Warnings on Burma's racist hatred
Katie Hamann, for As
ia Pacific
Clashes this year between ethnic Buddhist Rakhine and the Rohingya in Burma's west have left more than 70 people dead.
The government has since clamped down on the Rohingya, a minority already described by the UN as one of the world's most persecuted peoples.
Dr Maung Zarni, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, says there is strong evidence the overwhelmingly Buddhist government is behind the campaign against the Rohingya, motivated by racism. And he says the opposition NLD party, including Nobel peace prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, are implicit in that racism as they campaign to win a landslide victory at the next election.
"So in other words, Suu Kyi needs to keep the Burmese majority happy, ideologically, and that requires that she stays clear of the Rohingya issue, regardless of whether it's a direct challenge to her image as a human rights champion," he said.
He's described ingrained racism within Burma's majority Buddhist society as the 'scariest' part of Burma's recent moves towards democracy.
"The Burmese democratic transition is bringing about not necessarily concrete and irreversible democratisation process but the most ugly racism the world is witnessing," Dr Maung Zarni said.
A UK-based Burmese scholar has warned Burma's opposition NLD party, including democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, are implicit in the racism that's fuelling ongoing tension between Buddhists and the minority Muslim Rohingya.
ဘဂၤါလီဘက္က ေၾကးစားေရွ႔ေန ေမာင္ဇာနည္ကေတာ့ အေမစု၊ ဒီခ်ဳပ္နဲ႔ ျမန္မာျပည္သူေတြကိ္ု ေစာ္ကားျပီးေတာ့ ျပည္သူ႔ေမတၱာကို ခံယူျပန္ျပီ။
ဘဂၤါလီေတြဆီက ပိုက္ဆံယူထားေတာ့ ရူးတိုက္တိုင္း ကိုက္ေနရတာေပါ့။
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-18/an-burma-rohingya-racism/4207336
Clashes this year between ethnic Buddhist Rakhine and the Rohingya in Burma's west have left more than 70 people dead.
The government has since clamped down on the Rohingya, a minority already described by the UN as one of the world's most persecuted peoples.
Dr Maung Zarni, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, says there is strong evidence the overwhelmingly Buddhist government is behind the campaign against the Rohingya, motivated by racism. And he says the opposition NLD party, including Nobel peace prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, are implicit in that racism as they campaign to win a landslide victory at the next election.
"So in other words, Suu Kyi needs to keep the Burmese majority happy, ideologically, and that requires that she stays clear of the Rohingya issue, regardless of whether it's a direct challenge to her image as a human rights champion," he said.
He's described ingrained racism within Burma's majority Buddhist society as the 'scariest' part of Burma's recent moves towards democracy.
"The Burmese democratic transition is bringing about not necessarily concrete and irreversible democratisation process but the most ugly racism the world is witnessing," Dr Maung Zarni said.
A UK-based Burmese scholar has warned Burma's opposition NLD party, including democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, are implicit in the racism that's fuelling ongoing tension between Buddhists and the minority Muslim Rohingya.
ဘဂၤါလီဘက္က ေၾကးစားေရွ႔ေန ေမာင္ဇာနည္ကေတာ့ အေမစု၊ ဒီခ်ဳပ္နဲ႔ ျမန္မာျပည္သူေတြကိ္ု ေစာ္ကားျပီးေတာ့ ျပည္သူ႔ေမတၱာကို ခံယူျပန္ျပီ။
ဘဂၤါလီေတြဆီက ပိုက္ဆံယူထားေတာ့ ရူးတိုက္တိုင္း ကိုက္ေနရတာေပါ့။
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-18/an-burma-rohingya-racism/4207336
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