September 6th, 2017

Suddenly, the oppression of Muslims in Myanmar came to the forefront of 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 escalation of the situation by all sides.

Here are some examples:

In Myanmar, unfortunately, communal clashes between Muslims and Buddhists do occur. The perpetrators of these clashes are often Muslims themselves.. 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 reality, the Buddhist population suffers just as much, but few people 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? After all, after all

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

But some of the warriors of Allah who wage such propaganda jihad are far from the best of cunning people. 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.

Let's look at several “masterpieces of Islamic propaganda” about the mass genocide of Muslims in Burma.

We read: “More than a thousand Muslims killed in Burma yesterday”.

In fact, this is Thailand, 2004. The photo shows protesters being dispersed by police using tear gas near the Tai Bai police station in Bangkok.

In fact, the photo shows the detention of illegal Rohingya immigrants by Thai police. Photo taken from a website about protecting the rights of the Rohingya people.

We attach a screenshot just in case:

Another photo about the “suffering” of Muslims in Burma. The photo shows the suppression of the rebellion in Thailand in 2003.

Let the online Mujahideen first figure out for themselves in which country their coreligionists were allowed to sunbathe.

It’s good that there is such a country as, which is so rich in photographs of similar subjects. The police uniform is not at all the same as the Myanmar police.

Another masterpiece of Islamic propaganda. Under the photo there is an inscription saying what it is " Poor Muslim burned in Burma".

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

On Russian-language sites, something like:

and many others whose names are 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 Hawala all this information with pleasure.

Let's look at these masterpieces.

Any attentive person who has been to Myanmar will understand that this is not Myanmar. The people standing near the unfortunate people are not Burmese. These are black Africans. According to some sites, the picture shows the consequences of a blatant genocide carried out by the Islamist group Boko Haram against Christians in Nigeria. Although there is another version of “230 dead due to a truck explosion in the Congo,” see here: news.tochka.net/47990-230-p... . In any case, this photo has no relevance in Burma.

Cm. . The thief's 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 completely different.

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 indicate a Myanmar citizen?

And these are really the 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 that were dispersed by the police. Moreover, several women in the dispersed crowd are not dressed at all Islamically.

Are they lying? slaves of Allah deliberately, or out of stupidity, in the context of this topic does not matter. The main thing is that they are lying.

What conclusion arises, let everyone decide for themselves.

History of the conflict:

1. Who are the Rohingyas?

The Rohingya, or in another transcription, “Rahinya,” are a small people living in inaccessible areas on the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh. Once upon a time, all these lands were the property of the British crown. Now local officials claim that the Rohingya are not aborigines at all, but migrants who arrived here during the years of overseas rule. 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 terms of language and religion they were much closer to the neighboring one. Bangladesh.

So 50 million Burmese Buddhists found themselves under the same roof with one and a half 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 forced 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 strong Islamist underground here, 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 Malabari Hindus, Bengalis, Chinese Muslims, Burmese Muslims, live throughout Myanmar,” explains orientalist Peter Kozma, who lives in Myanmar and runs a popular blog about the country. “Buddhists have had experience of coexistence with this traditional Muslim ummah for many decades, therefore, despite the excesses, it rarely came to large-scale conflicts.”

According to Peter 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 prejudices. “Among the Rohingya there are many who fled from Bangladesh, including due to problems with the law,” says Pyotr Kozma. “So imagine enclaves where radicals and criminals who escaped from a neighboring state rule the roost.”

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. “Then one day this lid was blown off. And here it doesn’t even matter who started it first,” concludes the orientalist.

Escalation of the conflict

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

A state of emergency was declared in the state, but the cancer of conflict had already spread across Myanmar. By the spring of 2013, pogroms moved from the western part of the country to the center. At the end of March, riots began in the town of Meithila. On June 23, 2016, the conflict broke out in Pegu province, and on July 1 in Hpakant. It seemed that what Myanmar's traditional ummah feared most had happened: Rohingya grievances were being extrapolated to Muslims in general.

Inter-communal controversy

Muslims are one of the parties to the conflict, but it is incorrect to consider the unrest in Myanmar as interreligious, 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 whether they are Muslims or representatives of another religion.” According to Mosyakov, Myanmar is a complex conglomerate of nationalities, but they are all united by a common Burmese history and statehood. The Rohingya fall out of this system of communities, and this is precisely the core of the conflict, as a result of which both Muslims and Buddhists are killed.

Black and white

“And at this time in the world media the topic is exclusively of Muslims who suffered and nothing is said about Buddhists,” adds Pyotr Kozma. “Such one-sidedness in covering the conflict has given Myanmar Buddhists a feeling of a besieged fortress, and this is a direct path to radicalism.”

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 Rakhine State, not much more Muslims were killed than Buddhists, and the sides are approximately equal in the number of destroyed and burned houses. 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, Buddhists do not have their own Al Jazeera and similar worldwide rating TV stations to report this,” says Peter 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 - recently peace agreements have been reached with other national minorities. But this will not work in the case of the Rohingyas. “These people board junks and sail along the Bay of Bengal to the Burmese shores. A new wave of refugees provokes new pogroms 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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Over three days, more than 3,000 Muslims are brutally murdered by Buddhists in Myanmar. People kill their own kind, sparing neither women nor children.

Anti-Muslim pogroms in Myanmar have repeated again, on an even more horrific scale.

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

Due to the clashes, some 27,000 Rohingya refugees have crossed the border into Bangladesh to escape persecution. At the same time, as Xinhua reports, almost 40 people, including women and children, died in the Naf River while trying to cross the border by boat.

The Rohingya are ethnic Bengali Muslims resettled in Arakan in the 19th and early 20th centuries by British colonial authorities. With a total population of about one and a half million people, they now make up the majority of the population of Rakhine State, but very few of them have Myanmar citizenship. Officials 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 conflict only escalated into armed clashes and a humanitarian crisis 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 “genocide of Muslims.” “Those who turn a blind eye to this genocide, committed under the guise of democracy, are its accomplices. The world media, which does not attach any importance to these people in Arakan, is 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 international community remains silent in response to this is a separate drama,” Anadolu Agency quotes him as saying.

“I also had a telephone conversation with the UN Secretary General. From September 19, UN Security Council meetings will be held on this issue. Türkiye will do everything possible to convey to the world community the facts regarding the situation in Arakan. The issue will also be discussed during bilateral negotiations. Türkiye will speak even if others decide to remain silent,” Erdogan said.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, also commented on the events in Myanmar. “I read comments and statements from 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 MAN! 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 World War II. If I say this, a person who went 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 won the Nobel Peace Prize, took power, and ethnic and religious cleansing began. Fascist murder chambers are nothing compared to what is happening in Myanmar. Mass murders, rapes, burning of living people on fires lit under iron sheets, destruction of everything that belongs to Muslims. Last fall, more than one thousand Rohingya houses, schools and mosques 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 happening, sees that this is an open crime against humanity, BUT IS SILENT! UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, instead of harshly condemning the Myanmar authorities, asks Bangladesh to accept refugees! Instead of fighting the cause, he talks about the consequences. And the UN High Commissioner for HUMAN RIGHTS, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, called on the Myanmar leadership to "condemn the harsh rhetoric and incitement of hatred on social networks." Isn't this funny? The Buddhist government of Myanmar is trying to explain the massacres and genocide of the Rohingya as the actions of those who are trying to carry out armed resistance. We condemn violence, no matter from whom it comes. But the question arises, what other choice is left to the people who have been driven into utter hell? Why are politicians from dozens of countries and human rights organizations silent today, making statements twice a day if someone in Chechnya simply sneezes from a cold?” — the Chechen leader wrote on his Instagram.

No matter what religion a person professes, such mass atrocities should not occur. No religion is worth a person's life. Share this information, let's stop the mass destruction of people.

In world history, tragic events have repeatedly taken place, which were based on interethnic confrontations within one country or one region. At the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries, local military conflicts broke out around the world, the cause of which was interethnic clashes on linguistic, national or religious grounds. One of the last ongoing religious conflicts remains the massacre of Muslims in Myanmar, the preconditions of which stretch back to the founding of this state.

The first echoes of interethnic confrontation

Since the time of the British colonialists, minor conflicts have arisen in the northwestern region of Burma, Rakhine, based on religion. Rakhine was inhabited by two large groups of people: the Rohingya, who professed Islam, and the Buddhist Arakanese.

During World War II, Burma was completely occupied by militaristic Japan. The Muslim population supported the anti-Hitler coalition and received weapons to fight the invaders. Since the Arakanese were co-religionists with the Japanese, the Muslims directed the weapons received from the allies specifically at them. Then about 50,000 people became victims of the armed conflict.

After the war, Britain granted independence to Myanmar, which led to mass unemployment, chaos and civil war. These events further divided Muslims and Buddhists. In the difficult post-war times, the issue of stabilizing interfaith relations was far from being in the first place.

The tension in the country

Since the 1950s, Myanmar has experienced economic and industrial growth. However, this did not save the state from constant clashes between religious groups

The main factors contributing to the aggravation of the situation were:

1. The settlement of Rakhine by Muslims from neighboring states who arrived in Burma for the purpose of temporary earnings;
2. Uniting migrant workers into communities;
3. Infringement of the rights of both visitors and indigenous residents who professed Islam;
4. Refusal of the central government to issue passports to the indigenous Rohingya;
5. Persecution by nationalist Buddhist organizations.

Since the mid-1980s, an economic crisis began to brew in Myanmar. It was the most severe in Rakhine state. The lack of subsidies from the treasury, high unemployment, reduced social benefits, as well as the transfer of Rohingya lands to residents of other Buddhist regions have formed an extremely negative attitude among Muslims towards the government.

Muslim genocide in Burma

The peak of internal fighting occurred in 2012 after the brutal rape of a Buddhist young girl. Predominant Buddhist population blamed local Muslims for her death, after which their neighborhoods, including mosques and small businesses, were subjected to severe pogroms and looting.

During the riots, radical political organizations were created, such as ARSA and the Arakan Faith Movement. They took responsibility for the pogroms and attacks on the police.

5 years later, on August 25, 2017, the situation repeated itself again. About 30 police stations were targeted by ARSA. As a result, a counter-terrorism operation regime was introduced in Myanmar. The authorities used government troops and police forces to clear the region of Muslims.

During local battles, about 400 rebels were eliminated. Among the civilian population, 14 people were killed, and 12 military personnel were killed by the authorities.

The result of this terror was the flight of several thousand civilians to Bangladesh and India. To prevent the displaced from returning to Rakhine, the authorities mined the border area with Bangladesh. The UN mission recognized the situation in the state as critical, which forced the mission to suspend its work.

The world community's reaction to the situation in Myanmar

The official authorities of this country claim that nothing critical is happening and they are conducting an operation to restore constitutional order and suppress banditry among the religious minority. Despite such statements, the UN provided a number of documents that were compiled from the words of refugees and eyewitnesses.

According to international human rights organizations, Rakhine is rife with brutality and violence by the army against Muslims. There were repeated provocations on the part of the authorities in order to discredit the religious community.

Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi says the Buddhist population in the region is steadily declining and authorities are concerned about this trend and intend to stabilize relations between the two religious groups.

A number of Islamic states are concerned about this development of the political scenario and have sent official notes of protest to the Myanmar Foreign Ministry, and have also prepared the necessary humanitarian assistance to the affected children.

Muslim Genocide in Myanmar: Orhan Jemal

In some cities of Russia, Moscow and Grozny in particular, rallies were held in support of the Muslim population of Myanmar. However, none of the protesters had real information about the current situation. Russian journalist Orkhan Dzhemal decided to figure out the situation on his own and spent about a month in Asia.

After arriving home, Jemal repeatedly covered the events he saw with his own eyes:

• Constant humiliation of followers of Islam;
• Infringement of basic civil rights;
• Brutal beating of religious minorities;
• Military violence against women;
• Strict border controls;
• Constant provocations in Islamic villages.

Returning home, Orhan Dzhemal appeared on television several times in order to highlight to the public the events he had seen. The journalist constantly holds various events to support supporters of Islam around the world.

It would seem that the 21st century is a new era of humane and peaceful relations between countries, peoples and religions, in which violence and cruelty are unacceptable. But as evidenced by the massacre of Muslims in Myanmar, not every state is yet capable of taking the civilized path of its development.

Video about shocking events in Burma

In this video, Ilya Mitrofanov will talk about the events preceding the bloody massacre in Myanmar:

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There's a crowd in Myanmar

led by Buddhist monks, burned three mosques and destroyed several shops owned by Muslims. The reason for the unrest was a dispute over the price of goods between a Muslim seller and a Buddhist buyer in one of the jewelry stores.

At least ten dead and 20 injured were reported. Among the victims are both Buddhists and Muslims.

The town of Meikhtila, where the pogrom took place, is located 540 kilometers north of the capital Yangon.

Maung Maung, head of the district administration:
“I am very, very sorry about everything that happened. Because this event will not affect just one person, but everyone living here. And as a Buddhist, I wouldn’t want to harm anyone.”

Since a civilian government took power in Myanmar in 2011, conflicts between Muslims and Buddhists have flared regularly. Last year, dozens of Muslims died in Rakhine state, a heavily populated Rohingya region in western Myanmar.

Bodies of Muslims burned alive by Buddhists

The international community is outraged by the brutal killings of Muslims in Myanmar. Life looked into how the conflict between the indigenous population and Rohingya Muslims began and what it could lead to.

The confrontation between government forces and Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has reached its peak. Thousands of Muslims have been killed recently. In addition to massacres, military security forces carry out raids on the homes and farms of Muslims who live in the western state of Rakhine. According to local residents, they take away their property and even pets. According to international monitoring organizations, approximately 2,600 houses are currently known to have been burned in this state.

Although officially military operations are taking place against Islamic militants actually kill civilians, including children and the elderly. The atrocities caused a massive exodus of civilians from combat areas.

People are killed, raped, burned alive, drowned simply because they belong to the Rohingya nationality and their religion - Islam, say representatives of international government organizations.

Many media outlets recently wrote about how Buddhists beat a Rohingya Muslim to death with bricks in the city of Sittwe in Rakhine State. A group of Rohingya refugees living in a displaced persons camp on the outskirts decided to go out into the city to do some shopping. The Muslims tried to buy the boat, but quarreled with the seller over the price. The heated dispute attracted the attention of Buddhist passers-by, who took the side of the seller and began throwing bricks at the Rohingya. As a result, 55-year-old Munir Ahmad was killed and other Muslims were injured.

According to the latest data, more than fifty thousand people have already left the conflict zone in recent weeks. At the same time, according to the UN, only from August 25 to August 31 inclusive, about 27 thousand people - mostly women and children - crossed the border with the state of Bangladesh, trying to escape from the “democratic regime”.

Smoldering Conflict

Myanmar is a state in Southeast Asia, bordering China, Laos, Thailand, India and Bangladesh. From Bangladesh, Muslims are illegally migrating to predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, which has a population of 55 million. Those who call themselves Rohingya made this journey many years ago. They settled in Rakhine State (Arakan).

Myanmar authorities do not believe Rohingya citizens of the country. ABOUT It is officially believed that several generations ago they entered Myanmar illegally. 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 prejudices.

One of the reasons for the aggravation of the situation is demographic problems. 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.

Authorities refer to the residents of Rakhine as "Muslims living in the Arakan region." At the same time, these Muslims themselves consider themselves the people of Myanmar and claim citizenship, which they are not granted. Here is the second problem, which largely provoked the latest clashes.

However, this conflict has been dragging on for several years. In June and October 2012, armed clashes in Rakhine between Buddhists and Muslims killed more than a hundred people. According to the UN, approximately 5,300 homes and places of worship were destroyed. A state of emergency was declared in the state. By the spring of 2013, pogroms moved from the western part of the country to the center. At the end of March, riots began in the town of Meithila. On June 23, the conflict broke out in Pegu province, and on July 1 in Hpakant. The conflict increasingly began to acquire an interreligious character, and local dissatisfaction with Rohingya began to spread to Muslims in general.

According to experts, Myanmar is a complex conglomerate of nationalities, but they are all united by a common Burmese history and statehood. The Rohingya fall out of this system of communities, and this is precisely the seed of the conflict, as a result of which both Muslims and Buddhists are killed.

"Democracy with fists"

Now the country is actually led by Aung San Suu Kyi, who for many years fought for democratization in a country where military rule reigned. She is the daughter of General Aung San, the founder of Burma. In 1947, on the eve of declaring independence from Britain, Aung San, then head of the country's transitional administration, was killed in an attempted coup when his daughter was two years old.

Aoun was raised by her mother, who first worked in the government and then became a diplomat. Aun graduated from college in India, then received a bachelor's degree in political science and economics from Oxford, worked at the UN, moved to England, completed her doctorate, and gave birth to two sons. When she went to Burma to visit her sick mother in 1988, student unrest broke out in the country, which escalated into a full-fledged uprising against the junta. Aoun joined the rebels, on August 26 she spoke at a rally for the first time in her life, and in September she became the founder and chairman of her own party, the National League for Democracy. Soon a new military coup took place, the communist general was replaced by a nationalist general, Aung San Suu Kyi was not allowed to participate in the elections and was placed under house arrest for the first time.

Nevertheless, the new junta held elections (the first in 30 years), the League for Democracy won 59 percent of the votes and received 80 percent of the seats in parliament. Based on these results, Aoun should have become prime minister. The military did not give up power, the election results were canceled, and Aoun was arrested again. She was under house arrest in 1991 while her teenage sons accepted her Nobel Peace Prize. From 1995 to 2000, when she was free, the military made special efforts to get her out of the country. In 2002, she was released again, and a year later, after an attempt on her life, she was again arrested and secretly imprisoned - for four months nothing was known about her fate. Speaking at the first rally after her release, she called not for the overthrow of the anti-people regime, but for national reconciliation.

In the fall of 2015, the National League for Democracy, led by 70-year-old Aung San Suu Kyi, won a majority of votes in both houses of the Myanmar (Burma) parliament in the first free elections in the country's history. Now she is not the president or even the prime minister, but she holds the post of state adviser - this d The position corresponding to the Prime Minister allows him to work in all areas of government. In fact, it influences all decisions in the country, and so far the Nobel laureate has not commented on the situation in Rakhine.

She has no choice. Aung San Suu Kyi is forced to be tough. Local residents, even Muslims, do not like the Rohingya, experts say.

Actually, in defense Rohingya Muslims There is no one inside Myanmar to say, there is not a single political force that would speak out in their support. Deprived of civil rights and labor opportunities, living in the poorest state in the country, the Rohingya become even more radicalized and turn to terrorism, which spurs a new round of repression.

In the fall of 2016, when a similar attack on a border post occurred and the authorities brought troops into the state, who behaved just as mercilessly towards the civilian population, about 20 thousand Rohingya fled to Bangladesh in two months. But the local authorities did not find a better solution than to settle the refugees on the island of Tengar Char, which is almost completely hidden under water during the rainy season.

The Myanmar authorities themselves deny the genocide of Muslims. In response to a UN report on torture, mass rape and murder committed by the military in this state, the Myanmar authorities responded that the facts were untrue and were lies and slander.

But the pressure on them from the international community continues unabated. Thus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the oppression of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar genocide.

“There is a genocide happening there, and everyone is silent,” the Turkish leader was indignant, speaking at a meeting of the ruling party in Istanbul. “Those who do not pay attention to this genocide, carried out under the guise of democracy, are also accomplices in the murder.”

Experts are confident that the Myanmar authorities are still interested in smoothing out the conflict, but they are not sure that this is possible in the issue of the Rohingya. Tens of thousands of people are pouring into Myanmar from Bangladesh, sparking further pogroms.