The international media tries to make the crisis in Myanmar out to be another instance in which Muslims are being victimized, when in reality, as with Israel and the “Palestinians” and so many other instances, if the Muslims laid down their arms in Myanmar, there would be peace, whereas if the Buddhists laid down their arms, they would be massacred.
“Thousands of non-Muslims evacuated as violence flares in northwest Myanmar,” Reuters, August 27, 2017:
YANGON/COX’S BAZAR: Myanmar’s government said it has evacuated at least 4,000 non-Muslim villagers amid ongoing clashes in northwestern Rakhine state, as thousands more Rohingya Muslims sought to flee across the border to Bangladesh on Sunday.
The death toll from the violence that erupted on Friday with coordinated attacks by Rohingya insurgents has climbed to 98, including some 80 insurgents and 12 members of the security forces, the government said.
Fighting involving the military and hundreds of Rohingya across northwestern Rakhine continued on Saturday with the fiercest clashes taking place near the major town of Maungdaw, according to residents and the government.
Bracing for more violence, thousands of Rohingya – mostly women and children – were trying to forge the Naf river separating Myanmar and Bangladesh and the land border. Reuters reporters at the border could hear gunfire from the Myanmar side on Sunday.
Around 2,000 people have been able to cross into Bangladesh since Friday, according to estimates by Rohingya refugees living in the makeshift camps on the Bangladeshi side of the border.
The violence marked a dramatic escalation of a conflict that has simmered in the region since last October, when a similar but much smaller Rohingya attack prompted a brutal military operation beset by allegations of serious human rights abuses….
The treatment of approximately 1.1 million Muslim Rohingya in mainly Buddhist Myanmar has emerged as the biggest challenge for national leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi on Friday condemned the raids in which insurgents wielding guns, sticks and homemade bombs assaulted 30 police stations and an army base.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been accused by some Western critics of not speaking out for the long-persecuted Muslim minority.
Win Myat Aye, Myanmar’s minister for social welfare, relief and resettlement, told Reuters late on Saturday that 4,000 “ethnic villagers” who had fled their villages had been evacuated, referring to non-Muslim residents of the area.
The ministry is arranging facilities for them in places including Buddhist monasteries, government offices and local police stations in major cities.
“We are providing food to the people cooperating with the state government and local authorities,” said Win Myat Aye. He was unable to describe the government’s plans to help Rohingya civilians….
The Myanmar army operation following attacks last year was heavily criticised internationally amid reports of civilian killings, rape and arson that a United Nations investigation said probably constituted crimes against humanity. Suu Kyi is blocking the U.N.-mandated probe into the allegations.
The Rohingya have for years endured apartheid-like conditions in northwestern Myanmar – they are denied citizenship and face severe restrictions on their movements. Many Myanmar Buddhists regard them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
Observers worry that the latest attacks, across a wider area than October’s violence and with many more people involved, represent a “breaking point” many Rohingya reached with the help of a charismatic insurgent leader, Ata Ullah.
Ata Ullah leads the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) which instigated the October attacks and claimed responsibility for the latest offensive….
Oliver says
So. Why don’t the Muslims go back to Bangladesh? Then they and the liberal assholes cannot complain that the Muslims are discriminated against
abad says
Because they think they can take over Myanmar, that’s why.
The reality is this:
The Rohingya Moslems, who are not even native to Myanmar, do not belong in Myanmar.
dumbledoresarmy says
Precisely.
Al-hijra. Immigration-jihad, EXACTLY as in Europe, only it happened a little longer ago. If anyone from Myanmar/ Burma is reading this over my shoulder – I advise them to google round for a book by an ex-Muslim, Sam Solomon, entitled “Al-Hijra: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration”; buy it, read it, and then … get a basic translation done into Burmese and circulate to the police, military, and *every* Burmese politician. Aung San Suu Kyi knows English; buy her a copy of “Al-Hijra”, which is in English, so she can read it for herself and *know* that this IS what the mohamedans in Burma – backed up and encouraged by Mohamedans in the entire OIC, and the Islamintern at the UN, including all the Mohammedans who have gotten themselves into key positions in organisations such as the UNHCR, as well as those Mohammedans in positions of influence in bodies such as Amnesty International – are doing.
The Myanmar authorities should do nothing whatever to encourage these Mohammedans to remain, and should put pressure on Muslim Bangladesh to accept them. Some – an excellent development! – have already left, as the article says – “…Bracing for more violence, thousands of Rohingya – mostly women and children – were trying to forge [sic: FORD] the Naf river separating Myanmar and Bangladesh and the land border….
Around 2,000 people have been able to cross into Bangladesh since Friday, according to estimates by Rohingya refugees [RETURNEES] living in the makeshift camps on the Bangladeshi side of the border…”.
The more of them take themselves off to Bangladesh, the better. NGOs should be told to assist them on Bangladeshi soil – and ONLY in Bangladesh.
Dude says
2000 isn’t enough. There are reported to be a million of them. And they all need to gtfo of Myanmar.
You will note that is a consensus of the right and left. They will never be given Myanmar citizenship. Invaders have no rights.
Keys says
Some are coming to the USA. From the Indianapolis Star (3-18-17).
“A member of the Muslim Rohingya ethnic group of Myanmar, 19-year-old Rahman is part of the largest group of refugees entering the United States today. He is also one of an under-reported wave of refugees that the United Nations have called the most persecuted religious minority in the world.
Rahman, one of the very first Rohingya refugees in Indianapolis, softly says he did not seek to be brought to the United States, but it is where international aid groups placed him.”
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2017/03/18/new-wave-burmese-find-refuge-indiana/99180550/
Why are “international aid groups” deciding USA immigrants!?
Keys says
The Bangladesh army is not letting them cross. And neither is India.
I think the benevolent kingdom of Allah, Saudi Arabia, should take them.
Islam – causing turmoil and misery always and everywhere it creeps.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/08/28/28-aug-17-world-view-violence-between-buddhists-and-muslims-in-myanmarburma-escalates-dramatically/
epistemology says
Thanks a lot dear Robert for this revealing article. I’m sick and tired of the BBC reports where they only tell the usual idle talk about the “ordeal” of the poor Rohingyas. Finally I find someone telling the truth. The whole story started a few years ago when Rohingyas raped and killed three Buddhist women. The Burmese obviously didn’t appreciate that. They only defended their women.
To Oliver: the Muslims go back to Bangladesh, but they aren’t welcome there either. That’s understandable
Aquilan says
THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN!! Rohingya migrated from Bangladesh before & during the British Colonial period! They Jihad against the Myanmars with great violence on the West of Myanmar (Burma at that time)! After independence, the Burmese Army kept them in ‘their’ place!
They want to change the countries they’re happy in, to be like the countries they came from where they were unhappy.
Buddhists living with Hindus = No Problem
Hindus living with Christians = No Problem
Christians living with Shintos = No Problem
Shintos living with Confucians = No Problem
Confucians living with Bahai’s = No Problem
Bahai’s living with Jews = No Problem
Jews living with Atheists = No Problem
Atheists living with Buddhists = No Problem
Buddhists living with Sikhs = No Problem
Sikhs living with Hindus = No Problem
Hindus living with Bahai’s = No Problem
Bahai’s living with Christians = No Problem
Christians living with Jews = No Problem
Jews living with Buddhists = No Problem
Buddhists living with Shintos = No Problem
Shintos living with Atheists = No Problem
Atheists living with Confucians = No Problem
Confucians living with Hindus = No Problem
Now..
Muslims living with Hindus = Problem
Muslims living with Buddhists = Problem
Muslims living with Christians = Problem
Muslims living with Jews = Problem
Muslims living with Sikhs = Problem
Muslims living with Bahai’s = Problem
Muslims living with Shintos = Problem
Muslims living with Atheists = Problem
MUSLIMS LIVING WITH MUSLIMS = BIG PROBLEM!
Justin Yang says
You conclusions are great.
Hugh Fitzgerald, says
Both funny and true. And impossible to forget.
Dude says
if a person is in conflict with everyone is it everyone else’s fault or that person’s fault?
Until Moslems own up to their issues this will continue.
gravenimage says
Myanmar: 4,000 non-Muslims evacuated as Muslims step up jihad attacks
……………………
And yet, the claim is always that it is Muslims who are the victims there, and no mention of their waging violent Jihad there.
Oliver says
A few years ago, I think it was Time magazine had a front cover of some Buddhist monks
And the inflatory heading and lead story. Tje face of Buddhists terrorism
Little mention of Islamic terrorism against the Buddhists
dumbledoresarmy says
And this latest eruption of Jihad kicked loose – coordinated attacks – on FRIDAY.
“…The death toll from the violence that erupted on Friday with coordinated attacks by Rohingya insurgents has climbed to 98, including some 80 insurgents and 12 members of the security forces…”.
On the very same Friday that Muslims attacked infidel law enforcement half a world away, in Belgium, and in Britain.
Curious coincidence, that…
Jenny H says
I’m glad many more insurgents were killed than the security forces.
Oliver says
But not enough of the insurgents. 8000 might be a good start.
Same number Hamas, Hezbollah and supporters of same. Ss starts
Oliver says
DD. But isn’t Friday the day of prayer? The Sabbath of The religion of peace?
I mean don’t Jews go wild Friday nights and Saturday and kill, rape and pillsge? And Christians on Sunday?
Michael Copeland says
“You can be full of love and kindness, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog.”
Ashin Wirathu,
Buddhist monk activist, Myanmar.
Guy Forester says
Repatriate is probably a better word for the non-citizens. I doubt that Suu Kyi will be a pushover. I an having an urge to visit Myanmar and show the true bigots I support this country’s attempts to protect themselves.
eduardo odraude says
“The international media tries to make the crisis in Myanmar out to be another instance in which Muslims are being victimized, when in reality, as with Israel and the “Palestinians” and so many other instances, if the Muslims laid down their arms in Myanmar, there would be peace, whereas if the Buddhists laid down their arms, they would be massacred.”
Exactly.
Lydia says
The officially approved narrative for them will ever be: ‘those poor victims’! Boo-hoo….!
Dude says
Nobody likes rohingyans and there is a good reason for it. They are the white trash of bangladesh
Matthieu Baudin says
Of course there is an active Jihad going on in Burma and Militant Islam is on the rise as it is everywhere else in the world. Against this backdrop the actions of the Military, Police and of Government policy can be judged and this mainly in terms of the appropriate level of force employed. It would be interesting to get a reliable update on how relations have fared in recent times between the military and Christian mountain tribes in the north-east of the country.
Oliver says
What is “an appropriate level of force”?
Decades before once great Britain lost its will, a British court ruled (paraphrasing) that if in danger one can use any force necessary.
If it is kill or be killed. I would go for kill
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
It tells you just how evil Mohammadism is when Buddhist monks (arguably the most pacifist people on the planet) arm themselves to fight against it!!
Guy Forester says
Even a pacifist can recognize an existential threat.
Larry says
If you look at Raj era maps of the Myanmar/Bangladesh border zone that have tribal areas marked on them (something that the Raj was very good at) you will find that there were minimal Rohinga east of the old Burma/Bengal border.
Some 6-7 villages representing a few thousand Rohingas. The million plus that are there now cannot possibly be the result of natural population growth since the 1930s, they must be immigrants, and illegal immigrants at that, as Burma-Myanmar has never accepted immigrants from Bengal-Bangladesh.
The Burmese are quite right in their assertion that the Rohinga are illegal immigrants, and quite right in their refusal to let their country be over run by muslims.
Dude says
It took Spain 700 years to drive out the Muslim hordes. I support Myanmar. Rohingyans need to go. They are illegal migrants. It doesn’t matter if they are second or third generation. GTFO
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
You will notice that India has come out as a very strong supporter of Myanmar in this crisis. They share a common threat/enemy.
Dude says
Even the progressive types in Myanmar like Suu Kyi or whatever her name is understand what rohingyans are all about.
I can’t spell that crap and don’t even care enough to look it up. It is somewhere in BFE where I don’t give an F lol. All I know is Muslims can’t get along with anybody and it says a lot that they can rile up bhuddists.
moeped says
They can’t get along with anybody due to their doctrine. One might conclude that such a doctrine should be eradicated.
Abu Lahab says
Beheaded Buddha statue and some gruesome images that the international media won’t bother with
https://www.facebook.com/mya.htun.712/posts/483229062030503
dumbledoresarmy says
By the by – Australia has very foolishly accepted some of these poooooor Rohingyans, that have a PR campaign on their behalf that is almost as maudlin as the campaign on behalf of the ‘pooooor’ ‘Palestinians’.
But once here, they’re turning out to be rather nasty, some of them.
*One* of them went into a bank, not so long ago, and set the place on fire by pouring petrol on the carpet and then igniting it. He could have killed a lot of people; that he did not, is partly due to the promptitude of the emergency response both from ordinary people and from official first responders.
Then there was another case where a ‘Rohingya’ Muslim ‘refugee’ gruesomely murdered… a fellow ‘Rohingya’ Muslim ‘refugee’. Cut his head off and dumped the body in a swamp. Eventually the Aussie cops found out whodunnit. Isn’t it wunnerful how these mohammedans luv their bruvvas? My own suspicion – based on photos of the murdered man’s family; the wife was NOT wearing hijab – is that the murdered man might just possibly have been apostasising from Islam, or been suspected of having leanings that way, and his dear bruvva decided it was punishment time.
gravenimage says
Disgusting– but sadly not at all surprising.
Semaforo says
The Rohingya have become stateless, the settled in what is now Burma during British rule, and when East Pakistan, now Bangladesh formed they were not considered citizens. So neither Burma nor Bangladesh wants to provide services to them, Burma tries to drive them out and Bangladesh tries to keep them from coming in.