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Southeast Asia
Aung San Suu Kyi turns blind eye to ethnic cleansing
2017-09-06
Sauce for the gander...
[DailyMail] During a visit to Britain earlier this year, Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar — formerly known as Burma — was given a hero’s welcome. After being met by the Queen and Prince William at Buckingham Palace, she travelled to the Guildhall to be given the Freedom of the City of London.

And in so many ways, Aung San Suu Kyi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 in recognition of her lifelong battle for freedom, deserves all the acclaim.

SNIP

Her government is complicit in the military-led persecution of Myanmar’s minority Muslim population (the country’s dominant religion is Buddhism) which is as ugly as anything carried out during the days of junta rule.

Huge numbers of Muslims have been subject to a systematic programme of rape, murder, starvation and intimidation that began last autumn.

Over the past several months, more than 120,000 have been driven from their homes following a campaign of violence. Hundreds have been killed, with one human rights charity publishing chilling eyewitness accounts of people being beheaded or even burned alive in bamboo cages by security services.

There are many reported cases of gang-rape, normally carried out by soldiers from the country’s powerful, self-ruling army in their easily recognisable green uniforms.

At least 70,000 have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh (where, sadly, they are treated almost as abominably).
Posted by:badanov

#6  It's more ethnic than religious. It's common to see muslims go about their business in Myanmar. You can tell they are muslim by their distinctive dress.

But the media wants to dress it up as muslim persecution.
Posted by: phil_b   2017-09-06 20:40  

#5  From the religion of pieces?
Posted by: gorb   2017-09-06 10:05  

#4  Why should they pick on innocent Muslims so?

Myanmar: Muslims murder dozens of Hindus
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-09-06 08:33  

#3  They're invading Bangladeshis.
The one's really doing the ethnic cleansing!

Reality inversion MSM.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-09-06 08:20  

#2  The Burmese aren't rich enough to play the globalist Kumbaya game. So, how about focusing on the Syrian Christians et al and how they as a minority were treated by ISIL? Where were you? Welcome to 4000 years of human history. The beautiful rainbow meets reality, particularly when you don't have the riches to blind yourself or buy indulgences or pay Danegeld.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-09-06 07:34  

#1  Golly. Why should they pick on innocent Muslims so?
Posted by: gorb   2017-09-06 01:16  

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