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*** 4-Feb-17 World View -- Devastating UN report on Burma shows scale of ghastly atrocities by Buddhists targeting Muslim Rohingyas
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Devastating UN report on Burma shows scale of ghastly atrocities
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File photo of Rohingyas fleeing violence (Reuters)
A devastating new report by the UN office of human rights shows a huge
scale of ghastly atrocities committed by Buddhists targeting ethnic
Rohingya Muslims.
For months, Burma (Myanmar) police and soldiers have been committing
ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State by scorched
earth attacks, burning down their villages, and committing massacres,
rapes and other atrocities that have forced tens of thousands to flee
for their lives across the border into Bangladesh.
Burma has tacitly admitted guilt by forbidding any journalists or
humanitarian groups from entering Rakhine State to investigate. As
we've reported in the past, evidence of atrocities keeps leaking out,
despite desperate and laughable attempts to hide them. Human Rights
Watch (HRW) has documented the ethnic cleansing through a series of
"before and after" satellite images. Burma's government agrees that
the satellite images show that Rohingya villages are being burned
down, but they make the laughable claim that the Rohingyas are burning
down the villages themselves in order to embarrass the government.
There have also been dozens of videos showing Burma's police beating
and raping Rohingya civilians, but Burma's government claims that all
of these videos are phony and have been fabricated.
So to get around Burma's restrictions, the UN office of human rights
conducted extensive interviews of hundreds of the tens of thousands of
refugees who had been forced to flee across Burma's border into
Bangladesh, and were living in filthy refugee camps such as Cox's
Bazar. In addition, the UN team interviewed numerous representatives
of UN system agencies, NGOs, health professionals and other experts.
The interviewers heard one story after another of killings, beatings,
rape, sexual violence, shootings, stabbings, and wholesale destruction
of home and property. 52 of the 101 women interviewed reported being
raped or subjected to sexual violence. Seven of them were girls who
had been gang-raped. Some of the raped girls and women were killed
afterwards.
The report contains many personal stories. A woman said, "They killed
the baby by stomping on it with their heavy boots. Then they burned
the house."
A 12-year-old boy said: "I was at home with my 13-year old uncle, when
the army broke into the house. They beat us with sticks, metal rods
and kicks. We were crying, pleading for mercy. An army officer hit me
hard with a metal rod on my right arm, causing severe injury. We were
dragged out of the house, which was set on fire. My uncle, who
attempted to flee was caught, beaten and thrown into a burning house."
Independent (London) and UN human rights report on Burma and BBC
Related Articles
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**** Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's government may have to respond to the report
****
Burma's government has refused to allow any international journalists
or investigators into the region, and has used every possible
disinformation technique for months to deny that the atrocities are
taking place. These include the laughable technique of claiming that
the Rohingyas are killing each other and burning down their own
villages to embarrass the government.
However, this new report has been so devastating that Burma's
government has been forced to acknowledge it. Even so, U Zaw Htay,
the spokesman for Burma's president Htin Kyaw, said on Friday that
they hadn't seen the report, and added, "We will review the report
from the UN and we will respond, either in an official statement or in
an individual response (to questions)."
Later on Friday, the spokesman said, "These are extremely serious
allegations, and we are deeply concerned. We will be immediately
investigating these allegations through the investigation commission
led by Vice-President U Myint Swe Where there is clear evidence of
abuses and violations, we will take all necessary action."
International pressure is building on Aung San Suu Kyi, who is
believed to be the most powerful politician in Burma today. When she
was under arrest for many years by the army, she won the Nobel Peace
prize, and now she's considered to be some kind of human rights hero
(heroine). But this slaughter of Muslims by Burmese Buddhists has
been going on for years, and has become far worse in the last few
months, but she continues to deny that there are serious crimes being
committed.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein said on
Friday, "I did speak to Aung San Suu Kyi about an hour and a half
ago. I called upon her to use every means available to exert pressure
on the military and the security services to end this operation."
We'll have to see whether anything gets done or can get done. This is
a growing problem that will destabilize the region, and lead to new
hostilities, possibly triggering a major regional generational crisis
war. Irrawaddy Times (Burma) and Reuters
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**** Generational Dynamics interpretation of Burma (Myanmar) atrocities
****
From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, these atrocities are
coming out of deep hatred by Buddhists of Muslims, based on numerous
generational crisis wars between the two groups over the centuries.
Every time I post a story about Burma, some commenters apparently get
confused and think that it's the Rohingya's that are killing,
torturing and raping the Buddhists. But no it's not. For the last
few years, the Buddhists have been the perpetrators, and the Rohingya
Muslims have been the victims.
In fact, as I've described several times in the past, the actions
being taken by Buddhists against Muslims today are very similar to
actions taken by Nazis against the Jews. These kinds of atrocities
are standard fare for all regious and ethnic groups.
One commenter in the past pointed out that Muslims conducted
atrocities against Buddhists in previous wars, decades and centuries
ago. That's undoubtedly true. That's part of how the generational
cycle works, with new generations in each side vowing revenge for
atrocities committed against their grandfathers. Each side vividly
recalls the atrocities committed by the other side, but strangely
enough have no memory whatsoever of atrocities committed by their own
grandfathers.
Some people believe that Buddhists are such peace loving people that
they never fight or never rape or never commit atrocities. Any ethnic
or religious group that really lived that way would not survive for
long, but would be exterminated by some other ethnic or religious
group before long. From the point of view of Generational Dynamics,
all religious and ethnic groups act the same way, and in fact use
religion to justify their actions.
The Buddhist xenophobic hatred of Muslims in Burma goes very deep.
The root of the violence is xenophobic attacks by Buddhists led by
Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu and his "969 movement," against the
Rohingya Muslims, including rapes, torture and other atrocities
committed by Buddhists, targeting the Rohingyas. The Rohingyas have a
darker skin than Burmese, and they speak a Bengali dialect.
What is clear is that the current situation is becoming increasingly
dangerous for the entire region.
The Buddhist atrocities started to become significant worse since
October 9 of last year, when nine Myanmar border police were killed in
an attack blamed on Rohingya militants. This was the first act of
violence by Rohingyas in revenge.
CNN has reported on an interview with members of Harakat al-Yaqeen, or
"Faith Movement," who are claiming responsibility for the October 9
attacks, and who are the first armed insurgency to emerge from the
Rohingyas. The leader Atah Ullah said in the interview:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"We, the vulnerable and persecuted people, have asked
> the international community for protection against the atrocities
> by the government of Myanmar, but the international community
> turned its back on us. Finally, we cannot take it
> anymore."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
This armed insurgency is only the beginning. The government of
Muslim-majority Malaysia is furious, and is condemning the government
of Burma, violating the regional rule of not interfering in the
internal affairs of neighbors. And the situation is ripe for
infiltration and recruitment by jihadists, such as al-Qaeda or the
so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh). CNN and Reuters
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Burma, Myanmar, Rohingyas,
Bangladesh, Cox's Bazar, U Zaw Htay, Htin Kyaw, U Myint Swe,
Aung San Suu Kyi, Zeid Raad al-Hussein
Harakat al-Yaqeen, Faith Movement, Atah Ullah, Malaysia
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Devastating UN report on Burma shows scale of ghastly atrocities
- Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's government may have to respond to the report
- Generational Dynamics interpretation of Burma (Myanmar) atrocities
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**** Devastating UN report on Burma shows scale of ghastly atrocities
****
File photo of Rohingyas fleeing violence (Reuters)
A devastating new report by the UN office of human rights shows a huge
scale of ghastly atrocities committed by Buddhists targeting ethnic
Rohingya Muslims.
For months, Burma (Myanmar) police and soldiers have been committing
ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State by scorched
earth attacks, burning down their villages, and committing massacres,
rapes and other atrocities that have forced tens of thousands to flee
for their lives across the border into Bangladesh.
Burma has tacitly admitted guilt by forbidding any journalists or
humanitarian groups from entering Rakhine State to investigate. As
we've reported in the past, evidence of atrocities keeps leaking out,
despite desperate and laughable attempts to hide them. Human Rights
Watch (HRW) has documented the ethnic cleansing through a series of
"before and after" satellite images. Burma's government agrees that
the satellite images show that Rohingya villages are being burned
down, but they make the laughable claim that the Rohingyas are burning
down the villages themselves in order to embarrass the government.
There have also been dozens of videos showing Burma's police beating
and raping Rohingya civilians, but Burma's government claims that all
of these videos are phony and have been fabricated.
So to get around Burma's restrictions, the UN office of human rights
conducted extensive interviews of hundreds of the tens of thousands of
refugees who had been forced to flee across Burma's border into
Bangladesh, and were living in filthy refugee camps such as Cox's
Bazar. In addition, the UN team interviewed numerous representatives
of UN system agencies, NGOs, health professionals and other experts.
The interviewers heard one story after another of killings, beatings,
rape, sexual violence, shootings, stabbings, and wholesale destruction
of home and property. 52 of the 101 women interviewed reported being
raped or subjected to sexual violence. Seven of them were girls who
had been gang-raped. Some of the raped girls and women were killed
afterwards.
The report contains many personal stories. A woman said, "They killed
the baby by stomping on it with their heavy boots. Then they burned
the house."
A 12-year-old boy said: "I was at home with my 13-year old uncle, when
the army broke into the house. They beat us with sticks, metal rods
and kicks. We were crying, pleading for mercy. An army officer hit me
hard with a metal rod on my right arm, causing severe injury. We were
dragged out of the house, which was set on fire. My uncle, who
attempted to flee was caught, beaten and thrown into a burning house."
Independent (London) and UN human rights report on Burma and BBC
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)
****
**** Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's government may have to respond to the report
****
Burma's government has refused to allow any international journalists
or investigators into the region, and has used every possible
disinformation technique for months to deny that the atrocities are
taking place. These include the laughable technique of claiming that
the Rohingyas are killing each other and burning down their own
villages to embarrass the government.
However, this new report has been so devastating that Burma's
government has been forced to acknowledge it. Even so, U Zaw Htay,
the spokesman for Burma's president Htin Kyaw, said on Friday that
they hadn't seen the report, and added, "We will review the report
from the UN and we will respond, either in an official statement or in
an individual response (to questions)."
Later on Friday, the spokesman said, "These are extremely serious
allegations, and we are deeply concerned. We will be immediately
investigating these allegations through the investigation commission
led by Vice-President U Myint Swe Where there is clear evidence of
abuses and violations, we will take all necessary action."
International pressure is building on Aung San Suu Kyi, who is
believed to be the most powerful politician in Burma today. When she
was under arrest for many years by the army, she won the Nobel Peace
prize, and now she's considered to be some kind of human rights hero
(heroine). But this slaughter of Muslims by Burmese Buddhists has
been going on for years, and has become far worse in the last few
months, but she continues to deny that there are serious crimes being
committed.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein said on
Friday, "I did speak to Aung San Suu Kyi about an hour and a half
ago. I called upon her to use every means available to exert pressure
on the military and the security services to end this operation."
We'll have to see whether anything gets done or can get done. This is
a growing problem that will destabilize the region, and lead to new
hostilities, possibly triggering a major regional generational crisis
war. Irrawaddy Times (Burma) and Reuters
****
**** Generational Dynamics interpretation of Burma (Myanmar) atrocities
****
From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, these atrocities are
coming out of deep hatred by Buddhists of Muslims, based on numerous
generational crisis wars between the two groups over the centuries.
Every time I post a story about Burma, some commenters apparently get
confused and think that it's the Rohingya's that are killing,
torturing and raping the Buddhists. But no it's not. For the last
few years, the Buddhists have been the perpetrators, and the Rohingya
Muslims have been the victims.
In fact, as I've described several times in the past, the actions
being taken by Buddhists against Muslims today are very similar to
actions taken by Nazis against the Jews. These kinds of atrocities
are standard fare for all regious and ethnic groups.
One commenter in the past pointed out that Muslims conducted
atrocities against Buddhists in previous wars, decades and centuries
ago. That's undoubtedly true. That's part of how the generational
cycle works, with new generations in each side vowing revenge for
atrocities committed against their grandfathers. Each side vividly
recalls the atrocities committed by the other side, but strangely
enough have no memory whatsoever of atrocities committed by their own
grandfathers.
Some people believe that Buddhists are such peace loving people that
they never fight or never rape or never commit atrocities. Any ethnic
or religious group that really lived that way would not survive for
long, but would be exterminated by some other ethnic or religious
group before long. From the point of view of Generational Dynamics,
all religious and ethnic groups act the same way, and in fact use
religion to justify their actions.
The Buddhist xenophobic hatred of Muslims in Burma goes very deep.
The root of the violence is xenophobic attacks by Buddhists led by
Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu and his "969 movement," against the
Rohingya Muslims, including rapes, torture and other atrocities
committed by Buddhists, targeting the Rohingyas. The Rohingyas have a
darker skin than Burmese, and they speak a Bengali dialect.
What is clear is that the current situation is becoming increasingly
dangerous for the entire region.
The Buddhist atrocities started to become significant worse since
October 9 of last year, when nine Myanmar border police were killed in
an attack blamed on Rohingya militants. This was the first act of
violence by Rohingyas in revenge.
CNN has reported on an interview with members of Harakat al-Yaqeen, or
"Faith Movement," who are claiming responsibility for the October 9
attacks, and who are the first armed insurgency to emerge from the
Rohingyas. The leader Atah Ullah said in the interview:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"We, the vulnerable and persecuted people, have asked
> the international community for protection against the atrocities
> by the government of Myanmar, but the international community
> turned its back on us. Finally, we cannot take it
> anymore."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
This armed insurgency is only the beginning. The government of
Muslim-majority Malaysia is furious, and is condemning the government
of Burma, violating the regional rule of not interfering in the
internal affairs of neighbors. And the situation is ripe for
infiltration and recruitment by jihadists, such as al-Qaeda or the
so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh). CNN and Reuters
Related Articles
- Ethnic cleansing of Myanmar's Rohingyas threatens regional stability (30-Jan-2017)
- 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)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Burma, Myanmar, Rohingyas,
Bangladesh, Cox's Bazar, U Zaw Htay, Htin Kyaw, U Myint Swe,
Aung San Suu Kyi, Zeid Raad al-Hussein
Harakat al-Yaqeen, Faith Movement, Atah Ullah, Malaysia
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