Article

2019-12-10 Southeast Asia

How the crackdown on Myanmar's Rohingya unfolded

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fred 2019-12-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top
File under: Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army

#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|| 2019-12-10 07:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Interesting timeline for the area.

Lots of different actors in this play.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-12-10 09:45|| 2019-12-10 09:45|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-12-10 17:06|| Front Page Top

23:59 Dron66046
23:46 ChrisImFtWorth
21:00 rammer
20:50 Grunter
20:17 Snusotle the Lesser4227
20:16 Matt
19:50 Frank G
19:49 Frank G
19:48 Jack Salami
19:45 Fred
19:33 Procopius2k
19:25 Procopius2k
19:25 Snusotle the Lesser4227
19:03 Charles
19:01 Shese Johnson3426
19:01 JHH
19:00 Herb McCoy
18:21 chris
18:17 Lex
18:17 Shese Johnson3426
18:14 lord garth
18:12 chris
18:07 Snusotle the Lesser4227
18:02 Shese Johnson3426