Death Stalks Muslims in Myanmar - Where's the Outrage?

[jbg]

The world is treated to a regular drumbeath of outrage at Israel. Israel sits as a lone non-(majoirty)-Arab, non-Islamic state in a region of such states. Israel is targeted with campus-based movements such as BDS, or Boycott, Disinvestment, Sanctions, and is the target of regular UN diatribes. Israel is condemned for trying to wall out suicide bombers. Israel is condemned for refusing to cede territory which would certainly be used for war. Lots of outrage.

Below is an article outlining the carnage and deprivation in Myanmar of their Muslim minority (link, excerpts below). Where is there similar outrage for real anti-Muslim atrocities. In Myanmar, real innocent, defenseless Muslims die while the world watches. Where are the speeches, the student movements, the overall outrage?

Death Stalks Muslims as Myanmar Cuts Off Aid

SITTWE, Myanmar — By the time the baby girl was brought to the makeshift pharmacy, her chest was heaving, her temperature soaring. The supply of oxygen that might have helped was now off limits, in a Doctors Without Borders clinic shut down by the government in February.

A hospital visit was out of the question; admission for Rohingya Muslims, a long-persecuted minority, always requires a lengthy approval process — time that the baby, named Parmin, did not have. In desperation, the pharmacy owner sent the family to the rarely staffed Dapaing clinic, the only government emergency health center for the tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims herded into displaced people’s camps. Although it was just 4 p.m., the doors were shuttered.

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The baby’s death was part of a rapidly expanding death toll and humanitarian crisis among the Rohingya, a Muslim minority that Myanmar’s Buddhist-led government has increasingly deprived of the most basic liberties and aid even as it trumpets its latest democratic reforms.

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Some aid workers fear they are being kept away so there are fewer witnesses to rampant mistreatment and occasional bloodletting; the doctor’s group was expelled from Rakhine State after caring for victims of a violent assault on a Rohingya village that the government denies ever happened.

The scope of the government crackdown is serious enough that it has inspired at least some rebukes from world leaders after near silence even as Myanmar’s government ignored violence by local Buddhists in 2012 that left hundreds of Muslims dead and drove many others into the displaced people’s camps.

Edited May 4, 2014 by jbg

[Moonlight Graham]

There's a lot of places and stories in the world that should be given more attention than what is happening in/around Israel and the occupied territories. Ridiculous how such an incredibly tiny part of the world gets so much media and political play.

Then again, we should be equally outraged that Israel gets so much western foreign aid compared to other countries that need it far, far more.

[Big Guy]

There are about 44 conflicts going on in the world to-day, killing thousands of people daily. I guess that one has to cherry pick a particular conflict and hope that somebody cares.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts

[-TSS-]

There are about 44 conflicts going on in the world to-day, killing thousands of people daily. I guess that one has to cherry pick a particular conflict and hope that somebody cares.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts

Indeed 44 of them all most of which most people in the west know little or nothing about. All the more question why is the Palestine-conflict so important that we all must have an opinion on it?

[Argus]

I don't get why anyone should care about this anyway? I mean, there's no Jews there, right? The plight of Muslims in China and Russia is probably just as bad, but nobody cares about them either. The plight of Muslims in Syria is worse still. The only time it matters is if there's Jews involved.

[jbg]

I don't get why anyone should care about this anyway? I mean, there's no Jews there, right? The plight of Muslims in China and Russia is probably just as bad, but nobody cares about them either. The plight of Muslims in Syria is worse still. The only time it matters is if there's Jews involved.

You nailed it. But what you mean is that it "matters" in situations where the Jews are asserting rights.

[Argus]

You nailed it. But what you mean is that it "matters" in situations where the Jews are asserting rights.

No, it matters where Jews can be blamed. Has nothing to do with rights. Violence between Muslims is widespread. Muslims are slaughtered in almost every Muslim nation, usually be fellow Muslims. But they are badly mistreated elsewhere, like in Russia and China, or India, but you don't see outraged demands for boycotts or demands for UN sanctions from Islamic states. The only time that seems to happen is when a Muslim is injured by Jews, or, by extension (because thy're evil for supporting the Jews) western states.

[jbg]

No, it matters where Jews can be blamed. Has nothing to do with rights. Violence between Muslims is widespread. Muslims are slaughtered in almost every Muslim nation, usually be fellow Muslims. But they are badly mistreated elsewhere, like in Russia and China, or India, but you don't see outraged demands for boycotts or demands for UN sanctions from Islamic states. The only time that seems to happen is when a Muslim is injured by Jews, or, by extension (because thy're evil for supporting the Jews) western states.

I missed the suicide bombings and appeals to mass mediate for boycotts and disinventment in relation to Muslim on Muslim violence.

[PIK]

The left is so scared to say boo to a Islamic, that they will go out of their way to attack Israel, so the Islamics will like them. But yet under a Islamic rule we would all be screwed, but under Jewish rule life would go on. I would love to see the Queers against Israeli apartied do a parade in a arab country.

[Boges]

We still haven't seen any outrage over the plight of Coptic Christians in Egypt or Christians in Iraq.

Is anyone really shocked things are crappy for any minority group in Burma/Myanmar?