for decades american liberals protested the military junta in burma in the name of human rights violations. and now deafening silence.
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Crowded under tarpaulin tents strewn with rubbish and boxes of water, the Burmese and Bangladeshi migrants speak of horrors at sea: of murders, of killing each other over scarce supplies of food and water, of corpses thrown overboard. \u201cOne family was beaten to death with wooden planks from the boat, a father, a mother and their son,\u201d says Mohammad Amin, 35. \u201cAnd then they threw the bodies into the ocean.\u201d Amin, an ethnic Rohingya Muslim, first boarded a boat from Burma three months ago. Now he is among 677 migrants who are being housed in a makeshift camp by the harbour in Langsa, Indonesia, after spending months in the Andaman Sea. […] Many of those on the ships are from northern Burma\u2019s persecuted Rohingya minority, who have been denied citizenship and voting rights, even though many have lived in the country for generations. In the majority Buddhist nation, the Rohingya have continued to flee sectarian violence and poor conditions in refugee camps. Many do so by boat using people smugglers but a recent crackdown by the Thai government is believed to have led to some boats – and their human cargo – being abandoned at sea. In Langsa, Amin, a former farmer in Burma, tells of how his village was set alight in a violent attack several years ago. His mother, he says, was burned to death because she was too old to escape. More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kinaan Malik: The anti-Muslim campaign has been led by Buddhist monks, who say their actions are in keeping with the demands of their faith. The principal anti-Rohingya organization, the 969 movement, takes its name from the nine attributes of Buddha, the six qualities of his teachings and the nine attributes of the monks. Its leader, a monk named Wirathu, has reportedly called himself the \u201cBurmese Bin Laden.\u201d Muslims, he told an interviewer, \u201cbreed quickly and they are very violent.\u201d Because \u201cthe Burmese people and the Buddhists are devoured every day,\u201d he argued, \u201cthe national religion needs to be protected.\u201d The extremist monk has proposed a \u201cnational race protection law\u201d under which a non-Buddhist man wishing to marry a Buddhist woman would have to convert to Buddhism and obtain permission from the state. The proposal has won support from Myanmar\u2019s president, Thein Sein, and may become law by the end of June. How do we reconcile the perception of Buddhism as a philosophy of peace with this ugly reality of Buddhist-led pogroms in Myanmar? More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" for decades american liberals protested the military junta in burma in the name of human rights violations. and now deafening silence. … Crowded under tarpaulin tents strewn with rubbish and boxes of water, the Burmese and Bangladeshi migrants speak of horrors at sea: of murders, of killing each other over scarce supplies of food and … Continue reading ‘They hit us, with hammers, by knife’: Rohingya migrants tell of horror at sea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8220,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions\/8220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}