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.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 11:13:02 +0000
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