So is it communal violence between Buddhists & Muslims in Arakan state as much of media claims or is it jihadi insurgents as Modi, Aung San Suu Kyi, Putin, & Assad supporters claim? Or has jihadism now infiltrated communal conflict & there is no longer a difference? What a pile of horse manure we conceive when we practice to deceive.

When Modi met with Suu Kyi yesterday they exchanged felicitations over defeating terrorism in Arakan state–by which they meant ARSA insurgents, a possibly imaginary ragtag group who they claim attacked security forces. Why the Burmese army & civilian death squads have to torch whole villages, rape, execute, & hunt tens of thousands of Rohingya civilians like animals to get those terrorists is not explained.

There is something particularly grotesque about this exchange between Modi & Suu Kyi. India is attempting to deport 40,000 Rohingya refugees back to Burma but Burma doesn’t want them back & used artillery from India to drive them out. There’s also something particularly monstrous about this exchange because of India’s persecution of Muslims, including the 2002 pogrom led by Modi in Gujarat, & the occupation of Kashmir where India employs the same human rights crimes Suu Kyi is using against the Rohingya people.

Stop the genocide of the Rohingya people. Stop the deportations. Full solidarity with the Rohingya struggle for human, democratic, civil, & refugee rights.

Photo is Modi meeting with Suu Kyi yesterday.

(Photo from India Today)

After six terrifying days of running with her grandmother, this tiny child is crossing the border into Bangladesh. Is it possible she could be one of the ISIS operatives who created a new theater of jihad in Arakan after they failed in Syria & she has now been sent to destabilize the Bangladeshi government, as Assad supporters claim? Or is she just a little girl running for her life?

Stop the genocide of the Rohingya people. Stop vilifying refugees. Full solidarity with their struggle for human, democratic, civil, & refugee rights.

(Photo via Shafiur Rahman on Twitter)

Irish pro-fascist socialists tried to prevent the White Helmets from receiving the 2017 Tipperary International Peace Award at a ceremony tomorrow in Ireland. They failed but they’ll be there making a nuisance of themselves. The fetish that Assadists have about rescue workers has been orchestrated to a fever pitch by Vanessa Beeley, an Assad propagandist, highly overpaid given the intellectual character of her work. Pound for pound, she has pumped out more diatribes against the White Helmets than she has against US military intervention which she never writes about.

But who you gonna believe? One of Assad’s flunkeys who’s embedded with the Syrian army & hangs with Assad officials? Or MSF/Doctors Without Borders who are on the front lines of so many humanitarian crises around the world & who’ve trained some of the White Helmet medical staff in Syria? Or maybe Amnesty International UK who praise at great length the rescue & medical work, not to mention the courage of White Helmets? Or possibly Nagieb Khaja, an award-winning Danish journalist who covered the wars in Afghanistan & Syria & spent ten days filming the White Helmets in action?

We extend our deepest respect to the White Helmets. A humanitarian award is an honor but it’s chump change compared to what they are due for endangering their own lives to save others.

Photo is a White Helmet.