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2013-03-25 Southeast Asia

Buddhist-Muslim Violence Spreads in Myanmar

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Posted by tipper 2013-03-25 04:08|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Meanwhile in Indonesia.

Posted by tipper 2013-03-25 04:32|| 2013-03-25 04:32|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll be in central Myanmar next month. I'll report if I see anything interesting.

Posted by phil_b 2013-03-25 05:24|| 2013-03-25 05:24|| Front Page Top

#3 And now Sri Lanka.

Posted by tipper 2013-03-25 06:11|| 2013-03-25 06:11|| Front Page Top

#4 I'll be in central Myanmar next month. I'll report if I see anything interesting.

Thank you, phil_b.

Posted by trailing wife 2013-03-25 09:16|| 2013-03-25 09:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Hmmm,

Boy howdy, I didn't know you could work a Buddhist up like that...wowsers.

I guess the Moslems don't like the push back on their thug tactics and intimidation?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-03-25 09:52|| 2013-03-25 09:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Was just thinking that myself, Bill. How annoying do you have to be to piss off a Buddhist?

Posted by SteveS 2013-03-25 11:52|| 2013-03-25 11:52|| Front Page Top

#7 As I keep pointing out, this is Myanmar.

The central government in Myanmar has been working up nominal Buddhists to kill and/or disenfranchise and/or (to put it bluntly) enslave (via drafting into long-term corvee labor) other Buddhists whose only offense was being of Shan descent for the last sixty years or so.

And they had very little attention from ABC, or Al Jazeera, or the last UAE press outlet whose coverage of this hit Rantburg.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-03-25 12:11|| 2013-03-25 12:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Interesting how Christians and Buddhists have been slaughtered in Indonesia and Thailand for *YEAR* and not a peep out of ABC News. But now that the Budhists are defending themselves its suddenly *BIG* *NEWS*.

And notice how they only interview the Muslim *victims* and not any Buddhists as to a motive or anything. If muslims riot, burn, rape, and kill over some slight its perfectly alright with the Media.... but if anyone else does it's a different story.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-03-25 13:20|| 2013-03-25 13:20|| Front Page Top

#9 The most peaceful religion in the world is pissed off!That says it all about living with Islam/muslims.

Every religion should join hands and kick their butt!

Posted by Harcourt Elmomorong1212 2013-03-25 15:30|| 2013-03-25 15:30|| Front Page Top

#10 "But Buddhists are peaceful!"

Tell that to Imperial Japan. Or China. Or Vietnam...

Posted by Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-03-25 17:03|| 2013-03-25 17:03|| Front Page Top

#11 ..who were/are, respectively, practicing Shintoism, Confucianism & Taoism and much latter Marxism.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-03-25 17:42|| 2013-03-25 17:42|| Front Page Top

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