An interesting take on the current events in Bangladesh that i think is worth considering but i’m not sure that i agree with this perspective. Honestly i just don’t know enough yet about the situation and i will reserve judgement until i do.
An interesting take on the current events in Bangladesh that i think is worth considering but i’m not sure that i agree with this perspective. Honestly i just don’t know enough yet about the situation and i will reserve judgement until i do.
The military are hardly better/worse than the liberal government of Aung San Suu Kyi, sure. That said, going to war against your minority people is never cool.
They are preferable insofar as they preserve Myanmar’s sovereignty and expel foreign interference. The leaders of the previous government were literally trained and funded by western NGOs and CIA cutout NED. Of course that doesn’t mean their treatment of minorities is ok.
But at the same time we know that the imperialists love exploiting any and all ethnic divisions to create armed conflict, destabilization and separatism to either install their own puppet regime, or failing that to turn the country into a failed state and have a destabilized conflict zone on the border of one of their main rivals (in this case China) like they did in Afghanistan.
I think we all forget the Rohingya genocide because AFAIK the West isn’t currently responsible. The country is in a civil war right now. Even ethnic Burmese are fleeing the country as they don’t want to be conscripted. I don’t you why you’re arguing with me about the previous government as I never defended them.
I think we all ignore Myanmar because it has little to do with the West. That’s absolutely fine. But I stand by my claim that it’s sus to defend the Myanmar military who are doing a genocide(s).
The West is responsible for what has been happening to the Rohingya, more specifically the British whose divide and rule ethnic policies purposely and strategically inflamed ethnic tensions while they were the dominant colonial power, and when they were forced to leave they knowingly left behind political and border situations that were akin to time bombs that were guaranteed to erupt into ethnic conflicts all over the world, from Africa to South East Asia.
I’m not excusing the perpetrators, but i think we should be aware of the larger historical context. Such things don’t happen in a vacuum and there are larger forces at work that benefit from continuing to fuel such conflicts and destabilization, especially in such a geopolitically important region.
I’m trying to explain why most people on this site don’t follow the Rohingya situation, not debate it’s causes. Christ this is so damn tedious.