Terrible crap going down in Burma

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Rohingya are an ethnic minority in Burma of Muslim background. Burma's Buddhist-dominated government has always claimed that if you Rohingya, you are not Burmese and therefore have no rights to be there (basically as if English people declared that all the Scottish people in the UK were illegal immigrants). There was an attack on a police post where twelve officers were killed, and the government has responded with full-on ethnic cleansing mode, burning down villages and shooting people execution style. 370,000 people have fled to Bangladesh and more will probably come.

‘Textbook example of ethnic cleansing’: 370,000 Rohingyas flood Bangladesh as crisis worsens




I'm trying to get confirmation from a reliable source, but story is that this dude carried his elderly parents for seven days to get to a refugee camp.
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Edit: even worse, India deporting them now too:
[Rakesh Gupta] is running a campaign against another set of persecuted minorities fleeing violence, living on the fringes of Jammu – Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar.

“If the government does not deport Rohingyas, we will identify and kill them,” Rakesh says without any emotion. “Otherwise, people will have no choice but to deport them against the law. It can be civil war or communal riots.” Rakesh is the president of the Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI).
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The claim is that they're a terrorist threat...even though not a single act of terrorism has been connected to them.
On January 20th this year, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti told the Assembly that 'no Rohingya in Jammu and Kashmir has been found involved in militancy related incidents. No instance of radicalizing (of) these foreigners has been reported so far.'

We tracked down every single one of the 14 FIRs or first information reports to find the following: eight cases for lack of visa, two cases of rape, one case of cow slaughter, one case for causing injury, one case for selling goods in the black market and one for stealing railway property.

These findings were matched by what the senior police officials in Jammu told NDTV.

'I haven't seen anything alarming in terms of their (Rohingya Muslims) criminal records. They are involved in petty theft like other groups of that social economic situation. But we haven't found anything alarming or their involvement in organized groups or very sensational nature cases so far,' said Dr SD Singh, Inspector General of Police, Jammu.
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They deporting them just because they can. :francis:



‘Look at us as humans, not as Muslims’: Rohingyas’ appeal in Jammu after deportation threat

Rohingyas A Terror Threat? NDTV Finds Little Evidence Of Government Claim
 
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tru_m.a.c said:
:francis: thanks bro...I'll have to read up on this

Terrible situation, but great learning opportunity for people who want to challenge their views on life/culture /government/religion /world history
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Totally surreal how we take numerous conditions and ways of life for granted, when this picture alone can be evidenced, how even in contemporary times, certain populations of the world are living ages apart.....
 
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UN just condemned it



I guess India and China are pushing back though :scust:
 
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