MYANMAR - BURMA Buddhist monks, communities and the army continue to commit genocide, rape, and violence against hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees trapped in wire-enclosed refugee camps with no exit. TIME profiled this in in July 2013, in a cover story called, The Face Of Buddhist Terror. https://colombotelegraph/index.php/full-text-of-the-banned-time-story-the-face-of-buddhist-terror The Rohingya were originally from Bangladesh, and many escaped during the brutal Pakistan-Bangladesh civil war in 1971, when Pakistan and Bangladesh became separate countries. This September Rohingya Muslims were given a choice to either face indefinite detention, or accept ethnic reclassification and register as Bengalis or be detained. Myanmar is about 90% Buddhist and 5% Muslim. presstv.ir/detail/2014/09/27/380216/rohingyas-face-arrest-in-myanmar On his 79th birthday in July, the Dalai Lama asked Burmese Buddhist monks to refrain from violence and stop instigating attacks on the Muslims, but he has largely remained silent on this. Hundreds of stateless, refugee Rohingya Muslims have been killed by Buddhists in Myanmars far west. The UN calls these Muslims one of the world’s most persecuted people. Ashin Wirathu, a radical Buddhist monk recently vowed to protect global Buddhism and continues to preach hatred and violence against Muslims. nytimes/2014/09/29/world/asia/radical-monk-in-myanmar-pledges-to-protect-global-buddhism.html New York Times May 19, 2014 Myanmar’s Buddhist Bigots nytimes/2014/05/20/opinion/malik-myanmars-buddhist-bigots.html Interntional Business Times Muslims Treated Like Animals in Myanmar ibtimes.co.uk/muslims-myanmar-treated-like-animals-says-rohingya-activist-1434185 TIME Magazine July 2013 The Buddhist Face of Terror https://colombotelegraph/index.php/full-text-of-the-banned-time-story-the-face-of-buddhist-terror Photo: Rohingya Muslims mourn after death of family. (c) James Natchwey Rohingya Muslims with no where to go. (c) Adam Dean / New York Times.
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