Posted on 08/24/2018 5:57:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In late August of last year, Begum was among hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled across a muddy brown river into neighboring Bangladesh...
Myanmar says the military action against the Rohingya was a cleanup operation targeting Rohingya militants who'd attacked government police stations and army posts.
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Bangladeshi officials have made it clear that eventually, they want the Rohingya to go back to Myanmar.
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It's unclear exactly how many Rohingya remain in Myanmar, although prior to last year's attacks, about a million were living in western Myanmar...
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Myanmar claims they're illegal immigrants from Bangladesh... Bangladeshis consider them Burmese...
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So hundreds of thousands survive primarily off international food aid.
Each day in the Palang Khali camp, the Turkish government runs a huge soup kitchen that distributes hot meals to 20,000 people.
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It's rare for kids to go to school for more than two hours a day, if at all.
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The United Nations' World Food Program also distributes rations every two weeks — dried lentils, rice and vegetable oil. But cooking in the camps can be a challenge. Firewood collected from the edges of the camp has dwindled fast, and now the monsoon rains make getting dry firewood almost impossible. Houqwe says if he's able to get the curry from the Turkish-run kitchen, he knows that his family will at least have one solid meal for the day.
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The nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees in the area now vastly outnumber residents of this seaside resort.
And if other refugee crises are any guide, the longer the Rohingya stay, the less likely it is that they will ever leave. The U.N. refugee agency says that among what they call "protracted" refugee situations, the average refugee is now displaced for 26 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Anywhere but here. Or Europe. Or Canada.
Burma under attack at NeoCon behest.
The Royhinga have a reputation as prolific rapists, which is why everyone else hates them. It’s strange that this little tidbit never makes the news.
Bangladesh is a good move for them. They were making life hard for the Burmese.
Clearly the Rohingya are just more victims of the Western white patriarchy.
What? You say there are no whites involved? That those that are involved are Buddhists, the real religion of peace, if there is one? That the Rohingha have managed to irritate *them* so badly, that the Buddhists have driven them out of their country?
But that’s impossible! We are assured Islam is a religion of peace.
Sometimes you conquer the infidel.
Sometimes the infidels light a fire under your left hand wiped ass and only some of you escape with your lives.
It’s hard for a jihadi out there.
That’s where they belong.
Anyone remember about twenty-twenty five years ago when the starving Bangladeshis moved west into India? The locals feared a moslem invasion and cut them down with spears and arrows.
The US newspapers wept and wailed over those moslem dead.
The Burmese method of forcible exile - somewhat harsher than Sherman’s burning of Atlanta - is one of the traditional means of countering guerrilla warfare. This is why guerrilla warfare is seldom successful against governments operating by non-Western rules of engagement. Even North Vietnam needed to invade the South using conventional means incorporating tanks, planes and heavy artillery.
About a year ago the web site “Moon of Alabama” posted a very interesting story and explanation of the Rohingya situation. The information presented needs to be considered to understand the big picture behind the headlines.
Very good report by Moon of Alabama.
Some choice: Bangladesh or Burma.
Just shoot me.
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