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[ by Charles Cameron — it’s the first quote that carries the implication of genocide, but what of the rest? ]
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It’s not a joke, is it? Myanmar..

The United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention warns of certain indicators that
“provide an environment conducive to the commission of atrocity crimes,” including
“increased politicization of identity” and discriminatory “measures or legislation”
targeting protected groups. In addition to certain prohibited acts, such as killing members
of a group, genocidal States often use legal and administrative tools to facilitate the
destruction of a targeted group “in whole or in part.”

In Myanmar, successive governments have implemented measures and legislation to erase
Rohingya Muslims’ identity and rights, creating an enabling environment for genocide.

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It’s not a joke, is it? Assam..

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi today expressed his concern over the publication of a National Register of Citizens (NRC) that may put large numbers of people in India’s north-eastern state of Assam at risk of becoming stateless.

It is too early to say what the nationality status of those left off the National Register, some 1.9 million according to the authorities, may ultimately be. UNHCR is concerned, however, that many are at risk of statelessness if they do not possess another nationality.

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That’s a DoubleQuote — but it’s also pattern recognition, and the start of a possible concatenation of such quotes — a mala of urgencies.

BTW, it’s more than possible, as Myanmar >> Bangladesh migration illustrates, that mass migration across national borders may be a pragmatic alternative to genocide — but that threatens national sovereignty, doesn’t it?

[ by Charles Cameron — where Buddhists p;lay the violence card first ]
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Militant Rohingya Group Declares Cease-Fire in Myanmar https://t.co/fWsRVSH3gi

— raffpantucci (@raffpantucci) September 11, 2017

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on a government-sponsored village, staged photos and looters burn down a Muslim village: https://t.co/Ik9INreP3j

— Diaa Hadid ???? ???? (@diaahadid) September 11, 2017

strong>BBC, Rohingya crisis: Seeing through the official story in Myanmar

Let the photps speak for the people. They speak in water and fire as a cameo of the fight earth faces from sea, wind and fire:

Wire, >If you want to warn about global warming, this photo might do it.

[ by Charles Cameron — yes, we can feel for Muslim victims as we do in a different register for their persecutors, Buddhists untethered from their moorings ]
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When Muslims are the victims of terrorism, there isn't the fraction of western attention as when they're the perpetrators. https://t.co/yxFOR8O4TY

— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) September 2, 2017

I must respond:

Burma: #HRW Satellite Images Show Massive Fire Destruction of #Rohingya villages pic.twitter.com/laVDsLZp4D

— hipbonegamer (@hipbonegamer) September 3, 2017

Yes, the core, the deepest stratum of being — zen’s “original face” == the soul goes out. Whether heart and mind follow is variable, utterly human, as you observe.

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Readings:

Washington Post, Hundreds are dead in Burma as the Rohingya crisis explodes again

Human Rights Watch, Burma: Satellite Images Show Massive Fire Destruction

[ by Charles Cameron — Myanmar and, well, not quite Vegas — Barcelona ]
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A study in reversal, monastery and monk{

Having said that the interior of the monastery is quite and calm, while outside are monks denating politics under hideous posters of alleged Rohingya brualities:

NYRB, The Hateful Monk

The contrast between the monastery’s inner calm and this exterior display of violence is a fitting inversion of Ma Soe Yein’s most infamous resident, Ashin Wirathu, the subject of Barbet Schroeder’s new documentary, The Venerable W. On the outside, Wirathu is composed and polite, with large brown eyes and a sweet, impish grin. His voice is smooth and its cadence measured. Yet beneath this civil disguise seethes an interminable hatred toward the 4 percent of Myanmar’s population that is Muslim (the wall of carnage stands outside his residence). Wirathu is responsible for inciting some of the worst acts of ethnic violence in the country’s recent history, and was described by Time as “The Face of Buddhist Terror.”

Hat tip: Michael Robinson, the Ornamental Peasant

See also:

JRI Cole, Muslim Rohingya Refugees Drown as They flee Buddhist Persecution in Myanmar

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I could use that kind of karma, with permission to retain 15% for my own requirements. Oh well, no need to complain. I share his delighted smile.

[ by Charles Cameron — is her non-intervening stance now squeezed between Islamist warriors and peaceable Buddhists? ]
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Aung San Suu Kyi has been mute on the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, Myanmar, see eg A new wave of atrocities is being committed against Muslims in Burma’s Rakhine state, but I imagine the pressure on her is growing — not just from the military or the bulk of the Buddhist population and many monks — but on the one hand from iolent Islamist jihadists and on the other from peaceable Buddhists elsewhere — exemplified here by Thich Nhat Hanh‘s close disciple Chan Khong..

Peaceable Buddhists — what other kind should there, could there be?

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Sources:

Jamestown, Myanmar’s Muslim Insurgency Gaining Prominence With Jihadist Groups

Lion’s Roar, Sister Chan Khong implores Aung San Suu Kyi to accept help