10-06-2017, 09:45 PM
*** 7-Oct-17 World View -- Burma's Rohingya crisis merges with the Kashmir crisis, inflaming the entire region
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Bangladesh builds huge refugee camp for 800,000 displaced Rohingyas from Burma (Myanmar)
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Hindu nationalist National Panthers Party billboard demands that Rohingyas 'Quite Jammu', or else be deported. (Hindustan Times)
Some 500,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees have crossed the border from
Burma (Myanmar) into Bangladesh since August 25, when Burma's army
launched a full-scale scorched earth ethnic extermination campaign on
the Rohingyas in Burma's Rakhine state. According to Bangladesh
authorities, some 4,000-5,000 additional Rohingyas were
crossing the border each day, with 10,000 more waiting at
the frontier.
Bangladesh had originally allocated 2,000 acres of land to set up a
refugee camp to accommodate 500,000 refugees, but with the flood of
refugees continuing, officials have set aside another 1,000 acres for
the new camp, to expand the camp to house 800,000. Rohingyas have
already set up 23 makeshift camps along the border, and Bangladesh
will move them all into the new camp.
This is an extremely serious situation, as it has been "the largest
mass refugee movement in the region in decades," according to the
United Nations.
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. Burma's ethnic
cleansing is radicalizing many young men in the Rohingya population,
with plans growing for retaliatory attacks on the Burmese population
and army.
Regular readers are aware that Generational Dynamics predicts that the
world is headed for a Clash of Civilizations world war, pitting the
US, India, Russia, Iran and the West against China, Pakistan and the
Sunni Muslim nations. It's impossible to predict the exact scenario
that will lead to that war, but today there are two clear crises that
could escalate into world war: The North Korea nuclear missile crisis,
and the enormous Rohingya Sunni Muslim refugee crisis. Guardian (London) and Reuters and NPR
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**** Rohingya crisis expands into Kashmir, creating a mega-crisis
****
For years, there's been a community of several thousand Rohingya
Muslims living peacefully in India-governed Jammu and Kashmir. That
number has increased by over 6,000 between 2008 and 2016. J&K is
thousands of miles from their original homes, but the Rohingyas say
that they were forced to be there, according to 35-year-old Mohammad
Yusuf, the head of a camp for Rohingya refugees:
<QUOTE>"We are in India because of some compulsions, and not
out of choice. We know this is not our land. We will leave on our
own once those compulsions are addressed by the global community
and we get justice.
We were boarded into a train and asked to embark at the last
station when the whole train gets empty. We were not aware that it
is Jammu. We came to know at the railway station that some
Rohingyas were living here and met them. This is how we reached
here."<END QUOTE>
The Rohingyas co-existed peacefully, and even received money and
supplies from other residents last year when a large fire in the
refugee camp destroyed all their belongings.
But apparently some residents harbored underground resentment of the
Rohingyas, because this resentment suddenly exploded into full-scale
xenophobia and hostility in April.
At that time, the Hindu nationalist Jammu and Kashmir National
Panthers Party began putting up large billboards asking residents to
"wake-up" and "save the history, culture, and identity of the
Dogras". The billboard directed Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees to
"quit Jammu."
The National Panthers threatened to launch an "identify and kill
movement" unless the government deported the refugees. They also
demanded that any resident renting out a room to Rohingyas should be
arrested and sent to jail under a law that allows detention without
trial for six months.
The Rohingyas say that they're just trying to survive with their
families. "We are not involved in any criminal activity and are doing
odd jobs to make our living. Most of us work as wage laborers,
rag-pickers, scrap-dealers and a few are working at railway stations
as sweepers."
India has taken the side of Burma and supports Burma's atrocities,
rapes, slaughter, and "clearance operations" of Rohingyas. Indian
officials say that Rohingyas in Kashmir and elsewhere in India are
being radicalized by terrorist groups from Pakistan, training the
Rohingyas for terror attacks in India.
Pakistan has always taken the view that it's India that's committing
atrocities against Muslims in Kashmir, and that the Rohingya crisis
has now given India one more weapon to use against Pakistan
in Kashmir.
It appears that the Rohingya crisis between Burma and Bangladesh has
merged with the Kashmir crisis between India and Pakistan, resulting
in a much larger crisis. As hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas are
forced to leave Burma because of its ethnic cleansing program, the
entire region is becoming more destabilized, with the possibility of
triggering a war.
Scroll (India, 8-May)
and Pakistan Observer and First Post (India, 20-Aug)
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Burma, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Rohingyas,
Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, ARSA,
India, Jammu, Kashmir, Mohammad Yusuf, National Panthers Party,
Pakistan
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Bangladesh builds huge refugee camp for 800,000 displaced Rohingyas from Burma (Myanmar)
- Rohingya crisis expands into Kashmir, creating a mega-crisis
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**** Bangladesh builds huge refugee camp for 800,000 displaced Rohingyas from Burma (Myanmar)
****
Hindu nationalist National Panthers Party billboard demands that Rohingyas 'Quite Jammu', or else be deported. (Hindustan Times)
Some 500,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees have crossed the border from
Burma (Myanmar) into Bangladesh since August 25, when Burma's army
launched a full-scale scorched earth ethnic extermination campaign on
the Rohingyas in Burma's Rakhine state. According to Bangladesh
authorities, some 4,000-5,000 additional Rohingyas were
crossing the border each day, with 10,000 more waiting at
the frontier.
Bangladesh had originally allocated 2,000 acres of land to set up a
refugee camp to accommodate 500,000 refugees, but with the flood of
refugees continuing, officials have set aside another 1,000 acres for
the new camp, to expand the camp to house 800,000. Rohingyas have
already set up 23 makeshift camps along the border, and Bangladesh
will move them all into the new camp.
This is an extremely serious situation, as it has been "the largest
mass refugee movement in the region in decades," according to the
United Nations.
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. Burma's ethnic
cleansing is radicalizing many young men in the Rohingya population,
with plans growing for retaliatory attacks on the Burmese population
and army.
Regular readers are aware that Generational Dynamics predicts that the
world is headed for a Clash of Civilizations world war, pitting the
US, India, Russia, Iran and the West against China, Pakistan and the
Sunni Muslim nations. It's impossible to predict the exact scenario
that will lead to that war, but today there are two clear crises that
could escalate into world war: The North Korea nuclear missile crisis,
and the enormous Rohingya Sunni Muslim refugee crisis. Guardian (London) and Reuters and NPR
****
**** Rohingya crisis expands into Kashmir, creating a mega-crisis
****
For years, there's been a community of several thousand Rohingya
Muslims living peacefully in India-governed Jammu and Kashmir. That
number has increased by over 6,000 between 2008 and 2016. J&K is
thousands of miles from their original homes, but the Rohingyas say
that they were forced to be there, according to 35-year-old Mohammad
Yusuf, the head of a camp for Rohingya refugees:
<QUOTE>"We are in India because of some compulsions, and not
out of choice. We know this is not our land. We will leave on our
own once those compulsions are addressed by the global community
and we get justice.
We were boarded into a train and asked to embark at the last
station when the whole train gets empty. We were not aware that it
is Jammu. We came to know at the railway station that some
Rohingyas were living here and met them. This is how we reached
here."<END QUOTE>
The Rohingyas co-existed peacefully, and even received money and
supplies from other residents last year when a large fire in the
refugee camp destroyed all their belongings.
But apparently some residents harbored underground resentment of the
Rohingyas, because this resentment suddenly exploded into full-scale
xenophobia and hostility in April.
At that time, the Hindu nationalist Jammu and Kashmir National
Panthers Party began putting up large billboards asking residents to
"wake-up" and "save the history, culture, and identity of the
Dogras". The billboard directed Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees to
"quit Jammu."
The National Panthers threatened to launch an "identify and kill
movement" unless the government deported the refugees. They also
demanded that any resident renting out a room to Rohingyas should be
arrested and sent to jail under a law that allows detention without
trial for six months.
The Rohingyas say that they're just trying to survive with their
families. "We are not involved in any criminal activity and are doing
odd jobs to make our living. Most of us work as wage laborers,
rag-pickers, scrap-dealers and a few are working at railway stations
as sweepers."
India has taken the side of Burma and supports Burma's atrocities,
rapes, slaughter, and "clearance operations" of Rohingyas. Indian
officials say that Rohingyas in Kashmir and elsewhere in India are
being radicalized by terrorist groups from Pakistan, training the
Rohingyas for terror attacks in India.
Pakistan has always taken the view that it's India that's committing
atrocities against Muslims in Kashmir, and that the Rohingya crisis
has now given India one more weapon to use against Pakistan
in Kashmir.
It appears that the Rohingya crisis between Burma and Bangladesh has
merged with the Kashmir crisis between India and Pakistan, resulting
in a much larger crisis. As hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas are
forced to leave Burma because of its ethnic cleansing program, the
entire region is becoming more destabilized, with the possibility of
triggering a war.
Scroll (India, 8-May)
and Pakistan Observer and First Post (India, 20-Aug)
Related Articles
- Burma's (Myanmar's) leaders may be inspired by Pol Pot's Cambodian 'Killing Fields' genocide (29-Sep-2017)
- Burma's (Myanmar's) ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas leading to humanitarian catastrophe (15-Sep-2017)
- India's 'Operation All-Out' brings Kashmir closer to all-out war (24-Jun-2017)
- Kashmir violence surges as India launches massive house-to-house sweep (06-May-2017)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Burma, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Rohingyas,
Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, ARSA,
India, Jammu, Kashmir, Mohammad Yusuf, National Panthers Party,
Pakistan
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Phone: 617-864-0010
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Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
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