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*** 29-Sep-17 World View -- Burma's (Myanmar's) leaders may be inspired by Pol Pot's Cambodian 'Killing Fields' genocide
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Burma's ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims passes a major milestone
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Rohingyas in Bangladesh receive humanitarian aid (Pakistan Today)
According to the United Nations, the Rohingya crisis in Burma
(Myanmar) passed a major milestone on Thursday, in that the number of
Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh since August 25, when the
latest Burmese army military "clearance operations" began, has now
topped 500,000, making it "the largest mass refugee movement in the
region in decades." UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the
crisis "the world's fastest developing refugee emergency and a
humanitarian and human rights nightmare."
Counting the refugees who had fled earlier, there are now believed to
be "well over 700,000" Rohingyas in Bangladesh. And since the
systemic violence by Burma's army is continuing there could be 250,000
more fleeing into Bangladesh in the next couple of months.
Burma's army has been conducting a scorched earth attack on Rohingya
Muslims, burning down thousands of homes and buildings, and hundreds
of entire villages. The army committed massacres, torture, rapes and
other atrocities that have displaced hundreds of thousands of people,
with hundreds of thousands fleeing for their lives, crossing the
border into Bangladesh.
Burma's government, led by the ethnic cleanser-in-chief and Nobel
Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, has been denying that any ethnic
cleansing is taking place, and is making the laughable claim that
Rohingyas are burning down their own villages and killing each other.
For years, as these military operations were taking place, Burma
refused to allow any foreign investigators into Rakhine state.
Journalists, NGOs, UN investigators have all be blocked by Burma
from entering the region.
Burma has been internationally pressured to allow investigators in, or
risk losing aid or having sanctions applied. Finally, Burma agreed to
a visit by United Nations officials and other diplomats to take play
yesterday (Thursday). At the last minute Burma canceled the visit,
refusing to give any explanation, but several hours later said that it
was "because of bad weather." Burma claims that the visit will
be rescheduled.
The visit was to have been tightly controlled, allowing the UN
officials to see only the things that Burma's army wanted them to see.
However, that strategy failed disastrously earlier this month, as we
reported at the time.
There was a
tightly controlled visit by BBC reporter Jonathan Head, but then they
happened to see some smoke going up through the trees. Head's minders
lost control as Head and his cameraman ran towards the fires, where
they able to question a Buddhist Burman who admitted to burning down
the buildings.
So after that experience, it's not surprising that the Burmese
government canceled Thursday's UN visit.
This is an extremely serious situation. The Burma Rohingya crisis is
creating a huge refugee crisis and is energizing jihadist groups in
Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Asia, and the Mideast. After several
years of these atrocities by Burma's army, Rohingya activists have
formed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), which conducted
terrorist attacks on August 25 and triggered the current round of
"clearance operations" by Burma's army. This crisis is extremely
destabilizing to the entire region, and is just as likely as the North
Korea nuclear missile crisis to trigger a war that could escalate into
a world war. AP and WHO - Bangladesh situation report and Independent (London)
Related Articles
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**** Burma has possible parallels to Pol Pot's Cambodian Killing Fields
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Every time I write one of these articles about Buddhist Burma's ethnic
cleansing and genocide of Rohingya Muslims, some commenters always get
confused and think that I'm writing about Rohingya Muslims raping,
torturing and murdering Buddhist Burmese. But no, let me be clear,
this is about Buddhists murdering, raping, and torturing Muslims, not
the other way around.
The phrase "religion of peace" gets thrown around a lot these days.
Every time there's a terrorist attack by a Muslim jihadist group, some
Muslim leader insists that Islam is a "religion of peace," a claim
that infuriates many people in the West.
From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, Islam is NOT a
religion of peace. In fact, there's no such thing as a religion of
peace. In fact, no religion would exist for long as a "religion of
peace," since its population would soon be exterminated by people of
other religions who do NOT follow "religion of peace" policies.
On the other hand, many people who comment on my articles seem
to believe that Buddhism is a "religion of peace," and claim
that Buddhists are somehow congenitally unable to murder, rape
and torture Muslim Rohingyas or anyone else. A typical comment
is that "Buddhists would never harm anyone, so the Rohingyas
must have done something particularly harmful to deserve what's
happening to them."
And so, many commenters seem to believe that Buddhism is a "religion
of peace." And yet, the Buddhist society of the Khmer Rouge in
Cambodia in 1975-79, led by Pol Pot, perpetrated one of the three or
four top mass genocides of the 20th century, comparable to the huge
Christian genocides in Russia and Germany in the two world wars, or
the huge Muslim genocides in the Mideast coming out of the collapse of
the Ottoman empire, or the huge African genocides in the 60s and 70s,
or the huge Chinese genocides in the 40s and 50s. Genocide and sex
are driven by DNA, not by religion, and all religions have the same
DNA.
The Buddhist Cambodian killing fields genocide, 1975-79, killed
something like 1.7 to well over 2 million people, out of a population
of 8 million. So around 20% of Cambodia's population were killed,
making it possibly the worst genocide, on a percentage basis, of the
20th century. By contrast, the Nazi Holocaust killed around 5
million, which was less than 3% of Germany's population. Pol Pot was
trying to imitate Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward in China, which was
a genocide that killed millions of people out of some two billion, Mao
Zedong and Pol Pot may be comparable in their genocides. In all
cases, these millions of people were the subject of almost
unimaginable atrocities, including torture and rape.
From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, Buddhism is a
"religion of war," just like Islam and every other religion. No
"religion of peace" would survive more than a few decades, if it
weren't willing to become a "religion of war."
So now looking more closely at the Buddhist Cambodian Killing Fields
genocide, it may well be that the Buddhists in Burma may be borrowing
some techniques from their Buddhist cousins in the 1970s Khmer rouge.
This would be a historic example of one group of genocidal Buddhists
learning genocide from another group of genocidal Buddhists. This
comparison became even more dramatic on this week, when Burma's
government announced that the government will take over the land that
contained the villages that Burma's army burned down, making the
ethnic cleansing permanent.
Right now, this is speculation, and there is no public evidence of
this connection between the Buddhist cousins. Perhaps someday, when
ethnic cleanser-in-chief and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi
writes her memoirs, we'll learn more about whether there is a
connection. UC Santa Barbara and Reuters and Al Arabiya
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Burma, Myanmar, Rohingyas, Rakhine State,
Bangladesh, Cambodia, Pol Pot, Killing Fields, Khmer Rouge,
António Guterres, BBC, Jonathan Head, Aung San Suu Kyi,
Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, ARSA, Buddhism, Islam,
China, Mao Zedong, Great Leap Forward
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Burma's ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims passes a major milestone
- Burma has possible parallels to Pol Pot's Cambodian Killing Fields
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**** Burma's ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims passes a major milestone
****
Rohingyas in Bangladesh receive humanitarian aid (Pakistan Today)
According to the United Nations, the Rohingya crisis in Burma
(Myanmar) passed a major milestone on Thursday, in that the number of
Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh since August 25, when the
latest Burmese army military "clearance operations" began, has now
topped 500,000, making it "the largest mass refugee movement in the
region in decades." UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the
crisis "the world's fastest developing refugee emergency and a
humanitarian and human rights nightmare."
Counting the refugees who had fled earlier, there are now believed to
be "well over 700,000" Rohingyas in Bangladesh. And since the
systemic violence by Burma's army is continuing there could be 250,000
more fleeing into Bangladesh in the next couple of months.
Burma's army has been conducting a scorched earth attack on Rohingya
Muslims, burning down thousands of homes and buildings, and hundreds
of entire villages. The army committed massacres, torture, rapes and
other atrocities that have displaced hundreds of thousands of people,
with hundreds of thousands fleeing for their lives, crossing the
border into Bangladesh.
Burma's government, led by the ethnic cleanser-in-chief and Nobel
Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, has been denying that any ethnic
cleansing is taking place, and is making the laughable claim that
Rohingyas are burning down their own villages and killing each other.
For years, as these military operations were taking place, Burma
refused to allow any foreign investigators into Rakhine state.
Journalists, NGOs, UN investigators have all be blocked by Burma
from entering the region.
Burma has been internationally pressured to allow investigators in, or
risk losing aid or having sanctions applied. Finally, Burma agreed to
a visit by United Nations officials and other diplomats to take play
yesterday (Thursday). At the last minute Burma canceled the visit,
refusing to give any explanation, but several hours later said that it
was "because of bad weather." Burma claims that the visit will
be rescheduled.
The visit was to have been tightly controlled, allowing the UN
officials to see only the things that Burma's army wanted them to see.
However, that strategy failed disastrously earlier this month, as we
reported at the time.
There was a
tightly controlled visit by BBC reporter Jonathan Head, but then they
happened to see some smoke going up through the trees. Head's minders
lost control as Head and his cameraman ran towards the fires, where
they able to question a Buddhist Burman who admitted to burning down
the buildings.
So after that experience, it's not surprising that the Burmese
government canceled Thursday's UN visit.
This is an extremely serious situation. The Burma Rohingya crisis is
creating a huge refugee crisis and is energizing jihadist groups in
Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Asia, and the Mideast. After several
years of these atrocities by Burma's army, Rohingya activists have
formed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), which conducted
terrorist attacks on August 25 and triggered the current round of
"clearance operations" by Burma's army. This crisis is extremely
destabilizing to the entire region, and is just as likely as the North
Korea nuclear missile crisis to trigger a war that could escalate into
a world war. AP and WHO - Bangladesh situation report and Independent (London)
Related Articles
- Burma's (Myanmar's) ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas leading to humanitarian catastrophe (15-Sep-2017)
- Burma's (Myanmar's) ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas witnessed by BBC reporter (09-Sep-2017)
- Devastating UN report on Burma shows scale of ghastly atrocities by Buddhists targeting Muslim Rohingyas (04-Feb-2017)
- Generational history of Burma (Myanmar) (26-Sep-2007)
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**** Burma has possible parallels to Pol Pot's Cambodian Killing Fields
****
Every time I write one of these articles about Buddhist Burma's ethnic
cleansing and genocide of Rohingya Muslims, some commenters always get
confused and think that I'm writing about Rohingya Muslims raping,
torturing and murdering Buddhist Burmese. But no, let me be clear,
this is about Buddhists murdering, raping, and torturing Muslims, not
the other way around.
The phrase "religion of peace" gets thrown around a lot these days.
Every time there's a terrorist attack by a Muslim jihadist group, some
Muslim leader insists that Islam is a "religion of peace," a claim
that infuriates many people in the West.
From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, Islam is NOT a
religion of peace. In fact, there's no such thing as a religion of
peace. In fact, no religion would exist for long as a "religion of
peace," since its population would soon be exterminated by people of
other religions who do NOT follow "religion of peace" policies.
On the other hand, many people who comment on my articles seem
to believe that Buddhism is a "religion of peace," and claim
that Buddhists are somehow congenitally unable to murder, rape
and torture Muslim Rohingyas or anyone else. A typical comment
is that "Buddhists would never harm anyone, so the Rohingyas
must have done something particularly harmful to deserve what's
happening to them."
And so, many commenters seem to believe that Buddhism is a "religion
of peace." And yet, the Buddhist society of the Khmer Rouge in
Cambodia in 1975-79, led by Pol Pot, perpetrated one of the three or
four top mass genocides of the 20th century, comparable to the huge
Christian genocides in Russia and Germany in the two world wars, or
the huge Muslim genocides in the Mideast coming out of the collapse of
the Ottoman empire, or the huge African genocides in the 60s and 70s,
or the huge Chinese genocides in the 40s and 50s. Genocide and sex
are driven by DNA, not by religion, and all religions have the same
DNA.
The Buddhist Cambodian killing fields genocide, 1975-79, killed
something like 1.7 to well over 2 million people, out of a population
of 8 million. So around 20% of Cambodia's population were killed,
making it possibly the worst genocide, on a percentage basis, of the
20th century. By contrast, the Nazi Holocaust killed around 5
million, which was less than 3% of Germany's population. Pol Pot was
trying to imitate Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward in China, which was
a genocide that killed millions of people out of some two billion, Mao
Zedong and Pol Pot may be comparable in their genocides. In all
cases, these millions of people were the subject of almost
unimaginable atrocities, including torture and rape.
From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, Buddhism is a
"religion of war," just like Islam and every other religion. No
"religion of peace" would survive more than a few decades, if it
weren't willing to become a "religion of war."
So now looking more closely at the Buddhist Cambodian Killing Fields
genocide, it may well be that the Buddhists in Burma may be borrowing
some techniques from their Buddhist cousins in the 1970s Khmer rouge.
This would be a historic example of one group of genocidal Buddhists
learning genocide from another group of genocidal Buddhists. This
comparison became even more dramatic on this week, when Burma's
government announced that the government will take over the land that
contained the villages that Burma's army burned down, making the
ethnic cleansing permanent.
Right now, this is speculation, and there is no public evidence of
this connection between the Buddhist cousins. Perhaps someday, when
ethnic cleanser-in-chief and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi
writes her memoirs, we'll learn more about whether there is a
connection. UC Santa Barbara and Reuters and Al Arabiya
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Burma, Myanmar, Rohingyas, Rakhine State,
Bangladesh, Cambodia, Pol Pot, Killing Fields, Khmer Rouge,
António Guterres, BBC, Jonathan Head, Aung San Suu Kyi,
Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, ARSA, Buddhism, Islam,
China, Mao Zedong, Great Leap Forward
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