How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village
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Re: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village
#2Excellent journalism, as always. I have been following the case of the two imprisoned journalists; I hope for their release.
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#3Perhaps the US should send a few delegates from the bay area to explain to them that "dude, Buddhism is like, all about mellowing out and taking it chill, man!"
Re: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village
#4Perhaps the US should send a few delegates from the bay area to explain to them that "dude, Buddhism is like, all about mellowing out and taking it chill, man!"
It's chiller than Islam!
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#5Perhaps the US should send a few delegates from the bay area to explain to them that "dude, Buddhism is like, all about mellowing out and taking it chill, man!"
It's chiller than Islam!
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Re: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village
#6I'm a Burmese Buddhist and strongly against both the arrest of reporters and killing unarmed people of any race/religion. But there is a hidden agenda behind such article.
It used the word "Buddhist" many many times, such as Buddhist village, Buddhist neighbors, Buddhist community. The conflict is much more complicated than religious and those Buddhists mentioned are in fact local "Arakan" people.
See following NY Times article, not to defend the killing or anything but to show the matter is much more complicated than it seems. The western medias have been entirely one-sided and barely listen to the other side of the story of local Arakan.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/world/asia/rohingya-my...
Re: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village
#7I'm a Burmese Buddhist and strongly against both the arrest of reporters and killing unarmed people of any race/religion. But there is a hidden agenda behind such article. It used the word "Buddhist" many many times, such as Buddhist village, Buddhist neighbors, Buddhist community. The conflict is much more complicated than religious and those Buddhists mentioned are in fact local "Arakan" people. See following NY Ti…
Excuse my ignorance - but does Buddhism have a concept of "holy war" like in Christianity, Judaism and Islam? If so - are they using religious justification for the killings or is the killing purely ethnical?
I don't want to spark arguments - so feel free to just post some reading material as a reply if you'd prefer to and I'll read it.
Re: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village
#8I'm a Burmese Buddhist and strongly against both the arrest of reporters and killing unarmed people of any race/religion. But there is a hidden agenda behind such article. It used the word "Buddhist" many many times, such as Buddhist village, Buddhist neighbors, Buddhist community. The conflict is much more complicated than religious and those Buddhists mentioned are in fact local "Arakan" people. See following NY Ti…
Excuse my ignorance - but does Buddhism have a concept of "holy war" like in Christianity, Judaism and Islam? If so - are they using religious justification for the killings or is the killing purely ethnical? I don't want to spark arguments - so feel free to just post some reading material as a reply if you'd prefer to and I'll read it.
No, Buddhism as a religion doesn't, although you must understand that even in Christianity and Islam, the whole notion of "Holy War" is more a smokescreen to hide the much more prosaic underlying causes for war that have always been true throughout history: land, resources, human slave labour, control in general.
And it doesn't matter what justification is used for killing, really. One must look at the case from all angles, as the your parent said. However war and killing has never resolved long running conflicts in history. It merely subsides for a while before rearing its head again.
We really must put an end to quarrelling based on religion, race, ethnicity, and other puerile differences, or our species is never going to reach its potential on this planet.
Re: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village
#9Perhaps the US should send a few delegates from the bay area to explain to them that "dude, Buddhism is like, all about mellowing out and taking it chill, man!"
This is akin to arguing that since nearly all software has bugs and security holes, that all software is equally buggy and insecure, which seems obviously false.
Re: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village
#10I'm a Burmese Buddhist and strongly against both the arrest of reporters and killing unarmed people of any race/religion. But there is a hidden agenda behind such article. It used the word "Buddhist" many many times, such as Buddhist village, Buddhist neighbors, Buddhist community. The conflict is much more complicated than religious and those Buddhists mentioned are in fact local "Arakan" people. See following NY Ti…
It's not more complicated here, in this story, where Reuters got confirmation from the Buddhist villagers who participated in the mass murder. So I'm not sure why it's important that we take into account the fact that hungry people displaced into refugee camps to escape a genocide might lie to get better rations --- which is the "other side of the story" your link reveals. The people Reuters is writing about in this story didn't make it that far, did they?
Unfortunately more important than the victims themselves in this story is the confirmation Reuters has now provided to so much of the rest of the narrative about Rakhine. Soldiers disguised themselves while committing atrocities. We know this now because Reuters found paramilitaries and police officers to confirm it. Orders were specifically given to "clear" Rohingya villages. Same. Buddhist neighbors torched the village itself. We know this because Buddhists have now admitted to it, to Reuters. The government fabricated a terrorist attack. We know because the victims of the supposed attack deny it occurred.
What happened in Inn Dinn was too systematized to have happened only in Inn Dinn. It happened, in general, throughout Rakhine, the way the Rohingya displaced said it did.