Aung San Suu Kyi/Myanmar/Rohingya
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Pesty said:
There has been significant violence from that alien group who have basically invaded and taken over a region and are wanting to impose their sky fairy rules.
Some countries will react differently to that.
Some countries will react differently to that.
Perhaps this is a portent of the future for the UK.
Edited by Tom Logan on Monday 11th September 12:20
Pesty said:
Mothersruin said:
If you want to use wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_insurgency_...
Here's how it looks to me.
Rakine people live on the western side of Burma in their own area and harmonious with Burma as a whole - this area is mostly Buddhist with a few pockets of other religions.
There's then a huge influx of people from the West (Bengal) that threaten their way of life due to significant religious & cultural differences - these people then become the majority, want land annexed and start kicking off big style when they don't get their way.
Maybe I'm reading it completely wrong.
There has been significant violence from that alien group who have basically invaded and taken over a region and are wanting to impose their sky fairy rules.Here's how it looks to me.
Rakine people live on the western side of Burma in their own area and harmonious with Burma as a whole - this area is mostly Buddhist with a few pockets of other religions.
There's then a huge influx of people from the West (Bengal) that threaten their way of life due to significant religious & cultural differences - these people then become the majority, want land annexed and start kicking off big style when they don't get their way.
Maybe I'm reading it completely wrong.
Some countries will react differently to that.
Its all very strange. Aug San Sushi (or however you spell it...), was the best thing since sliced bread, according to the BBC, for at least the last 15 years. Now she's running the show, she's not so quick to condemn these things. Money? Power? Hypocrisy??? You would've thought that at the very least, she would threaten going back into house arrest or similar.
http://www.religionmind.com/2017/09/who-says-buddh...
An alternative viewpoint. I have a feeling we don't have the full picture in Myanmar, just more people doing s
tty things to each other.
An alternative viewpoint. I have a feeling we don't have the full picture in Myanmar, just more people doing s
tty things to each other.Still no let up in Burma.
“Myanmar: images show Rohingya villages still being burned, says Amnesty
The human rights group says attacks on Rohingya Muslim are continuing, despite Aung San Suu Kyi’s claims to the contrary”
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com...
“Myanmar: images show Rohingya villages still being burned, says Amnesty
The human rights group says attacks on Rohingya Muslim are continuing, despite Aung San Suu Kyi’s claims to the contrary”
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com...
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/09/25/myan...
The 20-year-old said she lost 23 family members as Rohingya militants swarmed the clutch of Hindu villages in Kha Maung Seik, near the Bangladesh border.
On Sunday the army said 28 badly-decomposed bodies of Hindu men, women and children had been pulled from two mass graves in the same area.
It was not immediately clear if they belonged to Chaw Shaw Chaw Thee's family.
Heavily pregnant when she fled, she gave birth at a disused football stadium in Sittwe, where hundreds of traumatised Hindus now sleep on grubby mats in the overcrowded concourse.
An army lockdown has made it impossible to independently verify what happened in the villages of northern Rakhine, an area dominated by Rohingya Muslims who are a minority elsewhere in the mainly Buddhist country.
But allegations, carved along ethnic lines, are spinning out as conspiracy and competing identity claims override empathy between former neighbours.
Hindus, who make up less than one percent of Rakhine's population, accuse Rohingya of massacring them, burning their homes and kidnapping women for marriage.
The 20-year-old said she lost 23 family members as Rohingya militants swarmed the clutch of Hindu villages in Kha Maung Seik, near the Bangladesh border.
On Sunday the army said 28 badly-decomposed bodies of Hindu men, women and children had been pulled from two mass graves in the same area.
It was not immediately clear if they belonged to Chaw Shaw Chaw Thee's family.
Heavily pregnant when she fled, she gave birth at a disused football stadium in Sittwe, where hundreds of traumatised Hindus now sleep on grubby mats in the overcrowded concourse.
An army lockdown has made it impossible to independently verify what happened in the villages of northern Rakhine, an area dominated by Rohingya Muslims who are a minority elsewhere in the mainly Buddhist country.
But allegations, carved along ethnic lines, are spinning out as conspiracy and competing identity claims override empathy between former neighbours.
Hindus, who make up less than one percent of Rakhine's population, accuse Rohingya of massacring them, burning their homes and kidnapping women for marriage.
The Burmese military continues to operate with impunity.
Myanmar’s brutal and internationally-condemned purge of Rohingya Muslims amounts to “dehumanizing apartheid,” Amnesty International said in a scathing report released on Tuesday. Security forces in the Buddhist-majority country have waged a gruesome crackdown against the minority Muslims living in Rakhine State over the past three months, driving well over half a million refugees into neighboring Bangladesh. Amnesty has documented violent persecution of Rohingyas including rape, torture and other forms of abuse by state officials. “In the case of the Rohingya this is so severe and extensive that it amounts to a widespread and systemic attack on a civilian population, which is clearly linked to their ethnic (or racial) identity, and therefore legally constitutes apartheid, a crime against humanity under international law,” the human rights organization explained in its report.
The UK has received "very troubling" evidence which will be used to assess whether genocide has been committed against Rohingya Muslims in Burma, Boris Johnson has said. The Foreign Secretary added that the treatment of the Rohingya risked meeting the definition of ethnic cleansing, and called on Burma’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn what was happening in her country before it was too late.
Myanmar’s brutal and internationally-condemned purge of Rohingya Muslims amounts to “dehumanizing apartheid,” Amnesty International said in a scathing report released on Tuesday. Security forces in the Buddhist-majority country have waged a gruesome crackdown against the minority Muslims living in Rakhine State over the past three months, driving well over half a million refugees into neighboring Bangladesh. Amnesty has documented violent persecution of Rohingyas including rape, torture and other forms of abuse by state officials. “In the case of the Rohingya this is so severe and extensive that it amounts to a widespread and systemic attack on a civilian population, which is clearly linked to their ethnic (or racial) identity, and therefore legally constitutes apartheid, a crime against humanity under international law,” the human rights organization explained in its report.
The UK has received "very troubling" evidence which will be used to assess whether genocide has been committed against Rohingya Muslims in Burma, Boris Johnson has said. The Foreign Secretary added that the treatment of the Rohingya risked meeting the definition of ethnic cleansing, and called on Burma’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn what was happening in her country before it was too late.
del mar said:
I thought the Army carried out their own investigation into their own activities / conduct and found they had done nothing wrong.
How would that work then? of course they're going to say that. The treatment of the Rohingya people has been appalling. Sky news did a great piece a few days ago with Alex Crawford and it was very sobering indeed.
I really don't get Aung San Suu Kyi and her unwillingness to accept the situation. She has been universally condemned and even that hasn't done much.
I think the latest news is that many of the Rohingya people will be allowed to return home, however the atrocities that have taken place cannot be reversed.
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