One word: Genocide. Perhaps the ugliest word we know, because we keep forgetting it. For the Rohingya people, each day brings new terror as ethnic cleansing sweeps through their nation, forcing almost 400K to flee. That is one third of the population in just two weeks, mostly women and children. And there may be landmines involved, to keep those who flee from turning back. We have not learned from other similar atrocities in Syria, in Africa.
Events escalated rapidly from August 25, to mass burnings of entire villages. Yes, that still happens today. Amnesty International and Human Rights watch are providing terrifying details from a country where no independent observers or journalists are allowed. Of note: this isn’t the first time but a repeated occurrence of this kind of event. Bangladesh is home to successive waves of Rohingya refugees.
Strangely, disturbingly, Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi remains silent as her people suffer.
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