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The Rohingya people absent from mainstream media?
November 17, 2017 at 2:49 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/17/asia/myanm...index.html
Have I just missed it, or are we really not talking about this? I've seen one story about Tillerson not feeling ready to say, "ethnic cleansing", and that's it. I don't know much about foreign policy, but I feel like we should be at least discussing intervention?
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RE: The Rohingya people absent from mainstream media?
November 17, 2017 at 2:52 pm
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It's been in the news off and on for decades. Started before most of us were born. Really ramped up in .....'01.....so, that might explain a bit.
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RE: The Rohingya people absent from mainstream media?
November 17, 2017 at 2:54 pm
So sad...
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RE: The Rohingya people absent from mainstream media?
November 17, 2017 at 5:04 pm
well . . .
we have a Nobel Laureate, and not just any Nobel Laureate, one that was vetted by the Clinton's, who thinks annihilating the Rohingya is just tickety boo.
So, I'm willing to hear the arguments and reasoning for the pogrom.
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RE: The Rohingya people absent from mainstream media?
November 17, 2017 at 7:31 pm
It's been covered as recently as yesterday on our local PBS station. I don't recall if it was an NPR or Oregon Public Broadcasting slot though.
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RE: The Rohingya people absent from mainstream media?
November 17, 2017 at 7:59 pm
(November 17, 2017 at 2:49 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/17/asia/myanm...index.html
Have I just missed it, or are we really not talking about this? I've seen one story about Tillerson not feeling ready to say, "ethnic cleansing", and that's it. I don't know much about foreign policy, but I feel like we should be at least discussing intervention?
It's not on the news much because they're Muslim.
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RE: The Rohingya people absent from mainstream media?
November 17, 2017 at 11:00 pm
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The New York Times has been covering this with reporters on the ground there. I read this atrocious story, among others, in October:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/insid...-fire.html
It's not a blaring headline story everywhere in the US because it doesn't involve sex and they're brown, impoverished people.
I feel for them, especially the mother in the story above, but I'm not sure what else I can personally do apart from donate to the UN High Commissioner on Refugees or any other organization that's actually there.
Also, Aung San Suu Kyi should have her Nobel Peace Prize rescinded.
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RE: The Rohingya people absent from mainstream media?
November 17, 2017 at 11:34 pm
Maybe the process by which she received it needs to be brought out into the open ??
Not sure Aung San Suu Kyi is at fault for accepting/receiving a Nobel, I'd think the folks bestowing it upon her might be the ones that need to be castigated, investigated, and if the findings merit it, repudiated.
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RE: The Rohingya people absent from mainstream media?
November 17, 2017 at 11:53 pm
(November 17, 2017 at 11:00 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: The New York Times has been covering this with reporters on the ground there. I read this atrocious story, among others, in October:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/insid...-fire.html
It's not a blaring headline story everywhere in the US because it doesn't involve sex and they're brown, impoverished people.
I feel for them, especially the mother in the story above, but I'm not sure what else I can personally do apart from donate to the UN High Commissioner on Refugees or any other organization that's actually there.
Also, Aung San Suu Kyi should have her Nobel Peace Prize rescinded.
-Teresa
All that, plus they have no light, sweet crude oil. The "first world" countries will have nothing to do with them unless there is a profit to be made, or protected.
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RE: The Rohingya people absent from mainstream media?
November 18, 2017 at 12:00 am
I'm not going to say i saw this coming . But i always suspected that this was going to come to a head . And it's worst then i could have imagined .
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