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{"id":23524,"date":"2019-06-04T12:36:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T11:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rohingyapost.com\/?p=23524"},"modified":"2019-09-01T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T11:37:17","slug":"rohingya-community-mark-10th-eid-festival-of-breaking-fast-since-resettlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rohingyapost.com\/rohingya-community-mark-10th-eid-festival-of-breaking-fast-since-resettlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohingya community mark 10th Eid \u2013 \u2018Festival of Breaking Fast\u2019 \u2013 since resettlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As over 1.6 billion Muslims around the world celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr \u2013 \u201cFestival of Breaking the Fast\u201d after a month of fasting from dust to dawn, a small Rohingya community marked the festival on its 10th year of resettlement in Carlow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the 19 hours of fasting a day for 29 days may seem an unmanageable spiritual undertaking, the community finds it a mandatory task to stand in solidarity with people of destitute the way Irish society has stood up since resettlement in April 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ramadan (The Month of Fasting) may have passed, but the spirit of fasting should not be taken out of our hearts for the rest of year and years ahead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are people deprived of love and compassion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are people without basic human rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are people without food and shelters around the world including over 70 homeless Irish people in Carlow where the Rohingya community is provided a place to call home and where it is given the compassion, love and solidarity when needed most.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have never felt so loved and welcome in our lives being born in Myanmar (Burma) and growing up in the refugee camps in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cCarlow has been a wonderful home which upholds the very meaning of Ramadan \u2013 love, compassion, solidarity and peace,\u201d describes Mohammed Rafique, Chairman of Rohingya Action Ireland and Carlow Cricket Club.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">78 members of the community were resettled from two refugee camps in Bangladesh where they have fled the mass atrocities being committed by Myanmar Military in 1991-2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of the community were born or spent at least 17 years in the camps before their resettlement in Carlow under the refugee resettlement programme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mass exodus during \u201cthe ongoing genocide\u201d now makes up over 1.3 million Rohingya refugees including many relatives of the community in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The writer Haikal Mansor is a member of Rohingya Action Ireland based in Carlow, and general secretary of the European Rohingya Council (ERC). 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