BURMA: OPEN FOR BUSINESS OF GENOCIDE

by Burkely Hermann,Ā World War 4 Report

“It’s not ethnic cleansing. The world needs to understand that the fear is not just on the side of the Muslims, but on the side of the Buddhists as well.”

No high-ranking US State Department official spoke these words. It was Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, in an interview with BBC, dismissing credible claims of the genocide of Burma’s Muslim Rohingya people,Ā put forward by Genocide Watch, Foreign Policy in Focus, UN Dispatch, Der Spiegel writer JĆ¼rgen Kremb, the Kassandra Project, Ramzy Baroud of the Pakistani publicationĀ The Nation, and many others. Suu Kyi continued, saying that she condemns “any movement that is based on hatred and extremism,” that “the reaction of Buddhists is also based on fear,” that the government should deal with these extremists so it isn’t her responsibility, and finally that “Burma now needs real changeā€¦a democratic society.” These comments are deeply disturbing coming from someone given the Nobel prize in 1991 for “her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights.”Ā Some have even asked if she should be stripped of her Peace PrizeĀ for statements such as this one.

The struggle of the two stateless peoples in Burmaā€”the Rohingya and Shanā€”and broader geopolitical issues such as the race for dirty energy tie into one central question: is Burma really open for the business of exploitation and genocide?

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