“Hitler and Eichmann were the enemy of the Jews. But they were probably heroes to the Germans,” the party magazine stated in 2012, according to a translation by the Los Angeles Review of Books. “Inhuman acts may justifiably be committed. ... We will go down in history as cowards if we pass on these [Muslim Rohingya] issues to the next generation without getting it over and done with.” The average Buddhist in Myanmar is kindly toward Muslims and doesn’t harbor such extreme ideas, Myo Win said. But the revival of old stereotypes — particularly about scheming Muslim men — has many Muslim neighborhoods tense with fear. “These rumors are tactics. They’re tools to mobilize people,” he said. “But if you look more closely, you see they don’t make any sense.”
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:24:39 +0000
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