{"id":54390,"date":"2017-03-15T18:07:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T18:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54390"},"modified":"2017-03-15T18:07:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T18:07:46","slug":"pincers-on-aung-san-suu-kyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54390","title":{"rendered":"Pincers on Aung San Suu Kyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; is her non-intervening stance now squeezed between Islamist warriors and peaceable Buddhists? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tumblr_static_7cjkqoy3wescwgc0kw8owss88_640_v2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"277\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tumblr_static_7cjkqoy3wescwgc0kw8owss88_640_v2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tumblr_static_7cjkqoy3wescwgc0kw8owss88_640_v2-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aung San Suu Kyi<\/strong> has been mute on the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, Myanmar, see eg <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/932624\/how-to-stop-human-rights-atrocities-and-ethnic-cleansing-in-burmas-rakhine-state\/\">A new wave of atrocities is being committed against Muslims in Burma\u2019s Rakhine state<\/a>, but I imagine the pressure on her is growing &#8212; not just from the military or the bulk of the Buddhist population and many monks &#8212; but on the one hand from iolent Islamist jihadists and on the other from peaceable Buddhists elsewhere &#8212; exemplified here by <strong>Thich Nhat Hanh<\/strong>&#8216;s close disciple <strong>Chan Khong<\/strong>.. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Tablet-DQ-600-rohingya.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"870\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Tablet-DQ-600-rohingya.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Tablet-DQ-600-rohingya-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Peaceable Buddhists<\/strong> &#8212; what other kind should there, could there be?<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>Jamestown<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/program\/myanmars-muslim-insurgency-gaining-prominence-jihadist-groups\/\">Myanmar\u2019s Muslim Insurgency Gaining Prominence With Jihadist Groups<\/a>\n<li><strong>Lion&#8217;s Roar<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/sister-chan-khong-offers-to-help-aung-san-suu-kyi-resolve-persecution-of-muslims-in-burma\/\">Sister Chan Khong implores Aung San Suu Kyi to accept help<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; is her non-intervening stance now squeezed between Islamist warriors and peaceable Buddhists? ] . ** 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\u2019s Rakhine state, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1426,701,649,526,627,210,705,700,1471,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-buddhism","category-buddhist","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-islamist","category-koan","category-myanmar","category-thich-nhat-hanh","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54401,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54390\/revisions\/54401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}