Last December, the International Crisis Group (ICG) released an unsavory dishonest report titled “Myanmar: A New Muslim Insurgency in Rakhine State”. It was shoddy stuff, reprehensible, & mostly imaginary. Rohingya Vision published an excoriating review of that report by Ne Myo Win titled “ICG’s Report: A Travesty of Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar.” For those interested in knowing the truth about Rohingya “terrorism”/self-defense, the Rohingya Vision article is essential so I repost it again:

http://www.rvisiontv.com/icgs-report-travesty-rohingya-genocide-myanmar/?fb_comment_id=1289719991091336_1290151454381523&comment_id=1290151454381523#f3b788d9846c6a4

(PS: For those who would like to know more about the ICG, read this report by Vinod Moonesinghe, a Sri Lankan activist:

http://malindawords.blogspot.com/2011/11/lets-get-to-know-international-crisis.html

This is my review of the ICG report:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10209967089606911&set=a.3437789876571.300336.1625229061&type=3&theater

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says the Rohingya “issue” is “complex & sensitive.” See how marble-mouthed diplomacy can be when there are billions of investments & arms deals at stake? It’s not an issue; it’s a genocide.

There’s what Aung San Suu Kyi has to say about what’s going on in Arakan state & there’s what this Rohingya woman has to say after the wooden boat she was fleeing in crashed into the shore.

Stand with the Rohingya against genocide.

(Photo from CNN)

Traumatized Rohingya children fleeing in a boat from death squads: there ought to be special human rights crime tribunals for the harm done to children: to Rohingya children, to those in Kashmir, Palestine, the US Black & Latino communities, to indigenous tribes being dispossessed throughout the world, to Muslims & the oppressed castes in India, & to children in many other countries. There certainly is a special place in hell.

Stand with Rohingya children in their struggle against genocide.

(Photo from CNN)

The best sources of news & analysis are Rohingya Blogger & Rohingya Vision. You don’t have to wade through half-assed analyses of what’s going on nor tolerate ambivalence. It’s advocacy journalism & makes no pretense of impartiality in a genocide.

The Washington Post published a recent article titled “The ‘ethnic cleansing’ of the Rohingya”. Putting quotes around ethnic cleansing suggests ambiguity, the tentative appraisal which characterizes this article & most media coverage of the genocide against the Rohingya people. It is always framed as if there might be two sides to genocide & that it all began when Rohingya terrorists associated with Al-Qaeda attacked police stations–information media accepts from the junta which is carrying out the genocide. What kind of journalism is that? Did it ever dawn on them that the so-called terrorists might be self-defense teams to protect Rohingya from military & nationalist death squads?

One of the most profound insights in the article was “The Rohingya are intensely unpopular in Burma.” Do you think? That would be the character of genocide. But it’s not usually referred to as popularity so much as racism, ethnic supremacy, xenophobia, fascism. Just for once, you wish a major media source would speak the truth, wouldn’t pull its punches or elaborate false scenarios, would refuse to cover for the generals & Suu Kyi. But that isn’t how “journalism” works.

Estimates now of Rohingya refugees are between 420,000 & half a million. It isn’t what the Washington Post reports that matters but what they do.

This young boy carrying an infant is wading through the Naf river to cross the border. It isn’t reported whether their parents survived. The thing about photojournalism is that photos often belie the written reports intended to deceive.

(Photo from CNN)

We’re going to have a Rohingya solidarity rally here in McAllen,TX. We’re no schleps when it comes to standing with the oppressed. We stood with Egyptians & Syrians during the Arab Spring, we’ve stood with Palestinians, & we’ll stand with our Rohingya brothers & sisters.