A genocide against the Rohingya may be looming
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#2Key point: Government of Myanmar is responding to a terrorist attack. This is no more a "genocide" than USA's war in Afghanistan.
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#4Key point: Government of Myanmar is responding to a terrorist attack. This is no more a "genocide" than USA's war in Afghanistan.
Responding to a terrorist attack clearly doesn't justify the deliberate massacre of civilians, either legally or morally. Most people don't exonerate Bashar al-Assad's crimes against civilians because the Syrian government suffered terrorist attacks (which it very much has).
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#5Key point: Government of Myanmar is responding to a terrorist attack. This is no more a "genocide" than USA's war in Afghanistan.
the only terrorist here is the government that is terrorizing a minority group for defending themselves against a larger group that is protected by the government itself.
it is well known that Buddhists there are burning and raping muslims and once muslims defend themselves the government intervene to support the buddhists to commit more of their crimes.
the way this is going is shameful and i am really annoyed how people justify such crimes.
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#6this was a fairly balanced assessment of the situation - https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/09/273914.htm
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#7Key point: Government of Myanmar is responding to a terrorist attack. This is no more a "genocide" than USA's war in Afghanistan.
“They burned houses and tried to shoot us. They killed my husband by bullet.” - I don't think this is in any way similar to the Afghanistan war.
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#8Key point: Government of Myanmar is responding to a terrorist attack. This is no more a "genocide" than USA's war in Afghanistan.
Responding to a terrorist attack clearly doesn't justify the deliberate massacre of civilians, either legally or morally. Most people don't exonerate Bashar al-Assad's crimes against civilians because the Syrian government suffered terrorist attacks (which it very much has).
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#9Dispatch Blue Helmets?
Re: A genocide against the Rohingya may be looming
#10Key point: Government of Myanmar is responding to a terrorist attack. This is no more a "genocide" than USA's war in Afghanistan.
Totally agree. And much of the violence being attributed to Burmese forces is just hearsay attributed to Islamists.
Western media/NGOs seems to buy it at face value and support these said Islamist, but hey they also supported ISIS affiliates in Syria against secular Asad regime so that's not surprising to me at all.
This apart from the fact that anyone from subcontinent will tell you that these are not Rohingyas, but Bengalis speaking Bangladeshis who have flooded rakhine and made ethnic rakhines a minority in a few decades.