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Rohingya and the Myth of Buddhist Tolerance

Pirbhai, M. Reza
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/13/rohingya-and-the-myth-of-buddhist-tolerance/

Publisher:  CounterPunch
Date Written:  13/09/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

Since their citizenship rights have been progressively revoked between the 1940s and '80s, thousands of Rohingya men, women and children have been subjected to murder and rape, their villages have been raised to the ground and more than a million have fled to neighboring countries without much protest from the world beyond.

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Since their citizenship rights have been progressively revoked between the 1940s and '80s, thousands of Rohingya men, women and children have been subjected to murder and rape, their villages have been raised to the ground and more than a million have fled to neighboring countries without much protest from the world beyond. Even the UN's late attempts to investigate the most recent barbarities have fallen short of constituting a full Commission of Inquiry and independent investigators have been blocked from entering Myanmar by the Buddhist-led government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung Sang Suu Kyi. "Just imagine, for a minute," Columbia University's Hamid Dabashi urges in a recent article, "if it were Jews or Christians, or else the 'peaceful Buddhists,' who were the subjects of Muslim persecutions." Given the attention Muslim violence ceaselessly garners, the reason behind the apparent lack of outrage to protect the Rohingya is clear to him: "Something in the liberal fabric of Euro-American imagination is cancerously callous. It does not see Muslims as complete human beings."

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