Is This Genocide?
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Is This Genocide?
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#2Yes, obviously. It's obvious in the first paragraph.
Why isn't the article called, the "The Rohingya Genocide". Didn't we learn anything from Rwanda?
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#3How do we pressure our governments to do something? The US and EU already ban weapons sales to Myanmar but other countries are happy to step in and profit in their place, e.g. Israel providing training and selling weapons and vehicles to the very troops carrying out this genocide.
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#4What many do not realize that this crisis, while regional, has the potential to fuel global conflicts in near future. There are roughly 5 million refugees in Bangladesh at present, a country which itself has poor infrastructure and struggling under the weight of its over population. A large number of these refugees are children and young adults, who saw their villages burned, family members raped and killed. They will be easy prey to Jihadist propaganda. They will be recruited by extremist groups, they will commit atrocities in the name of revenge/religion, which in turn will increase the anti-muslim sentiments around the world. Nationalists and ultra-right leaders will use this as a platform to rise to power.
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#5What many do not realize that this crisis, while regional, has the potential to fuel global conflicts in near future. There are roughly 5 million refugees in Bangladesh at present, a country which itself has poor infrastructure and struggling under the weight of its over population. A large number of these refugees are children and young adults, who saw their villages burned, family members raped and killed. They wil…
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#6What many do not realize that this crisis, while regional, has the potential to fuel global conflicts in near future. There are roughly 5 million refugees in Bangladesh at present, a country which itself has poor infrastructure and struggling under the weight of its over population. A large number of these refugees are children and young adults, who saw their villages burned, family members raped and killed. They wil…
This is how ISIS was created after USA terrorise Muslims in the region raping, killing.
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#7How do we pressure our governments to do something? The US and EU already ban weapons sales to Myanmar but other countries are happy to step in and profit in their place, e.g. Israel providing training and selling weapons and vehicles to the very troops carrying out this genocide.
Generally speaking, in cases like this, you have to actually physically intervene to stop the genocide. They're using machettes and other primitive means to do much of the killing, as in other genocide cases in very poor nations (like Rwanda or Cambodia). Sanctions are never enough against what are already extraordinarily poor nations (we've sanctioned North Korea for decades, as much as any nation can be, and they're proceeding apace with ICBM nukes).
The question of stopping this kind of genocide is primarily: who is going to militarily intervene and in what manner.
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#8How do we pressure our governments to do something? The US and EU already ban weapons sales to Myanmar but other countries are happy to step in and profit in their place, e.g. Israel providing training and selling weapons and vehicles to the very troops carrying out this genocide.
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#9What many do not realize that this crisis, while regional, has the potential to fuel global conflicts in near future. There are roughly 5 million refugees in Bangladesh at present, a country which itself has poor infrastructure and struggling under the weight of its over population. A large number of these refugees are children and young adults, who saw their villages burned, family members raped and killed. They wil…
This is how ISIS was created after USA terrorise Muslims in the region raping, killing.
That's incorrect. ISIS was created out of a power vacuum in the region, between the US being asked to leave Iraq and the Iraqi Government becoming strong enough to control its own security fully, and the Syrian civil war. Their creation had absolutely nothing to do with US military abuses of that sort (which is not the same thing as denying any such abuses took place), that's not even a very good attempt at scapegoating its creation.
ISIS is just another in a very long line of warlord-type regimes that exist out of opportunism to seize power. There's nothing special about it. It's extremely similar to the types of factions that have dominated countries like Afghanistan for a thousand years.
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#10How do we pressure our governments to do something? The US and EU already ban weapons sales to Myanmar but other countries are happy to step in and profit in their place, e.g. Israel providing training and selling weapons and vehicles to the very troops carrying out this genocide.
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Please start making comments which have some intellectual substance or effort behind them, if you don't want to be quickly banned.
Otherwise, if you only want to vent your spleen onto the internet without consequence, I'm sure you know where /pol/ is.