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How the Rohingya Escaped

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Re: How the Rohingya Escaped

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Post by jansho »

justboxing wrote: post #5
qwerty456127 wrote: post #3

Is this about religion again? Or what exactly are they hated for?

> Is this about religion again? Yes. Islam vs Buddhism or Buddhism vs Islam, whichever way you wanna look at it.

That’s an extremely simplistic way of seeing it though. The Rohingya were simple people, mostly poor, and lived in Myanmar for generations; religion would be a code of life for them, not a political tool. It’s likely the opposite for the monks and their followers though; Buddhism is about peace, fundamentally and (in nearly all cases) in practice.

My patience with Aung San Suu Kyi has run out completely. Too little said, too little done, too late for anything else.

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Post by fjsolwmv »

QAPereo wrote: post #4
qwerty456127 wrote: post #3

Is this about religion again? Or what exactly are they hated for?

It’s one of the more purely religious conflicts out there, for most of its history. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2017/0928/Is-Rohingya...

It's an ethnic conflict. In conservative societies, there is little difference between religion and ethnicity.

Re: How the Rohingya Escaped

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Post by Digish »

It's after effect which is documented by here.

It is terrible but unfortunately shows only one side.

The pre-story of why Myanmar had to take so hard step for rohigyan. What led both the part in this situation and why no country is willing to risk taking them is completely missing.

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Post by zeckalpha »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #7

Incredibly moving. One of the more impactful interactive reports by the NYTimes. There’s talk about trying to get Aung San Suu Kyi to the ICC. People complained about Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize, but all objective reports show credible allegations of true modern genocide (shocking for a word meaninglessly bandied about so often) in Kyi’s case, giving the prize a new low with a recipient going from Oslo to The…

She won the Prize in 1991.

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Post by fjsolwmv »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #7

Incredibly moving. One of the more impactful interactive reports by the NYTimes. There’s talk about trying to get Aung San Suu Kyi to the ICC. People complained about Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize, but all objective reports show credible allegations of true modern genocide (shocking for a word meaninglessly bandied about so often) in Kyi’s case, giving the prize a new low with a recipient going from Oslo to The…

Huh? She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, over 20 years before the Rohynga crisis, while she was still the recipient of assassination attempts for resisting the military dictatorship.

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Post by khein11 »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #3

Is this about religion again? Or what exactly are they hated for?

It's much more than religion. Of course, media would like to simplify things and only one side of the story would be told most of the time. But it's much more complicated issue in reality and the hatred is not one sided by the way.

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Post by Sabinus »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #7

Incredibly moving. One of the more impactful interactive reports by the NYTimes. There’s talk about trying to get Aung San Suu Kyi to the ICC. People complained about Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize, but all objective reports show credible allegations of true modern genocide (shocking for a word meaninglessly bandied about so often) in Kyi’s case, giving the prize a new low with a recipient going from Oslo to The…

My understanding is that the military did this, not the civil government.

Re: How the Rohingya Escaped

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Post by DanBC »

StudentStuff wrote: post #8
justboxing wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Is this about religion again? Yes. Islam vs Buddhism or Buddhism vs Islam, whichever way you wanna look at it.

Basically an Islamic minority being systematically executed or ejected from their homes. Thing is this has been going on for at least a decade, I remember going to a tech meetup about mesh networks that had a few Rohingya's who were about my age at the time that were going to Seattle Central College or similar. IIRC they took some phones running Serval Mesh back, but not much else happened. They were pretty intereste…

They were also interested in building methods for people who've left the country to communicate with family.

http://news.trust.org//slideshow/?id=356b4ab3-7e12-440f-9781...

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