Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar near 40,000
Rohingya crisis again. It was October 2016 when a large number of Rohingya tried to flee to Bangladesh from the crackdown by Myanmar’s military forces that were seeking a group of Rohingya attackers who were believed to have killed nine Myanmar border guards.
It is estimated that about one million Rohingya people, mostly Muslims, live in Myanmar. None of them is entitled to a citizenship, freedom of movement, state education or civil service job in the country.
This time, at least 71 people, including 12 members of the security forces, were killed after Rohingya militants attacked border police in August. As the military forces approach, more and more Rohingya rush to cross the border to Bangladesh. But Bangladesh has already the highest population density in the world if city states or small-island states are excluded. There isn’t much room left for refugees.
It seems that a large-scale genocide is going on for the purpose of ethnic cleansing in a country where most of the population practices peaceful Buddhism, and whose de-facto leader is a laureate of the Nobel Prize for Peace. Why?
See the video and photos, and read the article, and think what the world can do to stop such ruthless use of military force.
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