Thursday, July 18, 2013

Why Burma could become another Rwanda...

Atsfter the genocide that tore apart a nation and killed 800,000 in Rwanda, the world said never again. But nearly 20 years later, we find ourselves on the brink of another campaign of destruction against an entire people. Yet once again it is being greeted with silence.

In Burma, ethnic cleansing is happening. We have seen more human rights violations and attacks on Rohingya minorities in the past two years than in the last 20. Organised in monasteries and on Facebook, a wave of hate is being broadcast against the Muslim Rohingya community in Burma and a new apartheid system is being introduced.

My family regularly get called "dogs" or worse when they walk down the street. The government continues to deny us citizenship, telling us this isn't our home. We can't marry the people we love and are told we're only allowed to have two children per family. We can't travel from one village to another without permission. No other minority in the world faces such extreme and vicious treatment. We are being treated as criminals simply because we exist.

But now the situation is getting really desperate. Mobs have attacked our villages, driving us from our homes, children have been hacked to death, and hundreds of my people have been killed by members of the majority. Thugs are distributing leaflets threatening to "wipe us out" and children in schools are being taught that the Rohingya are different. Full story...

Related posts:
  1. Rwanda...
  2. U Wirathu, Burma’s 'bin Laden of Buddhism’
  3. No justice for Muslims massacred by Myanmar Buddhists...
  4. Massacre in Myanmar ignored by everyone...
  5. Burma's Buddhist mobs sow fear amid widening unrest...
  6. Video shows Burmese police standing by as Buddhists attack Muslims...

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