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"en.20120913.35.4-351-000"2
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the government of Burma has started along the tremendous and important path towards opening up. It has granted political freedoms, released nearly all its political prisoners and successfully negotiated ceasefires with nearly all the ethnic groups. It is therefore all the more contradictory and alarming that discrimination against the Rohingya minority should be increasing and that this has progressed as far as extreme and open violence, with deaths, injuries, internally displaced people and refugees. A state of emergency has even been declared in some places. We discussed this intensively in the Subcommittee on Human Rights in July, and our demands can also be seen in today’s resolution.
On the one hand, those responsible for this unrest must be punished. Action must be taken. On the other hand, however, the government and all the political forces in Burma must find the courage and the political will to address the fundamental causes and find solutions. In that connection, it is absolutely necessary that the Rohingyas should be given the prospect of citizenship. The necessary statutory framework for this must be created. Citizenship is very important. It provides the right to live as citizens in a multicultural state with the same rights and obligations. The EU should demand that the government of Burma does this, and put itself at their disposal to help in any way it can in respect of how something like that is done."@en1
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