Buddhists staged a genocide of Muslims in Myanmar (Burma) (video). How Islamic Social Media Lies About Events in Myanmar Burning Muslims

In three days, more than 3,000 Muslims have been brutally murdered by Buddhists in Myanmar. People kill their own kind without sparing women or children.

Anti-Muslim pogroms in Myanmar were repeated again, on an even more horrifying scale.

More than 3,000 people have died as a result of the conflict in Myanmar (the old name is Burma) between government forces and Rohingya Muslims, which broke out a week ago. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the Myanmar army. According to local authorities, it all started with the fact that "Rohingya militants" attacked several police posts and army barracks in Rakhine state (the old name is Arakan - approx.). The Myanmar army said in a statement that since August 25, there have been 90 clashes, during which 370 militants were killed. Losses among government forces amounted to 15 people. In addition, the militants are accused of killing 14 civilians.

As a result of the clashes, some 27,000 Rohingya refugees crossed the border into Bangladesh to escape persecution. At the same time, according to the Xinhua news agency, almost 40 people, including women and children, died in the Naf River when they tried to cross the border by boat.

The Rohingya are ethnic Muslim Bengalis resettled in Arakan in the 19th and early 20th centuries by the British colonial authorities. With a total population of about 1.5 million, they now make up the majority of the population of Rakhine State, but very few of them have Myanmar citizenship. Official authorities and the Buddhist population consider the Rohingya to be illegal migrants from Bangladesh. The conflict between them and the indigenous "Arakanese" - Buddhists - has long roots, but the escalation of this conflict to armed clashes and a humanitarian crisis began only after the transfer of power in Myanmar from the military to civilian governments in 2011-2012.

Meanwhile, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called the events in Myanmar "Muslim genocide." “Those who turn a blind eye to this genocide under the guise of democracy are its accomplices. The world media, which does not attach any importance to these people in Arakan, are also complicit in this crime. The Muslim population in Arakan, which was four million half a century ago, has been reduced by one third as a result of persecution and bloodshed. The fact that the global community remains silent in response to this is a separate drama, ”Anadolu agency quoted him as saying.

“I also had a telephone conversation with the UN Secretary General. Since September 19, meetings of the UN Security Council on this issue will be held. Turkey will do its best to convey to the world community the facts concerning the situation in Arakan. The issue will also be discussed during bilateral talks. Türkiye will speak up even if the rest decide to remain silent,” Erdogan said.

Commented on the events in Myanmar and the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. “I read the comments and statements of politicians on the situation in Myanmar. The conclusion suggests itself that there is no limit to the hypocrisy and inhumanity of those who are obliged to protect HUMAN! The whole world knows that for a number of years events have been taking place in this country that are impossible not only to show, but also to describe. Humanity has not seen such cruelty since the Second World War. If I say this, a person who has gone through two terrible wars, then one can judge the scale of the tragedy of one and a half million Rohingya Muslims. First of all, it should be said about Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, who actually leads Myanmar. For many years she was called a fighter for democracy. Six years ago, the military was replaced by a civilian government, Aung San Suu Kyi, who received the Nobel Peace Prize, took power, and after that, ethnic and religious cleansing began. Fascist gas chambers are nothing compared to what is happening in Myanmar. Mass murders, rapes, burning of living people on fires, bred under iron sheets, destruction of everything that belongs to Muslims. Last autumn, more than one thousand houses, schools and mosques of the Rohingyas were destroyed and burned. The Myanmar authorities are trying to destroy the people, and neighboring countries do not accept refugees, introducing ridiculous quotas. The whole world sees that a humanitarian catastrophe is taking place, it sees that this is an open crime against humanity, BUT IT IS SILENT! UN Secretary General António Guterres, instead of harshly condemning the Myanmar authorities, asks Bangladesh to accept refugees! Instead of fighting the cause, he talks about the consequences. And UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein urged the Myanmar leadership to "condemn harsh rhetoric and inciting hatred on social media." Isn't it funny? The Buddhist government of Myanmar is trying to explain the massacres and genocide of the Rohingyas by the actions of those who are trying to put up armed resistance. We condemn violence, no matter who it comes from. But the question arises, what other choice is left to the people who have been driven into pitch hell? Why are the politicians of dozens of countries and human rights organizations silent today, who make statements twice a day if someone in Chechnya simply sneezes from a cold?” the Chechen leader wrote on his Instagram.

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In the state of Arakan in Myanmar, over the past three days, about two to three thousand Muslims have died as a result of military attacks, more than 100 thousand Muslims have been evicted from their homes.

As transmits website Anita Shug, spokeswoman for the European Rohingya Muslim Council (ERC), told Anadolu News Agency.

According to her, in recent days, the military has committed more crimes against Muslims in Arakan than in 2012 and October last year. “The situation has never been so dire. A systematic genocide is practically being committed in Arakan. Only in the village of Saugpara in the suburbs of Rathedaung the day before there was a bloodshed, as a result of which up to one thousand Muslims died. Only one boy survived,” Shug said.

According to local activists and sources, the Myanmar army is behind the bloodshed in Arakan, an ERC spokeswoman said. According to her, at the moment, about two thousand Rohingya Muslims evicted from their homes in Arakan are on the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh, since official Dhaka decided to close the border.

The spokeswoman also said that the villages of Anaukpyin and Nyaungpyingi are surrounded by Buddhists.

“Local residents sent a message to the Myanmar authorities, in which they noted that they were not to blame for the events, and asked to lift the blockade and evacuate them from these villages. But there was no answer. There is no exact data, but I can say that there are hundreds of people in the villages, and all of them are in great danger,” Shug added.

Earlier, Arakan-based activist Dr. Mohammed Eyup Khan said that Arakanese activists living in Turkey called on the UN to help immediately end the bloodshed against Rohingya Muslims in Arakan state by Myanmar military forces and Buddhist clerics.

“There is an unbearable atmosphere of persecution in Arakan: people are killed, raped, burned alive, and this happens almost daily. But the government of Myanmar does not allow into the state not only journalists from other countries, representatives of humanitarian organizations and UN employees, but also the local press,” Eyup Khan said.

According to him, in 2016, several young Muslims, unable to withstand the pressure of the authorities, attacked three checkpoints with clubs and swords, after which the Myanmar government seized the opportunity to close all checkpoints, and security forces began to attack towns and villages in the state. Arakan, killing local people, including children.

The activist recalled that on July 25, the UN established a special commission of three people, which was supposed to identify the facts of persecution in Arakan, but official Myanmar said it would not allow UN employees to the state.

“Taking advantage of the inaction of the international community, on August 24, government forces besieged another 25 villages. And when the locals tried to resist, bloodshed began. According to the data we received, about 500 Muslims were killed in the last three days alone,” Eyup Khan said.

According to UN norms, genocide-affected countries should be sanctioned, but the international community does not accept the fact that Rohingya Muslims are being genocided in Myanmar, the activist said. “The UN prefers to call what is happening here not genocide, but ethnic cleansing,” Eyup Khan said.

According to him, about 140 thousand people in Arakan were expelled from their places of permanent residence. Muslim houses are burned in the state and placed in camps.

According to the activist, the Islamophobic sentiments that have prevailed in Myanmar since the early 1940s are part of a special plan, according to which the Myanmar government and Buddhists are trying to purge Muslims from Arakan state using the most brutal methods.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said that Ankara strongly condemns the massacres of Muslims in Myanmar, which are "in many ways similar to acts of genocide."

“Türkiye is concerned about the increase in violence, killing and injury of Myanmar residents. The UN and the international community should not remain indifferent to these events, which in many ways resemble genocide,” Bozdag said.

Myanmar was again in the spotlight of the world press: on July 1, a mob of Buddhists burned down a mosque in the village of Hpakant, Kachin State. The attackers were irritated by the fact that a Muslim prayer building was built too close to a Buddhist temple. A week earlier, a similar incident occurred in the province of Pegu (Bago). A mosque was also destroyed there, and a local resident, a Muslim, was also beaten.

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Such incidents are not uncommon in modern Myanmar. This state of Southeast Asia borders on China, Laos, Thailand, India and Bangladesh. From Bangladesh, with a population of 170 million, Muslims are illegally resettled in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, with a population of 55 million. Those who call themselves Rohingya have traveled this path many years ago. They settled in the state of Rakhine (Arakan), a historical land for the Myanmar people, the cradle of the Burmese nation. Settled but not assimilated.

Migrants with roots

“Traditional Muslims of Myanmar, such as Malabar Indians, Bengalis, Chinese Muslims, Burmese Muslims, live throughout Myanmar,” explains orientalist Pyotr Kozma, who lives in Myanmar and maintains a popular blog about the country, in an interview with RT. “With this traditional Muslim ummah, the Buddhists have had experience of coexistence for many decades, therefore, despite the excesses, it rarely came to large-scale conflicts.”

With the Rohingya Bengalis, it is a completely different story. Officially, it is believed that several generations ago they illegally entered the territory of Myanmar. “After the National League for Democracy, led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, came to power, the official wording was adjusted. They stopped saying “Bengalis”, they began to say “Muslims living in the Arakan region,” Ksenia Efremova, an associate professor at MGIMO and a specialist in Myanmar, tells RT. “But the problem is that these Muslims themselves consider themselves the people of Myanmar and claim citizenship, which they are not granted.”

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According to Piotr Kozma, for many years the Myanmar government did not know what to do with the Rohingya. They were not recognized as citizens, but it is incorrect to say that they did this because of religious or ethnic prejudice. “Among the Rohingya, there are many who defected from Bangladesh, including due to problems with the law,” says Piotr Kozma. “Just imagine the enclaves where radicals and criminals who escaped from a neighboring state rule the show.”

The expert notes that the Rohingya traditionally have a high birth rate - each family has 5-10 children. This led to the fact that in one generation the number of immigrants increased several times. “One day this lid was torn off. And here it doesn’t even matter who started it first, ”concludes the orientalist.

Escalation of the conflict

The process got out of hand in 2012. Then in June and October, more than a hundred people died in armed clashes in Rakhine between Buddhists and Muslims. According to the UN, approximately 5,300 houses and places of worship were destroyed.

A state of emergency was declared in the state, but the tumor of the conflict had already spread throughout Myanmar. By the spring of 2013, the pogroms had moved from the western part of the country to the center. At the end of March, riots began in the city of Meithila. On June 23, 2016, the conflict broke out in the province of Pegu, on July 1 - in Hpakant. What the traditional Myanmar ummah feared most seemed to have happened: Rohingya discontent was being extrapolated to Muslims in general.

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Intercommunal controversy

Muslims are one of the parties to the conflict, but it is incorrect to consider the unrest in Myanmar as inter-religious, says Dmitry Mosyakov, head of the department of regional studies at Moscow State University: “There is a significant increase in the number of refugees from Bangladesh who cross the sea and settle in the historical region of Arakan. The appearance of these people does not please the local population. And it doesn’t matter if they are Muslims or representatives of another religion.” According to Mosyakov, Myanmar is a complex conglomeration of nationalities, but all of them are united by a common Burmese history and statehood. Rohingya fall out of this system of communities, and this is the core of the conflict, as a result of which both Muslims and Buddhists die.

Black and white

“At this time, the world media hears the theme of exclusively affected Muslims and says nothing about Buddhists,” adds Piotr Kozma. “Such one-sided coverage of the conflict has given Myanmar Buddhists a sense of a besieged fortress, and this is a direct path to radicalism.”

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According to the blogger, the coverage of the unrest in Myanmar in the world's leading media can hardly be called objective, it is obvious that the publications are aimed at a large Islamic audience. “In the state of Rakhine, Muslims were not killed much more than Buddhists, and in terms of the number of destroyed and burned houses, the sides are approximately equal. That is, there was no massacre of "peaceful and defenseless Muslims", there was a conflict in which both sides distinguished themselves almost equally. But, unfortunately, the Buddhists do not have their own Al Jazeera and similar world-class rating television stations to report this,” says Piotr Kozma.

Experts say that the Myanmar authorities are interested in smoothing out the conflict, or at least maintaining the status quo. They are ready to make concessions - peace agreements have recently been reached with other national minorities. But in the case of the Rohingya, this will not work. “These people get into junks and sail along the Bay of Bengal to the Burmese coast. A new wave of refugees provokes new massacres of the local population. The situation can be compared to the migration crisis in Europe – no one really knows what to do with the flow of these foreigners,” concludes Dmitry Mosyakov, head of the department of regional studies at Moscow State University.

Before Kadyrov, Erdogan stood up for the Rohingya people

Kadyrov's speeches on the Internet, Sunday's standing at the embassy of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar in Moscow and a mass rally in Grozny in defense of Muslims persecuted in a distant country unexpectedly forced Russians to pay attention to a problem little known to the general public.

In fact, the history of the standoff in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar with a persecuted Muslim minority has long been a concern in the world - both at the government level and in the human rights environment.

What is Myanmar? At one time, this country in Southeast Asia was known as Burma. But the locals do not like this name, considering it foreign. Therefore, after 1989, the country was renamed Myanmar (translated as "fast", "strong").

Since the country gained independence in 1948, a civil war has been waged in Burma, in which the Burmese authorities, communist guerrillas, and separatist rebels participated. And if we add to this explosive “cocktail” the drug dealers of the “Golden Triangle”, which, in addition to Myanmar, also included Thailand and Laos, it becomes obvious that the situation on Burmese soil did not symbolize peace and quiet.

From 1962 until 2011, the country was ruled by the military, and the head of the opposition Democratic League that won in 1989, the future Nobel Peace Prize winner, Do Aung San Suu Kyi, was placed under house arrest for a long time. The country found itself in a rather noticeable isolation from the outside world - including in connection with Western sanctions. But in recent years, noticeable changes have taken place in Myanmar, elections have been held. And last year, Aung San Suu Kyi became foreign minister and state adviser (de facto prime minister).

In a country with a population of 60 million people, there are more than a hundred nationalities: Burmese, Shan, Karen, Arakanese, Chinese, Indians, Mons, Kachins, etc. The vast majority of believers are Buddhists, there are Christians, Muslims, animists.

“Myanmar, as a multinational country, is experiencing a load of problems of this kind,” comments Viktor Sumsky, director of the ASEAN Center at MGIMO. - The new government of the country is making attempts to resolve conflict situations, but in fact it turns out that it was the problem of the Rohingya that came to the fore ...

So who are the Rohingyas? This is an ethnic group living compactly in the Myanmar state of Rakhine (Arakan). The Rohingya practice Islam. According to estimates, their number in Myanmar ranges from 800 thousand to 1.1 million people. It is believed that most of them moved to the territory of Burma during the British colonial rule.

The Myanmar authorities refer to the Rohingya as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh - and on this basis deny them citizenship. The law forbade them to have more than two children. The authorities tried to resettle them in Bangladesh, but no one expected them there either. It is no coincidence that the UN calls them one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Many Rohingyas flee to Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand. But a number of countries in Southeast Asia - including Muslim ones - refuse to accept these refugees, and ships with migrants are deployed at sea.

During the Second World War, when Burma was occupied by Japan, in 1942 there was a so-called. "Arakan massacre" between Rohingya Muslims who received weapons from the British and local Buddhists who supported the Japanese. Tens of thousands of people died, many people became refugees. Of course, these events did not add trust to relations between the communities.

From time to time, serious tensions flared up in the places of compact residence of the Rohingya, often reaching bloodshed. While Buddhist Burmese are staging Muslim pogroms in Rakhine, the Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, has urged Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to support the Rohingya. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also spoke out in defense of the Burmese Muslims. The West, both in the European Union and the United States, were not silent on this issue (although, of course, it was not the problem of the Muslim minority that played the first role in the sanctions imposed against Myanmar at the time). On the other hand, the problem of Muslims in Burma in the past decades was actively used by various theorists of "global jihad" - from Abdullah Azzam to his student Osama bin Laden. So it cannot be ruled out that this region may become a new point of conflict, where supporters of the most radical jihadist groups will reach out - as happened, say, in the Philippines.

The situation became especially aggravated after dozens of people attacked three Myanmar border posts in October last year, as a result, nine border guards were killed. After that, troops were brought into Rakhine State. Over 20,000 people fled to Bangladesh. In February 2017, a UN report was published, created on the basis of surveys of refugees: it provides shocking facts of extrajudicial killings of the Rohingya by local nationalists, as well as security forces, gang rapes, etc.

In recent days alone, about 90,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh. This came after rebels from the Arakanese Rohingya Solidarity Army attacked dozens of police posts and an army base in Rakhine on August 25. The ensuing skirmishes and military counteroffensive claimed at least 400 lives. The authorities accuse the militants of burning houses and killing civilians, while human rights activists blame the army for the same. And even before Ramzan Kadyrov, Turkish President Erdogan spoke last week in defense of Burmese Muslims, calling what is happening a genocide about which "everyone is silent"...

After a spontaneous Muslim rally at the Myanmar embassy in Moscow in defense of fellow believers, a rally was also held in Grozny - about a million people took part in it.

Suddenly, the topic of the oppression of Muslims in Myanmar came to the fore in the media. Both Kadyrov and Putin have already taken part in this topic. Accordingly, everyone has already discussed the words of one and the other.

In general, the conflict between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar has been going on since 1942. And as always, there are a lot of fakes in the media, distortions and aggravation of the situation by all parties.

Here are some examples:

In Myanmar, unfortunately, inter-communal clashes between Muslims and Buddhists do take place. Muslims themselves are often responsible for these clashes.. As a result of these clashes, both Muslims and Buddhists suffer.

Unfortunately, Buddhists do not have their own Al Jazeera or Al Arabiya, as one Yangon resident rightly noted, and the world often perceives what is happening in Myanmar one-sidedly. In fact, the Buddhist population suffers no less, but few talk about it.

Against the backdrop of these sad events in Myanmar, online mujahideen are fueling anti-Buddhist hysteria with the help of banal lies. Why be surprised here? After all, after all

Allah is the best of tricksters (Quran, 3:51-54)

But some of the warriors of Allah, leading such a propaganda jihad, are far from the best of the cunning. Their primitive methods only affect the orthodox gopota, who loves to shout “Allahu Akbar!” for any reason and for no reason. coupled with threats against infidels.

Consider a few "masterpieces of Islamic propaganda" about the mass genocide of Muslims in Burma.

Reading: “Over a thousand Muslims killed in Burma yesterday”.

This is actually Thailand, 2004. Pictured are protesters dispersed by police with tear gas outside the Tai Bai police station in Bangkok.

In fact, the photo shows the detention of illegal Rohingya immigrants by the Thai police. The photo is taken from the site about the protection of the rights of the Rohingya people.

Attached is a screenshot just in case:

Another photo of the "suffering" of Muslims in Burma. The photo shows the suppression of the rebellion in Thailand in 2003.

Let the network Mujahideen first figure out for themselves in which country their co-religionists were allowed to sunbathe.

It's good that there is such a country as, which is so rich in photographs of this subject. The uniform of the policeman is not at all the same as that of the Myanmar police.

Another masterpiece of Islamic propaganda. Under the photo there is an inscription that this " Poor Muslim man burned to death in Burma".

But in fact, a Tibetan monk set himself on fire in protest at the arrival of ex-Chinese President Hu Jin Tao in Delhi.

On Russian-language sites, somehow:

and many others, whose name is legion, we can also get acquainted with amazing photo galleries about the “Muslim genocide in Burma”. The same photos are published on many sites, and judging by the comments islamic people hawaet all this information with pleasure.

Let's take a look at these masterpieces.

Any attentive person who has been to Myanmar will understand that this is not Myanmar. The people standing near the unfortunates are not Burmese. These are black Africans. In the picture, according to some sites, the consequences of a blatant genocide by the Islamist group Boko Haram against Christians in Nigeria. Although there is another version of “230 deaths due to a truck explosion in the Congo”, see here: news.tochka.net/47990-230-p... . In any case, this picture has nothing to do with Burma.

Cm. . On the thief and the turban is on fire!

Does this black guy look a lot like a Burmese Buddhist?

And this is not Burma. The police uniform in Myanmar is not like that at all.

And here where does the information come from that this is Myanmar, and that this unfortunate woman is a Muslim? Does a yellow baseball cap and blue gloves give away a Myanmar citizen?

And these are the real events in Myanmar:

However, where does the information come from that the photo shows the beating of Muslims? There were many anti-government demonstrations in Burma, which were dispersed by the police. Moreover, several women in the dispersed crowd are not dressed in Islamic style at all.

Are they lying Allah's slaves consciously, or out of stupidity, in the context of this topic, it does not matter. The main thing is that they lie.

What conclusion suggests itself, let everyone decide for himself.

History of the conflict:

1. Who are the Rohingyas?

Rohingya, or, in another transcription, "rahinya" - a small people living in remote areas on the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh. Once all these lands were the possession of the British crown. Now local officials assure that the Rohingya are not natives at all, but migrants who arrived here during the years of overseas domination. And when in the late 1940s the country, together with Pakistan and India, gained independence, the British drew the border "competently", including the Rohingya areas in Burma (as Myanmar was then called), although in language and religion they are much closer to the neighboring Bangladesh.

So 50 million Burmese Buddhists found themselves under the same roof as 1.5 million Muslims. The neighborhood turned out to be unsuccessful: years passed, the name of the state changed, a democratic government appeared instead of a military junta, the capital moved from Yangon to Naypyidaw, but the Rohingya were still discriminated against and squeezed out of the country. True, these people have a bad reputation among Buddhists, they are considered separatists and bandits (the land of the Rohingya is the center of the so-called Golden Triangle, an international drug cartel that produces heroin). In addition, there is a strongly Islamist underground, close to the ISIS group banned in the Russian Federation and many other countries of the world (an organization banned in the Russian Federation).

“Traditional Muslims of Myanmar, such as Malabar Hindus, Bengalis, Chinese Muslims, Burmese Muslims, live throughout Myanmar,” explains Myanmar-based orientalist Piotr Kozma, who maintains a popular blog about the country. “Buddhists have had coexistence with this traditional Muslim ummah for many decades, therefore, despite the excesses, it rarely came to large-scale conflicts.”

According to Piotr Kozma, for many years the Myanmar government did not know what to do with the Rohingya. They were not recognized as citizens, but it is incorrect to say that they did this because of religious or ethnic prejudice. “Among the Rohingya, there are many who defected from Bangladesh, including due to problems with the law,” says Piotr Kozma. “Just imagine enclaves where radicals and criminals who escaped from a neighboring state rule the show.”

Escalation of the conflict

Intercommunal controversy

Black and white

“At this time, the world media hears the theme of exclusively affected Muslims and says nothing about Buddhists,” adds Piotr Kozma. “Such one-sided coverage of the conflict gave Myanmar Buddhists a sense of a besieged fortress, and this is a direct path to radicalism.”

Experts say that the Myanmar authorities are interested in smoothing out the conflict, or at least maintaining the status quo. They are ready to make concessions - peace agreements have recently been reached with other national minorities. But in the case of the Rohingya, this will not work. “These people get into junks and sail along the Bay of Bengal to the Burmese coast. A new wave of refugees provokes new massacres of the local population. The situation can be compared to the migration crisis in Europe - no one really knows what to do with the flow of these foreigners, ”concludes the head of the department of regional studies at Moscow State University

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