The patterns of the systematic elimination of the Rohingya have been largely over-looked by the media over the decades. Even now, it is Suu Kyi, not the ethnic cleansing itself, that the media finds worthy of a headline. Since Myanmars military rulers opened up the country - along the Chinese model of capitalism without democratisation - the media and international policy hype has been about Myanmars emergence as one of the last remaining lucrative, virgin economic markets. Everything else is secondary to this narrative of Myanmars Golden Promise. The Rohingya and other Burmese Muslims are confronted with threats to their very existence. They are already in a weak position as a very small minority, without leverage in the Burmese economy, polity or society. They pose no existential threat to the Buddhist way of life, national security or sovereignty. Still they are in deep trouble, not only because the countrys Mother Suu has, in effect, chosen to side with their societal oppressor, namely well-organised, anti-Muslim racists, at every level of society, but also because governments such as the US and the UK have chosen, out of their own strategic needs and commercial pursuits, to embrace the military leadership that has reportedly backed the Islamophobic perpetrators and hate-preachers.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:01:50 +0000
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