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*** 30-Jan-17 World View -- Ethnic cleansing of Myanmar's Rohingyas threatens regional stability
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
****
**** Trying to keep up in a world in a state of hysteria
****
This weekend, the mainstream media is in total hysteria, with
reporters screaming like babbling idiots, almost unable form a
complete sentence without saying something that's incredibly fatuous
or stupid.
As always, in my daily Generational Dynamics World View articles, I
try to report what's really going on in the world, which is what the
tens of thousands of my readers count on. While reporters are
screaming obsessively at each other about the executive order, there
are really significant things going on in the Mideast, Africa and Asia
that are far more important to our future than one political story.
Unfortunately, I'm only one person, who has limited time beyond the
exigencies of having to earn a living, at a time when the number of
real international crises keep growing, even if the mainstream press
ignores them for the cotton candy of political partisanship. But I
hope that you'll bear with me, Dear Reader, and I'll continue to do my
best to apply the Generational Dynamics methodology and to inform you
of the really important events in the world.
****
**** Leading Muslim government advisor in Myanmar (Burma) is assassinated
****
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A Rohingya woman and child in a refugee camp in Bangladesh (Reuters)
Ko Ni, a legal adviser to Myanmar's (Burma's) government was shot to
death by a gunshot to the head as he walked out of the arrival gate at
Rangoon's airport, after returning from a flight overseas. Ko Ni was
a Muslim who was ethnically Burmese. He was the most prominent Muslim
member of the government. He was also an advocate for human rights as
regards Muslims, and ran a law firm that aided Muslims. No motive for
the assassination is yet known, but it's believed that motive is
related to this Muslim human rights connection.
Ko Ni was particularly an adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi, the de
facto head of Burma's government, after her party, the National
League for Democracy (NLD) won the elections in November 2015. Suu
Kyi won a Nobel Peace prize years ago when she was under house arrest,
and her ascension to power gave hope not only to citizens of Burma but
also to the international community who were hoping for stability in
the country.
However, Suu Kyi's refusal or inability to stop the rapes, beatings,
torture and slaughter of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State by the
army has caused Suu Kyi's reputation to plummet, and the assassination
of Ko Ni will only further complicate the situation. Myanmar Times and Independent (Ireland) and International Business Times
Related Articles
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**** Ethnic cleansing of Myanmar's Rohingyas threatens regional stability
****
The ethnic cleansing and violence by Myanmar's (Burma's) mostly
Buddhist army targeting Muslim Rohingyas has been worsening in recent
months. Myanmar has essentially admitted guilt by refusing to permit
international journalists or investigators into the region, as stories
beatings, rape and torture continue to leak out, and as satellite
pictures show entire villages burned down by the army.
Concerns are growing that the ethnic cleansing of Myanmar's Rohingya
population is threatening the stability of the entire region.
Since October 9 of last year, after nine Myanmar border police were
killed in an attack blamed on Rohingya militants, some 65,000
Rohingyas fled across the Myanmar border to Bangladesh to escape the
violence by Myanmar's army. The total number of Rohingyas in
Bangladesh is estimated to be around 400,000, mostly living in filthy
refugee camps.
Bangladesh is under international human rights pressure to allow more
Rohingyas to enter Bangladesh, but they place a heavy burden on
Bangladesh's resources. As one journalist wrote, "in the conditions
which prevail today, morality suggests that Rohingya fleeing
persecution in their country be let into Bangladesh. At the same time,
a sense of reality points to the terrible burden that could be put on
Bangladesh’s resources if they are allowed entry, with hardly any
guarantee that they will soon, or ever, go back home."
Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak called an emergency meeting of
the 57 countries in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation two weeks
ago in Kuala Lumpur. Najib said at the conference:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"The killing must stop. The violation of women and
> girls must stop. The persecution of your fellow men and women,
> simply on the grounds that they are Muslim, must
> stop."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Malaysia is a Muslim-majority country, and it's for that reason that
Najib chose to interfere in the internal affairs of Myanmar, something
that would otherwise be unthinkable among the southeast Asian
countries.
The fear is that with the swelling population of Rohingyas that have
fled to Bangladesh and other countries, they present an easy target
for recruitment by the so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or
Daesh), which is trying to get a foothold in the region, or by other
jihadist groups.
It's feared that unless Myanmar ends the ethnic cleansing of
Rohingyas, the result will be terror attacks and instability
throughout the region. Institute of South Asian Studies and Reuters (20-Jan) and Indian Express (9-Dec)
Related Articles
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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Burma, Myanmar, Rohingya, Rakhine State,
Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy, NLD, Ko Ni,
Bangladesh, Malaysia, Najib Razak,
Organization of Islamic Cooperation, OIC,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Trying to keep up in a world in a state of hysteria
- Leading Muslim government advisor in Myanmar (Burma) is assassinated
- Ethnic cleansing of Myanmar's Rohingyas threatens regional stability
****
**** Trying to keep up in a world in a state of hysteria
****
This weekend, the mainstream media is in total hysteria, with
reporters screaming like babbling idiots, almost unable form a
complete sentence without saying something that's incredibly fatuous
or stupid.
As always, in my daily Generational Dynamics World View articles, I
try to report what's really going on in the world, which is what the
tens of thousands of my readers count on. While reporters are
screaming obsessively at each other about the executive order, there
are really significant things going on in the Mideast, Africa and Asia
that are far more important to our future than one political story.
Unfortunately, I'm only one person, who has limited time beyond the
exigencies of having to earn a living, at a time when the number of
real international crises keep growing, even if the mainstream press
ignores them for the cotton candy of political partisanship. But I
hope that you'll bear with me, Dear Reader, and I'll continue to do my
best to apply the Generational Dynamics methodology and to inform you
of the really important events in the world.
****
**** Leading Muslim government advisor in Myanmar (Burma) is assassinated
****
A Rohingya woman and child in a refugee camp in Bangladesh (Reuters)
Ko Ni, a legal adviser to Myanmar's (Burma's) government was shot to
death by a gunshot to the head as he walked out of the arrival gate at
Rangoon's airport, after returning from a flight overseas. Ko Ni was
a Muslim who was ethnically Burmese. He was the most prominent Muslim
member of the government. He was also an advocate for human rights as
regards Muslims, and ran a law firm that aided Muslims. No motive for
the assassination is yet known, but it's believed that motive is
related to this Muslim human rights connection.
Ko Ni was particularly an adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi, the de
facto head of Burma's government, after her party, the National
League for Democracy (NLD) won the elections in November 2015. Suu
Kyi won a Nobel Peace prize years ago when she was under house arrest,
and her ascension to power gave hope not only to citizens of Burma but
also to the international community who were hoping for stability in
the country.
However, Suu Kyi's refusal or inability to stop the rapes, beatings,
torture and slaughter of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State by the
army has caused Suu Kyi's reputation to plummet, and the assassination
of Ko Ni will only further complicate the situation. Myanmar Times and Independent (Ireland) and International Business Times
Related Articles
- UN: Burma (Myanmar) committing 'ethnic cleansing' of Rohingyas (29-Nov-2016)
- Meiktila, Burma, violence has echoes of Kristallnacht (05-Apr-2013)
- Generational history of Burma (Myanmar) (26-Sep-2007)
****
**** Ethnic cleansing of Myanmar's Rohingyas threatens regional stability
****
The ethnic cleansing and violence by Myanmar's (Burma's) mostly
Buddhist army targeting Muslim Rohingyas has been worsening in recent
months. Myanmar has essentially admitted guilt by refusing to permit
international journalists or investigators into the region, as stories
beatings, rape and torture continue to leak out, and as satellite
pictures show entire villages burned down by the army.
Concerns are growing that the ethnic cleansing of Myanmar's Rohingya
population is threatening the stability of the entire region.
Since October 9 of last year, after nine Myanmar border police were
killed in an attack blamed on Rohingya militants, some 65,000
Rohingyas fled across the Myanmar border to Bangladesh to escape the
violence by Myanmar's army. The total number of Rohingyas in
Bangladesh is estimated to be around 400,000, mostly living in filthy
refugee camps.
Bangladesh is under international human rights pressure to allow more
Rohingyas to enter Bangladesh, but they place a heavy burden on
Bangladesh's resources. As one journalist wrote, "in the conditions
which prevail today, morality suggests that Rohingya fleeing
persecution in their country be let into Bangladesh. At the same time,
a sense of reality points to the terrible burden that could be put on
Bangladesh’s resources if they are allowed entry, with hardly any
guarantee that they will soon, or ever, go back home."
Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak called an emergency meeting of
the 57 countries in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation two weeks
ago in Kuala Lumpur. Najib said at the conference:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"The killing must stop. The violation of women and
> girls must stop. The persecution of your fellow men and women,
> simply on the grounds that they are Muslim, must
> stop."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Malaysia is a Muslim-majority country, and it's for that reason that
Najib chose to interfere in the internal affairs of Myanmar, something
that would otherwise be unthinkable among the southeast Asian
countries.
The fear is that with the swelling population of Rohingyas that have
fled to Bangladesh and other countries, they present an easy target
for recruitment by the so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or
Daesh), which is trying to get a foothold in the region, or by other
jihadist groups.
It's feared that unless Myanmar ends the ethnic cleansing of
Rohingyas, the result will be terror attacks and instability
throughout the region. Institute of South Asian Studies and Reuters (20-Jan) and Indian Express (9-Dec)
Related Articles
- Asian jihadists become radicalized by Burma's (Myanmar's) Rohingya slaughter (07-Dec-2016)
- Thousands of Bangladeshi and Burma Rohingya migrants stranded at sea in southeast Asia (16-May-2015)
- Militants linked to Myanmar's Rohingyas kill border guards in revenge attack (12-Oct-2016)
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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Burma, Myanmar, Rohingya, Rakhine State,
Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy, NLD, Ko Ni,
Bangladesh, Malaysia, Najib Razak,
Organization of Islamic Cooperation, OIC,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh
Permanent web link to this article
Receive daily World View columns by e-mail
Contribute to Generational Dynamics via PayPal
John J. Xenakis
100 Memorial Drive Apt 8-13A
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
Subscribe to World View: http://generationaldynamics.com/subscribe
