It's hard to imagine a Buddhist monk with a can of gasoline going to set fire to a living person... Isn't it? (not to look nervous!!!)
XXI century and pogroms? A common occurrence...
It's hard to imagine a Buddhist monk with a can of gasoline going to set fire to a living person... Isn't it? It is also difficult to imagine a Muslim as a victim of this aggression. Undoubtedly. Stereotypes work magically. A peaceful Buddhist and an aggressor Muslim is, yes, a completely understandable image that fits in the mind. However, the brutal events in Burma have eloquently shown that our beliefs do not always correspond to reality. And although someone may try to shift the blame on the victim, it is still obvious that it will be difficult to repaint black into white.
For some reason, the terrible events did not stir up, as it is fashionable to say, progressive humanity, did not cause a wave of indignation among law-abiding citizens, which is why there are no protests or pickets in defense of the persecuted and oppressed people. Then, as well as for lesser sins, some countries turn into outcasts, the government of Myanmar did not even think of declaring a boycott. I would like to know why such injustice occurs against an entire nation, and why this problem has not been solved so far? Let's try to understand...
Problem History
The Rohingya are an Islamic people in Myanmar, the indigenous inhabitants of the territory of the modern state of Rakhine, before that they had their own state called Arakan. The area inhabited by the Rohingya was only annexed to Burma in the 1700s. According to the 2012 census, the number of Muslims living in Myanmar was 800,000, according to other sources, there are exactly one million more. The United Nations considers them to be one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. And this persecution dates back to World War II, when Japanese troops invaded Burma, which was then under British colonial rule. On March 28, 1942, about 5,000 Muslims were killed by Rakhine nationalists in the cities of Minbaya and Mrohaung.
In 1978, 200,000 Muslims fled from a bloody military operation in Bangladesh. In 1991-1992 another 250,000 people went there, and 100,000 went to Thailand.
Last summer, with the connivance of the local authorities, there was a new outbreak of massacres of Muslims. In the spring of this year, the violence that had subsided gained even greater momentum. According to some reports, 20 thousand (!) Muslims have already been killed, and hundreds of thousands of refugees cannot receive humanitarian assistance. Modern oppression is conducted on a different level and with more sophisticated methods. The authorities are inciting Buddhist monks into the massacre, the police and the army are indifferent to the pogroms, and sometimes even take part on the side of the oppressors.
The Rohingya are not only being physically exterminated, for decades these unfortunate people have been ostracized, oppressed, subjected to horrific physical and emotional abuse by the government of Myanmar. Declaring Muslims as foreigners, as they are considered only immigrants from Bangladesh, the Rohingyas were deprived of their citizenship. Myanmar is home to a huge number of indigenous peoples. The government recognizes 135 different ethnic minorities, but the Rohingya is not among them.
The persecuted people are "subdued" in a variety of ways, including the absolute and unjustified prohibition by most Buddhist communities of Muslims from working in the private or public sector, as well as a ban on serving in the police or the armed forces. Or if someone is hired in rare cases, then they are charged with observance of Buddhist rituals, which, of course, is incompatible with Islam. They are subjected to modern slavery through forced labor. Due to the fact that the national government denies them the right to citizenship in their home country, many of their lands are confiscated and their movement within the country is restricted, there are discriminatory restrictions on access to education. There is also a strict limit for every Muslim family to have no more than two children, according to Burmese law. And to start a family they need to pay a few hundred dollars. Those who live in nikah, who are not in a “legal” marriage, are severely persecuted and punished with a prison term.
And the civilized world pretends...
And persecution on religious grounds, infringement of the rights both as citizens and as a person could somehow be tolerated. However, murders and pogroms cannot leave anyone indifferent. They don't kill in a war, whole villages are destroyed by peaceful, innocent people, women and children are dying. They are being burned alive! And what a cynic or scoundrel one must be to somehow try to justify such outrage!
Depending on who submits the information, the picture of the conflict varies greatly and reflects the political (religious) position of news agencies. Burmese non-state media refer to the situation as "immigrant versus master" instigated by the ethnic Rohingya. Yes, there was the rape of a Burmese woman by two Rohingyas. For this they were sentenced to death. The criminals got it in full. This year there was a dispute in a jewelry store. It is clear that crime is everywhere and Burma is no exception. And this is a reason, but not a reason for the massacre, the inhumanity of which cannot be compared with anything. Where did yesterday's neighbors get such hatred, such heartlessness? Imagine how you can douse gasoline and set fire to living people, those who are not guilty of anything, those who have families, children, the same as yours?! Do they consider them to be animals or cockroaches that need to be crushed? Those yelling in horror, screaming, in agony, in agony ... It does not fit in my head.
What is nightmarish for Europeans or Americans for other people is like a game? They have the same skin, nerves and pain. Or should they not be shown on the news? Why, then, does the Western world, the master of our ether, not boil with indignation? The timid voices of human rights activists are heard in narrow circles, inaudible to a wide audience. Amnesty International says: "The situation in the northern state of Rakhine remains very tense." The organization Human Rights Watch made an extensive report on how the rights of the Rohingya are being violated, documented the facts of cruelty and violence by the authorities. But even they manage to accuse them of bias, they talk about some sort of arms depots...
Again the unfortunate double standards. So what if Burma looks like a tasty morsel for the economy and politics of the West. The country is attractive in terms of oil, gas, copper, zinc, tin, tungsten, iron ore, etc. It turns out that 90% of the world's rubies, which are mined in Burma, are more expensive and more valuable than human lives. The Rohingya are not visible behind these shiny pebbles.
What can I say, even if the leader of the Burmese opposition and Nobel Prize winner in 1991, Aung San Suu Kyi inexcusably ignored the plight of the Rohingya Muslims and did not say a word about the difficulties and injustice that befell them ...
Islamic countries will not be silent
The guardians of human rights, the world gendarme - the United States, instantly reacting to the infringement of human dignity, did not even consider it necessary to turn to the Burmese authorities on this matter. The European Union has taken diplomatic initiatives to stop the massacre of Rohingya Muslims. And several experts were even sent to Myanmar to study the circumstances of the incident.
Maybe not as loudly as we would like, but nevertheless, representatives of the repressed Muslims of Myanmar are trying to take feasible actions in the fight against the ongoing lawlessness. One of them, Muhammad Yunus, turned to the leadership of Turkey for support, urging him and the whole world to intervene in the situation with the destruction of the Rohingya. In turn, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan appealed to the UN demanding to resolve the situation in western Myanmar, comparing what is happening there with the massacres in Gaza, Ramallah and Jerusalem.
Thousands of demonstrations against the genocide of Muslims in Myanmar also took place in a number of countries: Iran, Indonesia, Palestine, Pakistan, Thailand, etc. In a number of countries, the demonstrators demanded that their governments put pressure on the leadership of Burma in order to protect people professing Islam.
Not a single true person can remain indifferent to the evil done in relation to brothers in faith. And he will not allow injustice to non-brothers either. Someone will make a dua-plea in defense of the oppressed, the other will support with a word. There are those who are able to defend with weapons. The world is such that harassment and even killing of people, in particular Rohingya Muslims, can easily go unpunished. Will it continue like this forever? Nothing lasts forever, as the wise Chinese friends of the Burmese say.
Alexander Gelovani
What do we know about Myanmar? Almost nothing, someone else heard something about Burma, old rockers heard about Bangladesh, thanks to Harrison's "Concert", but about Myanmar ...
Let's start with the fact that Myanmar is not Bangladesh at all and very much Burma. That is, from the moment it gained independence from Great Britain in 1948 until very recently, namely until 1989, this country was called the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma, or simply Burma. The renaming itself does not matter, well, you never know who, how and why is renamed. After all, maybe people like to be called Myanmar and not Burma. But the thing is that all these renamings are the result of a long civil war and a whole series of military coups painted in bright red colors. Bright reds are in the sense of socialist, although so much blood was shed at the same time that the use of a color analogy in this regard would also be quite appropriate.
It is clear that the people living in Myanmar can hardly be called calm. But there are few places on the planet where people are violent and blood is shed. In order to get into the tapes of the world media, this is clearly not enough. That is, in order for the people of the planet to learn about the death of thousands of people, two conditions are necessary. First, the scale of the disaster must be comparable, for example, with the tragedy of the Tutsi people in Uganda. And secondly, the leading world powers should be interested in making everyone aware of the tragedy. This is exactly what happened in Myanmar.
Recent History of Myanmar
But in order to understand what really happened there and why, it is necessary to turn again to history, this time recent. So, Myanmar is a multinational and multi-confessional country. Along with the Buddhists, who make up the vast majority of the population, there is also a Muslim minority, which is completely different from the majority, even the races are different.
Naturally, in conditions very far from the norms of a civilized society, this very minority, Muslims of various nationalities, were constantly oppressed, which led to excesses, thus, which are commonly called civil war. While the Communists were in power in Burma, and then in Myanmar - the generals, everything was clear and understandable. Dictatorship is a dictatorship, to suppress any dissent and resistance, and far from velvet methods.
But in 2012, democracy came to Myanmar. Encouraged by then US President Barack Obama's "Yes, we can" slogan, the Myanmar Democrats managed to participate in the elections. True, the elections were overwhelmingly won by parties whose leaders were all the same generals, but it was not in vain that the whole world was inspired by the slogan - yes, we can. So the generals were able to become democrats.
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Democracy and Illusions
In general, it turned out to be not tricky. The release from prison of the Burmese symbol of resistance to the dictatorship, Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, and not just a symbol, but also a Nobel laureate, showed the whole world that Myanmar succeeded, Myanmar is changing. After only five years, during which Aung San Suu Kyi managed to go to Washington and hug not with anyone, but with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton himself, and visit, of course, the Oval Office, and her National League for Democracy party managed to win a landslide victory in the elections. If she didn't have foreign citizenship, Aung San Suu Kyi would certainly have become president. Yes, that's bad luck, according to the laws in force in the country, the post of president cannot be held by a person who has or has had foreign citizenship. Aung San Suu Kyi had such citizenship, she, like her late husband, was a subject of the British crown.
Especially for the Nobel laureate, they did not change the law. Uncomfortable, after all, democracy. But they introduced a new position - the State Councilor of Myanmar, which in fact is no lower, if not higher, than the presidential one. For our sad story about Burmese democracy, this would not be of fundamental importance if this same democracy was for everyone. But, as the subsequent course of events showed, democratic reforms are for the majority. The minorities are unlikely to guess about the changes, and if any of them had any illusions about this, then they have clearly already dissipated.
In fairness, it must be said that assessments of the events in Myanmar differ - from compassion for the representatives of the small Rohingya people and indignation at the actions of the Burmese authorities, to "understanding" of the harsh actions of the authorities on the part of the powerful. After all, the Nobel laureate and symbol of democracy is fighting "Islamic terrorists", and the fact that Islamic terrorists are very bad is known firsthand in Europe and America. True, the fact that as a result of this very struggle tens of thousands of people have already become refugees, and the army is conducting large-scale punitive operations in Rakhine state, which can no longer be concealed, is somehow not taken into account by sympathizers.
The Nobel laureate herself claims that the figure of 140,000 refugees is disinformation. Let's say, but then how much less? doubled? Three times? When the army of a democratic country conducts a military operation, as a result of which thousands of citizens of the country, who, by the way, are denied citizenship, become refugees, questions about such a democracy cannot but arise.
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Tragedy without intermission
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the same one who came up with the New Deal and went to war with German Nazism and Japanese militarism, is credited with the phrase about the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza Anastasio (senior) - "Somoza, of course, is a son of a bitch, but he is our son of a bitch." It is quite possible that the great American president did not say this, but the phrase is so plausible and reflects what is now called the fashionable concept of realpolitik that it has not only outlived its alleged author, but has entered many textbooks on history and political science.
But that was a frostbitten Latin American dictator of the mid-twentieth century. Times and customs are different now. Applying such an excuse to a Nobel laureate and a symbol of democracy is even somewhat inconvenient. So isn't it better to just ignore what is happening to the small Rohingya people. In total, some eight hundred thousand, well, a maximum of a million. In terms of numbers, it certainly will not reach the "full-fledged" genocide. However, what is genocide and what is not is decided not at the sites of the tragedy, but in the newsrooms of world news agencies and in the quiet of the offices of the leading think-tanks. But here it is also impossible not to react at all to what is happening.
In the age of the Internet, information spreads almost instantly, because in democratic Myanmar, the use of the Internet is no longer limited. Gone are the days when a blogger was imprisoned for 59 years just because he posted a video of the destruction after a cyclone. Yes, and the blogger has long been at large.
The Myanmar authorities often complain about the spread of fake information about the atrocities of their army against the civilian population. And here they need to be trusted, because fakes are what accompanies any war today. But, to paraphrase the well-known expression "If you know for sure that you have a persecution mania, then this does not mean at all that no one is chasing you," let's put it this way. The presence of fake materials about the atrocities of the Myanmar army against the Rohingya people does not at all prove that these atrocities do not exist.
And while politicians are arguing what is fake and what is true, the tragedy of the Rohingya people continues. Tragedy without intermission.
The genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar (Burma) - what are the reasons for the historical confrontation that resulted in a bloody war? What is really going on there, why are the clashes of ethnic groups so stirred up the entire Muslim world and not only?
Myanmar (Burma) - what is it and where is it located? Myanmar is a state located in Southeast Asia, on the Indochina peninsula and has a colonial history. Myanmar only gained independence from Britain in 1948. Previously, Myanmar was called Burma, this is where this bifurcation came from.
Myanmar- ethnically very densely populated state, there are 135 ethnic groups. Being in a state of eternal civil war, the government of Myanmar managed to make peace between 15 ethnic groups, but the rest, due to some irreconcilable differences, are in armed confrontation with each other. Yet the majority of the population are Buddhists.
Rakain State is located in Myanmar- the core of the current showdown. The state is a strip of land along the Bay of Bengal and adjacent to Bangladesh. Here in the greatest concentration live roninja, or Rohingya is a Muslim ethnic group.
Roninja Muslims and Bamar Buddhists since 1948 and to this day are in extremely difficult relations. The Rohingya are "settled refugees" as they are not eligible to obtain citizenship in Myanmar and find formal employment, government services, and so on. This caused wild hostility between the "indigenous people" Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims, who are considered separatists there.
Clashes on religious grounds, murders - all these are the usual everyday life for Rakain. Armed conflicts between ethnic groups give rise to mass cleansing from the Burmese authorities. This is what has come to be called the genocide of Muslims in Myanmar.
The Rohingya are forced to flee to neighboring Bangladesh, however, for many, this path becomes the last.
Muslim genocide in Myanmar - what happened there in 2017?
The media remembered the eternal civil war in distant Burma on August 25, 2017. Then the militants of the Arakanian Rohingya Solidarity Army movement began massively attacking police stations in Myanmar. In response to this, the authorities staged sweeps. About 400 people died in the clashes, Rosbalt reports. The source also informs that in response to this, the Rohingya militants attacked Buddhist monasteries and desecrated the temple complex in the village of Nan Tha Taung.
Muslim genocide, anti-terrorist operation - whatever you want to call it. So far, ethnic cleansing continues. According to Min Aung Hlein, Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces, “ the army will finish what it didn't finish in World War II.".
The world community cannot calmly observe such armed conflicts. Thus, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi condemned the situation in Myanmar and called on the authorities to resolve the conflict as soon as possible.
The genocide of fellow believers. Kadyrov stated the following:
“If it were my will, if there was an opportunity, I would strike a nuclear strike there. I would simply destroy those people who kill children, women, the elderly,” REGNUM quotes the words of the Chechen leader.
Also, Kadyrov "threw a stone in the garden" of the UN, accusing the organization of inaction and "concern" only in words.
The day before, hundreds of Muslims came out to an unsanctioned rally in support of the Rohingya people - they went to the embassy of the Republic of Chechnya in Moscow and en masse signed a petition addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin demanding an end to the persecution of Muslims in Myanmar. It should be noted that the unsanctioned rally in Moscow, which was mostly residents of the Caucasian republics, was not prosecuted by the police.
The world community is horrified by the latest news from Myanmar. Until recently, few people heard of such a country, but today the whole world is talking about confrontations in Burma. Rallies in support of Rohija Muslims were held in many cities of the world, including Russia, demanding to stop the genocide in Myanmar.
Myanmar is a predominantly Buddhist country with many religious minorities. The history of this country has many tragic events. Confrontations there have been going on for decades. A long time ago, the military came to power and to this day they rule in Myanmar. Rohija Muslims came from Bengal to this country, but they do not want to give citizenship. For many years there have been ongoing confrontations between Buddhists and Muslims.
Until recently, the world community did not pay attention to this and did not notice the genocide in Myanmar. This is because this country has been separated from the world by sanctions for a long time. But the last confrontation, which took place on August 25, drew world attention to this country. On this day, Rohija Muslims attacked the police stations and the army base, after which the authorities began to fight fiercely. The authorities attribute to the Rohija a connection with the terrorists, although the Muslims themselves say that they have nothing to do with them.
Muslim Genocide in Myanmar - Burma 2017: causes, video, history
In the month of August alone, 3,000 Muslims were killed, among whom, according to some sources, were children. Since August 25, 400 people have been killed, the authorities say most of them are rebels. Muslims are fleeing the country because the authorities use violence against them and set their houses on fire. Although the authorities themselves claim that Muslims themselves burn down their own villages. The UN has already demanded the release of refugees, but despite the global demand, they are still kept at the border.
The number of refugees is growing. Among them are mostly children, old people and women, with injuries and injuries due to confrontations. The UN has launched an investigation. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin and Kadyrov called for an end to the genocide of Muslims in Myanmar. Eredjep Erdogan made the same demand.
Myanmar: Hundreds of people died last week in Myanmar, Burma, as a result of a sectarian conflict between government forces and Rohingya Muslims.
Since press access to the country is now limited, it is difficult to assess the consequences of the massacre, but according to incoming photographs from Myanmar, the number of victims has exceeded 400 people.
Myanmar: Muslim Genocide
According to Reuters, the conflict erupted after the attack by "Rohingya militants" on several police and army posts in Rakhine state. The Myanmar army claims that since August 25 there have been 90 clashes, almost 390 people have been killed by militants. The government troops lost 15 people killed.
The militants are also accused of killing 14 civilians. After this armed conflict, Rohingya refugees are hastily evacuated to Bangladesh, where almost 30,000 people have already fled. Of these, 40 people, mostly women and children, died while crossing the Naf River by boat.
Rohingya - "the most persecuted people in the world" ethnic group consists of Muslim Bengalis who were resettled in the state of Rakhine in the 19th and early 20th centuries by the British colonial authorities. The total number of the group is almost two million people.
The Myanmar authorities believe that the Rohingya are illegal migrants from Bangladesh. The conflict between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims took place a long time ago, but it flared up with renewed vigor when civilians came to power in Myanmar as a result of a military coup in 2011-2012.
The conflict could be resolved with the help of the UN, but Russia is blocking all resolutions on Myanmar. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan calls these events "genocide of Muslims." Supporters of Muslims gathered in Moscow for an unsanctioned rally and asked to be sent to "protect the brothers."
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