Unfolding Rohingya crisis

[longknife]

A big story in the international press but almost totally ignored by the American media is the fate of thousands of Muslim refugees from Myamar (nee Burma) and Bangladesh who are at sea and not being allowed to land. Many in Muslim countries. Seems the Hindi dominated countries are tired of Sharia law and a cult that demands superiority over their national laws and customs.


What is going to be done with them? Why are Muslim countries denying them entry? Perhaps someone here can give us a reasonable explanation of this.


Read more @ Unfolding Rohingya crisis Not something of a civilized world Asia DW.DE 25.05.2015



Monk, called ‘Buddhist bin Laden’ targets Myanmar’s Muslims – which may explain the refugees from the area. The story comes from Stars & Stripes, a government subsidized news source @ Monk called Buddhist bin Laden targets Myanmar s Muslims - Pacific - Stripes

 

[irosie91]

A big story in the international press but almost totally ignored by the American media is the fate of thousands of Muslim refugees from Myamar (nee Burma) and Bangladesh who are at sea and not being allowed to land. Many in Muslim countries. Seems the Hindi dominated countries are tired of Sharia law and a cult that demands superiority over their national laws and customs.


What is going to be done with them? Why are Muslim countries denying them entry? Perhaps someone here can give us a reasonable explanation of this.


Read more @ Unfolding Rohingya crisis Not something of a civilized world Asia DW.DE 25.05.2015



Monk, called ‘Buddhist bin Laden’ targets Myanmar’s Muslims – which may explain the refugees from the area. The story comes from Stars & Stripes, a government subsidized news source @ Monk called Buddhist bin Laden targets Myanmar s Muslims - Pacific - Stripes

I , FOR ONE ----am utterly horrified. Muslims have so much land------and no shortage of wealth-----and these poor muslims are out there floating around
in the sea and starving. Bangla Desh cannot cope
with the population it has and does not seem to get help
from their oil rich bretheren. I can understand that
bangla desh cannot re-absorb their most
impoverished. But what about MALAYSIA??? -----Iran? Even Saudi Arabia which has vast wealth and
a big wide desert scantily populated. With money
deserts can bloom I have no patience for people who
claim "You are a bigot----you DIVIDE people by religion" Nope---I am not a "bigot" I am a realist---
I have seen-----UP CLOSE the fact that people of the
same religion "gets along betta..." and I have seen ---up close------that even when MIXED up-----they polarize and in the case of the existence of OLD LINGERING resentments------violence can flare
at any time. I have seen it right here in the USA-----
amongst persons of ----the far east, south east asia,
the middle east -----------and even South America.
Times of economic stress are not the times to be
throwing persons who hate each other----together.

 

[waltky]

UN wants Rohingya treated as citizens in Myanmar...

UN investigator urges Myanmar to allow Muslims to vote
Oct 29,`15: A United Nations investigator is accusing Myanmar of discrimination and is urging the government to take immediate action to allow its Rohingya Muslim minority, people of Chinese and Indian descent, and refugees and migrant workers to vote in November elections.

Yanghee Lee, the special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, also urged the country's Election Commission to establish an independent process to review the disqualification of candidates, many of them Muslims including two current members of parliament.

Lee said in a report to the U.N. General Assembly and at a press conference on Thursday that the Nov. 8 legislative elections, the first since independence from Britain, will be "an important milestone" in the country's democratic transition. But she said the elections won't be free and fair unless they are inclusive.

News from The Associated Press

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Myanmar anti-drug crusaders uncover $500K ledger of payoffs
Oct 24,`15 -- Residents of this town in northern Myanmar's opium country became their own drug investigators out of frustration with authorities' failure to keep heroin and methamphetamine addiction from consuming their villages. Now they say they have an explanation for officials' poor performance, thanks to a woman charged with drug-dealing who kept careful track of her expenses.

When the community-based Kachin Anti-Drug Committee made a citizen's arrest of the suspect, it found two notebooks listing a combined $500,000 in payoffs to authorities in Kachin state including an army commander, top police officials, anti-drug officers, township officials and others. The committee showed The Associated Press photos of the ledger but did not provide line-item details on payoffs and recipients, saying it is trying to get authorities to improve drug enforcement and is using the notebooks as leverage. The group Global Witness, which campaigns against corruption and for transparency and protection of people's rights in use of mining, logging and other resources, viewed the document and agreed with the committee's description of the contents.

Men use syringes as they inject drugs near the jade mines surrounding Hpakant, in Kachin state, some 720 kilometers (600 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar. With drug use on the rise, residents of this town in northern Myanmar’s opium country became their own drug investigators out of frustration with authorities’ inability to keep heroin and methamphetamine addiction from consuming their villages.​

"For us, this book is useful for negotiating to try to get the government officials and police involved in our project," Naw Lawn, secretary of the committee, told the AP. "Our society is being destroyed by drugs. We have many young people who are addicts, and this is destroying our future." Officials with the state anti-drug police force failed to respond to repeated requests for comment. Naw Lawn and other community leaders set up their group last year to fight the surge in drug use in Kachin, an ethnically diverse, mostly Christian region where the Kachin Baptist Convention is the most influential local institution. With Myanmar's government attempting to end a decades-long insurgency by members of the ethnic Kachin minority, authorities have accepted the committee's assistance.

Isolated by a lack of paved roads or other modern transport and by fighting between rebel insurgents and government forces, Hpakant is a frontier region marked by huge jade-mining operations that have spoiled the environment and left most local residents destitute, with scant options for jobs or other means of survival. Young people shoot up from dawn to dark near the jade mines surrounding Hpakant, some 720 kilometers (600 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city. Addicts, their arms dotted with constellations of needle marks, squat under makeshift tarp shelters or sometimes just shoot up in open daylight. Overdoses are increasingly common, and crime is a growing problem among addicts desperate for drug money.

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[irosie91]

The people of Myanmar have a right to term that country of BUDDHIST COUTRY ---
which allows NO MUSLIMS to be citizens nor have the right to vote----just as Maldives voted that the non muslim citizens of Maldives are DISENFRANCHISED
and Maldives is now a MUSLIM ONLY country-------the UN DID NOT OBJECT

 

[waltky]

Burma tryin' to deal with it's Muslim problem...

Burma soldiers accused of raping and killing Rohingya Muslims
Tuesday 1st November, 2016 - Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi is facing international pressure over reports that soldiers have been killing, raping and burning homes of the country's Rohingya Muslims.

The US State Department joined activist and aid groups in raising concerns about the escalating situation. Satellite imagery released on Monday by Human Rights Watch shows that at least three villages in the western state of Rakhine have been burned. Government officials deny the reports of attacks - just five months after the Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader took power. Presidential spokesman Zaw Htay said on Monday that United Nations representatives should visit "and see the actual situation in that region". The government has long made access to the region a challenge, generally banning foreign aid workers and journalists.

But the U.N.'s special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, Yanghee Lee, said serious violations, including torture, summary executions, arbitrary arrests and destruction of mosques and homes, threaten the country's fledgling democracy. "The big picture is that the government does not seem to have any influence over the military," said Chris Lewa, director of the Arakan Project, an advocacy group that focuses on the Rohingya. Burma's widely criticized constitution was designed to give the armed forces power and independence.

Burma armed forces patrol a border fence with Bangladesh in Maungdaw, Rakhine State​

A three-week surge in violence by the military was prompted by the killings of nine police officers at border posts on October 9 in Rakhine, home to Burma's 800,000 Rohingya. There have been no arrests, and a formerly unknown Islamist militant group has taken responsibility. Although they've lived in Burma for generations, Rohingya are barred from citizenship in the nation of 50 million, and instead live as some of the most oppressed people in the world.

Since communal violence broke out in 2012, more than 100,000 people have been driven from their homes to live in squalid camps guarded by police. Some have tried to flee by boat, but many ended up becoming victims of human trafficking or were held for ransom. When Suu Kyi's party was elected earlier this year after more than five decades of military rule, the political shift offered a short, tense window of peace. But that quickly ended as the former political prisoner and champion of human rights failed to clamp down on military atrocities. The current crackdown has prompted an estimated 15,000 people in the Rakhine area to flee their homes in the past few weeks.

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[Vikrant]

Majority of European countries are Christian countries. Majority of Middle Eastern countries are Muslim countries. There is nothing wrong with Myanmar being a Buddhist country.

 

[irosie91]

Majority of European countries are Christian countries. Majority of Middle Eastern countries are Muslim countries. There is nothing wrong with Myanmar being a Buddhist country.

 

[irosie91]

Majority of European countries are Christian countries. Majority of Middle Eastern countries are Muslim countries. There is nothing wrong with Myanmar being a Buddhist country.

Spoken like a true BJP man-------good boy, Vik------now tell your friend MODI----- ' BE CAREFUL-----da Chinese and da Iranians ---and da afghanis-----HATE YOUR GUTS

 

[anotherlife]

A big story in the international press but almost totally ignored by the American media is the fate of thousands of Muslim refugees from Myamar (nee Burma) and Bangladesh who are at sea and not being allowed to land. Many in Muslim countries. Seems the Hindi dominated countries are tired of Sharia law and a cult that demands superiority over their national laws and customs.


What is going to be done with them? Why are Muslim countries denying them entry? Perhaps someone here can give us a reasonable explanation of this.


Read more @ Unfolding Rohingya crisis Not something of a civilized world Asia DW.DE 25.05.2015



Monk, called ‘Buddhist bin Laden’ targets Myanmar’s Muslims – which may explain the refugees from the area. The story comes from Stars & Stripes, a government subsidized news source @ Monk called Buddhist bin Laden targets Myanmar s Muslims - Pacific - Stripes

Reasonable explanation is what you want? Okay, here is one. How much toxic bio mass do you think any country should import? Are you a communist dear?

 

[waltky]

Rohingya village burned to the ground...

Rohingya say village lost to spiraling conflict
Fri, Sep 08, 2017 - The villagers said the soldiers came first, firing indiscriminately. Then came civilians, accompanying the soldiers, to loot and burn. Now in Bangladesh, 20 Muslims and Hindus gave interviews in which they recounted how they were forced out of their village of Kha Maung Seik in Myanmar’s Rakhine State on Aug. 25. “The military brought some Rakhine Buddhists with them and torched the village,” said Kadil Hussein, 55. “All the Muslims in our village, about 10,000, fled. Some were killed by gunshots, the rest came here. There’s not a single person left,” he said.

Hussein is staying with hundreds of other new arrivals at the Kutapalong refugee settlement, already home to thousands of Rohingya who fled earlier. Nearly 150,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when insurgents of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launched attacks on security forces in Rakhine. Reuters interviewed villagers from Kha Maung Seik and neighboring hamlets, who described killings and the burning of homes in the military response to the insurgent attacks. Reuters has been unable to verify their accounts. Access to the area has been restricted since October last year, when the same insurgent group attacked police posts, killing nine.

Myanmar says its forces are in a fight against “terrorists.” State media has accused Rohingya militants of burning villages and killing civilians of all religions. Myanmar does recognize the 1.1 million Rohingya as citizens, labeling them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. The refugees from Kha Maung Seik and from numerous other villages across the north of Rakhine say Myanmar forces and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists are intent on forcing them out. One refugee, Body Alom, 28, said he hid in forest with thousands of others when the soldiers arrived. He waited for hours before emerging to look for his family. He says he saw corpses in paddy fields and eventually found his mother and brother dead with gunshot wounds. Two other villagers said they saw bodies in the fields. “It wasn’t safe, so I just left them,” he said. “I had no chance to give them a burial.”

Houses are on fire in Gawdu Zara village, Rakhine, Myanmar, yesterday. Reporters saw new fires burning yesterday in the Burmese village that had been abandoned by Rohingya Muslims, and where pages from the Koran were seen ripped and left on the ground.​

A military official denied that Buddhist civilians were working with authorities and instead accused Muslims of attacking other communities. “The military arrived at the village later, but did not find any bodies,” said the military source, who declined to be identified because he is not authorized to speak to media. Another military source in the state capital, Sittwe, said Kha Maung Seik was in the conflict zone and clear information about what happened had yet to emerge. The main village of Kha Maung Seik was home to a mixed community, with Rohingya Muslims in the majority along with about 6,000 Rakhine Buddhists, Hindus and others. The village is known to the Rohingya as Foira Bazar for its market of about 1,000 shops where everyone did business.

However, relations have been strained for some time. A government plan to grant Hindus citizenship, violence in the state in 2012 and October last year, and an identity card scheme that the Rohingya rejected as it implied they were foreign, all contributed to tension, the refugees said. Since October, more soldiers were posted near the village, with border police. Patrols went house-to-house arresting anyone suspected of having militant links, they said.

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Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi blames fake news amid crisis
Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi condemned international coverage of the migrant crisis in the country's Rakhine state, likening reports of atrocities to fake news or "misinformation."

Suu Kyi, the recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, reportedly told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a "huge iceberg of misinformation" is obscuring the truth about what is taking place among Myanmar's Muslim minority, according to the BBC. The statement from Suu Kyi's office comes as more people, including human rights activists, are calling on the de facto leader of Myanmar to return her Nobel prize. The latest round of violence began Aug. 25, when armed Rohingya militants attacked state police posts, resulting in a military retaliation.

Armed Buddhist civilians and security forces then burned entire Rohingya villages and fired on residents, forcing many Muslim families to flee to safety, across the border to Bangladesh. State officials, including Myanmar's border security minister, said the destruction of villages was part of the militants' strategy.

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has slammed international news coverage of the violence in the country's Rakhine state as "misinformation."​

Suu Kyi has so far admitted to problems in Rakhine state, but dismissed reports of ethnic cleansing, according to the BBC. She has also said there are fake news photographs of violence that are being passed around with the "aim of promoting the interest of the terrorists." Critics say the government is partly to blame, because reporters are being banned from accessing conflict zones. "If they allowed the U.N. or human rights bodies to go to the place to find out what is happening then this misinformation is not going to take place," said BBC Burmese Service's Tin Htar Swe.

Suu Kyi's office has previously described an account of sexual assault, provided by a Rohingya woman, as "fake rape" on a government-run Facebook page, according to The Guardian. The United Nations has described the Rohingya as the world's most persecuted minority.

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi blames fake news amid crisis

 

[longknife]

Muslims slaughter thousands and the media says nothing. They destroy whole countries and the left seems okay with it.

How long did Muslims in Myramar (Burma) rape and pillage those who did not share their death cult?

 

[irosie91]

Muslims slaughter thousands and the media says nothing. They destroy whole countries and the left seems okay with it.

How long did Muslims in Myramar (Burma) rape and pillage those who did not share their death cult?

the situation in Myanmar can be EASILY solved-----the ANSWER IS IN ISLAM . In shariah shit holes----
there is no legal status "no religion" All persons MUST be a member of a religious community in order
to exist-----because religious law so mandates. Examples are MALDIVES---which ~ ten years ago
became an EXCLUSIVELY muslim country-----persons MUST BE MUSLIM to be a citizen----non-muslims
simply do not have citizenship even if their communities have lived there for centuries. The custom is
KORANIC-----Muhummad decided to render the entire Arabian peninsula EXCLUSIVELY muslim and so stated-----before he died In some shariah shit holes there are designated "legal religions"------one such shit hole is INDONESIA-----Hinduism and Christianity are legal but not Judaism----despite the fact that jews had
lived in that land for many centuries------all synagogues have been destroyed and the overwhelming majority of jews fled-------a few----something like less than 20 remain on "Christian" passports. When Maldives became
"muslim only" I expressed wonder at the idea that such an act would pass INTERNATIONAL SCRUTINY----
but---many people---notably muslims themselves --responded "DEMOCRACY"-----the people of Maldives
VOTED FOR "ISLAM ONLY" Maldives is ruled by Islamic law. Thus there is NO REASON that
MYANMAR should not VOTE its country -----BUDDHIST ONLY-----or even "ANYTHING BUT ISLAM"

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Muslims slaughter thousands and the media says nothing. They destroy whole countries and the left seems okay with it.

How long did Muslims in Myramar (Burma) rape and pillage those who did not share their death cult?

I suggest you do a little more research, your abject ignorance is showing (alongside your hatred of everything Muslim).

 

[theDoctorisIn]

This thread is about as disgusting as any thread I've ever seen here.

You guys are cheering for ethnic cleansing. You do realize that, right?

 

[irosie91]

Muslims slaughter thousands and the media says nothing. They destroy whole countries and the left seems okay with it.

How long did Muslims in Myramar (Burma) rape and pillage those who did not share their death cult?

I suggest you do a little more research, your abject ignorance is showing (alongside your hatred of everything Muslim).

you raise an interesting point. I do not know just what the people of Burma have
against muslims. The Burmese---as far as I know---are mostly Buddhist. Another
group of Buddhists who harbor HATRED----are the Buddhists of Sri Lanka (used to be
Ceylon) Way back when it was Ceylon------I did know ONE person from Ceylon----
He was a physician. I do not know what his religion was-----he did eat chicken which I believe
means he was not TAMIL (tamil is indian hindus who despise Sri Lankan Buddhists---all the
tamils I have known were strict veggies) ONE time he referred to muslims as "barbarians"----
I was clueless as to why and did not ask. A very nice Tamil explained to me that the Buddhists
of Ceylon-----oppressed the Tamils of Ceylon-----economically----very repressive laws upon
hindus ???? (tamil tigers......overtly violent)

 

[longknife]

Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar massacred Hindus

And the Hindus paying back is a bitch. The Left whines and snivels because the Hindus have risen up and are returning the favor. The report doesn’t come from a right-wing group. Amnesty International is somewhat left of Marx and Lenin.

The investigation suggests that a massacre of Hindu men, women, and children in Ye Bauk Kyar happened on the same day, bringing the estimated total number of dead to 99….

Much more @ Amnesty International investigation finds that Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar massacred Hindus

 

[Votto]

A big story in the international press but almost totally ignored by the American media is the fate of thousands of Muslim refugees from Myamar (nee Burma) and Bangladesh who are at sea and not being allowed to land. Many in Muslim countries. Seems the Hindi dominated countries are tired of Sharia law and a cult that demands superiority over their national laws and customs.


What is going to be done with them? Why are Muslim countries denying them entry? Perhaps someone here can give us a reasonable explanation of this.


Read more @ Unfolding Rohingya crisis Not something of a civilized world Asia DW.DE 25.05.2015



Monk, called ‘Buddhist bin Laden’ targets Myanmar’s Muslims – which may explain the refugees from the area. The story comes from Stars & Stripes, a government subsidized news source @ Monk called Buddhist bin Laden targets Myanmar s Muslims - Pacific - Stripes

A big story in the international press but almost totally ignored by the American media is the fate of thousands of Muslim refugees from Myamar (nee Burma) and Bangladesh who are at sea and not being allowed to land. Many in Muslim countries. Seems the Hindi dominated countries are tired of Sharia law and a cult that demands superiority over their national laws and customs.


What is going to be done with them? Why are Muslim countries denying them entry? Perhaps someone here can give us a reasonable explanation of this.


Read more @ Unfolding Rohingya crisis Not something of a civilized world Asia DW.DE 25.05.2015



Monk, called ‘Buddhist bin Laden’ targets Myanmar’s Muslims – which may explain the refugees from the area. The story comes from Stars & Stripes, a government subsidized news source @ Monk called Buddhist bin Laden targets Myanmar s Muslims - Pacific - Stripes

Nothing to see here!

The UN should be passing another resolution against Israel just any day now.......

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

The people of Myanmar have a right to term that country of BUDDHIST COUTRY ---
which allows NO MUSLIMS to be citizens nor have the right to vote----just as Maldives voted that the non muslim citizens of Maldives are DISENFRANCHISED
and Maldives is now a MUSLIM ONLY country-------the UN DID NOT OBJECT

Indeed, Myanmar has a right to be a Buddhist country,, just like Poland had a right to be a Catholic country.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

This thread is about as disgusting as any thread I've ever seen here.

You guys are cheering for ethnic cleansing. You do realize that, right?

Separatism is the answer, obviously Multi-culti doesn't work.

 

[irosie91]

The people of Myanmar have a right to term that country of BUDDHIST COUTRY ---
which allows NO MUSLIMS to be citizens nor have the right to vote----just as Maldives voted that the non muslim citizens of Maldives are DISENFRANCHISED
and Maldives is now a MUSLIM ONLY country-------the UN DID NOT OBJECT

Indeed, Myanmar has a right to be a Buddhist country,, just like Poland had a right to be a Catholic country.

so true----Poland is a catholic country-----since the pile of shit STANISLAW---
made it so