On 10/24/2017 01:22 PM, jim bell wrote: > > > *From:* Marina Brown <[email protected]> > > *Subject:* Re: jimbellproject.org is looking for volunteers > > On 10/24/2017 11:47 AM, Chad wrote: > >>> Marina Brown catskillmarina at gmail.com >>> Tue Oct 24 07:56:38 PDT 2017 >>> >> >>>> Myanmar >>> "muh gė́nocide and ethnį̇́c ć̣leansing" >>> >> >>> Wow a (((cohencidence))) that you throw in the Buddhists, and that you >> name them first. >> >>> Your "religion" has to be pretty fucked up for Buddhist children to take >>> up arms and start killing you in the streets. >> >>> You are openly defending the argument "She asked for it.", btw. >>> Rape Culture, antifaanon. > > > >>Are you really and truly insane ? Straw man supreme anyone ? > > > > I'd like to understand the dispute. This is from the Wikipedia > article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rakhine_State_clashes > > > > "The current conflict began in October 2016 when ARSA insurgents > attacked Burmese border posts along the Bangladesh > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh>-Myanmar > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar> border. In response, Myanmar > authorities launched a military campaign against the Rohingya and from > October 2016 to June 2017, government operations killed more than 1,000 > Rohingya civilians, according to UN officials.^[28] > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rakhine_State_clashes#cite_note-bad_to_worse_2017_09_06_washpost-28> > ^[12] > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rakhine_State_clashes#cite_note-Independent2-12> > In August 2017, following attacks on local military outposts by > Rohingya rebels, a resurgence in violence erupted throughout northern > Rakhine. According to the UN and other agencies, the Myanmar military, > aided by violent mobs of local Buddhist Rakhines killed over 400 people > (whom the military claimed were insurgents or terrorists). Other > estimates, including the UN's, estimate that at least 1,000 people were > killed between 25 August and 8 September.^[32] > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rakhine_State_clashes#cite_note-un_secretary_gen_2017_09_13_cnn-32> > ^[14] > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rakhine_State_clashes#cite_note-Ben-14> > By September, the violence had resulted in 389,000 Rohingyas fleeing > their homes. [end of quote] > > > What are we to think? This is informed by the fact that in decades of > my reading the news, Buddhists are almost always peaceful, while Muslims > are quite frequently violent. > > > Jim Bell
There are a lot of insane things in the world. Wars with ethnic cleansing and ethnic/religious cleansing are amongst the most horrific things we have seen.
