Why
Are Buddhists Committing Genocide Again?
Before it was Sri
Lanka; now bloody Buddhist hands are robbing life on an epic scale in
Burma.
Kaladan.com
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(SALEM) - Buddhist militants are committing
genocide again for the second time in only three years, proving that
secular violence is increasingly the method of Buddhist regimes that have taken
on increasing political-military roles. Three years ago, the Sinhalese Buddhist
government of Sri Lanka committed Genocide on the Tamil Hindus and Christians in
the country's north, numbers of disappeared are estimated at 160,000. It was the
extension of a long and bloody pogrom to eliminate this ancient culture.
Now the Buddhists have turned their blood lust on the Muslims in
Burma, or Myanmar, whatever one calls it today, and the list of dead is rising.
Burma is the scene of increasing western interest, and it is a violent mess of a
place where Rohingya (Arakan) Muslims are being slaughtered in a spate of
religious ethnic cleansing.
All the place has known for years and years, is the jack boot
military junta that has ruled the people with an iron fist. Now that the eyes of
the west are upon it and a new political direction has been taken, it is this
ethnic group that is falling through the cracks; their plight ignored by western
media.
"Although
Western media sources have reported that 80 people have been killed, numerous
reports from Rohingya rights groups in the region estimate the number of
Rohingya slaughtered at up to 6000 and the displacement of over 90,000." - Fahad
Ansari
Myanmar, where the primary exports are heroin and methamphetamine
for Thailand's drug market. I have heard horror stories to no end about the
terrible drug addiction issues in Bangkok and other cities, where people become
shells of human beings from meth-based drugs and the killer h. So a handful of
Burmese power players are happy to see the restrictions on trade loosened by
Obama, but there will be no positive impact for Rohingya Muslims.
An official with the United Nations, admitted that Rohingya Muslims
are one of the most neglected and abused populations in existence. The truth of
the matter is that their presence in Arakan dates as far back as the 7th
Century. In other words, there are no legitimate reasons to make this group
second-class citizens. They are denied nearly every right, treated as sub-humns,
and the government even refuses to issue identification cards or birth
certificates to the Rohingya.
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Why are they suffering right now?
Because Buddhists are among the world's violent cultures in the
modern age, When riled, they operate in mob fashion. They're doing it in Burma
and God knows, they did it in Sri Lanka.
In fact it was 29 years ago this month, that Buddhist mobs stormed
homes and businesses of Sri Lankan Tamils; laying waste to everything they laid
their hands on and murdering more than 3000 human beings. There was rape, there
were fires, it was pure carnage and I have heard much about it from first-hand
witnesses. That bout of Buddhist violence against innocent Tamil civilians, was
set off by the results of a military battle. The resistance force that defended
Tamils, the Tamil Tigers, had a firefight with the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) and
killed less than twenty SLA soldiers. The Buddhists killed thousands of Tamil
civilians in reprisal, over the Tigers' military victory. The Sri Lankan
Buddhists take on the face of terrorist very quickly, yet the beleaguered Tamil
Tigers would receive the 'terrorist' brand, and then watch their people die by
the tens of thousands in a brutal military genocide.
