Posted on 04/07/2024 7:14:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Nearly seven years after the Myanmar military killed thousands of Muslim Rohingyas, in what the UN called "textbook ethnic cleansing", it wants their help.
From interviews with Rohingyas living in Rakhine State the BBC has learned of at least 100 of them being conscripted in recent weeks to fight for the embattled junta. All their names have been changed to protect them.
"I was frightened, but I had to go," says Mohammed, a 31-year-old Rohingya man with three young children. He lives near the capital of Rakhine, Sittwe, in the Baw Du Pha camp. At least 150,000 internally displaced Rohingyas have been forced to live in IDP camps for the past decade.
In the middle of February the camp leader came to him late at night, Mohammed said, and told him he would have to do military training. "These are army orders," he remembers him saying. "If you refuse they have threatened to harm your family."
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Awk ward.
Don’t care.
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Both sides are equally repulsive.
“ Don’t care.”
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Me either. This is simply just another foreign conflict that our government and American taxpayers’ money should stay completely away from.
Conscript them, feed them on pork and send them to the front lines.
What are you talking about? The U.S. has never shown any interest in what’s going on in Myanmar.
I doubt Biden or Obama, or Trump for that matter, could even find Myanmar, Burma, or Constantinople on a map.
“ The U.S. has never shown any interest in what’s going on in Myanmar.”
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Didn’t say we have. Let’s keep it that way.
I don’t think you have to worry, don’t be oversensitive.
Burma really has bad luck, first they have to deal with a Muslim terrorist band, the Rohingyas, but then they also have to deal with THOUSANDS of Karens. Kind of like a Michigan HOA Nightmare
https://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Life/No-end-in-sight-for-Myanmar-s-Karen-insurgency
Time for another Rambo movie.
Obama Pledges to Lift All Sanctions Against Myanmar NYTs Sept. 14, 2016
Obama calls Myanmar violence ‘heartbreaking,’ says there should be costs to generals Reuters April 26, 2021
Myanmar is very strategic to dealings with China. So, this South China Sea confrontation echoes over Myanmar.
I don’t see anything that indicates he could find it on a map.
Christians are slaughtered every day by Muslims.
I don’t see the BBC or the UN complaining. /spit
The Burmese military is doing a counter-jihad which makes them the bad guys.
More fake news from the BBC.
The Muslim Rohingyas attacked the Buddhists and burned their villages down. The Myanmar people drove the Muslim fanatics out of the country.
Only brainwashed morons believe that the Buddhist community, for no reason whatsoever, attacked the Muslims.
Oh, I see, you meant it literally. {spit}
“Burma!”
“Why did you say Burma?”
“I panicked.”
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