Burma: More than 100 Rohingya Muslims massacred in Rakhine state, reports claim - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE]More than 100 [URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/rohingya"]Rohingya[/URL] Muslims are alleged to have been killed in a massacre by Burmese security forces and Buddhist vigilantes.The attack is said to have occurred in the Rathedaung area of Rakhine state on Sunday, when security forces cordoned off the village of Chut Pyin. Women and children are said to be among the 130 people killed. Rohingyas - a Muslim ethnic minority of about 1.1 million - suffer discrimination and violence from other sectors of Burma's predominantly Buddhist population of more than 52 million. Tensions had boiled over some days before the alleged massacre when Rohingya insurgents attacked a police post, [URL="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-01/reports-of-women-and-children-among-dead-in-myanmar-massacre/8862164"]ABC[/URL] reported. Chris Lewa, director of the Arakan Project pressure group, told the broadcaster: "So far reports—I think quite credible—mention about 130 people including women and children killed. "That happened on Sunday when suddenly security forces cordoned [off] the whole area, together with Rakhine villagers. It seems like this has been a major massacre in Rathedaung." Mass graves were dug in a village south of Chut Pyin, while security forces burned other bodies, the broadcaster reported. A series of coordinated attacks by Rohingya insurgents on security forces in the north of Burma's Rakhine state has led to a huge military crackdown. [URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/Burma"]Burma[/URL] has itself evacuated thousands of Buddhists from the area. The clashes have killed some 400 people, largely insurgents, but also 13 security troopers, two government officials and 14 civilians, the Burmese military said. About 38,000 Rohingya, many sick and some with bullet wounds, have managed to slip across the border with Bangladesh since Friday, according to the UN. Charu Lata Hogg, an associate fellow in Chatham House's Asia programme, told The Independent: "Thousands of people, men, women and children are desperately trying to flee a very insecure environment in Rakhine state. "The fact that access is extremely limited and there are no independent monitors makes the situation very difficult to assess.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/burma-massacre-rohingya-latest-rakhine-state-security-forces-buddhist-130-chut-pyin-a7923451.html[/url] [editline]3rd September 2017[/editline] And the world stood by and watch

no wonder many Rohingya Muslim suddenly came to indonesia. may they have a better life here

Nothing will happen. In the recent past previous US president would of done something along the lines of sanctions. But mentioning the word Muslim send shivers down some people spines in the current political climate. Honestly not surprised by the action taken by Burmese government.

[media]https://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/904260883924348929[/media] Jesus Christ.

Aung Sanu Suu Kyi has been tight lipped on this too, avoiding interviews with journalists and refusing to acknowledge this as an issue.

[QUOTE]Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has warned Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi that the treatment of the Muslim Rohingya is "besmirching" the country's reputation.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41139319[/url] She needs her Nobel Prize revoked

[QUOTE=Trebgarta;52644950]It hasn't got any high standards to defend anyway. Everybody gets a Nobel Peace Prize.[/QUOTE] She doesn't deserve it when her office is ridiculing people who have spoken about being raped and denying that the Rohingya exist as an ethnic group in the country. She's proving to be a hypocrite and little better than the system she thought.

Suu Kyi has finally spoken out and... dismissed the crisis as fake news [url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/06/aung-san-suu-kyi-blames-terrorists-for-misinformation-about-myanmar-violence[/url] [quote]Aung San Suu Kyi has blamed “terrorists” for “a huge iceberg of misinformation” about violence in western Myanmar that has forced more than 120,000 Rohingya refugees into neighbouring Bangladesh. The de-facto leader of Myanmar is under growing pressure to halt “clearance operations” by security forces in Rakhine state that the United Nations secretary-general has warned could verge on ethnic cleansing. A statement posted by Aung San Suu Kyi’s office to Facebook on Wednesday said she had spoken with Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan about the crisis that he has repeatedly called a “genocide”. She said the government “had already started defending all the people in Rakhine in the best way possible and expressed that there should be no misinformation to create trouble between the two countries”. She referred to “fake news photographs” posted on Twitter by Turkey’s deputy prime minister that purported to show dead Rohingya in Myanmar, but in fact were taken elsewhere. “That kind of fake information which was inflicted on the deputy prime minister was simply the tip of a huge iceberg of misinformation calculated to create a lot of problems between different communities and with the aim of promoting the interest of the terrorists,” the statement said.[/quote]

Disgusting.

[QUOTE=GordonZombie;52643573]Aung Sanu Suu Kyi has been tight lipped on this too, avoiding interviews with journalists and refusing to acknowledge this as an issue.[/QUOTE] Aung Sanu Suu Kyi still has no control over the military. And big swats of the government, including public facility's and Tourism are still governed by the generals. She has almost no power due to this, even according to people on the streets (Taxi drivers/Hotel owners I talked to). Its going to be a long road to get the general's to relinquish more power. I suspect she is not opposing the military here, to not piss them off.

there is really lot of misinformation flying around those events (pictures often presented as 'facts' are from years old events) it certainly does feel like someone is fueling the hate of certain religion vs country without that religion especially ironical when those news crome from country which is actively doing genocide of own minority refuse to accept history fact it did that with another minority century ago (and not just once) w/o question any violence vs civilians and genocide are bad but those days the clear truth feels very foggy

[QUOTE=taipan;52653125]Aung Sanu Suu Kyi still has no control over the military. And big swats of the government, including public facility's and Tourism are still governed by the generals. She has almost no power due to this, even according to people on the streets (Taxi drivers/Hotel owners I talked to). Its going to be a long road to get the general's to relinquish more power. I suspect she is not opposing the military here, to not piss them off.[/QUOTE] Still, outright denying there's a problem? I suspected part of this is due to a reluctance to disturb the fragile compromise they have with the military but what's the point if disgusting atrocities such as this continue? [QUOTE=Dwarden;52653131]there is really lot of misinformation flying around those events (pictures often presented as 'facts' are from years old events) it certainly does feel like someone is fueling the hate of certain religion vs country without that religion especially ironical when those news crome from country which is actively doing genocide of own minority refuse to accept history fact it did that with another minority century ago (and not just once) w/o question any violence vs civilians and genocide are bad but those days the clear truth feels very foggy[/QUOTE] What?