China is building two pipelines in Myanmar, one to import gas directly from Myanmurder's gas well and the other as a pipeline intended to transit oil (crude and petrol) from the Middle East into Yunnan province. They are doing this to bypass the Malacca Strait. Chinese ships have to pass through Malaysia and beside neighboring SEA states before docking in China. With the pipeline, they intended to dock in Rakhine State and carry the oil to Yunnan, China.
Myanmar also plans to build Special Economic Zones in Rakhine as well, because they see the area as one they wish to develop in coming decades.
This is also a major factor behind why the Myanmurder regime has been aggressively hastening it's ethnic cleansing in Rakhine.
- 1. It is to distract the ethnic Arakanese population in a divide and conquer strategy. Rakhine is the least developed area of Mynamar, so they used Rohingyas as a distraction for decades. Instead of people targeting the Burmese state over impoverishment they are busy attacking Rohingya and fighting among each other.
- 2. The pipelines and SEZ development have caused environmental problems and homelessness, both among Arakanese and Rohingyas. By pushing out the Rohingya, they don't need to answer to anyone and they get free land (which Rohingya lived on) to use however they wish. And by having the Arakanese distracted with fighting the Rohingya, they will not complain about their own state landgrab and environmental issues.
- 3. With all these resources and development, you would have expected that the Rohingya would benefit from better treatment. Instead the Burmese agenda is to kick them out before the region is developed. And by proxy they are using the refugee crises to destabilize Bangladesh at the same time.
Why not BAL is playing whore in international politics Thats why china and even indian dont support BD in rohingya crisis. Its a shame for us. And butthead syed amar khan is spreading rumours in BDmilitary that we are getting blah blah etc to blow up MM. Its time we should accept BD is f*** up.
The Muslim world as a whole is led by cowards. That's why BD feels trapped and powerless. But I agree that BD needs to do more. That includes sending delegations, not to China but to other Muslim and Western states to press the matter. That is where BD has failed.