Myanmar's ethnic cleansing against Muslim Rohingya minority

[WinterHold]

Aid agencies are warning of a growing humanitarian emergency in Bangladesh as Rohingya Muslims flee neighbouring Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) after an upsurge in violence.
Makeshift camps are overflowing and aid is being prevented from getting in as refugees escape from violence in Burma's Rakhine.
The situation is worsening, in just two weeks 123,000 Rohingya - mainly women children and the elderly - have crossed into Bangladesh.



http://www.itv.com/news/2017-09-05/burma...cleansing/

Ethnic cleansing is the only description for the barbaric crimes carried out against the Rohingya minority group in Myanmar. The Rohingya are Muslims, and were denied citezenship; leaving them "stateless".

Reports from the UN, and major media organizations are giving grim reports about the situation; with ethnic cleansing dropping its shadow over the genocide the native army is carrying against Muslim civilians.

In this case, there is no "Al-Qaeda or ISIS" like it is in Iraq or Syria. The victims are literally civilian women, children and elderly. Children and women are being raped and killed. Evidence -that is the dead bodies of Rohingya- is being burnt.

Why is the world silent about this?
Despite the UN's official statement:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/s...ce-un-says

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/world...anmar.html

Silence creates more rebound. When a person dies in the west, the whole world cries. But aren't these Rohingya children worth our tears too?
Just like Rwanda, the world is silent. Wars take place around oil; but they never take place around innocents being raped and killed.

More reports:
http://www.itv.com/news/2017-09-05/burma...cleansing/

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2017/09/06...m-refugees

[Amarok]

Truly awful 

[Joods]

This is absolutely horrible. Where's God when you need him?


Oh... that's right.

On a more serious note - I hope these people can find some sort of peace. No one should ever be forced out of their homeland for any reason.

[paulpablo]

Aid agencies are warning of a growing humanitarian emergency in Bangladesh as Rohingya Muslims flee neighbouring Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) after an upsurge in violence.
Makeshift camps are overflowing and aid is being prevented from getting in as refugees escape from violence in Burma's Rakhine.
The situation is worsening, in just two weeks 123,000 Rohingya - mainly women children and the elderly - have crossed into Bangladesh.



http://www.itv.com/news/2017-09-05/burma...cleansing/

Ethnic cleansing is the only description for the barbaric crimes carried out against the Rohingya minority group in Myanmar. The Rohingya are Muslims, and were denied citezenship; leaving them "stateless".

Reports from the UN, and major media organizations are giving grim reports about the situation; with ethnic cleansing dropping its shadow over the genocide the native army is carrying against Muslim civilians.

In this case, there is no "Al-Qaeda or ISIS" like it is in Iraq or Syria. The victims are literally civilian women, children and elderly. Children and women are being raped and killed. Evidence -that is the dead bodies of Rohingya- is being burnt.

Why is the world silent about this?
Despite the UN's official statement:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/s...ce-un-says

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/world...anmar.html

Silence creates more rebound. When a person dies in the west, the whole world cries. But aren't these Rohingya children worth our tears too?
Just like Rwanda, the world is silent. Wars take place around oil; but they never take place around innocents being raped and killed.

More reports:
http://www.itv.com/news/2017-09-05/burma...cleansing/

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2017/09/06...m-refugees

The world isn't really silent, I saw this on the news yesterday on my break in work.  Plus you just posted 3 links from mainstream media sites.

Also wars do take place around innocents being raped and killed, I think historically more rapes and death have happened around war than anything else.  Unless you mean you're specifically requesting help and military action from the west in this situation?

Does the whole world cry when someone dies in the west?  I don't know because I live here, I can't think why they'd care.  I don't cry about traffic accidents or cancer in the west and I live here.  With the exception of friends or family and so on.

[WinterHold]

This is absolutely horrible. Where's God when you need him?


Oh... that's right.

On a more serious note - I hope these people can find some sort of peace. No one should ever be forced out of their homeland for any reason.

To me, these crimes are an evidence of free will. Humans have the freedom in this life to literally do "anything".
The grim conclusion of this freedom of will is these crimes. That's why stories of a different place where people live in the grace of God decorate the promises and claims of different faiths.

I'm sure that all these dead children are sleeping until judgement day; and after it they'll be in a so much better place. Something is wrong with the world TBH, and that's evidence of a certain design.

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Ethnic cleansing is the only description for the barbaric crimes carried out against the Rohingya minority group in Myanmar. The Rohingya are Muslims, and were denied citezenship; leaving them "stateless".

Reports from the UN, and major media organizations are giving grim reports about the situation; with ethnic cleansing dropping its shadow over the genocide the native army is carrying against Muslim civilians.

In this case, there is no "Al-Qaeda or ISIS" like it is in Iraq or Syria. The victims are literally civilian women, children and elderly. Children and women are being raped and killed. Evidence -that is the dead bodies of Rohingya- is being burnt.

Why is the world silent about this?
Despite the UN's official statement:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/s...ce-un-says

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/world...anmar.html

Silence creates more rebound. When a person dies in the west, the whole world cries. But aren't these Rohingya children worth our tears too?
Just like Rwanda, the world is silent. Wars take place around oil; but they never take place around innocents being raped and killed.

More reports:
http://www.itv.com/news/2017-09-05/burma...cleansing/

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2017/09/06...m-refugees

The world isn't really silent, I saw this on the news yesterday on my break in work.  Plus you just posted 3 links from mainstream media sites.

Also wars do take place around innocents being raped and killed, I think historically more rapes and death have happened around war than anything else.  Unless you mean you're specifically requesting help and military action from the west in this situation?

Does the whole world cry when someone dies in the west?  I don't know because I live here, I can't think why they'd care.  I don't cry about traffic accidents or cancer in the west and I live here.  With the exception of friends or family and so on.

Actually; I care a lot and seriously it hurts me to see a westerner suffering. All human suffering strike this bad feeling in me; especially when you speak about masses.

I'm against tactical bombing and nuclear weapons for this exact reason: when you kill a mass of people, you never know if all of them are guilty or not.

Compare this to the amount of news we read about Hurricanes and natural disasters. Just because the U.S is involved; the media talks and talks about it.
100 Hurricane reports against 10 Rohingya genocide reports.

Reading stories about the "Black Death famine" in medieval Europe saddens me a lot; the invasion of Spain puts me against the Muslims of that era, and etc. You can be in others' shoes anytime; God does create man in this short life to test them; hardship after hardship and struggle after struggle.

Give a minority group a home isn't that hard if we considered what the West spend on weaponry. BTW, some Muslims are wealthy like Saudies. Instead of bombing Yemen, why don't they house the Rohingya?

[paulpablo]

If you're reading western media they're going to place a priority on things happening in the west.

The media founded in Myanmar, whatever their news outlets are, if they have them, will probably place a priority on their local problems.

Your sources were two American news websites and a UK one.

[Amarok]

To be fair to Atlas . There has been silence up till recently . But the mistreatment of the Rohingya was going on long before this .

[chimp3]

The world is obviously not silent about this. If it where not for Western media you may not of known of this atrocity. As far as action goes, I would not expect any from the U.S. as long as Trump is boss.

[CatholicDefender]

Those buddhists are so peaceful typically.

Hard to believe that they are persecuting people based on their religion alone.

I would have thought Buddhist extremism might look a bit more like this:http://www.theonion.com/article/buddhist-extremist-cell-vows-to-unleash-tranquilit-34623

I will pray to the Virgin Mary for peace in that nation.

[vorlon13]

Wiki indicates the Rohingya practice a Sunnis/Sufism brand of Islam. If they are viewed as 'infidels' (??) by their fellow religionists in the Mideast, then the US is going to catch hell for helping them.

If they aren't, then why no outrage from the appropriate sect in the Mideast ??


Just wondering, there seems to be a big part of the story missing.


Additionally, this is a huge headache for Bangladesh, and I'm sure they would really like their $100,000,000 that North Korea stole back as soon as possible.