A boy grown old before his time, living through what no child should ever even know about: that the world is filled with hate & violence & that children are most often the targets, vilified as up & coming terrorists.
Stand with Rohingya children. Demand thoroughly vetted child protective services be provided unaccompanied refugees to serve as long-term guardians until loving families are found to place them.
(Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
Media identified this fellow as “a local man” helping an elderly Rohingya woman no longer able to walk after crossing the border. They don’t say if he’s a local Rohingya man from the nearby refugee camps or a Bangladeshi volunteer. It doesn’t matter. He’s a stranger stopping to help someone in desperate need. Deepest respect to those who respect other human beings without asking for their papers, to whom no human being is alien.
Stand with the Rohingya against genocide & in their struggle for human, democratic, civil, & refugee rights.
(Photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)
To add farce to treachery, what better postlude to Suu Kyi’s speech of lies than Trump speaking to the UN General Assembly about ending poverty?
The responses to Aung San Suu Kyi’s televised address to the nation today have been condemnatory, if not condemnatory enough. Drawing on the delusion that Suu Kyi is in denial about genocide, Amnesty International said she & her government “are burying their heads in the sand.” She is not silent nor is she in denial; she is a partner with the generals in executing this genocide & then brazenly denying it is going on when the entire world has viewed overwhelming documentation–especially 410,000 Rohingya refugees coming across the Bangladesh border with bullet wounds, knife & machete wounds, burn injuries, infections, & in a state of extreme trauma.
This article in the Dhaka Tribune titled “Alternative facts in Suu Kyi’s speech” is one of the better media reports:
http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/south-asia/2017/09/19/fact-fiction-suu-kyis-speech/
To Suu Kyi’s speech of lies, we present the testimony of this Rohingya woman who drowned in the Naf river in her flight from genocide carried out by Suu Kyi & the Burmese generals. May our sister Rest In Peace. Suu Kyi & the generals can rot in hell.
(Photographer not identified)
There is apparently some confusion about the Indian government’s attempt to vilify Rohingya refugees as terrorists & deport them. Hard to imagine that would be considered credible with the brutal occupation of Kashmir. This is a brilliant rebuttal to that rubbish by Anand Mangnale. Priyank Kumar has also written a cogent & powerful post rebutting it. It’s not an issue there can be any confusion about.
https://newsclick.in/why-government-india-making-forced-terrorists-out-rohingya-refugees-india
It seems completely appropriate to characterize Burma as a fascist state. That means taking a closer look at the generals fronted by Suu Kyi’s carefully cultivated & entirely deceitful image as a human rights champion with girly flowers in her hair. An exposé is coming up. They’re a gruesome & ruthless lot.
No indication if these wee children are unaccompanied or whether their parents are near as they cross into Bangladesh after a gunshot was heard on the Burma side. Absolutely chilling.
We have to raise child welfare for unaccompanied children as a major concern of refugee rights. We cannot allow them to become trafficking victims like those orphaned in the Indonesia/Sri Lanka tsunami & African children processed by the EU in Italy where over 10,000 are unaccounted for.
(Photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)
This might be the definition of hell were there not photos of refugees in far worse straits because of injuries, sickness, & campsites flooded out by the rains. Pardon me for pointing out that goofy teenage boy smiling for the camera in the midst of hell.
(Photo by Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images)
Abdul Kareem carries his mother to refuge in Bangladesh. It is through such humanity that the Rohingya have won the respect & admiration of the world.
(Photo by Dar Yasin/AP)
Just an aggressive reminder that gender-based insults (including in regard to Suu Kyi) are not allowed on my wall. Many, & I include myself, take great offense to words like bitch, whore, etc. Expand your vocabulary of abuse. Break out of an anti-social mindset & learn to see genocidaires in terms of their human rights crimes, not in terms of their gender.