Is This Genocide?

Post by Mikeb85 » Sat, Dec 16, 2017, 6:57 PM UTC

rubayeet wrote: post #4

What 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…

Post by jjevanoorschot » Sat, Dec 16, 2017, 7:17 PM UTC

Mikeb85 wrote: post #19

The problem is that this 'genocide' hasn't been verified to be true. Survivors describe atrocities, yet none are verified by any sort of observer or independent source. The Rohingya have been waging jihad on Myanmar for 60 years, having initially tried to annex Rakhine state to join then East Pakistan, and have been involved in attacking Burmese civilians as well as police recently. To start a large scale conflict an…

Post by farseer » Sat, Dec 16, 2017, 7:35 PM UTC

Mikeb85 wrote: post #21

rubayeet wrote: post #4

What 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…

The Rohingya have literally been waging jihad for 60 years. This conflict started because of jihadist propaganda. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_insurgency_in_Weste...

Post by jjevanoorschot » Sat, Dec 16, 2017, 7:41 PM UTC

Mikeb85 wrote: post #24

jjevanoorschot wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Médecins Sans Frontières actually released a press release [1] two days ago reporting that more than 6,700 Rohingya have been killed in one month. That is their most conservative estimate. MSF does not use the word genocide, but their report points towards it IMO. I find the fact that you're suggesting that the atrocities are being made up by the Rohingya tasteless. Thousands of innocent people are being killed, that…

A survey of those in refugee camps in Bangladesh and then extrapolating those survey results to cover the whole population isn't actually proof of anything. They literally did a survey of survivors, they don't have any bodies. So questioning a lack of proof is tasteless, but it's ok to start a conflict or drum up widespread outrage because something might be true? The only reason I question things is because the Rohi…

Post by farseer » Sat, Dec 16, 2017, 7:55 PM UTC

Mikeb85 wrote: post #26

farseer wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>>Following independence in 1948, the newly formed union government of the predominantly-Buddhist country denied citizenship to the Rohingyas, subjecting them to extensive systematic discrimination in the country. From the Wikipedia article you posted.

Because they were literally the enemy in WWII. The line right above what you posted, but conveniently didn't quote.