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posted by martyb on Saturday September 09 2017, @07:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the why-can't-we-just-get-along? dept.

Malala Yousafzai Criticizes Aung San Suu Kyi Over Violence On Myanmar's Rohingya

Malala Yousafzai, known as just Malala, has joined other human rights activists and officials in publicly criticizing Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's effective leader, for the treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar.

More than 73,000 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar in the latest wave of violence by the Myanmar military, spurred by an attack from a group of Rohingya militants on a military post on Aug. 25.

The brutal treatment of Myanmar's Rohingya is longstanding — they've been called the most persecuted minority group on the planet.

A Pakistani education activist, Malala won the Nobel Peace Prize for her promotion of girls' education. She took to Twitter Sunday to criticize Aung San Suu Kyi, a fellow Peace Prize recipient.

The Rohingya people live in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Saturday September 09 2017, @07:56AM (10 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Saturday September 09 2017, @07:56AM (#565540) Journal

    > "the most persecuted minority group on the planet"
    > islam
    > minority group

    Were they being persecuted exclusively because of their ethnicity, the sentence would carry some sense. But since we are talking about retaliation after one attack, knowing that muslims gonna muslim*, I find this sentence comical.

    *) no offence meant, every meatbag has his own right to try pleasing the god that will probably have them slammed down in the darkest pits of hell for their hypocrisy.

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    • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @08:07AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @08:07AM (#565541)

      They are an ETHNIC minority.

      You can persecute a person for more than just their religion. Just look at the Kurds in Turkey.

      • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday September 10 2017, @07:07AM

        by Bot (3902) on Sunday September 10 2017, @07:07AM (#565886) Journal

        I wrote "Were they being persecuted exclusively because of their ethnicity". You answered with another factoid.

        > Kurds in Turkey

        You mean Kurds in Kurdistan.

        Rohingya is persecuted because they want their own paki satellite state and because they got arms from English in WWII and used it against their own fellow countrymen. There might some abstract hate for muslims into that, but it is on you to prove that in light of the other ethnic groups around there.

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    • (Score: 5, Informative) by lx on Saturday September 09 2017, @08:18AM (2 children)

      by lx (1915) on Saturday September 09 2017, @08:18AM (#565543)

      This is not about religion. Neighboring Bangladesh is mainly Muslim and they don't want the Rohingya either.

      Also you are a small minded cocksucker*

      *) No offence meant shithead

      • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @06:18PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @06:18PM (#565719)

        There are many kinds of Muslim. (Shia and Sunni being the largest two)

        Each kind of Muslim thinks that every other type of Muslim is not Muslim. The punishment is death.

        So of course Bangladesh doesn't want the Rohingya, and the Rohingya hate Bangladesh. Each wants to kill the other. The Rohingya are the losing side in that battle, so they need to seek out and conquer new territory from other infidels.

      • (Score: 4, Touché) by Bot on Saturday September 09 2017, @09:14PM

        by Bot (3902) on Saturday September 09 2017, @09:14PM (#565767) Journal

        No offence taken. No counter-argument seen, either.

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    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @08:39AM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @08:39AM (#565545)

      > knowing that muslims gonna muslim

      The article is shameful spin. Malala is getting played. The group in question has been illegally swarming over the borders from Bangladesh into both India and Burma for a very long time, many decades in fact. Both governments have been historically lax about border enforcement. However, now that their numbers are large enough, they are starting to turn violent in efforts to drive out the indigenous populations they compete against.

      They are squatters. But because they are moslem squatters, the media has started to ignore what is going on now and forget the past and any context in order to promote their cause. How the media got that way would be an interesting discussion [fortune.com] before it is too late [theguardian.com].

      This activity, transmigration, has been a core war tactic of islam since the 6th century. Looking at what is happening to Europe, India, Myanmar, Papua, and pretty much any other region in the world. It is still a tactic that is heavily relied upon to take over new territories and a tactic they are not going to let up on. If current events are too political, then look history to see what happened to Europe and India the previous times islam attacked. Transmigration was used every time.

      It is later than you think.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @08:43AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @08:43AM (#565548)

        They are trying the same tactic in Australia. "Minority" my ass. There are a billion of them on the planet.

      • (Score: 0, Troll) by jmorris on Saturday September 09 2017, @05:41PM

        by jmorris (4844) on Saturday September 09 2017, @05:41PM (#565713)

        Malala is getting played.

        Malala was a tool from day one, a child turned into a pretty sock puppet for vile people. Kyi is an actual leader trying to save her country from monsters. So of course the International community of monsters are using their puppet to support fellow monsters.

        Diversity + Proximity = War

        That goes double for Islam, it brings war and strife with it wherever other people are foolish enough to allow it in.

      • (Score: 2, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Saturday September 09 2017, @10:26PM

        by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday September 09 2017, @10:26PM (#565779) Journal

        This activity, transmigration, has been a core war tactic of islam since the 6th century.

        You seem to be confused, transmigration of souls is a doctrine of Hinduism, or possibly Druidism, not Muslim at all.

      • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday September 10 2017, @01:21AM

        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday September 10 2017, @01:21AM (#565830) Homepage

        Islamic + Gypsy = The Ultimate Scum.

  • (Score: 2) by lx on Saturday September 09 2017, @08:12AM

    by lx (1915) on Saturday September 09 2017, @08:12AM (#565542)
  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @08:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @08:39AM (#565546)

    Breaking news about the war being waged in Burma by muslims to take control of the country. The rohingya attack on police stations and the burmese military failed with deaths on both sides. This is not the first time this group of Muslims has waged war against the burmese since they invaded burma. A victim of muslim brutality has spoken out in defense of the muslim army camped in burma. Debate on this concluded that the bullet fired into the girl must have resulted in a reduced capacity to distinguish friend from foe.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @10:08AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @10:08AM (#565567)

    I'm not trying to excuse her silence here, but an extra bit of accuracy in TFA would be nice:

    Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's effective leader

    That's BS. She's anything but the effective leader. Last time I checked, the military still controlled the country. She might be the designated leader, but a powerless one.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @01:20PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @01:20PM (#565629)

      "effective" as she's barred from being the actual leader due to some clause in their constitution, but the named leader is an ill-concealed sock puppet. It's a means to an end: she's the de facto leader, the military haven't lost as much face, and so there's less bloodshed. Unfortunately they've turned their hatred on the Rohingya.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @02:24PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @02:24PM (#565656)

    Burma is not on the regime change list (PNAC). So it can do whatever it likes. It can burn people alive, boil them or roast them. Western jewish-controlled world doesn't care.

  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday September 10 2017, @01:04AM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Sunday September 10 2017, @01:04AM (#565825)

    I wish someone would invite them on a talk show (or a pro wrestling cage match) so they could peace the crap out of each other.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @04:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @04:06PM (#565968)
    The Nobel Peace Prize is a sad political joke.

    Obama got one when he hadn't really done anything yet.

    At the rate they are going perhaps they might give a peace prize to Trump if he merely ends his term without starting a nuclear war.
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