I know, but her supporters in the west are now saying that it is okay as Myanmar has the right to be a Buddhist country, and drive the Moslem out. She had the courage to stand up to the generals, but not the courage to stand up to a WRONG public sentiment. I want that Nobel back.
arsenal (January 29th, 2017), Dax (January 29th, 2017), Sugargrandpa (January 31st, 2017)
If "driving the Moslem out" is a "WRONG public sentiment" then what do we want Trump to hand back?
#MuslimBan
Surfcrest (January 29th, 2017)
Trump never pretended to be a freedom fighter or a human rights activist and he didn't receive the Nobel prize for peace. Neither was he feted by liberal democracies nor was he worshipped as some kind of humanitarian hero. Apples and oranges. He is what he is and you don't get that sense of betrayal as one does with that so-called 'Lady'.Originally Posted by scottish-guy
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arsenal (January 29th, 2017), christianpfc (January 29th, 2017), Khor tose (January 30th, 2017), Sugargrandpa (January 31st, 2017), Up2U (January 30th, 2017)
However horrified we may be about the Rohingya's present situation, we should never forget why this has arisen. There is as usual no single reason, but the clearest of them all has to be British colonial rule! The British East India Company annexed the Arakan region in Rakhine State and imported a large number of Muslim workers from present day Bangladesh. When the British took over rule in India and Burma, waves of immigration continued as they were needed to work on the land, in the same way that Indians were imported from colonial India into colonial Malaya.
Finding a solution will be a huge problem. Aung San Suu Kyi now has to face it after the British at the very least east exacerbated it and the generals did nothing about it. The world, led by the Americans, wanted the generals out and democracy restored - because they always come across as viewing democracy as the solution to everything. Was there in fact much on-going official concern expressed by the USA about all the Burmese minorities when the generals were in charge?
Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Prize "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights." So she is not living up to the terms of that citation.
Salad is absolutely right. And Fountainhall as the British so often did, we left Burma Democratic and over 60 years ago. Rather piss poor of you to lay that at the door. And are you using that to justify recent events? Because it sounds like you are.
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For those of you who don't know. Aung Sans' father founded the independence army with help from Japan.
sglad (January 29th, 2017)
oh geez...what a load of leftie liberal tree hugging crap spewed by fountaintwit...again its all the white mans fault...if i was american I too would have voted for Trump just to stick it to these sandal wearing tree huggers...
So I'm salad now? Let me guess: the fruit variety?
fountainhall (January 29th, 2017), francois (January 29th, 2017), GWMinUS (January 30th, 2017)
Sglad. Bloody predictive text. 😃
Democracy - no, although the democratic world certainly seemed vastly more concerned about democracy being restored in Myanmar than they did about solving the Rohingya problem
I'm laying the fact that so many Muslims were moved into Myanmar on the British who thereby created a major problem which it did absolutely nothing to solve prior to their departure. Look back at history. How many times has something like that happened? For example, how many countries still have the 1861 British anti-sodomy law on their statue books just because the British put it there during their colonial rule? Dozens of them! Even Singapore and Malaysia retain the law. And how many of these countries punish homosexuality with major prison terms and even death. Quite a few!
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