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| How the crackdown on Myanmar's Rohingya unfolded |
| 2019-12-10 |
| [Al Jazeera] August 2017 On August 25, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), later declared a 'terrorist' group by the government, attacks more than 30 police posts, reportedly killing 12 members of security forces. As the clashes worsen, thousands of Rohingya begin to flee across the border into Bangladesh. September 2017 The Rohingya join some 200,000 who had fled to Bangladesh during earlier waves of violence. Many speak of abuses by the army and members of the mostly Buddhist ethnic Rakhine. The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights calls the military operation in the state a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing", citing satellite imagery and accounts of extrajudicial killings. In her first statement on the crisis on September 19, Aung San Suu Kyi promises to hold those who have committed rights abuses to account, but refuses to blame the army. She adds that she is open to bringing some of the Rohingya home pending a "verification process". They go on with more dates and commentary, but do you need to read more? Related: Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army: 2019-11-12 Gambia files Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar at UN court Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army: 2019-05-21 Moderate Muslims’ dilemma Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army: 2019-04-29 Bangladesh jails three Rohingya extremists for 10 years Related: Rohingya: 2019-12-03 Welcome To The Potemkin Village Of Washington Power Rohingya: 2019-12-03 Myanmar rallies in support of Suu Kyi in wake of genocide charges |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Bookmarked on Rantburg: As a backgrounder, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army staged a series of concerted attacks on the Burmese army. Unwilling to tolerate another Moslem jihad, the Rohinyas have been expelled to Bangladesh, where live some of those funding and leading ARSA. Saudi Arabia is too far away to dump them. The number of corpses hasn't been that overwhelming. The Karens, Kachins, and Shans have been similarly suppressed by the ethnic Burmans occasionally. I realize that being dead is overwhelming to the person departing this Vale of Tears. I also realize that jihad has a habit of sprouting where local Moslem majorities (or near so) coexist next to non-Moslems. We can probably take the Philippines as a case study. You can also chart the decline of the Christian population in Paleostine, and then ask the Yazdis and the Zoroastrians of Iraq for details. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-12-10 17:06 |
| #2 Interesting timeline for the area. Lots of different actors in this play. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2019-12-10 09:45 |
| #1 November 11, 2012: The Rakhine violence is also a test for Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi, now opposition leader in parliament, whose studied neutrality has failed to defuse tensions and risks undermining her image as a unifying moral force. Suu Kyi, a devout Buddhist, says she refuses to take sides. At stake is the stability of one of Myanmar's most commercially strategic regions and the gold-rush of foreign investment that has come with an easing of Western economic sanctions. The United States and the European Union have suspended, not lifted, sanctions, and have made resolving ethnic conflicts a precondition for further rewards. In Rakhine State, however, the conflict has spread, most recently to areas where Muslims have long lived peacefully with Buddhists, according to a reconstruction of the violence from October 21 through October 25. In Paik Thay, the Buddhist Rakhine mobs hurled Molotov cocktails at wooden huts, while Tun Naing and his neighbors fled. Muhammad Amin, 62, said he was beaten with a metal pipe until his skull cracked. The initial violence ended after soldiers fired their guns into the air and police arrested a Rakhine. The bloodshed was only beginning. |
| Posted by: b 2019-12-10 07:10 |