The Hidden Genocide of Burma

[You will see in the video that the authorities immediately related the murder of the victim as a 'Rohingya crime", then another interviewed relates it to "political crime", they simply chose what suits them, the authorities won't even investigate, 'why bother' and if they do not have a culprit 'just walk on the street and pick any Rohingya'.

During the Saffron Revolution I learned that most of the times the soldiers or the junta supporters (USDA) committed the crimes then accused the pro-democrats or Rohingyas of the crimes committed.  The accused victims were apprehended and thrown into jail on false charges for decades.

Although Buddhists due to their beliefs are no in a position to discriminate, you can see how openly they do it.  To them anybody who practices Islam is a terrorist when in fact the ones creating terror are the racists. JEG's]

Al Jazeera Investigates

The Hidden Genocide

This is the story of a people fleeing the land where they were born - the Muslim Rohingya of Myanmar. Al Jazeera Investigates Last Modified: 09 Dec 2012 09:33

Earlier this year a Buddhist woman was raped and murdered in western Myanmar. The authorities charged three Muslim men. A week later, 10 Muslims were murdered in a revenge attack. What happened next was hidden from the outside world. Bloodshed pitted Buddhists against minority Rohingya Muslims. Many Rohingya fled their homes, which were burned down in what they said was a deliberate attempt by the predominantly Buddhist government to drive them out of the country. "They were shooting and we were also fighting. The fields were filled with bodies and soaked with blood," says Mohammed Islam, who fled with his family to Bangladesh. There are 400,000 Rohingya languishing in Bangladesh. For more than three decades, waves of refugees have fled Myanmar. But the government of Bangladesh considers the Rohingya to be illegal immigrants, as does the government of Myanmar. They have no legal rights and nowhere to go. This is a story of a people fleeing the land where they were born, of a people deprived of citizenship in their homeland. It is the story of the Rohingya of western Myanmar, whose very existence as a people is denied. Professor William Schabas, the former president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says: "When you see measures preventing births, trying to deny the identity of the people, hoping to see that they really are eventually, that they no longer exist; denying their history, denying the legitimacy of their right to live where they live, these are all warning signs that mean it's not frivolous to envisage the use of the term genocide." Al Jazeera