Bangladeshi troops are deployed for humanitarian operations to the Rohingya camps.
Tokyo is sending in a medical assistance team to Dhaka to assist the refugees. Meanwhile, there's news coming out that India/Nepal are tightening land borders to make sure no Rohinyas will go there. There's also more talks of getting rid of the Rohinyas more and more in India.
Talk from whom?
BBC didn't say who...
Anyway, news from Myanmar is that the Tatmadaw only target ARAS, not the refugee Rohingyas in trying to defend its position.
The Tatmadaw can pound sand.
Here is to hoping the Bangladesh Army eventually gets involved if India won't.
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Well...they kind of did:
Bangladesh Plans to Build Huge Refugee Camp for Rohingya
The government said restrictions would be placed on any inhabitants of the planned settlement. Rohingya will also be barred from traveling by vehicle in Bangladesh, and only those registered as refugees will qualify for official assistance.
“The Rohingya refugees won’t be allowed to go outside the camp,” Asaduzzaman Khan, the Bangladeshi minister of home affairs, said on Sept. 10.
Bangladesh stopped designating new refugees in the early 1990s, forcing hundreds of thousands to fend for themselves by cobbling together bits of tarpaulin and bamboo to build makeshift homes. This year, the government even debated a plan to confine all Rohingya refugees on a flood-prone uninhabited island.
Aid groups have expressed worry about hunger and diseases like cholera spreading through the squalid settlements in Bangladesh. The lack of an adequate sewage system is also compounding fears about public hygiene. The Bangladesh Department of Public Health Engineering said it would construct 500 temporary latrines, while the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has plans for 8,000 more.
Supreme Court of India is currently hearing the case against deporting Rohingyas living there.
The Struggler
I think I'm going to piss a lot people off but...
I don't think we should have open borders at all. And have vetting.as a necessity.
And I say that as an American.
Namely because the countries that they come from are third-world countries that clearly don't have the same standards we do.
I believe that everyone should be held to the same standard.
You gotta start somewhere.
United Earth
You mean that everyone should have the same standard of living? Why, certainly!
As for open borders, please compare living standards in Alabama and in New York and explain to me whether you'd think New York having migration policies against the Deep South would be a net gain or a net loss.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
The Struggler
No, I meant the same level of self-responsibility our citizens are supposed to held by.
Forgive me, it's early for me.
You gotta start somewhere.
United Earth
US Citizens are held to standards of self-responsibility?!
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Boy, this'll be a can o' worms.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41315924
Suu Kyi has started to speak up about the Rohingya crisis. Her press appearance is not received... that well.
How amusing... even she uses that meme.
Well, I guess that this means a bridge being burned between her and her formal international supporters/advocates of both her past release from house arrest and of human and political rights. I don't blame her, she's between a rock and a hard place, and there's no way out that won't involve someone getting hurt.
Analysts have called on Yangon to fast track citizenship for Rohingyas.
Suu Kyi mentioned that she agrees, by hardcore Buddhist factions would go berserk on this.
https://ph.news.yahoo.com/bangladesh-pm-says-myanmar-must-back-rohingya-054248747.html
Dhaka wants the Rohingya refugees to go back to Myanmar, if there only were no blatant signs of landmines.
AFP reporters in Yangon are now reporting Myanmar police officers escorting ICRC workers were nearly attacked by ultranationalist crowds that warning shots were fired at them since they were now resorting to Molotovs after they found out that humanitarian aid is for Rohingyas.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41312931
Debuking Suu Kyi's claims that the Rohingyas don't face prosecution.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20171003_05/
Myanmar's doing a charm offensive to diplomats to "show proof" that ARAS is responsible for most of the mess and not the Tatmadaw.
Myanmar and Bangladesh are working on agreements to guarantee the safe return of Rohingya refugees.
I wonder what safe return is a euphemism for in this case....
Who knows.
BBC announced that Suu Kyi is going to implement a mechanism to get Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar.
Meanwhile, ARAS released a video online that states that they're not going to get help from the like of ISIL or Al-Qaeda since they're fighting for Rohingya rights in Myanmar.
Right-straight into the guns and blades of her army. Also, Oxford is looking to strip her of her freeman status, something that has never been done. S He deserves a lot worse than that.
Does she deserve worse? The woman spent many years confined within house arrest, is between a rock and a hard place (between the army and their role in the political system and the part of the support within her party that is a faction of hardline Buddhists who are anti-Rohyngia and against Muslims in general), and is treading a difficult fine line in order to not be arrested again or to fall from political grace within her country.
Sad as it is (since politics is a cruel game that usually doesn't run on idealism, or human-rights based choices, or consistent morality - religious or non-religious), she has to choose between political and personal survival (Myanmar's political system has made some changes, but there are still hard limits on her range of political actions and words - hers and that of other politicians) or getting arrested again and lose everything she worked for since she got released (not to mention the political transition process within her country being stopped or outright being rolled back).
edited 12th Oct '17 7:41:52 PM by Quag15
Whatever her reasons, she is actively working to drag refugees back into the country where they will be butchered without exception. She is now actively complicit in ethnic cleansing and a solid attempt at genocide, and I have zero sympathy for her, which I reserve for her victims.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20171013_08/
Here's the press release from NHK.
The "four cuts"-strategy as explained by Asia Times
:
The strategy was masterminded by former dictator General Ne Win, leader of the 1962 military coup and a trainee of the once occupying fascist Japanese Army. The four cuts strategy was inspired by Japan’s “three all”, or sanko seisaku, (“kill all, burn all, destroy all) tactics as examined in Donald Seekins’ Burma and Japan since 1940: From Co-Prosperity to Quiet Dialogue.
The army has cited its four cuts strategy as key to successfully forcing the insurgent Karen National Union out of the Irrawaddy Division and the Communist Party of Burma out of the Yoma mountain range into the Shan State in the 1970s. The strategy has since featured prominently in Tatmadaw training manuals on how to counter rebellions.
In their experience it works and therefore have no reason to stop.
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