Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim community bleeds on

Another day, another chapter in the seemingly-never-ending human story of ethnic cleansing and genocide. With the genocide of Muslims in Bosnia just behind us and Palestine still being tortured under a most terrible apartheid regime, one would think that humanitarian organizations have enough on their plates.

Not so evidently, with news coming in of yet another episode of brutality. The Rohingya Muslim community in Myanmar has become the latest victim of atrocities beyond comprehension. Rangoon officials have announced that the Rohingyas do not belong to a land that they have inhibited since the eighth century CE. According to the UN, they are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.

Strangely enough even the most illuminated of the Western proclaimed advocates of democracy in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi has publicly disowned the Rohingya and has disassociated herself from their plight on the grounds that she could not be sure of their origins. We hope that Suu Kyi can sleep better at night safe in the knowledge that the Muslim community from the Rakhnie province is not Myanmarese and therefore they can be raped, tortured, murdered, and discarded.

Honestly they must be handing out Noble Peace Prizes like candy for Barak Obama and Miss Suu Kyi to qualify in rapid succession.

No lesson has been learnt. More brutal and murderous acts are taking place than a thousand years ago. The incredible outcome among all this bloodshed is that the West that considers itself head and shoulders above all the rest has fallen silent on the genocide of Muslims of Myanmar.

It is clear that fascism did not die out with the end of the Second World War. The principles of thuggery on a global scale along with its methods have merely changed hands. The West only chips in where its interests are at stake: Crocodile tears from the Western corporate media on Syria, but not a whimper about the ongoing massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

And here is another fact about Mayanmar: All through, Miss Suu kyi’s much publicized struggle for democracy in her country, the sale of arms by Britain and the rest to a supposedly-criminal Rangoon regime never stopped.

So we do expect far too much from a very unsavory bunch to safeguard human interests at the UN Security Council. The best option is to come together and introduce our own rules to the world. It is abundantly clear that taking comfort in a world body under the control of descendents of fascism will prove little more than cold shelter.
The Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei: “A clear example of the West’s false claims about ethics and human rights is the silence of these claimants [of human rights] on the massacre of thousands of Muslims in Myanmar.”