Since September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on United States the Burmese military junta known as State Peace and Development Council ( SPDC ) has been in a restive mood to tarnish the image of the freedom movement of the people of Arakan. The junta is trying to secure international support, particularly to gain the support of the United States, through the prism of terrorism with intent to divert the attention of the people of the world away from the serious situation in the country. Especially Rohingyas are implicated, for being simply Muslims, to have link with al-Qaeda and Taliban.
The Arakan Independence Alliance (AIA), an umbrella Organisation of the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) and National United Party of Arakan (NUPA), states that none of its component organisation is involved in any activities that are not in line with its policies and programmes and are not in conformity with its goal. The CNN videotape number C205 showing alleged fighters training in 1990 in Burma is of no linkage to us.
AIA, is a joint freedom movement of the all the peoples of Arakan, without distinction as to race, colour or religion, to shape and charter the national destiny of the people of Arakan as an independent nation in accordance with their freewill in order to ensure their future and that of their children and their generation to come. AIA is committed to preserve the composite nature of the Arakan society and uphold the principle of ‘peaceful co-existence’ among all or different national groups of Arakan. It believes that the joint struggle of the Buddhist and Muslim communities of the homeland is absolute imperative to liberate their homeland from the yoke of the Burman colonialism for founding a peaceful democratic Arakan.
Burma under military regime has totally lost its image among the international community because of its worst human rights violation records and autocratic rule. It has been facing increasing global pressures. For long time, the SPDC is trying to gain international support while continuing its policy of suppression against the democracy activists and country’s non-Burman nationalities and nations. Particularly it aims at the people of Arakan to cleanse them racially. The junta sees the 11/9 terrorist attacks on United States and US led war on terrorism as an opportunity to seize and to gain the support of the United State and international community by trying to link the Rohingya freedom fighters with al-Qaeda and Taliban while offering its cooperation with the US in its war on terrorism.
We call upon all the compatriots with their organizations opposed to the military junta for unified actions against the SPDC to bring an end to its autocratic and colonial rule.
Joint Executive Committee
Arakan Independence Alliance
Arakan.
Arakan Independence Alliance
Arakan.