“In a video posted on her Facebook last week, Miss Grand Myanmar Shwe Eain Si accused the Rohingya militants of leading a ‘media campaign’ to trick the world into thinking ‘they are the oppressed.'”
A curious story. It’s unclear why Shwe Eain Si lost her title. If Myanmar’s leadership were what the Western media says it is, Myanmar leaders would be celebrating Shwe Eain Si as a hero. In any case, it is noteworthy that she also is skeptical about the establishment media claim that the Rohingyas are the innocent victims of “Buddhist terror.” As is also the case with the “Palestinians” in Israel, the Rohingyas would have had no problem in Myanmar had they not been waging jihad. When the Israelis and the Myanmar Buddhists fight back against that jihad, they’re accused in the Western media of a “disproportionate” reaction or even of unprovoked aggression. In reality, if the Rohingyas and the “Palestinians” laid down their arms, there would be peace. If the Myanmar Buddhists and the Israelis laid down their arms, there would be a bloodbath.
“Myanmar beauty queen dethroned ‘after posting Rohingya video,’” AFP, October 4, 2017 (thanks to Lookmann):
A Myanmar beauty queen says she was stripped of her pageant title after posting a graphic video accusing Muslim Rohingya militants of driving communal violence in Rakhine state, a conflict fraught with controversy in the mainly Buddhist country.
Myanmar’s army is accused of waging an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya in the far west, where more than half a million of the Muslim minority have fled across the border to Bangladesh since August 25….
In a video posted on her Facebook last week, Miss Grand Myanmar Shwe Eain Si accused the Rohingya militants of leading a “media campaign” to trick the world into thinking “they are the oppressed”.
Shots of Shwe Eain Si speaking to the camera were interspersed with graphic images of people with bloody gashes across their faces, nude babies and screenshots from videos posted by the militant group, known as ARSA (Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army).
On Sunday the firm behind the beauty pageant announced Shwe Eain Si had been stripped of her title for breaching contract rules, in a statement that did not mention the video on Rakhine.
But in a reply posted on Facebook Tuesday Shwe Eain Si said these accusations were “groundless” and linked the move to her comments on the Rohingya.
One of the company’s complaints, the beauty queen wrote, was that she “failed to project a decent image of a pageant contestant”.
“Yes, Shwe Eain Si made a video about the reign of terror brought about by the ARSA militants in Rakhine State, but that was hardly qualified as a failure to project a decent image of a pageant contestant,” her post said….
Buraq says
Beauty confronts the Beast!
Cthulhu says
Unfortunately The Beast has many servants.
gravenimage says
Buraq–good to see you posting again!
kessler says
The Rohingyas are the aggressors – they declared Jihad on the Buddhists long time ago and have been fighting for independence ever since. The undeniable facts everyone seem to conveniently ignore:
How did the conflict start?
– In the late 1800’s British colonial rule encouraged Bengali Muslims to migrate into then lightly populated Arakan (now called Rakhine) as farm labourers – cheap labour for British India. There was no border restriction.
– Rakhine Buddhists living there are a long oppressed minority making up 4% of Burma’s population.
– By 1911 Immigration had ballooned to 480.000 Rohingya’s – this was out of a total population of only 13 million. Equivalent to the United Kingdom today taking 2 million people a year.
– With a strong Rohingya presence, there was a desire for them to create a “national area”
– Tension between Arakanese/Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims started.
– In 1942, Rohingya Muslims were armed by British military in order to create a buffer zone from the Japanese invasion – instead of resisting the Japanese, the Rohingya’s used the weapons to attack Buddhist villages in order to obtain their “national area”.
1947-1962
– A widespread armed insurgency started with the formation of a political party Jami-a-tul Ulema-e Islam
– The ambition of the Mujahideen insurgency was to merge Arakan into East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
– The Burmese central government protected the Arakan Buddhists and refused to grant a separate Muslim state
– Mujahids from Northern Arakan declared jihad on Burma
– Mujahid rebels made rapid progress and banished the Arakanese villages
– In 1949 the Mujahids were in possession of all of northern Arakan
– The Burmese army launched major military operations against the Mujahideens in Northern Arakan between 1950
and 1954
– Military dictatorship ending democracy after a coup in 1962
1971-1988 – Radical Islamist movement
– During Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971, Rohingyas who resided in the borderline got the opportunity to collect weapons from the war
– Various attempts to gather scattered Mujahid factions failed due to vigilance of Burmese government
– In early 80’s, the militant Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) formed and had support from several Muslim countries
– RSO was trained my Afghan Taliban instructors – there was also linkage between Rohingya insurgents and Al-Qaeda. Many received training in Pakistan.
– Due to expansion of RSO in late 80’s, Burmese government launched a counter-offensive to clear up the Burma/Bangladesh border. This created tensions between the 2 countries.
– In 1988 Burmese military seized power, forced relocation of Muslims and created Buddhist settlements
250.000 Rohingya were forced out of Arakan, but in 1993, most of them were repatriated due to UNHCR intervention
Present
– In 2000, Arakan Rohingya National Organization discussed arming and financing with Bin Laden
– In August 2012, Rohingja emigres in exile declared the creation of the “Islamic Republic of Rahmanland”
– Strongly held fears circulating among Buddhist Rakhines that they would soon become a minority in their
ancestral state (already a minority in the North)
– Riots erupted in 2012 after a gang rape of a Rakhine woman by Rohingyas and the killing of 10 Burmese Muslims by Rakhines.
– Government imposed curfews and deployed troops to keep order.
Tjhawk says
Excellent overview. I plan to use some of this in my discussions about the poor poor Rohingyas. Some of the people I talk to WILL NOT believe this unless they see articles with sources cited. I know this is lazy of me, but do you happen to have any links?
Feel free to ignore this, because I will research this when I get time.
Jim says
Kessler, thanks for the very much needed history. Well done. We hear very graphic reports from the Muslims (pregnant woman be kicked and beaten …). But wonders in this day of high tech cell phones why we see even an occasional glimpse of the Myanmar forces committing atrocities against the Muslims. Any ideas?
Jim says
Correction to my comment above: Please insert “not” between the “see” and “even” in the 4th sentence. Sorry bout that.
Angus says
This is the same scenario and sequence of events that occur everywhere muslims become a certain portion of the population – EVERYWHERE.
Many Western countries are already pretty far down this road as well.
t. says
Thanks a lot Kessler for this wealth of timely information!
Michael says
Always rapes involved. The truest metaphor for islam.
gravenimage says
All true, kessler.
Lio says
Right, in 1942 they killed over 20000 Rakhine Buddhists using British’s arms. Moreover there’s no ethnic namely Rohingya in Myanmar or world. Rohingya mean Rakhinethar are Buddhists. Bangladeshi Muslim immigrants are hijacking the name Rohingya because they want ethnicity and Islamic state using growing immigrants population not citizenship. Now, there are 25,553 Rakhine nationals and 444,390 Bangalis
living in Maungdaw,and 46,192 nationals and 230,000 Bangalis in
Butheedaung. Now, they make an ethnic name and claim for citizenship,ethnicity and Islamic state but
they deny Myanmar’s Citizenship law as they realize there is no
possibility of acquiring a nationality. So, they start islamization and
exploiting Myanmar Crisis with Fake,fabricated by the help of muslim
countries and western medias(like OIC and UN,etc..).A lot of burmese
buddhist girls murder and rapes by Rohingyas (Bangladeshi) muslim for a
long time. But I never seen about that on any medias. Why? Simple, Most
of the countries on the world are Islamic countries. We coexisting with
our christian ethnic like Karen, Kachin, Chin without any religious
problems. Myanmar have a lot
of foreign immagrants like indians, Napalese, Chinese and so on. We are
coexisting with them without any problems for a long time. Why? They
respect our cultures and don’t claim for citizenship and ethnic. They
don’t want to invade our land.That is why~~and why? why???? Why did they
destroy buddhism’s honour and image? But I still loving our minority
myanmar muslim brothers not immigrated Bangali. This Muslim Bangladeshi attacked police posts in October 2016 and killed over 10 without any reasons and now again. If police attacks them back, they run into their villages and burn their houses themselves. Unbelievable? But it’s true. They do this for fake new of genocide. Why our government need to take care this stupid Muslim terrorists even the Muslim countries and their homeland Bangladesh don’t want to take them. We respect human rights not for animals. May all beings free from
dangers/\
gravenimage says
They were supposed to be using these arms to oppose the Japanese invaders. Of course, they decided to slaughter Burmese instead.
Matthieu Baudin says
If the Burmese Beauty Queen has in mind a portion of the historical items outlined by Kessler then she is someone worth listening to rather than someone to disparage – a practice all too common these days.
nicu says
” If you want to know who rules you – find out whom you may not critisize ” Voltaire
gravenimage says
Nicu, the statement “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize” is often attributed to Voltaire.
I’m afraid it was not said by him, but by a much more equivocal figure–Kevin Alfred Strom.
Despite its disturbing origins, though, it is still a salient quote.
John S. Obeda says
GI It’s a good saying by Kevin Strom, but he forgot what his English teacher taught him. “Whom” takes the accusative case in the sentence. Voltaire did remember. WHOM you may not criticize. I could’ve used the saying this morning. I wrote a letter to three people of the city of London, Ontario Council because there is a lady who wants the council to make a law against hate-speech. She would serve his country better were she home in the kitchen and cook a good meal for her family.
gravenimage says
John, there are more issues with Kevin Strom than his grasp of grammar, I’m afraid.
eduardo odraude says
Bottom line:
t. says
Always true when Muslims constitute one of the two sides of any conflict!
fbijihadidefender says
Freedom of speech ? This is why leftiest must be eliminated for good.
Guy Forester says
Follow the money. OPEC country millionaires and billionaires own outright or large shares of many media companies. Do not be surprised if they also own large shares of the beauty pageant companies as well. While she was at it, Ms. Si could have pointed out the “benefits” of FGM and what happens when a woman from a muslim country has the audacity to enter a beauty pageant or sports competition.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
+1
abad says
Or maybe she was dethroned because she actually LOOKS Burmese – a beautiful Burmese lady at that – because you know according to the crooked liberal media and the UN, the Rohingya Moslems are Burmese.
Wellington says
Brave and beautiful. A laudatory combination.
Eric says
Do not let Trump bring in Rohingya through Australia. This is what Obama was trying to do. Trump is betraying us on refugee settlement in the USA.
Eric
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
good point Eric!
gravenimage says
Myanmar beauty queen accuses Rohingyas of media campaign to trick world into thinking they’re oppressed
………………..
So sorry that she lost her title.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
The MSM smear campaign against Myanmar hasn’t gotten very much traction (despite all of its best efforts); the news cycle has been very busy in the last few months (hurricanes and such).
Hopefully the Myanmar army will take advantage of the cover and seal up the border once and for all.
Suleiman haq says
Muslims are being killed by Buddhists because the whole Ummah is still sleeping. All Muslim countries should unite and create a Muslim UN force that will be willing to take on militant non Muslim Government who are waging terror on their Muslim populations and defeat the militaries of such countries and see that Muslim are free to practice their religion
Dacritic says
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com
You might find something there.
gravenimage says
In other words, Suleiman haq is demanding that Islam violently conquer the “filthy Infidels”, and that they not be allowed to defend themselves. Of course, this is how most Muslims think.
John Forbes says
Give the TITLE back ! She is just telling the truth !
Donald R Laster Jr says
Until people deal with the real nature of what Islam instructs its citizens to do no one in the world is safe. The war against people who refused to accept Mohammad’s government and worship his god, Hubal, has been going on for 1400 plus years. ALL Islamics are a threat to all non-Islamics countries. Many are sleeper cells waiting to be activated. People need to learn the real history and what Islamics have been doing over the centuries. If the non-Islamics wanted to they could justify exterminating every Islamic in the world since the Islamics are actively working to exterminate and enslave all non-Islamics. She simply pointed out an inconvenient truth.
Chand says
So is beauty queen also working part time as expert analyst of news footage and clippings?
So all these images and news footage we see every day of hundreds of thousands of desperately poor humans fleeing, fathers carrying young sons on his shoulders, corpses on beaches, teeming refugee camps with them scrambling and reaching out for basics all fake?
All the reports of atrocities committed by the army there for the attacks by the ARSA and the jihadis on the army, where 12 soldiers died, are all fake, right?
Since that attack which killed twelve soldiers almost 400 jihadi fighters have been killed. That’s fake too, right?
Just more fake news, eh?
So those must be the latest blockbuster epics from Speilberg or Ridley Scott. Nice movies.
How come no news organizations have said so? They are all fake, right? All Clinton News Network, right? BBC, CNN, Sky, France 24, RT, DW, NBC, ABC, NHK…………………….all fake, right?
This is a humanitarian disaster of epic proportions but it is condoned by otherwise regular guys just because they happen to be Muslims.
I do not dispute for a second that there are jihadis amongst the Rohingyans who have committed atrocities and murders and they must be identified, rooted out and eliminated.
But this is ethnic cleansing for sure.
How come standards are different for American Muslims or European Muslims or Indian Muslims from Myanmarese Rohingyan Muslims?
Did the armies of France, Belgium, the US, the UK, Germany or India descend on their local Muslim populations, shoot at them indiscriminately, burn down down their houses and drive them across their borders in revenge?
No. In spite of equally horrible atrocities committed by Jihadi Muslims there the govts. kept their cool, respected human rights, protected the innocent civilians, including Muslims and specifically targeted the Jihadis and tried their best no to harm any innocent civilian and minimize collateral damage.
Myanmar should do the same. The brutal, uncivilized Army there should follow the laws of the land and of civilized societies elsewhere, protect all their citizen, including Rohingyan Muslims, recognize their basic human rights, take them back and not burden neighboring countries.
Most of the Rohingyan Muslims there were born there, in Rakhine state, although their ancestors might have come from Bangladesh or wherever. The Muslims there are Myanmarese. It is not their fault that their parents, grandparents or remote ancestors immigrated there just as it is not their fault that they happen to be born Muslims.
No human is guilty of any wrong committed by anyone else, even if it was committed by their own mother or father. No Myanmarese Rohingyan, Muslim or Hindu is guilty of anything even if any of their ancestors happened to illegally immigrate to Myanmar. Rohingyans have been immigrating to Rakhine since the last four hundred years.
Any child born in the US automatically becomes a naturalized citizen there. Including Muslims.
But today’s Rohingyans need to be thrown out of Myanmar because of the actions of some Jihadis? So now all Muslims are jihadis, right? Or potential jihadis who might committ crimes in the future.
That would be like today’s Native Americans telling the vast majority of Americans to leave the country because their ancestors ‘illegally immigrated’ to America over the last four hundred years or so. Why? Oh, because some of those immigrants committed atrocities on some of the Native Americans.
Wow! I thought this was one planet and civilized people were just and applied the same moral and political principles for all humans on it. Guess I’m the fool.
The Rohingyans aren’t human. They are the untermenschen. Look at them……..ugly, dark, sub human, ape like, not even much clothing on them, stupid looking, don’t even have the basic necessities of life like wate, food……….Oh such a burden on us humans! Let them die, drown, get killed.
What distractions from our grand, colorful beauty pageants.
Such disgusting hypocrisy!
Not very beautiful, beauty queen. Not beautiful enough.