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A genocide against the Rohingya may be looming

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Re: A genocide against the Rohingya may be looming

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Post by junkculture »

Anyone who understand Bengali should listen to the "Rohingya" language. The similarities are unmistakable, even if you can't understand either.

If they really have been in that area since the 8th century - an assertion made by Soros' HRW, and mindlessly repeated by the media - you'd expect the language to diverge a lot more.

They are clearly not native to Myanmar.

Also, it's conveniently forgotten that they triggered the latest spurt of violence by attacking Buddhist and Hindu citizens.

It's odd how suddenly this is the latest humanitarian crisis.

Nothing to do with oil and gas pipelines, I'm sure. Unlike Syria, Iraq, Libya and so on.

Call me cynical but I don't see the international community - code for US interests - caring about people in resource poor regions.

Wonder what would happen if NK suddenly was found to have oil fields ...

Re: A genocide against the Rohingya may be looming

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Post by junkculture »

abhishivsaxena wrote: post #10
dingo_bat wrote: post #2

Key point: Government of Myanmar is responding to a terrorist attack. This is no more a "genocide" than USA's war in Afghanistan.

Totally agree. And much of the violence being attributed to Burmese forces is just hearsay attributed to Islamists. Western media/NGOs seems to buy it at face value and support these said Islamist, but hey they also supported ISIS affiliates in Syria against secular Asad regime so that's not surprising to me at all. This apart from the fact that anyone from subcontinent will tell you that these are not Rohingyas, but…

They are Bangladeshi Muslims, much like the "Assamese" flooding the labor market in South India right now.

Get ready for your comment to be down voted into oblivion, the usual reaction by ignorant SJWs. This place is getting to be as toxic as Reddit.

Re: A genocide against the Rohingya may be looming

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Post by apsec112 »

junkculture wrote: post #11

Anyone who understand Bengali should listen to the "Rohingya" language. The similarities are unmistakable, even if you can't understand either. If they really have been in that area since the 8th century - an assertion made by Soros' HRW, and mindlessly repeated by the media - you'd expect the language to diverge a lot more. They are clearly not native to Myanmar. Also, it's conveniently forgotten that they triggered…

That's a very weak argument. Eg., the Catalan language is more closely related to French than Spanish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallo-Romance_languages). But the Catalans are certainly "native" to Spain, in that they've lived within the current Spanish borders since before Spain existed. And obviously, someone not being "native" to an area doesn't justify killing or terrorizing them.

Re: A genocide against the Rohingya may be looming

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Post by dingo_bat »

rafi_kamal wrote: post #7
dingo_bat wrote: post #2

Key point: Government of Myanmar is responding to a terrorist attack. This is no more a "genocide" than USA's war in Afghanistan.

“They burned houses and tried to shoot us. They killed my husband by bullet.” - I don't think this is in any way similar to the Afghanistan war.

Yeah I agree, the atrocities committed in Afghanistan were much worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0

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Post by pknerd »

Thanks for bringing this up on this forum. There's another conspiracy theory circulating in the region that the devil Noble winner is doing this on instructions of US because the area Rohingyans live is enriched with valuable minerals including Jade stones. The locals are being killed and pushed away from the area, Americans will land and then keep an eye on China.

China on other hand trying best not to give US or UN a chance enter here by any excuse.

In all cases, Muslims are being used as bait

Re: A genocide against the Rohingya may be looming

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Post by InclinedPlane »

junkculture wrote: post #11

Anyone who understand Bengali should listen to the "Rohingya" language. The similarities are unmistakable, even if you can't understand either. If they really have been in that area since the 8th century - an assertion made by Soros' HRW, and mindlessly repeated by the media - you'd expect the language to diverge a lot more. They are clearly not native to Myanmar. Also, it's conveniently forgotten that they triggered…

What in the world could possibly have possessed you to write here and muddy the waters in a way that can only be in defense of genocide? Do you support genocide?

Re: A genocide against the Rohingya may be looming

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Post by slim »

dingo_bat wrote: post #2

Key point: Government of Myanmar is responding to a terrorist attack. This is no more a "genocide" than USA's war in Afghanistan.

The terrorist attack was in response to decades of persecution and genocide. In 2013 they've been described by UN as "the most persecuted population on earth"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_people

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