Yunus’s open letter was added to Amartya Sen
On September 13, 13 people from the world renowned 30 people, including 12 Nobel laureates, wrote an open letter to the UN Security Council’s emergency intervention to stop Myanmar army tensions on Rohingyas in Rakhine state. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has added his name to the letter.
This information was given in a statement signed by Luna Morshed, Executive Director of Yunus Center on Tuesday. In the statement, Amartya Sen said, generally he does not add his name to any joint statement. However, he signed the Rohingyas due to the tragic situation. He mentioned this in a letter to Muhammad Yunus.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Middle East-based businessman Arif Naqvi requested to add their name to the open letter. As a result, the number of signatories has reached 36 in the letter so far. Of these 36 people, 13 Nobel laureates have won.
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu, Malala Yousafzai, Shirin Avila, Betty Williams, Mayridge Maguire, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Leah Boi, Tawakkal Carman, Jodi Williams signed the open letter in response to the call of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus at the same time.
Besides, Indian poet Javed Akhtar and actress Shabana Azmi and Pakistan’s human rights leader Asma Jahangir are also involved.
Former Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino, former Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Alber, Norway’s former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, Former Secretary-General of ASEAN Surin Pitman and Former Foreign Minister of Thailand Kassit Piromia.
To this people, Muhammad Yunus wrote that because of the increase in the level of violence in the Rakhine state last year, some of the Nobel Laureates and some prominent people in the world have urged you to intervene in this regard.
If you respond to that call, there is no improvement in the situation. We again request you to take specific and effective measures to stop the torture of innocent people and establish peace in the Rakhine state permanently.
In this open letter, Muhammad Yunus said that hundreds of Rohingya people were killed in the violence of the Myanmar army. Millions of people are displaced. Many villages have been burnt down. Women are being raped; The children are being stuck, the men are being stuck. But human aid agencies are not allowed to enter it.
It is also said that when the British left in 1948, other ethnic groups including Rohingya were citizens of that country during the independent government of Myanmar. Parliamentarians and ministers were also Rohingya In the 1980’s, the military rulers suddenly refused to accept the Rohingyas as their own citizens. Since then, military and political strategies for the ousting of Rohingya have been started.
Calling upon the Myanmar government to stop violence, they urged the government to take initiative. He also demanded the implementation of the recommendations of the ‘Rakhine Advisory Commission’ led by Kofi Annan.
In order to implement the recommendation of the Commission, some recommendations were also made in the open letter.
