ROHINGYA EXODUS
Myanmar is now in news for all the wrong reasons - slit throats, burnt villages, dead children and raped women in thousands of numbers, but all of these are being claimed FAKE by the Burmese[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"></v:stroke> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></v:f> </v:formulas> <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"></v:path> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"></o:lock> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="officeArt_x0020_object" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t75" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left; margin-left:249.1pt;margin-top:19.9pt;width:232.3pt;height:174.25pt;z-index:251659264; visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:12pt; mso-wrap-distance-top:12pt;mso-wrap-distance-right:12pt; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:12pt;mso-position-horizontal:absolute; mso-position-horizontal-relative:margin;mso-position-vertical:absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' wrapcoords="-5 0 21595 0 21595 21594 -5 21594 -5 0" strokeweight="1pt"> <v:stroke miterlimit="4"></v:stroke> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:/Users/Alice/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.png" o:title=""></v:imagedata> <w:wrap type="through" anchorx="margin" anchory="line"></w:wrap> </v:shape><![endif][if !vml][endif] Officials by saying that Rohingya Muslims set their own houses on fire ablaze to hijack the world’s attention. Over 200 villages are burned to the ground. Tens. Of Thousands. Of Homes. All to attract International Attention? Sorry, but the evidence says otherwise.
400000 Rohingya Muslims have fled the area. The refugees say the army is planting mines along the border with Bangladesh and soldiers are shooting at them as they try to flee. The UN is calling it “the text book example of ethnic cleansing”. Buddhist nationalists from Myanmar say that there is no place for people from Bangladesh who are “illegally occupying” their country. Doesn’t that seem like a convenient justification of the current purge to make it look like a historic right? With the goal of wiping an ethnic minority off the map?
The story isn’t so cut and dry for the Rohingya Muslims who have called Myanmar their home for generations. I am not saying that the latest bloodshed came out of nowhere, it began after suspected Rohingya terrorists attacked security forces; and Myanmar’s military has a right to fight insurgents but NOT civilians. If everyone fighting terror used that as an excuse to wipe out an entire race of people, not very many of us would be left. Now the obvious question here is how many people have to die before this is stopped? And the less obvious one “is the world not actually doing anything because it's Myanmar?” Far away. Not a major player, not a strategic position. It's not Syria, not the Balkans, not the Korean Peninsula. It's Myanmar.
Think about it.
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