stirringwind:nazalea: geesi: Burmese monk Wirathu is on the cover of July 2013 Time Maganzine. Wirat
stirringwind:nazalea: geesi: Burmese monk Wirathu is on the cover of July 2013 Time Maganzine. Wirathu has been leading a plot to ethnically cleanse the Rohingya people. The Rohingya people are Muslims. He has compared Muslims to “African carp” and has described them as “quick breeding and violent.” His speeches have been blamed for the rise of violence against the Rohingya people. In his recent sermon, he described the reported massacre of schoolchildren and other Muslim inhabitants in the central city of Meiktila in March, documented by a human rights group, as “a show of strength”The Muslims are suffering. Please keep them in your duas(prayers). It was “has been leading a plot to ethnically cleanse the Rohingya people” and now, 2015, they’ve done it. Rohingya Muslims are banned from their own land and they’re seeking refuges. I don’t know how to signal boost this situation since I don’t have that many followers. The present Myanmar govt is known for its oppression of political freedom- but it too has a very long history of oppressing non-Burman and non-Buddhist ethnic minorities. And the Buddhist clergy has been complicit in this too. They’ve been stripped of political rights too:This continued repression has led to an exodus of Rohingya Muslims trying to escape to other Asian countries via boats, but few countries are willing to take them in and have been turning away the boats. Thus, many are stranded at sea right now. More sources: Myanmar’s appalling apartheid21st century concentration campsBurma census bans people from registering as RohingyaMyanmar population law raises fears for Rohingya minorityAsia migrants: what do those in the region think should be done? -- source link