UN Forum
11th
on Minority
Issues
Session
Geneva,
29-30
November
2018
Statement:
Thank
you for the floor.
Muslim.
be
Many
both
people
Human
being
rendered
through
and
preventing
Despite
1982
causes
being
Citizenship
Law-which
country
Myanmar
and
do not believe
As
the
of
that
executive
on behalf
denial
I am a
one can
director
of the
of a community
citizenship,
that
is
institutionalised
persecution.
consequences
to citizenship
Issues
I am from
speak
the
of statelessness
statelessness
entitled
Win.
a Muslim.
I largely
and government-backed
2: Root
minorities:
is Kyaw
and
Network,
invisible
on Minority
in my home
national
Rights
discrimination,
Item
My name
in power
a Myanmar
Burma
UN Forum
through
'even
has been
a human
according
used
affecting
rights
approach
to Myanmar's
to grant
deeply
citizenship
flawed
on the basis
of
ethnicit7-Muslims
in the country are routinely refused such identity documents.
The
cases
most
severe
Rohingya
community.
ethnicity
and
We
belong
continues
San
to Myanmar,
to gather
Suu
Kyi's
momentum
National
Myanmar's
current
is designed
rather
which
than
political
rights
political
as their
if we can attain
throughout
This
ID cards
our lives
conflation
to a nationality
is being
imposed
of ethnicity
guaranteed
and
built
any group
of
upon
administration
Democracy
a legacy
UN member
pressure-including
on
ethnic
the-
must
Burmese
us. This
headed
the
in power
and religious
of these
diversity
communities
a multi-ethnic,
draft a citizenship
states
must
comprehensive
democratic
role in the country.
to create
right
the current
for
nationalities
Muslim
in
is a signatory.
framework,
so that
blood",
the
by Aung
Myanmar
military.
army-drafted
be complicit
Buddhist
trend
2008
with
the
hegemony
one of inclusivity.
a federal,
political
ethnic
League
perpetuates
Recommendation:
enact
under
foreign
citizens.
of our
Myanmar
against
discrimination
third-class
but statelessness
Constitution,
military,
to claim
to further
violation
to which
perpetrated
us as "mixed
or even
is a clear
15 of the UDHR,
been
are forced
is linked
of second-
citizenship
Article
have
to categorize
a classification
and the status
this
Muslims
in an attempt
at all. Such
of
Constitution
Such
place
sanctions-on
that removes
a Constitution
and clearly
law in line with
must
outline
will be protected.
multi-religious
significant
rights
Myanmar
the military
be inclusive
the mechanisms
Myanmar
commission
human
economic
must
to draft
and
any
of Myanmar's
by which
the
also be pressured
of grassroots
norms.
from
and
stakeholders
to