Who are suffering more .. the Rohingyas or the Palestinians or the Syrians?
And now a simpler question that no one wants to answer. I ask the West, how do you feel supporting the killer Buddhists? Do those murderers still look ""peaceful"" to you? Where are your "humanitarians" now? Scratching their fat rumps?
Much too unacceptable! Is this really the 21st century ????
THE ROHINGYAS, BURMA'S FORGOTTEN MUSLIMS:
BY JAMES NACHTWEY.
Sittwe, a drowsy town in western Burma, is a shattered place. I was first here five years ago, back when ethnic Rakhine Buddhists sold vegetables next to Muslim Rohingya fishermen.
Today, Sittwe, like much of the surrounding state of Rakhine, exists in virtual apartheid. There are no Muslims at the market. Their mosques have been bulldozed, even though one state official in late 2012 told me with a smile that nothing had been destroyed, nothing at all. Did he think I could not see the rubble, with torn pages of children’s prayer books underfoot? Evicted from their homes, more than 140,000 Rohingya now live sequestered behind checkpoints. Diseases fester in these crude camps. In June a top U.N. aid official who traveled to Rakhine said she had never before “witnessed [such] a level of human suffering.”
The U.N. estimates that 86,000 people, mainly Rohingya, have fled by boat in the two years since clashes erupted between the majority Buddhist and Muslim populations. In the 1980s, the all-Buddhist military junta stripped most Rohingya of their citizenship, claiming that they were recent immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh. But many Rohingya have lived for generations in Burma. The country is now ruled by a quasi-civilian government praised by the West for its reforms.
Check the complete story in the link below:
The Rohingyas, Burma's forgotten Muslims by James Nachtwey
And now a simpler question that no one wants to answer. I ask the West, how do you feel supporting the killer Buddhists? Do those murderers still look ""peaceful"" to you? Where are your "humanitarians" now? Scratching their fat rumps?
Much too unacceptable! Is this really the 21st century ????
THE ROHINGYAS, BURMA'S FORGOTTEN MUSLIMS:
BY JAMES NACHTWEY.
Sittwe, a drowsy town in western Burma, is a shattered place. I was first here five years ago, back when ethnic Rakhine Buddhists sold vegetables next to Muslim Rohingya fishermen.
Today, Sittwe, like much of the surrounding state of Rakhine, exists in virtual apartheid. There are no Muslims at the market. Their mosques have been bulldozed, even though one state official in late 2012 told me with a smile that nothing had been destroyed, nothing at all. Did he think I could not see the rubble, with torn pages of children’s prayer books underfoot? Evicted from their homes, more than 140,000 Rohingya now live sequestered behind checkpoints. Diseases fester in these crude camps. In June a top U.N. aid official who traveled to Rakhine said she had never before “witnessed [such] a level of human suffering.”
The U.N. estimates that 86,000 people, mainly Rohingya, have fled by boat in the two years since clashes erupted between the majority Buddhist and Muslim populations. In the 1980s, the all-Buddhist military junta stripped most Rohingya of their citizenship, claiming that they were recent immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh. But many Rohingya have lived for generations in Burma. The country is now ruled by a quasi-civilian government praised by the West for its reforms.
Check the complete story in the link below:
The Rohingyas, Burma's forgotten Muslims by James Nachtwey
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