Throughout my 76 years of life I have become aware of tribal conflict which end in death. It may be two football teams which get over wound up and cause bloodshed in the streets, or it may be persecution of perceived, imagined enemies on religious grounds, skin colour, culture, gender or whatever has been conjured up by influencers who have hate in their hearts.
Currently, hate crimes are happening in many parts of the world and can happen in remote places or be linked to international cooperation to escalate the conflict into a campaign of war.
One is the example of the ancient Arakan Rohingya:
The Arakan Rohingya National Organisation said: “Rohingyas have been living in Arakan from time immemorial,” referring to the area now known as Rakhine.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2018/4/18/who-are-the-rohingya
The UN have said they are the most persecuted ethnic group in the world.
Erasing the real past legitimates the vision of an ethnically pure, virtuous past nation. Part of Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing of its Rohingya people is erasing any trace of their physical and historical existence. According to U Kyaw San Hla, a member of the security ministry of the Rakhine State, the traditional home of the Rohingyas, “There is no such thing as Rohingya. It is fake news.”9 According to an October 2017 report of the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Myanmar security forces have been working to “effectively erase all signs of memorable landmarks in the geography of the Rohingya landscape and memory in such a way that a return to their lands would yield nothing but a desolate and unrecognizable terrain.” What was, before 2012, a thriving multiethnic and multireligious community in certain areas of Myanmar’s Rakhine State has been entirely altered to erase any memory of a Muslim population.
How Fascism Works, Jason Sanger
But their existence has been recorded by a Magnum Photograper:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/exiled-to-nowhere-burma-rohingya
And the rest of humanity cares about this persecution but not enough to challenge the jade rich trade bringing wealth to the junta running the country. Instead 13 countries provide the junta with materials to make weapons to use on the people of Myanmar.
Opponents of the coup, which ousted the elected government, have joined ethnic rebel groups in resisting military rule.
The Special Advisory Council on Myanmar’s report notes that several UN member states continue to sell weapons to the military.
“An equally important factor, however, is the fact that Myanmar’s armed forces can produce, in-country, a variety of weapons that are being used to target civilians,” it says.
The firms named supply Myanmar’s military with raw materials, training and machines, the report says, and the weapons produced as a result are not used to defend its borders.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64250674
And a Reuters article tells us all how the massacres and expulsion was planned and organised, here is the headline of that article:
Two elite divisions led a crackdown that forced 700,000 Muslims to flee Myanmar. Here’s how they did it.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-rohingya-battalions
Those who knowingly supply the junta with the means to murder anyone who is opposed to their rule is an accomplice to the crime and should be called out as such. But no international court is calling them to account, and if the flow of money fills the coffers of the economy of those 13 countries, who will stop the genocide?
Once a madness swept the country identifying the ancient, harmless Rohingya farming communities as a group who should be purged from Myanmar. Even religious Buddhist monks joined in the carnage.
http://info4thetruth.blogspot.com/2016/12/rohingya-does-buddhism-teaches-killing.html?m=1
But once you kill a fellow human, torturing and burning them, you become a non-human. And when the military junta are voted out but they use their power to overturn the result, you will resist, having learned the cruel sport of murdering a perceived enemy.
So now the junta are up against a fired up opposition.
We cannot wring our hands about the suffering we inflict on one another without internalizing the lessons here.
Every time once peaceful neighbours decide one is the enemy of the other and incites hatred resulting in similar persecution, we must stop the action before it worsens.
Look behind the scenes and work out who are the puppeteers pulling our strings? Call out the lies, the smoke and mirrors, the propaganda and nonsense; we have seen it played out so many times in our history and only mass deaths follow, inflicted on innocents as always by bullies and cowards.
My blogs have covered troubling developments of human activity, and it is worth reading Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin book, Human Planet: How we created the Anthropocene wherein they say:
In narrative terms, the Anthropocene began with widespread colonialism and slavery: it is a story of how people treat the environment and how people treat each other.
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