ميانمار: الرئيس يستهزئ بمسلمي الروهينجا ويرى أنهم بحاجة للتعليم

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

صرح الرئيس البورمي "ثين سين" في حوارٍ له مع شبكة صوت أمريكا؛ أنه سيقوم بفتح المدارس أمام البنجاليين -قاصدًا مسلمي الروهينجا الذين يعتبرهم مواطنين غير شرعيين بالبلاد– وذلك لكي يتعلموا التعليم الحديث، وليعلموا الصواب من الخطأ وليصبح لديهم قدرة على التفكير واتخاذا القرار، مُشيرًا إلى أنه وبرغم كل ما لديهم من مدارس دينية إلا أنهم يفتقرون للتعليم المناسب، -على حد تعبيره-.

وقد رفض "ثين سين" الاعتراف بالمذابح التي يتعرض لها المسلمون على أيدي البوذيين، خاصةً مع اعتبار مئات الآلاف من مسلمي "بورما" مهاجرين بنجاليين غير شرعيين، كما رفض السماح بوجود لجنة لتقصي الحقائق أو مناقشة المذابح. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Purmese President Thein Sein says his government will open schools to improve the education of minority Rohingya Muslims who accuse the majority Buddhist state of persecuting them.

In an exclusive interview with VOA Burmese Service chief Than Lwin Htun,  President Thein Sein said education is an important tool to help different communities live in harmony and respect human rights.

In the interview, conducted Monday in the capital, Naypyitaw, the Burmese president said Bengalis, his term for the Rohingya, only have religious schools and lack what he called "proper education."

He said his government "will open schools for them and give them modern education, and once they become educated, they will be more thoughtful and can decide what is right and what is wrong."

The Burmese government refuses to recognize the country's estimated 800,000 Rohingya Muslims as an ethnic group and denies them citizenship. Many Burmese consider the Rohingya to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

Rohingya Muslims, who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh to escape religious violence, sit in a boat after being intercepted crossing the Naf River by Bangladeshi border authorities in Taknaf, Bangladesh, June 13, 2012.

Monday's interview is the first to be granted to VOA by a Burmese head of state. Burma's previous military-led administration, in which Mr. Thein Sein served as prime minister, banned VOA and accused it of spreading lies.

He also reiterated Burma's opposition to any foreign investigation of recent deadly sectarian violence between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in the western state of Rakhine. The Saudi-based Organization for Islamic Cooperation has called for such an investigation of the violence, which its members view as a case of religious persecution against the Rohingya.

President Thein Sein said the government is giving assistance to the victims and has asked an "independent" Burmese Human Rights Commission to investigate the unrest, which erupted in May and killed 77 people from the Rohingya and Buddhist communities. He said there is "no need" for a foreign commission to investigate the violence as an international issue.