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I'm with the Buddhists.
So you support the genocide of the Rohingya people?
There is so much evil in this world, what the Rohingya face today my own people endured in 2009. At the hands of thr Sri Lankan government, who also happens to be buddhistic, ten thousands of innocent Tamils were massacred. Women and children raped. Babies murdered.
The UN wrote a huge report findng the Sri Lankan government guilty only for China and Russia to veto against any juridicial proceeding.
One of the reason i am so dissapointed in Trump, he doesnt seem to understand when good retreats, evil will triump. Not everything in this world is about fair transaction of money for goods and service. When the oppressed in 3rd world countries look for justice, they look for strong powers of democracy, they look upto US.
Throughout history US would come to aid, today its about bowing down to communist human rights abusers like China for fair trade and access to its market.
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> Is this about religion again? Yes. Islam vs Buddhism or Buddhism vs Islam, whichever way you wanna look at it.
There is a large community of Islam living peacefully in Myanmar. If you look around Yangon (the largest and most popular city of Myanmar), you could find a lot of mosques (some even closed to famous pagoda). So this issue is much more complicated than Islam vs Buddhism.
If, say, some Burmese Muslims held a large protest march in Yangon, would they run the risk of being targeted as a group? If so, I'd say that their silence is as a result of fear rather than support.
I'm crying, can't watch this
While the media portraits Rohingya Crisis as religious conflict, it is actually ethnic crisis. UN describes it as ethnic cleansing. Although most of the Rohingya are muslim, Bamar (major ethnic Burmese) hate them calling them "Bengalis" (people from neighboring Bangladesh), despite Rohingyas living there for hundreds of years. The racism and prejudice flared the crisis soon after the military came to power decades ag…
>This has led many Buddhists to consider the Rohingya to be Bengali, rejecting the term Rohingya as a recent invention, created for political reasons. (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/08/rohingya-m...)
We are failing refugees the world over. This is heartbreaking, and so is the situation in Syria, in South Sudan, in Eritrea, and in countless other places. And I don't feel like we're getting any better and we're certainly doing no better at preventing these crises. With the world getting more crowded, is there an end in sight? This piece reminded me a bit of the self-recorded documentary of a Syrian woman trying to…
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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 s…
> Buddhism is about peace, fundamentally and (in nearly all cases) in practice. Normally, yes, but there are several violent buddhist groups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Karen_Buddhist_Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/969_Movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodu_Bala_Sena
Writing this on my iPad so excuse my spelling errors: There is so much evil in this world, what the Rohingya face today my own people endured in 2009. At the hands of thr Sri Lankan government, who also happens to be buddhistic, ten thousands of innocent Tamils were massacred. Women and children raped. Babies murdered. The UN wrote a huge report findng the Sri Lankan government guilty only for China and Russia to vet…
Unfortunately, US role in Bangladesh(East Pakistan)[1], Vietnam and South America shows they do it so only if political/economic reasons align.
[1] http://warisboring.com/in-1971-the-u-s-navy-almost-fought-th...