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I understand that internally the relevant instruments of state are keeping a keen eye on this situation because of the potential for local spillover too - the area a stone's throw away from SC and Parliament is the main congregation spot for Burmese on weekends and the numbers that throng this area are sizeable.
And then you have the Bangladeshis in Little India on Sundays.
It seems that everytime CNA posts a story about the Rohinga issue the comments section are immediately flooded with Burmese who apparently work here showing how much they despite Bengalis and dehumanise their plight.
All it takes is a spark so there is quite abit of vigilance currently in the area given how much emphasis is in the media currently.
This is not just a Myanmar issue anymore especially when you have masses of both living in the midst of the general population locally.
It seems that everytime CNA posts a story about the Rohinga issue the comments section are immediately flooded with Burmese who apparently work here showing how much they despite Bengalis and dehumanise their plight.
This is a conflict between Western powers and China. China has huge oil & gas pipeline investments in Rakhine state in the port of Kyaukphyu. Plus there is a huge gas field named Than Shwe in the coastal area of Rakhine. It's going to be like Libya again. Wherever China goes to dump its smelly shit, there's going to be trouble.
Soros and Hydrocarbons: What's Really Behind the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar
Thank you bro scroobal for those pics.
I hesitate postg pics/articles on Rohingya Muslims plight less ppl like John tan will accuse me of always sidg d Muslims...always blamg d rest whenever Muslims suffers. As u can see d double standard here. U dont see samsters here postg copy paste pics on hw Rohingya muslims killed murdered n raped by buddhist monks n buddhist military in buddhist majority Myanmar. I am not takg side here. But killing of innocent old man/woman, children, raping, burning homes etc cannot be condoned. Such act must be condemned at d highest degree...in d name of Humanity!
U go read my post again. Did i not mention killing of woman n children to be condemned? Where did i take side? U r d one whos takg side. Lets stick to Rogingya issue n not bring in other irrelevant topic. Dont spam d thread. U may open up a separate thread on Israel vs palestinian topic lf u wish to.
The Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh have been affected by what has been described as “genocide” or “ethnic cleansing” for many years. In the 1960s and 1970s, thousands were forced off their lands to make way for reservoirs and hydroelectric schemes, a displacement made worse by massacres against the Jumma people (the collective name for all indigenous peoples in the region), and nearly twenty years of conflict against a military dictatorship and also with the democratic government of Bangladesh. This only ended in 1997 when a peace accord recognised the rights of the Jumma people over their lands. This accord remains largely unimplemented and the Jumma people are not even acknowledged in the Bangladesh constitution.
The Bangladesh government has settled hundreds of thousands of Bengali people in the Chittagong Hills, and they now make up the majority of the population in the region. Settlement has not been peaceful. In a number of violent clashes, tobacco, rubber and tea planters have seized Jumma lands at will, usually with military support. By 2012 the situation had become so bad that one indigenous woman told Amnesty International;
“We are now left with no land to farm and grow crops, or forest to go to for collecting fuel, wood, and fruit. Life has become very hard as we have [the] army at very close proximity and I feel very insecure even walking short distances
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/groups/w...violence-and-brutality-chittagong-hill-tracts
Almost 90 percent of its population is comprised of Muslims of Bengali ethnicity. The rest of the populace is mostly Hindu, also of Bengali ethnicity.
Only one to two percent of people are non-Bengali, mostly belonging to indigenous tribes, and are either Hindu, Buddhist, Christian or animist. And most of them live in the three districts that make up the Chittagong Hill Tracts - Rangamati, Bandarban, and Khagrachari.
The people of the Hill Tracts resented having Bengali identity and culture forced upon them and given their extreme minority status, feared a tyranny of the masses.
The Shanti Bahini was formed In the mid-70s and in 1977 launched its first attack on a Bangladesh army convoy.
Over the next few years an estimated thousand Bengalis were killed and hundreds kidnapped, although the death toll on the indigenous side is believed to be far higher.
Bengali settlers also now easily outnumber indigenous people here. Tens of thousands have been displaced because of resource extraction efforts by the military and settlers, and the trend looks set to continue as the government sets its sights on developing the area for tourism.
'Worse' than apartheid
Anti-indigenous riots are common. We talked to several indigenous politicians who say they were harassed and physically assaulted by Bengali settlers.
http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/asia...nous-ban-worse-apartheid-150616134617804.html
The British cleaved off the Sino-Tibetan area from Mizoran, Tripura, and Burma which were unrelated to Bengalis to create the Chittagong Hill Tracts and create a buffer zone for Bengal.[18] In the 1970s the CHT was colonised by Bengalis.[19]
The conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tracts dates back to when Bangladesh was the eastern wing of Pakistan. Widespread resentment occurred over the displacement of as many as 100,000 of the native peoples due to the construction of the Kaptai Dam in 1962. The displaced did not receive compensation from the government and many thousands fled to India. After the creation of Bangladesh in 1971, representatives of the Chittagong Hill Tracts such as the Buddhist Chakma politician Manabendra Narayan Larma sought autonomy and recognition of the rights of the peoples of the region. Larma and other Hill Tracts representatives protested the draft of the Constitution of Bangladesh, which did not recognise the ethnic identity and culture of the non-Muslim, non-Bengali peoples of Bangladesh. The government policy recognised only the Bengali culture and the Bengali language, and designated all citizens of Bangladesh as Bengalis. In talks with a Hill Tracts delegation led by Manabendra Narayan Larma, the country's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman insisted that the ethnic groups of the Hill Tracts adopt the Bengali identity.[20][21] Sheikh Mujib is also reported to have threatened to forcibly settle Muslim Bengalis in the Hill Tracts to reduce the native Buddhist and Hindu peoples into a minority.[20][21][22]
The hill native Jummas were put under coercion by the majority Bengali Muslim population after independence in 1971.[23] The colonisation policy by Muslim Bengalis began after the 1971 independence of Bangladesh.[24] Animists, Hindus, and Buddhists make up the residents of the Chittagong Hill Tracts.[25]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong_Hill_Tracts_conflict
Violence, particularly sexual violence, is routinely carried out by settlers and the military alike. The figures make for sickening reading: in 2014 alone 117 indigenous women faced physical and sexual abuse, 57% of these being children. Twenty one of these women were raped or gang-raped and seven were killed afterwards. During the first few weeks of 2015, at least three confirmed rapes were reported within sight of military checkpoints supposed to bring security to the area.
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/groups/w...violence-and-brutality-chittagong-hill-tracts