It's been some time since many medias started to report daily regarding the Rohingya crisis. It shows no sign of resolution or even small improvement.
Although the world sees it as a incredibly significant problem, Japan rarely covers this topic, and so most of Japanese people don't know of it.
I've attended a symposium about Rohingya crisis and it was explained from various perspectives, such as "Rohingya people in the eyes of Myanmar people (Burmese) and Buddhists, the current situation of Bangladesh, activities of the Rred Cross and other NGOs, situations and attitudes of other countries (India and Bangladesh), ARSA and so on. It was very useful for understanding the Rohingya crisis.
After that, I also did a search about, it's history, the background, the current situation, etc.
I'm wondering, or even angry about why religion makes people so brutal.
Although people in NGOs/NPOs have been facing cruel situations for a long time as their job, many of them say that they have never seen this ghastly situation.
What Myanmar has been doing is definitely "ethic cleansing", but what they do is not just killing people but doing as much as horrible, cruel, brutal, appalling...
They kill men and rape women brutally in front of their families. They burn away the entire their village trapping the people in a house. They even throw babies in the fire. Why can human do such things?
In terms of cruelty, I think Myanmar is much more terrible than Nazi.
It is indeed one of the tragedies of this century. It has been extensively reported here in the UK and our TV news reporters have been to the huge temporary camp to cover what has happened to these victims after they have escaped to Bangladesh.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to all their problems of being exiled in poor and crowded conditions with the danger of the easy spread of infections, recent reports have talked about the exploitation of young Rohingya girls by Bangladesh men.
Some time ago, you wrote about your low opinion of Ang San Suu Kyi. I was surprised, because she was held in quite high regard here and admired for her fight against the undemocratic military. However, you were right. Even though she may not be completely free from pressure from the army, she could have done something to stop these horrible actions in her own country. But it appears she did nothing. Her Nobel Peace Prize should be taken away.
This seems to me to be another example of people having a strong sense of group identity that creates hostility towards people belonging to other groups. It happens at all scales from local gangs, political affiliations, religious sects (even different branches of the same religion) and ethnic groups, right up to complete countries.
Although the ideal situation would be for people of all beliefs to live peacefully together, I sometimes think that when that is impossible, it is better for people to live peacefully apart from each other. What a sad conclusion.
Tim,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment.
The UK news have covered this crisis deeply... Japan should do that. Japanese media cover this crisis just a little, and I have never seen them deal with the temporary camps in Bangladesh. So I'm collecting the information from web sites.
As you said, living apart from each other might be one of good solutions, because any issues of difference of religion, race etc. are very deep and have a long history, and so it's incredibly hard to solve. But some people say that if Rohingya people wouldn't come back to Myanmar and live somewhere else to apart from Buddhists, it means bowing to their horrible brutal atrocities. I'm wondering what the happiest solution for Rohingya is.
I'm going to write about Aung San Suu Kyi in the next article, which will become quite acid. haha.