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*** 12-Oct-16 World View -- Militants linked to Myanmar's Rohingyas kill border guards in revenge attack
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Nine Myanmar (Burma) police killed in coordinated attacks on Bangladesh border posts
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Rohingya family in Rakhine State in Myanmar (Burma)
Nine Myanmar police were killed, with four others injured and one
still missing, when some 20 militants conducted coordinated attacks on
three border posts along the Bangladesh border. The attacks took
place around 1:30 am on Sunday morning. The attackers were armed with
swords and spears, as well as conventional firearms, and they made off
with more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition and dozens of guns. Eight
militants were killed, and two others were captured alive.
The attacks took place in Rakhine State, which was the site of mass
communal ethnic violence by Buddhist Burmese against Muslims in the
Rohingya ethnic group in 2012.
No one has claimed credit for the attacks, but it's believed the
attacks were in revenge for the Buddhist attacks on Rohingya Muslims,
and for plans announced last month by the government to demolish 12
mosques and 35 madrasas (religious schools) in Rakhine State because
they had been built without permission.
Police are not making a statement on the identities of the captured
militants, but police are saying that they're neither Myanmar
nationals nor Rohingyas, but that they received help from Rohingyas.
Myanmar Times and Dhaka (Bangladesh) Tribune and Anadolu (Turkey) and The News (Pakistan)
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**** Fears grow of new wave of Buddhist vs Rohingya communal violence
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There was a burst of violence of Buddhists attacking Muslims in June
2012, triggered by an alleged rape of a Buddhist Rakhine girl by
Muslim Rohingyas.
In October of that year, there was a much worse wave of violence and
massacres described as a genocidal "scorched earth attack" by
Buddhists, killing dozens of Muslims, destroying 2000 homes, and
forcing thousands of refugees into squalid refugee camps which already
house hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas.
The Rohingya have a darker skin than Burmese, and they speak a Bengali
dialect. They are, for all practical purposes, a stateless ethnic
group, living on the Bangladesh-Burma border, but rejected by both
countries. In fact, Burma refuses to identify the Rohingya as a
unique ethnic group, preferring to call them Bengali, and referring to
them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Burma is almost entirely
a Buddhist state, including the Rakhine ethnic group that make up most
of the population of Rakhine state.
Then in April 2013, 20 Muslim boys were taken from a madrassa, and
hacked to death, their bodies soaked in petrol and set alight. This
was part of a much larger wild, frenzied attack by Buddhists on
Muslims that killed dozens and reduced an entire established community
of 12,000 Muslims, including homes, shops and mosques, to ashes and
rubble. Police watched and did nothing while thousands of people --
women, monks, young people -- cheered when someone was killed.
The level of hysteria was similar to Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938,
when thousands of Germans cheered at seeing the the Nazis torch
synagogues, vandalize Jewish homes, schools and businesses and kill
Jews.
It's now feared that the Sunday's killing of the border guards
Rohingya-linked militants will trigger another wave of mass slaughter
of Muslims by Buddhists. According to Vijay Nambiar, UN envoy to
Myanmar:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"At this delicate juncture, the local communities at
> all levels must refuse to be provoked by these incidents and their
> leaders must work actively to prevent incitement of animosity or
> mutual hatred between Buddhist and Muslim
> communities."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Myanmar authorities have sent troops into Rakhine State to prevent
further violence. But the troops are also going to be hunting for any
Rohingyas who might have been involved in Sunday's attack. Thus it's
possible that the troops may not fail to prevent violence, they may
trigger new violence. UN News Center
and Radio Free Asia and Saudi Gazette
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Myanmar, Burma, Rakhine State,
Rohingyas, Bangladesh, Vijay Nambiar, Kristallnacht
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Nine Myanmar (Burma) police killed in coordinated attacks on Bangladesh border posts
- Fears grow of new wave of Buddhist vs Rohingya communal violence
****
**** Nine Myanmar (Burma) police killed in coordinated attacks on Bangladesh border posts
****
Rohingya family in Rakhine State in Myanmar (Burma)
Nine Myanmar police were killed, with four others injured and one
still missing, when some 20 militants conducted coordinated attacks on
three border posts along the Bangladesh border. The attacks took
place around 1:30 am on Sunday morning. The attackers were armed with
swords and spears, as well as conventional firearms, and they made off
with more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition and dozens of guns. Eight
militants were killed, and two others were captured alive.
The attacks took place in Rakhine State, which was the site of mass
communal ethnic violence by Buddhist Burmese against Muslims in the
Rohingya ethnic group in 2012.
No one has claimed credit for the attacks, but it's believed the
attacks were in revenge for the Buddhist attacks on Rohingya Muslims,
and for plans announced last month by the government to demolish 12
mosques and 35 madrasas (religious schools) in Rakhine State because
they had been built without permission.
Police are not making a statement on the identities of the captured
militants, but police are saying that they're neither Myanmar
nationals nor Rohingyas, but that they received help from Rohingyas.
Myanmar Times and Dhaka (Bangladesh) Tribune and Anadolu (Turkey) and The News (Pakistan)
****
**** Fears grow of new wave of Buddhist vs Rohingya communal violence
****
There was a burst of violence of Buddhists attacking Muslims in June
2012, triggered by an alleged rape of a Buddhist Rakhine girl by
Muslim Rohingyas.
In October of that year, there was a much worse wave of violence and
massacres described as a genocidal "scorched earth attack" by
Buddhists, killing dozens of Muslims, destroying 2000 homes, and
forcing thousands of refugees into squalid refugee camps which already
house hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas.
The Rohingya have a darker skin than Burmese, and they speak a Bengali
dialect. They are, for all practical purposes, a stateless ethnic
group, living on the Bangladesh-Burma border, but rejected by both
countries. In fact, Burma refuses to identify the Rohingya as a
unique ethnic group, preferring to call them Bengali, and referring to
them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Burma is almost entirely
a Buddhist state, including the Rakhine ethnic group that make up most
of the population of Rakhine state.
Then in April 2013, 20 Muslim boys were taken from a madrassa, and
hacked to death, their bodies soaked in petrol and set alight. This
was part of a much larger wild, frenzied attack by Buddhists on
Muslims that killed dozens and reduced an entire established community
of 12,000 Muslims, including homes, shops and mosques, to ashes and
rubble. Police watched and did nothing while thousands of people --
women, monks, young people -- cheered when someone was killed.
The level of hysteria was similar to Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938,
when thousands of Germans cheered at seeing the the Nazis torch
synagogues, vandalize Jewish homes, schools and businesses and kill
Jews.
It's now feared that the Sunday's killing of the border guards
Rohingya-linked militants will trigger another wave of mass slaughter
of Muslims by Buddhists. According to Vijay Nambiar, UN envoy to
Myanmar:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"At this delicate juncture, the local communities at
> all levels must refuse to be provoked by these incidents and their
> leaders must work actively to prevent incitement of animosity or
> mutual hatred between Buddhist and Muslim
> communities."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Myanmar authorities have sent troops into Rakhine State to prevent
further violence. But the troops are also going to be hunting for any
Rohingyas who might have been involved in Sunday's attack. Thus it's
possible that the troops may not fail to prevent violence, they may
trigger new violence. UN News Center
and Radio Free Asia and Saudi Gazette
Related Articles
- Meiktila, Burma, violence has echoes of Kristallnacht (05-Apr-2013)
- U.N. alarmed as ethnic violence grows in western Burma (Myanmar) (27-Oct-2012)
- Burma (Myanmar) declares state of emergency over Buddhist/Muslim violence (11-Jun-2012)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Myanmar, Burma, Rakhine State,
Rohingyas, Bangladesh, Vijay Nambiar, Kristallnacht
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