourishment, isolation, illiteracy, and neglect. There is one registered camp situated meters away from the unregistered camp where 90,000 refugees live. There is also another camp 15 miles away in Leda Bazaar, where approximately 25,000 Rohingya live.

Similar to the Rohingyas living in Burma, the Rohingya refugees are limited in their movement and often subject to exploitation. In refugee camps, the Rohingya women are victims of sexual violence, children are denied education and there is limited access to health and medical aid. The hostile environment for Rohingyas in Bangladesh urges the refugees in Bangladesh and Burma to seek help in other parts of Asia such as Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia; however, these parts are not usually welcoming or like Bangladesh, do not have the resources to house another community. It is Burma's duty to accept the Rohingya as citizens, accept their history and ensure the safe repatriation of each and every single member of the community back into Arakan. Although safer than being persecuted and killed in Burma, the Rohingya community in Bangladesh is a stateless community who want to return to Arakan when it is safe to call it home.

Proposal

Restless Beings aims to champion the rights of the Rohingya community via an international campaign and work towards encouraging the Burmese government to grant the Rohingya citizenship that is rightly owed to them. We also aim to help facilitate the repatriation of the Rohingya from the IDP camps back to their homes in Arakan and repatriate Rohingya refugees living in host countries back into Burma.

What have we done so far?

Since the launch of our Stateless Rohingya Project, we have been working towards making a consistent change to reach our end goal.

• In Bangladesh, Leda Bazaar is ‘temporarily’ home to 90,000 Rohingya refugees in the registered camp and another 25,000 in an unregistered camp. In 2009 and 2010 Restless Beings visited these camps and met the Rohingya refugees living in dire conditions. We monitored the lack of access to education and employment and we are continually finding ways in which they can be supported.
• Restless Beings had also established relationships with the Rohingya diaspora living in the UK and other countries and learned about the Rohingya culture, heritage and also about their own personal plight. Through this, we have worked together on many occasions to champion the rights of the Rohingya community .
• In 2012, the ethnic strife in Arakan between the Rakhine and Rohingya devastated both communities after two bouts of violence broke out in June and October; Restless Beings responded to this matter in a number of ways with immediate effect from protests and petitions to facilitating updates (photos and footage) to the likes of Channel 4, BBC and Al Jazeera. We had compiled our own report from what we had received from our sources in Arakan.
• Protests and Petitions:
  • In response to the outbreak of violence in June and outraged by the lack of support from the international community, we had launched our own campaign to voice the Rohingya. We first held a protest outside the Bangladeshi embassy in London and handed in our petition signed and supported by 2462 people.
  • During the Olympics, a peaceful protest was held to raise awareness for the barbaric human rights abuses and state sponsored ethnic cleansing being inflicted upon the Rohingya communities by the Burmese government.
  • After the second wave of violence in October we had launched our second campaign, ‘Global Day of Action’; A petition signed by 11,112 people from all over the globe to urge the UK government to take action and to stop defending the Burmese government for allowing the massacre to continue; this was followed by worldwide simultaneous protests, held on the same day to raise awareness injustice inflicted on the Rohingya.

Our stateless Rohingya project is predominantly about raising awareness of decades-long abuse against a community that rightfully deserves citizenship in their own homeland. It is essential that the rights of the Rohingya are recognized internationally and we need your support to continue to ensure that it is. You can read the latest updates from Arakan on our website and also our Twitter and Facebook accounts.

2015 Rohingya refugee crisis

The 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis refers to the mass migration of thousands of Rohingya people from Myanmar (also known as Burma) and Bangladesh in 2015, collectively dubbed 'boat people' by international media.^[1] Nearly all that fled traveled to Southeast Asian countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand by rickety boats via the waters of the Strait of Malacca and the Andaman Sea.^[1][2][3][4] The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that 25,000 people have been taken to boats from January to March in 2015 by human traffickers.^[5][6] There are claims that around 100 people died in Indonesia,^[7] 200 in Malaysia,^[8] and 10 in Thailand^[9] while on their journey after the traffickers abandoned them at sea.^[10][11]

In October 2015, researchers from the International State Crime Initiative at Queen Mary University of London released a report drawing on leaked government documents that reveal an increasing "ghettoisation, sporadic massacres, and restrictions on movement" on Rohingya peoples. The researchers suggest that the Myanmar government are in the final stages of an organized process of genocide against the Rohingya and have called upon the international community to redress the situation as such.^[12]

Background

Main articles: Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar and 2012 Rakhine State riots

Rohingya people in Rakhine State

The Rohingya people are a Muslim minority group residing in the Rakhine state, formerly known as Arakan.^[13] The Rohingya people are considered “stateless entities”, as the Myanmar government has been refusing to recognize them as one of the ethnic groups of the country. For this reason, the Rohingya people lack legal protection from the Government of Myanmar, are regarded as mere refugees from Bangladesh, and face strong hostility in the country—often described as one of the most persecuted people on earth.^[14][15][16] To escape the dire situation in Myanmar, the Rohingya try to illegally enter Southeast Asian states, begging for humanitarian support from potential host countries.^[17]

On 1 May 2015, about 32 shallow graves were discovered on a remote and rugged mountain in Thailand, at a so-called "waiting area" for the illegal migrants before they were sneaked through the border into Malaysia. A Bangladeshi migrant was found alive in the grave and was later treated at a local hospital as told to Thai news agencies.^[18][19] On 22 May 2015, however, the Myanmar navy rescued 208 migrants at sea, and upon inspection, confirmed themselves as having come from Bangladesh.^[20]Protests by nationalists erupted in the capital, calling for the international community to stop blaming Myanmar for the Rohingya crisis.^[21]

On 24 May 2015, Malaysian police discovered 139 suspected graves in a series of abandoned camps used by human traffickers on the border with Thailand where Rohingya Muslims fleeing Burma were believed to have been held.^[22][23]

Statistics

Bangladesh is home to 32,000 registered Rohingya refugees who are sheltering in two camps in the south-eastern district of Cox’s Bazar.^[24] According to some statistics,^[who?] more than 140,000 of the estimated 800,000 to 1,100,000 Rohingya^[25] have been forced to seek refuge in displacement camps after the 2012 Rakhine State riots.^[26] To escape the systemic violence and persecution in Myanmar, an estimated 100,000 people^[27] have since fled the camps.^[28] About 3,000 Rohingya refugees traveling to Southeast Asia from Myanmar and Bangladesh have been rescued or have swum to shore, while several thousand more are believed to remain trapped with little food or water on the boats floating at sea.^[29]

Responses

At first, Malaysia refused to provide any kind of refuge to the people reaching its shore but agreed to "provide provisions and send them away".^[30] Later, Malaysia and Indonesia agreed to provide temporary refuge to the Rohingya.^[31] Thailand said that it would provide humanitarian assistance and would not turn away boats that wish to enter its waters.^[32]

Australian foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop said that Indonesia believed only 30 to 40 percent of those at sea were Rohingya, with the remainder mostly being Bangladeshi "illegal laborers."^[33] The State Department of United States expressed its intent to take in Rohingya refugees as part of international efforts.^[34]

The Philippine government expressed their wish to provide shelter for up to 3,000 "boat people" from Myanmar and Bangladesh. As a signatory to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the country abides by the rules of international law and will provide assistance to refugees.^[35] Malacañang Palace also noted in a statement that this follows the country's harboring and assistance to Vietnamese boat people fleeing from Vietnam in the late 1970s.^[36]

The government of The Gambia also expressed their concern and wished to take in stranded boat people saying, “it is a sacred duty to help alleviate the untold hardships and sufferings fellow human beings are confronted with.”^[37]

Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina called the boat people "mentally sick" and said that they could have better lives in Bangladesh.^[38] The Bangladeshi Government later planned to relocate Rohingya refugees who have spent years in camps near the Myanmar border.^[39]

US president Barack Obama urged Myanmar to end discrimination against the Rohingya minority on 2 June 2015.^[40]