 |
Kalau
kemanusiaan tersinggung, semua orang yang berperasaan dan berpikir akan ikut
tersinggung, kecuali mereka yang gila atau berwatak kriminal.
—Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Rohingya Muslim is a minority people
among a Buddhist majority in Myanmar. They basically are the people of Myanmar,
but Myanmar considers the Rohingya to be immigrants from Bangladesh and West
Bengal. Therefore, the government of Myanmar has treated its Rohingya Muslim
people as intruders for years. The violence conflict between Buddhist and
Muslim communities rises to worsen in Myanmar since 2012. From that year on, many Rohingya Muslims have
been made homeless and hundred have been killed. The Myanmar government, who
have to take the charge for their people, especially Rohingya Muslims in this
case, has fled from their duty. Even thought they seem to respond the critic
from other countries by proposed an action plan that allowed Rohingya people to
gain their full citizenship, still it’s seem to be unrealistic opportunity for
Rohingya people. It’s unrealistic because the Rohingya are not eligible for
full citizenship unless they can meet the nearly impossible requirements—they
have to track their family history in Myanmar back to the days before British
colonization. Those who fail to meet the standards would be put into what
Myanmar calls “a resettlement zone”. Those who refuse to go through the process
would be assigned to a displacement camp. Facing the quite impossible
requirement, Rohingya Muslims decide to flee from that country by boat. They
drifted in crowded boats in the seas off Southeast Asia, begging for food and
water, some dying along the way. They throw the died-body to the sea. Some
others die when they jump to the sea to ask help from fisherman. Then, where is
the world when all this tragedy happened? Yes, the world has closed its eyes to
the agony of Myanmar’s Rohingya for too long. Indonesia and Malaysia are, at
least temporarily, taking in some of the migrants who suffering at the sea and
give them temporary residence. Thailand, which has agreed to help but won’t
take in more survivors, feed them food from helicopter like they are fish. Is
there any humanism left in our world? This is a very serious humanism tragedy
of our age. There are many reasons to save Myanmar’s Rohingya, but the main
reason, the basic reason, is that we have to reconsider the basic fundamental of
human right. Below I will give three justifications why Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis
is a serious humanism tragedy.
First of all, according to the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights which is made by the United Nations, all
human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights (Article 1). It’s
clearly that everyone whether they Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Hindus,
Catholic, or even an atheist deserve to get freedom and dignity in their life.
It’s not the one right to take someone or a community rights. What happened
with Myanmar’s Rohingya is a serious violation of the Human Rights. In
Myanmar’s Rohingya cases the role of United Nations itself is questioned. The
United Nations, who is represented the voice of Nations in the world, keep in
silent. They realize that there is a genocide crime which is did by Myanmar’s
government. They realize that the Myanmar’s government has failed on its role
as a government. As we know the violence conflict between Myanmar’s Buddhist
and Rohingya has revealed in 2012. But long day before it’s revealed the
conflict has emerged. It’s a suck of human rights tragedy for our age. The age
where technology and science has evolved rapidly, but it doesn’t followed by
humanism of the human itself.
The second is the idea of equality.
The idea of equality is another principle that we, as the human beings, have to
hold. The idea of equality itself can be devided into three types. They are political
equality, economical quality, and social equality. The first one that we have
to give to Myanmar’s rohingya is the social equality. The social equality is
very important in Myanmar’s Rohingya cases. It’s important because the social
equality will cover the status of Myanmar’s Rohingya. It will also confess them
as the member of human beings. Through this social equality Myanmar’s Rohingya will
not be differentiate with the other human beings. But unfortunately, the social
equality can only be achieved when political equality is at hand. Therefore,
when the role of Myanmar’s government has failed, the United Nations should
take an action in order to guarantee the idea of equality which is to be the
essential point of human rights.
The last is the right to life. Based
on the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights article number 3,
“Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person,” it has stated
clearly enough that Myanmar’s Rohingya deserve to get their life, deserve to
get their liberty, and deserve to get their security. They deserve to life the way they want, and
it’s not the right of someone or even a country to take their freedom. If one who
dare enough to take the essential of human life that is the right to life, it
will absolutely a serious criminal. The other important note is, when we, the
member of human beings, knew such Myanmar’s Rohingya tragedy and we let this
genocide happen in our world it’s obviously we have totally lost our essential humanism.
As can be seen, when we let Myanmar’s
Rohingya crisis continuously happen, it’s quite clear that we will lost something important inside of us. It’s also clear enough that Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis is a serious
humanism tragedy. As some reasons which has mentioned above, they are:
1. Everyone deserve to get their dignity and freedom in their
life.
2. Everyone have the same opportunity to be equal in politic,
social, and economical.
3. Everyone have the
right to life.Picture taken from : http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2012/ /5/201212519154861734_20.jpg
0 comments:
Post a Comment