Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar

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Background:

Who will help Myanmar's Rohingya?

Myanmar treatment of Rohingya looks like 'textbook ethnic cleansing', says UN

In an address to the UN human rights council in Geneva, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein denounced the “brutal security operation” against the Rohingya in Rakhine state, which he said was “clearly disproportionate” to insurgent attacks carried out last month.

More than 310,000 people have fled to Bangladesh in recent weeks, with more trapped on the border, amid reports of the burning of villages and extrajudicial killings.

Video: ‘Endless Stream’ of Rohingya Flee Military Offensive

 

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Perspective the political situation and what king of a situation leader (and Nobel Peace Prize winner) Aung San Suu Kyi is in.

Myanmar's Crisis Meets Reality

The military's campaign is part of a strategy to harness the Buddhist majority's deeply held sentiments against the Muslim Rohingya. But expelling the Rohingya also helps the military impugn Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi in the eyes of Myanmar's people. In pressuring her to voice some support for the plight of the Rohingya, the military is attempting to show that she is not prepared to stand up for the Buddhists against the Rohingya or other ethnic minorities deemed by popular sentiment to not be part of the Burmese nation.

The military also hopes to undermine Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi in the eyes of the international community, where she is seen as too weak in her defense of the Rohingya. The military has been succeeding in this, even though she has been largely powerless to act, given the legal, constitutional and realpolitik constraints she is facing.

The international community, therefore, faces and dual crisis of its own: First, an enormous humanitarian emergency in Rakhine State. Second, a military strategy manufactured to undermine Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's standing at home and abroad, and to pave the way for a return to a form of military rule.

Of note:

'A lot of fake news': Burmese back Aung San Suu Kyi on Rohingya crisis

“Only an acute fear, coupled with resentment, can produce the collective mental state that’s being expressed right now in Myanmar,” said Francis Wade, the author of Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim Other. “It’s hard to see how a minority that is effectively quarantined in a remote corner of the country can be the source of a national hysteria without there having been some careful engineering of the public discourse surrounding them.”

 

[ImTheCaptain]

have we found a new worst-Nobel prize winner?

 

[Louis Gossett Jr]

So what you're saying is they aren't white christians?

 

[dartsndeacs]

You most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.

 

[DeaconSig]

I feel like there is an opportunity to transport any member of ISIS who really wants to fight a jihad to Burma and let them and the Burmese military duke it out.