These refugees are the Rohingyas, a poor rural minority from Burma. According to the UN, they are the most persecuted people in the world. Think of that: how pitiful your lot must be to contend for that fathomlessly miserable accolade. They have been systematically preyed upon by the majority Burmese: beaten, raped, murdered, abducted for slavery, their goods looted, their crops and land stolen; they have been hunted by mobs, excluded from all social and political life in a systematic and prolonged campaign of intimidation and vilification that is not simply ignored by their government but actually sanctioned, encouraged and inflamed. The most widespread and heinous abuses are perpetrated by the military and the judiciary. It is, though, pretty much ignored by the rest of us. Not only is this the worst, it is the least known and reported pogrom in the world today. theaustralian.au/news/features/why-has-the-world-turned-a-blind-eye-to-the-rohingyas/story-e6frg8h6-1227007532672?nk=a0276c7d3724e287c57cb844e4492308
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 20:57:25 +0000
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