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*** 2-Mar-18 World View -- Bangladesh formally protests Burma's (Myanmar's) troop buildup near border
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**** Bangladesh formally protests Burma's (Myanmar's) troop buildup near border
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Rohingya refugees' tents are likely to be washed away in the flooding and landslides from the April monsoons (Guardian)
Bangladesh summoned Burma's (Myanmar’s) ambassador on Thursday as
hundreds of Burmese armed soldiers and police came to a border fence
near Burma's border with Bangladesh, and appeared to be moving heavy
weapons, including mortars and machine guns, to the area.
The Burmese troops have been surrounding a strip of land dubbed "no
man's land," because it is beyond Myanmar's border fence but on
Myanmar's side of a creek that marks the international border. There
are about 5,300 Rohingya Muslims living in a makeshift camp in the no
man's land area.
Since 2011, Burma's mostly Buddhist security forces have been
committing mass atrocities on mostly Muslim ethnic Rohingyas living in
Rakhine State, what the United Nations says is "a textbook example of
ethnic cleansing," and which some Western governments are calling
genocide. The atrocities by Buddhist security forces include gang
rape, violent torture, execution-style killings and the razing of
entire villages, in a scorched earth campaign. The atrocities by
Buddhist security forces worsened considerably last August when
Rohingya activists killed several Burmese security forces in attacks
against 30 Burmese police outputs. Many Rohingyas were forced to flee
into neighboring Bangladesh. Today, there are about 700,000 Rohingyas
living in refugee camps in Bangladesh, and about 5,300 have stayed in
the small no man's land camp on the Burma side.
Myanmar's unexplained military buildup near the Bangladesh border is
raising new tensions between the two countries. After Burmese forces
have repeatedly conducted mass slaughter and scorched earth operations
against Rohingya civilians, it's feared that Burma is about to do it
again. Burmese forces have already been using loudspeakers ordering
the Rohingyas to get out, and according to some reports have been
throwing stones.
After the Bangladesh protest on Thursday, the Burmese forces near the
camp withdrew their heavy weapons, but the troops remained, and
they began firing live bullets into the air.
Last year, under heavy international pressure, Burma agreed to accept
the return of hundreds of thousands of refugees that had fled to
Bangladesh. The agreement was farcical in that it's never going to
happen. It's like the ceasefire that Russia and Syria agreed to as
the exterminate civilians in East Ghouta. These agreements are only
used as political cover to continue exterminations, genocide, and
ethnic cleansing.
It's not known what the Burmese troops are planning, but no one would
be surprised if they're planning a massive new attack on the civilians
in the camp, including women and children. BD News (Bangladesh) and Daily Star (Bangladesh) and AP and AFP
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**** April monsoon rains will have disastrous impact on Rohingya camps in Bangladesh
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Nearly 700,000 Rohingyas have crossed the border from Burma into
Bangladesh in just the last six months. Refugee camps were created
for them by stripping the land of trees and other vegetation, to make
room for shelters, mostly made from tarpaulin and bamboo.
Many of these shelters were built on slopes and hillsides.
When monsoon rains arrive in April, these slopes will turn
to mud, and many of these shelters will collapse and be washed
away. It's believed that about 100,000 people will be displaced
at the time.
Aid agencies are preparing in advance by setting up emergency medical
centers to prepare for spread of diseases like diarrhea, dysentery,
and mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, malaria, and others. Light
machinery will be installed and work crews established at ten
strategic points across the district to clear major drains and
waterways after landslides and mud cause road closures and blockages.
The Rohingya situation has been mostly out of the news for the last
few weeks, but it could escalate to a major new crisis very quickly if
Burmese troops commit new atrocities on Rohingyas while the monsoon
rains displace hundreds of thousands of them.
Some people claim that Buddhism is a "religion of peace," despite the
massive Buddhist on Buddhist genocide in the Killing Fields of
Cambodia in 1975-79. For the last six years, it's been clear that the
Buddhists in Burma have been taking lessons from their brethren in
Cambodia, and are repeating the Cambodia genocide on the Muslim
Rohingyas in Burma. Some people claim that Buddhists are better than
Muslims, but from the point of view of Generational Dynamics, there is
no difference at all between Buddhists and Muslims except that they us
different religious justifications when they exterminate, torture and
commit atrocities on innocent civilians that they don't like. That's
the way the world works. UN Migration Agency and Reuters and Guardian (London)
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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Burma, Myanmar, Bangladesh, No man's land,
Rohingyas, Islam, Buddhism, Cambodia, Killing Fields
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Bangladesh formally protests Burma's (Myanmar's) troop buildup near border
- April monsoon rains will have disastrous impact on Rohingya camps in Bangladesh
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**** Bangladesh formally protests Burma's (Myanmar's) troop buildup near border
****
Rohingya refugees' tents are likely to be washed away in the flooding and landslides from the April monsoons (Guardian)
Bangladesh summoned Burma's (Myanmar’s) ambassador on Thursday as
hundreds of Burmese armed soldiers and police came to a border fence
near Burma's border with Bangladesh, and appeared to be moving heavy
weapons, including mortars and machine guns, to the area.
The Burmese troops have been surrounding a strip of land dubbed "no
man's land," because it is beyond Myanmar's border fence but on
Myanmar's side of a creek that marks the international border. There
are about 5,300 Rohingya Muslims living in a makeshift camp in the no
man's land area.
Since 2011, Burma's mostly Buddhist security forces have been
committing mass atrocities on mostly Muslim ethnic Rohingyas living in
Rakhine State, what the United Nations says is "a textbook example of
ethnic cleansing," and which some Western governments are calling
genocide. The atrocities by Buddhist security forces include gang
rape, violent torture, execution-style killings and the razing of
entire villages, in a scorched earth campaign. The atrocities by
Buddhist security forces worsened considerably last August when
Rohingya activists killed several Burmese security forces in attacks
against 30 Burmese police outputs. Many Rohingyas were forced to flee
into neighboring Bangladesh. Today, there are about 700,000 Rohingyas
living in refugee camps in Bangladesh, and about 5,300 have stayed in
the small no man's land camp on the Burma side.
Myanmar's unexplained military buildup near the Bangladesh border is
raising new tensions between the two countries. After Burmese forces
have repeatedly conducted mass slaughter and scorched earth operations
against Rohingya civilians, it's feared that Burma is about to do it
again. Burmese forces have already been using loudspeakers ordering
the Rohingyas to get out, and according to some reports have been
throwing stones.
After the Bangladesh protest on Thursday, the Burmese forces near the
camp withdrew their heavy weapons, but the troops remained, and
they began firing live bullets into the air.
Last year, under heavy international pressure, Burma agreed to accept
the return of hundreds of thousands of refugees that had fled to
Bangladesh. The agreement was farcical in that it's never going to
happen. It's like the ceasefire that Russia and Syria agreed to as
the exterminate civilians in East Ghouta. These agreements are only
used as political cover to continue exterminations, genocide, and
ethnic cleansing.
It's not known what the Burmese troops are planning, but no one would
be surprised if they're planning a massive new attack on the civilians
in the camp, including women and children. BD News (Bangladesh) and Daily Star (Bangladesh) and AP and AFP
****
**** April monsoon rains will have disastrous impact on Rohingya camps in Bangladesh
****
Nearly 700,000 Rohingyas have crossed the border from Burma into
Bangladesh in just the last six months. Refugee camps were created
for them by stripping the land of trees and other vegetation, to make
room for shelters, mostly made from tarpaulin and bamboo.
Many of these shelters were built on slopes and hillsides.
When monsoon rains arrive in April, these slopes will turn
to mud, and many of these shelters will collapse and be washed
away. It's believed that about 100,000 people will be displaced
at the time.
Aid agencies are preparing in advance by setting up emergency medical
centers to prepare for spread of diseases like diarrhea, dysentery,
and mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, malaria, and others. Light
machinery will be installed and work crews established at ten
strategic points across the district to clear major drains and
waterways after landslides and mud cause road closures and blockages.
The Rohingya situation has been mostly out of the news for the last
few weeks, but it could escalate to a major new crisis very quickly if
Burmese troops commit new atrocities on Rohingyas while the monsoon
rains displace hundreds of thousands of them.
Some people claim that Buddhism is a "religion of peace," despite the
massive Buddhist on Buddhist genocide in the Killing Fields of
Cambodia in 1975-79. For the last six years, it's been clear that the
Buddhists in Burma have been taking lessons from their brethren in
Cambodia, and are repeating the Cambodia genocide on the Muslim
Rohingyas in Burma. Some people claim that Buddhists are better than
Muslims, but from the point of view of Generational Dynamics, there is
no difference at all between Buddhists and Muslims except that they us
different religious justifications when they exterminate, torture and
commit atrocities on innocent civilians that they don't like. That's
the way the world works. UN Migration Agency and Reuters and Guardian (London)
Related Articles
- Rohingya ARSA attack on Burma (Myanmar) police complicates fantasy repatriation plans (08-Jan-2018)
- Burma's (Myanmar's) ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas witnessed by BBC reporter (09-Sep-2017)
- Burma's (Myanmar's) leaders may be inspired by Pol Pot's Cambodian 'Killing Fields' genocide (29-Sep-2017)
- Violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar/Burma escalates dramatically (28-Aug-2017)
- Meiktila, Burma, violence has echoes of Kristallnacht (05-Apr-2013)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Burma, Myanmar, Bangladesh, No man's land,
Rohingyas, Islam, Buddhism, Cambodia, Killing Fields
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