Oh Rohingya, who are you?<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
you are many things to many people.<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
you are a name 50 million Myanmar are brainwashed to hate who know next to nothing about what’s in a name.<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
you are the content to erase from textbooks whose “not real” identity the snake-tongued Suu Kyi seeks to ban in her dubious Diplo-Speak<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
You are a fundable project in the name of “local partners”<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
You are an award-winning subject of reportage or documentary<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
You are a legal volleyball played by human rights rights lawyers<\/p>\n
On Rohingya<\/p>\n
You are a security threat nations and regions, potentially as “radical Islamicists”;
\nnever mind that you have not blown yourselves up in 40 years since your lot’s genocide began.<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
you are a new ‘boat people’ whose survival flights at night the United Nations bleached as\u00a0“irregular movements”<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
you are a subject of surveillance to many a “anti-terror sickos”<\/p>\n
For you pray out lou to Allah when your infants are burned alive, and the world stand idly by.<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya,<\/p>\n
you are a subject of worldwide charity, but the one which triggers no real solidarity.<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
you are a subject of interest which neo-Orientalist academics & experts dissect, from Asian Studies to the US Institute of Peace<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
you are sources of memories to extract, collate, compile and deposit in some posh Ivory Tower<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya,<\/p>\n
you are an agenda item which UN councils will debate, closed doors, with neither substance nor results, for decades.<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
you are creatures whose children have been orphaned by the hundreds of thousands<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
you are a people whose women have been widowed, raped, maimed, & terrorised.<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
you are this deeply pathetic world’s Celebrities from Hell<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
you are a subject of endless TV shows, academic debates, photography exhibits, and policy masturbation<\/p>\n
Oh\u00a0Rohingya<\/p>\n
you are Myanmar’s Commander-in-Chief’s “unfinished business”\u00a0the\u00a0High Command’s objects of\u00a0extermination,\u00a0the ground troops’ preys for mass-rape, burn alive, mutilate, blow up, fire upon, bayonet,\u00a0behead or cut throat, literally.<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
you are our\u00a0world’s largest tribe of Survivors with No Promised Land to run<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
you are a people stranded on our Earth, without the Right to Belong or Settle-down<\/p>\n
Oh Rohingya<\/p>\n
you are a people in desperate need of a Homeland.<\/p>\n
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In deep disgust, wrote the poetry this afternoon\u00a0after feeling rather outraged and dismayed at what I have been observing every day about the “Rohingya crisis” over the last 6 years.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, it is the crisis of Humanity itself, the crisis that exposes this deeply inhumane and immoral world run by those with neither the intellectual vision\u00a0nor human compassion.<\/p>\n
MAUNG ZARNI<\/p>\n
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This poem has been written on Friday 30 March 2018 first published on poet\u2019s blogsite<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh Rohingya, who are you? Oh Rohingya you are many things to many people. Oh Rohingya you are a name […]<\/p>\n