World silent as Muslim massacre goes on in Myanmar

[joshcryer]

World silent as Muslim massacre goes on in Myanmar
Mohammad Hossein Nikzad, a close personal friend and a senior student of political science just called me a few hours ago, worriedly talking about the dire situation of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and the atrocities the Buddhist Rakhines are committing in the East Asian nation.

He called my attention to the mainstream media’s flagrant inattention to the heartrending genocide of the Muslims in Myanmar, saying that they are only a few second-rate news websites and some of the Iranian news agencies which have given coverage to the course of events.

And unfortunately, he was right. My searching for factual reports and articles regarding the massacre of Muslims in Myanmar by the extremist Buddhists yielded no significant results. I only found some pictorial reports of the burning of Myanmarese children published by Iranian news websites, an article by Ramzy Baroud which was republished in some Asian newspapers and an editorial by Dr Ismail Salami on Press TV. Neither Reuters, nor New York Times, nor Washington Post, nor Fox News nor their comrades and cronies in France, Germany, Britain, Australia and Canada had uttered a single word regarding the painful days the Muslims of Myanmar are experiencing.

Rohingyas are a Muslim people living in the Arakan region. As of 2012, 800,000 Rohingyas live in Myanmar. The United Nations says that they are one of the most persecuted minorities of the world. As a result of systematic discrimination they have endured over the past years, many of them have migrated to Bangladesh and Malaysia and currently 300,000 Rohingya Muslims live in Bangladesh and 24,000 in Malaysia.

[Dovid Rees]

1. This article has it backwards

The Rohingyas started attacking the Rakhines for no good reason, raping Rakhine women and killing children. I find it really hard to believe that Buddhist could ever do something like this. I have travelled to Asia and the Buddhists wouldn't even hurt an ant, much less a fellow human being. It is not in their nature to do so, because they do not believe in violence.

The Rakhines are just defending themselves against the Rihingya Muslim jihadists.

[joshcryer]

2. Rohingyas recount terror of Burma clashes

Rohingyas recount terror of Burma clashes
"My father was shot dead by the Burmese military in front me. Our entire village was destroyed. We ran for our lives. I still don't know what happened to my mother," she said, sitting in a thatched hut in a fishing village near the town of Teknaf in south-eastern Bangladesh.

Ms Khatun is one of the Rohingya Muslims who have managed to cross into Bangladesh following the communal unrest in western Burma's Rakhine province.

The 30-year old broke down repeatedly as she tried to explain what happened over the border.

She says their village came under attack during clashes between majority Buddhists and local Muslims, mostly from the Rohingya minority. Nearly 80 people were killed in the fighting and thousands were displaced.

Human rights groups allege that Burmese security forces continue to carry out mass arrests, forcing many Rohingya Muslims to flee. A state of emergency declared last month is still in force in many places of the province.

[Dovid Rees]

4. This is the burmese governmnt

Which as we know is run by a far-right right-wing military junta, not by Buddhists. In fact under the SPDC, Buddhist monks were massacred by the thousands on a daily basis.

[linux80386]

3. Sad

good article btw.

[Alamuti Lotus]

5. the "west" is too busy trying to get their claws into Burmese business interests

can't really be bothered with trivialities like "massacres" at the moment.. they see a serious opportunity to take Burma out of China's orbit, adding to the growing encirclement of China, and that far exceeds any other priority.

I have been morbidly fascinated with the really pathological treatment of the Rohingya since the very existance of modern Burma/Myanmar.. Hard to describe -- discrimination is a kind word, but persecution doesn't work either, the implication is too 'active'. It is more akin to an extensively outright denial that they exist at all. The Karen or the Shan may have existed in a state of warfare with the state since its founding (more or less), but their existance is at least acknowledged--the Rohingya communities are treated as either a foreign conspiracy, or just knocked around on the principle of their unpersonhood.