(Direct translation of news
articles from the Eleven Media Group on 22 August 2013.)
Crying Quintana recalling emotionally his so-called dangerous encounter with town-Buddhists in Meikhtilar. |
Burmese government and the local
Buddhists from Meikhtilar in Burma had strongly denied the hated-Qunitana’s
emotional claim that his vehicle-convoy was violently attacked by the
townspeople in Meikhtilar at about 10 in the night of 19th August.
“My car was descended upon by a crowd of around 200 people who proceeded
to punch and kick the windows and doors of the car while shouting abuse.” in
Quintana’s own words.
At his August-21 airport-press-conference
just before his departure from Rangoon International Airport the UN Special Rapporteur
for Human Rights in Burma Tomas Ojea Quintana recalled his fearful experience
in Meikhtilar and claimed that about 200 strong mob bashed the panels and
kicked the doors and windows of his vehicle and the police escort with him
didn’t do a thing to protect him.
He emotionally added that during the
violent encounter with local Buddhists he fearfully remembered the Muslims’
accusations that Burmese police just haplessly watched while the Buddhist mob
attacked and burned alive 43 Bengali-Muslims during anti-Muslim
riots in Meikhtilar just last March.
“The fear that I felt during this
incident, being left totally unprotected by the nearby police, gave me an
insight into the fear residents would have felt when being chased down by
violent mobs during the violence last March as police allegedly stood by as
angry mobs beat, stabbed and burned to death some 43 people.” in Quintana's own words.
Government’s Strong Denial of Quintana’s Accusation
Quintana's press conference at Rangoon Airport (Aug-21). |
Ye Htut explained that the local Buddhists
waiting for Quintana’s arrival there were just trying to give a protest letter
and a No-Quintan T-shirt direct to their hated Quintana who is widely perceived
by the Buddhists in Burma as a Muslim-biased UN’s instigator.
Ye Htut also added that Quintan’s
convoy was headed by a police vehicle and another police vehicle with
armed-police was also in the convoy just behind Quintana’s vehicle. Another 30
policemen were on the ground to clear the protesting crowd and the people of
Meikhtilar had no intention of harming Mr. Quintan the important UN figure for
Burma.
“Because of strong police presence and the crowd’s good behaviour
Quintana’s convoy drove through without a scratch on the cars of the convoy,” said strongly Ye
Htut the Deputy Information Minister and the Government’s Spokesperson.
Locals’ Version of the Ugly Encounter With Hated-Quintana
Policemen protecting Quintana could be seen clearly. |
“We were just waiting to give him a letter protesting of his
Muslim-biased attitude and a No-Quintana T-shirt. We didn’t hit his car or kick
the car doors and windows like he accused us of doing,” explained May Thet Oo
a local Buddhist woman who was there at the scene that night.
“When Quintana’s cars arrived at the Bridge the protesting crowd was
only about 150 left. We thought the very first car had Quintana and so the
crowd moved forward to show him our placards. But the traffic police and the
town’s elders calmed the crowd and it took no more than three minutes to clear
the way.
There was no danger whatsoever to Quintana even though most people in
Meikhtilar hate him. His cars were halted just few minutes. We just wanted to
show him our Quintana Get-Out placards and let him hear our protest chants.
Later we three locals followed them to the Government Guesthouse to
deliver our open-protest-letter. We were not allowed to see Quintana and we had
to leave the protest letter with the District Administrator.
Anti-Quintana protest in Meikhtilar. |
De Maw Soe another Meikhtilar local man
also said, “We just wanted him to see our
protesting placards and to hear our chanting. We didn’t do anything harmful to
his personal safety. His car just halted for just few minutes, that’s all.
Nothing serious happened there.”
“Ko Mae Pa, Ko Dee Maw Soe, and Daw May Thet Oo, only three of them
locals, followed them to the Communication Guesthouse and delivered a protest
open-letter through the local government figures. We protested just to show him
our bitter feelings, the whole town’s real feelings. We had no intention of
endangering his life. No one was carrying any weapons except our protest
placards,” said Htein Win Mon another local Buddhist man.
Security Men’s Explanation of What Happened Exactly There
Police line protecting Quintana and his convoy in Meikhtilar. |
Following was what a ranking member of
local police force said of the events that day when Great Tomas Quintana
visited Meikhtilar.
“Since midday that day we placed a police security detail at the
Meikhtilar-Bridge. At 6 pm we added ten plain-clothed policemen there at the
bridge. And ten more uniformed-policemen near the bridge. Also a police light
truck with ten armed-policemen was parked nearby.
Two traffic-policemen were right on the bridge clearing the traffic when
Quintana’s convoy arrived. Security Minister of Mandalay Division Colonel Aung
Kyaw Moe himself and the Meikhtilar District Administrator U Tin Maung Soe and
his staffers were with the convoy too.
One of the cars in the convoy also carried Meikhtilar Police-Chief Sat Nay
Lin and seven fully-armed policemen. Security of the convoy and Mr. Quintana’s
personal security was fully taken care of and he had no reason to be fearful of
being attacked by a Buddhist crowd. It was just nonsense and a horrible lie.
The convoy reached the Bridge at 10:35 sharp and reached within five
minutes the Communication Guesthouse which was more than half-a-mile from the
Bridge. The convoy left the Guesthouse at 10:55. Most of that time Mr. Quintana
was inside the car and there was not a single dangerous instance threatening
his personal safety.”
The security personnel had advised to
enter Meikhtilar by the Thee-Gone Road instead of the Kan-Goung Road. But Mr.
Quintana himself insisted on seeing the crowd waiting for him at the bridge and
forced the convoy to head there instead of safer Thee-Gone Road.
Administrator’s Version of the Ugly-encounter
Tin Maung Soe was in the car right
behind Qunitana’s car and this was his description of what he saw exactly that
night.
“Local people were just trying to give him a letter. They were not
hostile and they meant no harm to Quintana. The traffic blockage there lasted
only about 3 minutes. Once the crowd surged towards Quintana’s car the
plain-clothed police banged the car as a signal to drive through.”
According to him the letter to Quintana
had following four points of local Buddhists’ grievances towards Quintana.
1. They wanted Quintan to leave Burma ASAP as he
has been instigating the Bengali-Muslim illegal immigrants.
2. They demanded Quintana never to come back again
to Burma.
3. They wanted Quintana to be immediately removed
from his UN position.
4. They strongly denounced Quintana for deliberately making UN looks bad
in Burmese people’s eyes.
But Tin Maung So accepted the fact that
the locals were quite aggressive that night as they just wanted Quintana to
know that they were extremely unhappy with his strong pro-Muslim and
anti-Buddhist stance.
Newspaper-Man’s Account of the Ugly-encounter
Wunna Soe is a leading reporter working
for Eleven Media Group and he were in many dangerous instances during last
March riots in Meikhtilar while reporting the explosive situations and trying
to stop the massacre of Muslims by the local Buddhists. And he was in Meikhtilar
again to report the arrival of Tomas Quintan in this August. Following was his
witness account of what happened exactly that night.
“What I saw with my own eyes was that the protesting crowd just surged
onto the road as the point car of Quintana’s convoy reached there. But they
immediately discovered Quintana was not in that car. Straight away the police
and local elders cleared the road for the convoy to drive away.
At later cars the crowd tried to surge forward again but the traffic
police and the security police formed a line and prevented the protesters from
approaching the cars. People were raising and pushing their placards so that
Quintana could see their slogans like “Quintana
Get-Out” and “Bengali-Instigator
Quintana”.
Once the convoy drove away towards the Communication’s Guesthouse some
hardcore protestors followed the convoy in about 20-30 motorbikes. Not more
than 40 protestors, I guessed. Once near the guesthouse where the convoy had
stopped for a while they started shouting stuff like “We don’t want Quintana” and “Get-Out,
Quintana, Get-Out”.
One thing peculiar was that the convoy could have easily avoided the
waiting crowd by using Thee-Gone Turn at Mandalay-Meikhtilar Road. Instead they
chose to use Kan-Goung Turn and ran head-on with the protesting crowd and
things turned out quite ugly. Who made that bad decision? I have not a clue!”
Were you really scared, Quintana? Please don't worry, they banged your car just to give you a letter, not to harm ya! |
They are now afraid that he will be
pushing with his extremely-negative report to coming UN General Assembly for
more intensive pressure on Burma from the Multinational Muslim Mafia OIC (Organization
Of Islamic Cooperation) at UN.
Tomas Quintana has been repeatedly calling for the repeal of Burma’s
1982 Citizenship Act so that the millions of illegal Bengali-Muslims now
waiting on the Bangladeshi border will become Burmese citizens.
That is the exact reason why every
Burmese Buddhist hates Quintan from their guts, for that 1982 Citizenship Act
is the only barrier stopping the millions Bengali-Muslims of Bangladesh from
swallowing whole us Burmese-Buddhists.
And that is the very reason our senior government
officials including the President U Thein Sein and the Army-Chief General Min
Aung Hlaing had refused to receive Quintana personally despite his repeated
demands to see them.
Burmese people and their government have totally lost confidence in UN's Tomas Ojea Quintana and his credibility is now absolutely zero in Burmese eyes. He should resign immediately his once-very-important post which itself is no longer appropriate for newly democratic Burma, period.
(Please sign the petition to remove Tomas Ojea Quintana from his important UN post.)
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(RFA Youtube video of Quintana's airport press conference.)
Related posts at following links:
Burma's 1982 Citizenship Act and UN's Quintana
Remove Quintana: Demanded Burma's 24 Political Parties
Burmese people and their government have totally lost confidence in UN's Tomas Ojea Quintana and his credibility is now absolutely zero in Burmese eyes. He should resign immediately his once-very-important post which itself is no longer appropriate for newly democratic Burma, period.
(Please sign the petition to remove Tomas Ojea Quintana from his important UN post.)
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Related posts at following links:
Burma's 1982 Citizenship Act and UN's Quintana
Remove Quintana: Demanded Burma's 24 Political Parties