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Burma: Lest we don’t see, a genocide is in the making “We have to ask ourselves whether we may have over-romanticised its battles against the junta as a broader quest to bring pure, universal human rights to Burma, when in fact we had little evidence of a wholesale commitment to the principle of tolerance.” – Francis Wade (Thailand based Journalist and a keen observer of developments in Burma) in the context of Burmese pro-democracy movement within and outside of Burma. Since the summer of 2012 Burma has seen pogroms, massacres, riots of unprecedented scale against religious minorities, the latest being on the 30th April. A few hundreds have been killed and a few hundred thousands have been rendered homeless. Read more ~ nblo.gs/Qa0qc
Posted on: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 22:36:46 +0000

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