Aung San Suu Kyi's silence on the genocide of Rohingya Muslims is tantamount to complicity

[Dubious]

This article was co-authored by Grace Spence Green, an intern at the International State Crime Initiative
Aung San Suu Kyi's silence on the genocide of Rohingya Muslims is tantamount to complicity

There will be much more blood if the Burmese government is not stopped in its tracks


In a genocide silence is complicity, and so it is with Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s desperate Rohingya community. The Burmese government’s ongoing persecution of the Rohingya has, in the last two years, reached a level so untenable that the Rohingya are faced with only two options, to remain and risk annihilation or flee. The current exodus of those seeking asylum is just one manifestation of genocide.

Genocide is a process built up over a period of years involving an escalation in the dehumanisation and persecution of the target group. Inside Burma, the Rohingya have been subjected to decades of stigmatization, violence and harassment.

In 2012 the persecution entered a new and more devastating phase. Organised massacres left over 200 Rohingya dead, hundreds of homes destroyed and the displacement of 120,000 people into what can only be described as detention camps. A further 4,250 desperate Rohingya live in a squalid ghetto in Rakhine state’s capital Sittwe. The Burmese state, without any challenge from opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has institutionalized discrimination against the Rohingya, allowed hate speech to flourish, encouraged islamophobia and granted impunity to perpetrators of the violence.

In October 2013, in an interview with Mishal Husein, Aung San Suu Kyi claimed that the 2012 violence was not ethnic cleansing but the product of ‘fear on both sides… it is not just on the part of Muslims but the Buddhists too. Muslims have been targeted but also Buddhists have been subject to violence’. Our research makes clear that to equate the suffering of the Burmese with the suffering of the Rohingya is risible.

The Rohingya have now faced what genocide scholar Daniel Feirestein describes as ‘systematic weakening’, the genocidal stage prior to annihilation. Those who do not flee suffer destitution, malnutrition and starvation, severe physical and mental illness, restrictions on movement, education, marriage, childbirth, livelihood and the ever present threat of violence and corruption. The Rohingya have been physically and mentally weakened, forced into communities broken by persecution and stripped of agency and human dignity. The expulsion of Medecins Sans Frontier, the denial of emergency healthcare and the regulation of humanitarian aid are all designed to further systematically weaken the Rohingya community.

As the desperate plight of the Rohingya, stranded on the boats in the Andeman Sea, is broadcast around the world, questions are now being asked as to why Aung San Suu Kyi has remained so conspicuously silent.

Rohingya migrants in a boat adrift in the Andaman Sea last week

Electoralism is part of the answer. Aung San Suu Kyi is an ambitious politician, who has set her sights on one day ruling Burma. The entire Rohingya population has been disenfranchised, ahead of elections to be held later this year, and thus they hold no electoral power. It is true that to speak out against the genocidal persecution of the Rohingya is likely to lose her many votes among the Burmese Buddhist majority, but it might not. She once held enormous moral and political capital and had the chance to challenge the vile racism and Islamophobia which characterises Burmese political and social discourse. Many Burmese human rights activists and their followers would have listened, may have learned, and may have begun to question the institutionalised racism which impacts negatively on all Burmese. This was never to be on Aung San Suu Kyi’s political agenda. In December 2014, it was reported in the Washington Post that she had said, ‘I am not silent because of political calculation, I am silent because whoever’s side I stand on there will be more blood. If I speak up for human rights, they (the Rohingya) will only suffer. There will be more blood’. Political calculations aside, The Rohingya are on a freeway to destruction. There has been blood, there is blood, and there will be much more blood if the Burmese government is not stopped in its tracks.

If we wait for Aung San Suu Kyi to speak out against this genocide, there will be no Rohingya.


This article was co-authored by Grace Spence Green, an intern at the International State Crime Initiative


Aung San Suu Kyi's silence on the genocide of Rohingya Muslims is tantamount to complicity - Comment - Voices - The Independent

Trolls stay away from my thread...You want to CRY about your bloody country get your own platform ...THIS THREAD ISNT FOR YOU!

 

[Dubious]

Turkish military ship joins efforts to reach Rohingya Muslims

The Turkish navy is carrying out efforts to reach Rohingya Muslims stranded in boats off the coast of Thailand and Malaysia, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said.

Addressing a group of young people at Çankaya Palace May 19, Davutoğlu said that Turkey was doing its best to reach Rohingya Muslims at sea with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), with the help of a ship from the Turkish Armed Forces already sailing in the region.

Some 7,000 to 8,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants are currently thought to be in the Malacca Straits, unable to disembark because of crackdowns on trafficking networks in Thailand and Malaysia, their primary destination.

Boats carrying about 500 members of Myanmar’s long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim community washed ashore in western Indonesia on May 10, with some people in need of medical attention, a migration official and a human rights advocate said.

The men, women and children arrived on two separate boats, holding 430 people and 70 people respectively, said Steve Hamilton, deputy chief of mission at the IOM in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital.

Rohingya Muslims have suffered for decades from state-sanctioned discrimination in Myanmar.

Attacks on the religious minority by Buddhist mobs in the last three years have sparked one of the biggest exoduses of boat people since the Vietnam War, sending 100,000 people fleeing, according to Chris Lewa, director of the Arakan Project. The project has monitored the movements of Rohingya for more than a decade.

Tightly confined and with limited access to food and clean water, Lewa said she worries that the migrants’ health is steadily deteriorating. Dozens of deaths have been reported in the last few months.

Turkish military ship joins efforts to reach Rohingya Muslims - DIPLOMACY

 

[Dubious]

myanmar can always ask 'whats your opinion on shia & ahmedi refugees ?' forget the hindu & sikh refugees from your country that we accept , never saw imran khan or nawaz sharif or malala talk about that , not that we care but myanmar can always show you a mirror.

rest its myanmars internal matter & UK media should shut up and stop lecturing others , look within please and see whats going on in your own country first.

Kindly learn to read:

Trolls stay away from my thread...You want to CRY about your bloody country get your own platform ...THIS THREAD ISNT FOR YOU!

Rohingya Say Quake-Ravaged Nepal Is Better Than Life at Home or Death at Sea

Hassan Hassan, left, with fellow Rohingya refugees on the outskirts of Kathmandu in July 2014


“In Burma, just being Muslim is like a crime”

After last Tuesday’s magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck Nepal, the fear of aftershocks prompted Hassan Hassan to sleep on the street. The temblor sliced off his door, shattered his windows, and cracked the walls of the ramshackle dwelling he shared with almost 30 other refugees on Kathmandu’s outskirts.

Hassan is an ethnic Rohingya Muslim from western Burma, a country now officially known as Myanmar. Along with tens of thousands of Rohingyas, the 22-year-old fled recent pogroms initiated by his homeland’s Buddhist majority in search of a better life elsewhere.

But while most Rohingya escape on rickety boats, facing possible extortion or execution in Thai trafficking camps en route to safety, Hassan instead trundled overland more than 100 km into the snow-capped Himalayas.

And despite the wanton devastation, half-million homes flattened and at least 8,500 lives lost, the recent twin quakes and numerous aftershocks have not stopped Hassan from counting his blessings.

“I am lucky,” he tells TIME. “If I had gone to Thailand, maybe I also would’ve died.”

Out of Nepal’s total 37,000 refugees, some 120 are Burmese, of whom 70% are Rohingya, according to the local U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) office. While the 21,500 camp-based Bhutanese are recognized as legitimate refugees, “urban refugees” like the Rohingya are officially deemed illegal migrants.


Burma: Rohingya Refugees Say Quake-Stricken Nepal Better Than Death

 

[Dubious]

where was i crying about my country ? infact i was talking about your country.

Same case...A cry is a cry

You want a platform go choose from the threads Indians have polluted with their troll

Have some shame as you try to justify the ignorance by comparing it !!

Reported for derailing!

 

[Dubious]

but my problem is

No one cares and def not on this thread!

Go publicize your problem on any other thread leave this one be!

 

[DesiGuy]

There is more hatred & killing between Sunni & Shia Muslims then non Muslims. Myanmar, Thailand among other non Muslim countries have lived and suffered with enough of Muslim demands and problems. They don't want them in their country. Muslims have lot of land.

If they truly love each other and really understand the meaning of brotherhood then they should immediately hug these people and settle them in their own country.

 

[Dubious]

There is more hatred & killing between Sunni & Shia Muslims then non Muslims. Myanmar, Thailand among other non Muslim countries have lived and suffered with enough of Muslim demands and problems. They don't want them in their country. Muslims have lot of land.

If they truly love each other and really understand the meaning of brotherhood then they should immediately hug these people and settle them in their own country.

Keep your shamelessness inside you!

You hate Muslims fine but none of this has anything to do with MUSLIMS ALL OVER THE WORLD....

Learn to stick to the topic and stop derailing!


I dont understand why indian no matter where they are - even going to America didnt help your poor mentality cant keep to topic and keep crying repeatedly about Muslims....no matter WHAT the thread is talking about!

 

[Azizam]

Meanwhile, from Malays.

Are we the receiving dump of South-East Asia?


Many have criticised our federal government for turning back the Rohingyas and the Bangladeshis that came a-calling and landed on our Langkawi lsland on their rickety boats in the past two weeks, but little has been said about what impact in our society these refugees and economic illegal migrants have made over the past one to two decades.

Basically put, the refugees would not have had the gall to turn down an offer by the Thai authorities to allow them to land on their territory if they had not been made known by their brethren here that there are many loopholes and lacunas here in this land of milk and honey called Malaysia which they can use to set up base and stay on for good.

We may be lazy or choosy when it comes to jobs here in our own land and wish that others out there would still do the dirty jobs for us failing to realise that it is here that the base is set up for a total take over by these refugees and economic illegal migrants one day.

We seem to be a society that is at war with ourselves, we fight for power between the major races here whilst these refugees and economic illegal migrants go about doing whatever job that they may get their hands on and before we know it, they are in control of some corner of economic activity which was once ours.

We now even have these people begging at traffic junctions whenever the red light comes on and the cars line up. They come knocking at our doors asking for some money putting on a weary, pathetic and haggard look knowing that we Malaysians will fall for their gimmicks and give them a few ringgit. Once they are done, you can see them walking cheerily down to a spot where they gather to count the collection for the day before calling it a day.

This is very disgraceful for us Malaysians. Whilst we may be having our own problems, it is a disgrace for every Malay, Chinese and Indian here who have so many unanswered questions which we seek answers from our government but yet allow these refugees and economic illegals to beg and do menial jobs and eventually taking over from us.

We are now in a very difficult predicament, we have become a member of the United Nations Security Council and have also become the chair of Asean for this term as such, turning this refugees away will look very unprofessional of us but we have to recognise the fact that decisions that we make today with regard to these people will have a very drastic effect on us in the very near future.

We would want our young to blame us for making such decisions to take in these people and allow them to be here because that would seem to be the best thing to do now. Yes, the world is watching but so is the world watching in horror on how these refugees have turned the whole political landscape of Europe where most of the middle east economic migrants and refugees folk to.

Italy and Greece are not doing too well economically but yet they have to put up with this influx because of the principles that the European Union, which they are a part of, believes in.

Malaysia should instead make Myanmar realise that we are not everybody’s dumping ground. Yes, we took in thousands of Bangladeshis and Burmese when our economy was booming and yes, we have also paid the price for not controlling the influx because we are now seeing the after effects of these decisions on our social fabric today.

Our youths are still despatch and delivery boys whereas these folks have become business owners who control the flow of fresh produce into our wet markets and have also infiltrated the furniture industry.

The Nepalis

They have now conquered the security guard industry where the clientele requires quality and well trained guards something like the famed Gurkha from their country. Some have even opened up small goods stores around areas where their community is situated which help their kin purchase and send materials to their countrymen and family from here.

They have also been recruited into the food and beverage industry where some are already at the supervisory positions. Now with the recent earthquake hitting their homeland, there will be another large wave of Nepali workers looking for work in Malaysia.

The Bangladeshis

This is the group that will pose the biggest threat to the well beings of original Malaysians. They have now even been given royal titles and it is quite common to see them married to local Malay women and start their generation here.

The very crucial aspect to note here is that they will and are already claiming the elusive ‘bumiputra’ rights by marrying Malays, speaking the language and submitting to Malay customs which will eventually mean that they will become constitutional Malays by falling into the definition in Article 160 of the federal constitution.

We are already seeing unemployment being very high amongst the Malay school leavers and university graduates. The federal and state governments cannot be the employers for them forever. Many will not do the dirty jobs which these Bangladeshis will without any objection. Our youths want to be the bosses but to be the bosses one has got to know the know-how from scratch.

Our local youth are not prepared to rough it out like the Bangladeshis. This is a worldwide phenomena, we are even seeing Bangladeshis in Italy doing business. The Rohingyas being their distant and poor cousins will be the labourers of choice for the well-heeled and rooted Bangladeshis here as they move up the ladder in their adopted country, all to the detriment of we local Malaysians.

Out of the three major races in our country, the Malay race will face the brunt of this influx of migrants because religion is a non-issue. But what our Malay brethren will have to face in the future is that their race will become a very diluted one where we will not be able to pick out an original Malay anymore and we may see a revolt by the Malays on their very own leaders for making lousy policies which allowed for these ‘new’ Malays to become rooted here.

What we are now seeing in South Africa, where the South African blacks are attacking blacks from other parts of the African continent who have come to South Africa and made it their home and have begun taking the jobs of the locals, will happen here as well, if we do not have a good immigration policy like Australia and Singapore.

The Burmese

These group is now the second in the list of the most hardest working migrants here. They are every where, food and beverage, poultry distribution and sale, wet market manning and supervision, fisheries, car-wash, computer repairs and the list goes on and on.

They are not Muslims but they may be studying the benefits of becoming one here since there are many benefits which they can lay a claim to and in the long run it benefits the generation that they will start here.

They seem to be working very well with our ethnic Chinese community because there are no religious impediments and they seem to adjust themselves like ‘ducks to water’ when it comes to local Chinese customs and the most important of all the Chinese food and beverage industry.

The low birth rates of our local ethnic Chinese community will mean that business know-how will inadvertently be learnt by these migrants and they will eventually lead in the local hawker food industry.

The Pakistanis

They have been coming for a long time and now they are coming in droves to enter the construction industry as labourers. The next step that they will take is to try bringing in carpets and garments knowing that our local Malay folks just adore carpets from the Middle East or the likes of it. But in most cases these products are actually products brought in from China through Pakistan to be marketed here.

They have also become taxi drivers, body guards, security guards, mechanics and have also joined the food and beverage industry. They being the fairer and better looking ones compared to the darker Bangladeshis will easily attract our local Malay women. What more needs to be said after that, the next generation will and has already started to grow here.

The process will continue until they slowly start taking over. As they are doing that, they too will demand for special bumiputra rights, when that happens, what will our Malay brethren do?

Militant-ism will start to take seed when frustration grows with the policies that the government takes which affects our daily lives and our ability to earn a living without having to compete with the cheap labour that these migrants provide. Those in power will get more powerful because there is always a cheap source of labour which can be tapped when investors come a calling with lower labour cost in mind.

We are already seeing a huge factory population made up of these migrants who are here legally, but what about those who come in via the human trafficking trade and those who are traded by our local law enforcement agencies who are allegedly in cahoots with these ruthless traders?

We have to have a very stringent immigration policy, we have to take in people who are beneficial to our human capital. We are wanting to become developed nation but we seem to be happy being the dumping ground for cheap labour in South-East Asia.

We envy our closest neighbour Singapore which is also a nation of immigrants, but just take a look at their policies. They mean what they say and implement what they decide and the chain of command is not broken along the way by some smart ‘little napoleon’ who is out to make some fast money.

We have to ask ourselves as to what we are doing to put pressure on the Burmese government who are the cause of these human migration because of mass genocide that is taking place within their borders which the rest of the world does not see.

The Burmese are trying to show the world that they are opening up their borders for foreign investment by adapting a form of military-guided democracy where the army’s top brass, who all now don the mask of civilian leaders, call the shots.

Burma is in itself a confluence of different ethnic minorities who have distinct identities which they want to keep. Their history will show the wars that have been fought by them and the kings that ruled from different tribes in the region during that time. They have had strong Indian influence because of trade and kinship. The Rohingyas are descendants of these traders.

If the Burmese government is a wise one, it would naturalise these people and make them citizens of their nation and farm the fields to add to their agricultural produce, but unfortunately religion seems to be the prime deciding factor.

If the Australians can be successful in turning away the boats that come from Indonesia’s human traffickers carrying people from the Middle East, then we can do the same as well. We are not inhumane, we are generally a very generous society. We have been that way all the while, that is the very reason why we have been colonised by all the major colonising powers of the past i.e. the Portuguese, the Dutch, the British and the Japanese for a short while.

But we cannot be welcoming everyone who doesn’t have a country which they can call home because we have to think of what will happen to all who have called Malaysia their home for the past millennium.

Are we the receiving dump of South-East Asia? - Malaysiakini

 

[Khalid Newazi]

There is more hatred & killing between Sunni & Shia Muslims then non Muslims. Myanmar, Thailand among other non Muslim countries have lived and suffered with enough of Muslim demands and problems. They don't want them in their country. Muslims have lot of land.

If they truly love each other and really understand the meaning of brotherhood then they should immediately hug these people and settle them in their own country.

It's funny coming from an Indian guy living in USA. Yes, only an Indian will use "DesiGuy", so, that gave away.

And if you were American (US), I would have said the following:
Europeans have lots of lands for themselves and should have never gone to Americas and kill millions of natives just to expand their colonization. Difference is that unlike the Americans, Rohingya's are from Rakhine.

 

[volcano]

Rohingyas are pure islamo facist peoples. These shameless peoples betrayed their country by starting jihad againist the non muslims and tried to eastablish an islamic nation ruled by sheriyath laws. They even try to merge with east pakistan few decades back. Burmese just shown them that their country is not middle east or northern africa where they can kill or prosicute non muslims using blamesy laws.

 

[Dubious]

Rohingyas are pure islamo facist peoples. These shameless peoples betrayed their country by starting jihad againist the non muslims and tried to eastablish an islamic nation ruled by sheriyath laws. They even try to merge with east pakistan few decades back. Burmese just shown them that their country is not middle east or northern africa where they can kill or prosicute non muslims using blamesy laws.

Lets pop you in a district and impose stupid laws on you, suppress you for DECADES, dont recognize you nor give you citizenship if you open your bloody mouth we will blame Hinduism

SO keep your shameless shitty replies to yourself!

I have noticed ONLY Indians seem to get ISLAMOPHOBE diarrhea on this issue!

 

[DesiGuy]

It's funny coming from an Indian guy living in USA. Yes, only an Indian will use "DesiGuy", so, that gave away.

And if you were American (US), I would have said the following:
Europeans have lots of lands for themselves and should have never gone to Americas and kill millions of natives just to expand their colonization. Difference is that unlike the Americans, Rohingya's are from Rakhine.

ohhh....Rohingyas in this case are evil europeans and Buddhists are native american trying to defend their country. Nice try though to prove "muslims forever the victims"...

i m not surprised though!

 

[Kambojaric]

Being a so called champion of human rights you would have thought that by now she would have noticed that a whole ethnic group in her country have lost their nationality because of their look and faith. Then again she won the Nobel Price and more often than not that prize is given to hypocrites. Even Fox News (the geniuses behind Birmingham is a Muslim city and probably the most xeno and islamophobic channel out there) have covered the fate of the Rohingyas UN urges Myanmar to give Rohingya Muslims 'full citizenship' | Fox News

 

[DesiGuy]

Keep your shamelessness inside you!

You hate Muslims fine but none of this has anything to do with MUSLIMS ALL OVER THE WORLD....

Learn to stick to the topic and stop derailing!


I dont understand why indian no matter where they are - even going to America didnt help your poor mentality cant keep to topic and keep crying repeatedly about Muslims....no matter WHAT the thread is talking about!

no...you got it wrong. It has nothing to do with me being an indian...muslims are hated more or less by all nationalities of ppl.

Get outside of PDF world...you would see the RESPECT that muslims have earned in the countries THEY go to!!!

Lets pop you in a district and impose stupid laws on you, suppress you for DECADES, dont recognize you nor give you citizenship if you open your bloody mouth we will blame Hinduism

SO keep your shameless shitty replies to yourself!

I have noticed ONLY Indians seem to get ISLAMOPHOBE diarrhea on this issue!

Again..you gotts visit outside of PDF...to see how lovable and peaceful muslims are...countries are dying to get more muslims in...

Meanwhile, from Malays.

Are we the receiving dump of South-East Asia?


Many have criticised our federal government for turning back the Rohingyas and the Bangladeshis that came a-calling and landed on our Langkawi lsland on their rickety boats in the past two weeks, but little has been said about what impact in our society these refugees and economic illegal migrants have made over the past one to two decades.

Basically put, the refugees would not have had the gall to turn down an offer by the Thai authorities to allow them to land on their territory if they had not been made known by their brethren here that there are many loopholes and lacunas here in this land of milk and honey called Malaysia which they can use to set up base and stay on for good.

We may be lazy or choosy when it comes to jobs here in our own land and wish that others out there would still do the dirty jobs for us failing to realise that it is here that the base is set up for a total take over by these refugees and economic illegal migrants one day.

We seem to be a society that is at war with ourselves, we fight for power between the major races here whilst these refugees and economic illegal migrants go about doing whatever job that they may get their hands on and before we know it, they are in control of some corner of economic activity which was once ours.

We now even have these people begging at traffic junctions whenever the red light comes on and the cars line up. They come knocking at our doors asking for some money putting on a weary, pathetic and haggard look knowing that we Malaysians will fall for their gimmicks and give them a few ringgit. Once they are done, you can see them walking cheerily down to a spot where they gather to count the collection for the day before calling it a day.

This is very disgraceful for us Malaysians. Whilst we may be having our own problems, it is a disgrace for every Malay, Chinese and Indian here who have so many unanswered questions which we seek answers from our government but yet allow these refugees and economic illegals to beg and do menial jobs and eventually taking over from us.

We are now in a very difficult predicament, we have become a member of the United Nations Security Council and have also become the chair of Asean for this term as such, turning this refugees away will look very unprofessional of us but we have to recognise the fact that decisions that we make today with regard to these people will have a very drastic effect on us in the very near future.

We would want our young to blame us for making such decisions to take in these people and allow them to be here because that would seem to be the best thing to do now. Yes, the world is watching but so is the world watching in horror on how these refugees have turned the whole political landscape of Europe where most of the middle east economic migrants and refugees folk to.

Italy and Greece are not doing too well economically but yet they have to put up with this influx because of the principles that the European Union, which they are a part of, believes in.

Malaysia should instead make Myanmar realise that we are not everybody’s dumping ground. Yes, we took in thousands of Bangladeshis and Burmese when our economy was booming and yes, we have also paid the price for not controlling the influx because we are now seeing the after effects of these decisions on our social fabric today.

Our youths are still despatch and delivery boys whereas these folks have become business owners who control the flow of fresh produce into our wet markets and have also infiltrated the furniture industry.

The Nepalis

They have now conquered the security guard industry where the clientele requires quality and well trained guards something like the famed Gurkha from their country. Some have even opened up small goods stores around areas where their community is situated which help their kin purchase and send materials to their countrymen and family from here.

They have also been recruited into the food and beverage industry where some are already at the supervisory positions. Now with the recent earthquake hitting their homeland, there will be another large wave of Nepali workers looking for work in Malaysia.

The Bangladeshis

This is the group that will pose the biggest threat to the well beings of original Malaysians. They have now even been given royal titles and it is quite common to see them married to local Malay women and start their generation here.

The very crucial aspect to note here is that they will and are already claiming the elusive ‘bumiputra’ rights by marrying Malays, speaking the language and submitting to Malay customs which will eventually mean that they will become constitutional Malays by falling into the definition in Article 160 of the federal constitution.

We are already seeing unemployment being very high amongst the Malay school leavers and university graduates. The federal and state governments cannot be the employers for them forever. Many will not do the dirty jobs which these Bangladeshis will without any objection. Our youths want to be the bosses but to be the bosses one has got to know the know-how from scratch.

Our local youth are not prepared to rough it out like the Bangladeshis. This is a worldwide phenomena, we are even seeing Bangladeshis in Italy doing business. The Rohingyas being their distant and poor cousins will be the labourers of choice for the well-heeled and rooted Bangladeshis here as they move up the ladder in their adopted country, all to the detriment of we local Malaysians.

Out of the three major races in our country, the Malay race will face the brunt of this influx of migrants because religion is a non-issue. But what our Malay brethren will have to face in the future is that their race will become a very diluted one where we will not be able to pick out an original Malay anymore and we may see a revolt by the Malays on their very own leaders for making lousy policies which allowed for these ‘new’ Malays to become rooted here.

What we are now seeing in South Africa, where the South African blacks are attacking blacks from other parts of the African continent who have come to South Africa and made it their home and have begun taking the jobs of the locals, will happen here as well, if we do not have a good immigration policy like Australia and Singapore.

The Burmese

These group is now the second in the list of the most hardest working migrants here. They are every where, food and beverage, poultry distribution and sale, wet market manning and supervision, fisheries, car-wash, computer repairs and the list goes on and on.

They are not Muslims but they may be studying the benefits of becoming one here since there are many benefits which they can lay a claim to and in the long run it benefits the generation that they will start here.

They seem to be working very well with our ethnic Chinese community because there are no religious impediments and they seem to adjust themselves like ‘ducks to water’ when it comes to local Chinese customs and the most important of all the Chinese food and beverage industry.

The low birth rates of our local ethnic Chinese community will mean that business know-how will inadvertently be learnt by these migrants and they will eventually lead in the local hawker food industry.

The Pakistanis

They have been coming for a long time and now they are coming in droves to enter the construction industry as labourers. The next step that they will take is to try bringing in carpets and garments knowing that our local Malay folks just adore carpets from the Middle East or the likes of it. But in most cases these products are actually products brought in from China through Pakistan to be marketed here.

They have also become taxi drivers, body guards, security guards, mechanics and have also joined the food and beverage industry. They being the fairer and better looking ones compared to the darker Bangladeshis will easily attract our local Malay women. What more needs to be said after that, the next generation will and has already started to grow here.

The process will continue until they slowly start taking over. As they are doing that, they too will demand for special bumiputra rights, when that happens, what will our Malay brethren do?

Militant-ism will start to take seed when frustration grows with the policies that the government takes which affects our daily lives and our ability to earn a living without having to compete with the cheap labour that these migrants provide. Those in power will get more powerful because there is always a cheap source of labour which can be tapped when investors come a calling with lower labour cost in mind.

We are already seeing a huge factory population made up of these migrants who are here legally, but what about those who come in via the human trafficking trade and those who are traded by our local law enforcement agencies who are allegedly in cahoots with these ruthless traders?

We have to have a very stringent immigration policy, we have to take in people who are beneficial to our human capital. We are wanting to become developed nation but we seem to be happy being the dumping ground for cheap labour in South-East Asia.

We envy our closest neighbour Singapore which is also a nation of immigrants, but just take a look at their policies. They mean what they say and implement what they decide and the chain of command is not broken along the way by some smart ‘little napoleon’ who is out to make some fast money.

We have to ask ourselves as to what we are doing to put pressure on the Burmese government who are the cause of these human migration because of mass genocide that is taking place within their borders which the rest of the world does not see.

The Burmese are trying to show the world that they are opening up their borders for foreign investment by adapting a form of military-guided democracy where the army’s top brass, who all now don the mask of civilian leaders, call the shots.

Burma is in itself a confluence of different ethnic minorities who have distinct identities which they want to keep. Their history will show the wars that have been fought by them and the kings that ruled from different tribes in the region during that time. They have had strong Indian influence because of trade and kinship. The Rohingyas are descendants of these traders.

If the Burmese government is a wise one, it would naturalise these people and make them citizens of their nation and farm the fields to add to their agricultural produce, but unfortunately religion seems to be the prime deciding factor.

If the Australians can be successful in turning away the boats that come from Indonesia’s human traffickers carrying people from the Middle East, then we can do the same as well. We are not inhumane, we are generally a very generous society. We have been that way all the while, that is the very reason why we have been colonised by all the major colonising powers of the past i.e. the Portuguese, the Dutch, the British and the Japanese for a short while.

But we cannot be welcoming everyone who doesn’t have a country which they can call home because we have to think of what will happen to all who have called Malaysia their home for the past millennium.

Are we the receiving dump of South-East Asia? - Malaysiakini

How is Sri Lanka monks doing? i heard even they have run out of patience with them?

 

[Azizam]

How is Sri Lanka monks doing? i heard even they have run out of patience with them?

They are not monks. We don't identify religion in the same way as muslims. Our primary source of identity comes from civilisation or race not from religion. So you better ask whether Sri Lankans have run out of patience not "buddhist monks".