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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes anyone else seem similarities between what happened in Myanmar and Rump?
In terms of ideology and hate rhetoric, they seem close.
The UN investigators were denied access to Myanmar by the government but interviewed 875 witnesses who had fled the country. They found that the military were killing indiscriminately, gang-raping women, assaulting children and burning entire villages in Rakhine, home to the Muslim Rohingya, and in Shan and Kachin. The Tatmadaw also carried out murders, imprisonments, enforced disappearances, torture, rapes and used sexual slavery and other forms of sexual violence, persecution and enslavement all of which constitute crimes against humanity.
The UN report is very likely to anger Myanmars military and government, which have denied genocide has occurred in Rakhine and claimed that the Rohingya whom they regularly refer to as illegal Bengali immigrants instigated the violence by attacking security forces and then burning their own villages to the ground. Both the military and the civilian government, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, have stated that the actions of the armed forces were an appropriate response to terrorists.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/27/myanmars-military-accused-of-genocide-by-damning-un-report
The UN report is very likely to anger Myanmars military and government, which have denied genocide has occurred in Rakhine and claimed that the Rohingya whom they regularly refer to as illegal Bengali immigrants instigated the violence by attacking security forces and then burning their own villages to the ground. Both the military and the civilian government, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, have stated that the actions of the armed forces were an appropriate response to terrorists.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/27/myanmars-military-accused-of-genocide-by-damning-un-report
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Does anyone else seem similarities between what happened in Myanmar and Rump? (Original Post)
ProudLib72
Aug 2018
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I was listening to the UN decision on NPR and realized how it hit close to home
ProudLib72
Aug 2018
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2naSalit
(86,649 posts)1. Yup.
Was thinking about that a little while ago. Hatred is global when stoked by enablers and thieves.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)2. I was listening to the UN decision on NPR and realized how it hit close to home
People need to realize that our country is capable of atrocities too. Shoot, the baby camps were were like a first phase.
2naSalit
(86,649 posts)3. Incrementaliiy they are
pushing us there, if we let them.