“A hospital visit was out of the question; admission for Rohingya Muslims, a long-persecuted minority, always requires a lengthy approval process — time that the baby, named Parmin, did not have. In desperation, the pharmacy owner sent the family to the rarely staffed Dapaing clinic, the only government emergency health center for the tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims herded into displaced people’s camps. Although it was just 4 p.m., the doors were shuttered. “We became like crazy people, running everywhere,” the child’s grandmother, Daw Mu Mu Lwin, said. With no good choices left, the family returned to the pharmacy, where Parmin died, untreated, three and a half hours later, cradled in her grandmother’s arms. The baby’s death was part of a rapidly expanding death toll and humanitarian crisis among the Rohingya, a Muslim minority that Myanmar’s Buddhist-led government has increasingly deprived of the …………….Some aid workers fear they are being kept away so there are fewer witnesses to rampant mistreatment most basic liberties and aid even as it trumpets its latest democratic reforms and occasional bloodletting ……….”
Which brings me to a curiously silent figure: Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of a Nobel Peace Prize, allegedly acclaimed humanitarian freedom fighter of Burma (Myanmar). The lady has struggled for years for democracy in her country. Yet the lady has been stubbornly and deafeningly silent about the expanding systemic genocide in her country. Like many otherwise ‘good Germans’ of the 20th century, she has been silent on organized ethnic cleansing in her country. Understandably silent because she would have to pay a heavy political price, a price to be exacted not by the military rulers of the country, but by the Buddhist monks and their millions of followers.
In a country that seeks to be rid of a dictatorship while its putative liberators wish to be left alone to commit genocide against the Muslim minority.
-Other recent posts on this topic:
Burma and its Muslims: Myanmar Takes the Nazi Route
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mhg
