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What do you think of this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP6YD...eature=related

http://www.google.com.pk/search?hl=e...sjOsga9s93zBg#

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It's all you ever see on Islamic Awakening, Ummah, and Sunni Forums.

Tragedy yes.

Scapegoat for Jihad?

[Sime]

A quick search revealed that this was actually reported on the BBC's Website on more than two occasions, Reuters, Huffington Post as well as Independent Burmese News Outlets showing that the UK parliament had been informed and had made a statement. There is also a Wikipedia page on the news story. If you go to the References section at the bottom there are dozen of news reports on the story.

Perhaps due to the fact that only a relatively small number (62) on deaths have been officially declared, as well as a ban on foreign news journalists in Burma have made this a difficult story to report or get any solid information on. Silent media? Certainly not.

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(Original post by Sime)
A quick search revealed that this was actually reported on the BBC's Website on more than two occasions, Reuters, Huffington Post as well as Independent Burmese News Outlets showing that the UK parliament had been informed and had made a statement. There is also a Wikipedia page on the news story. If you go to the References section at the bottom there are dozen of news reports on the story.

Perhaps due to the fact that only a relatively small number (62) on deaths have been officially declared, as well as a ban on foreign news journalists in Burma have made this a difficult story to report or get any solid information on. Silent media? Certainly not.

Why are u so quick to say that the media is not silent. THIS SHOULD BE ON TV ON THE MAIN NEWS, NOT EVERYONE CHECKS THE WEBSITES?? DUH

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(Original post by Sime)
A quick search revealed that this was actually reported on the BBC's Website on more than two occasions, Reuters, Huffington Post as well as Independent Burmese News Outlets showing that the UK parliament had been informed and had made a statement. There is also a Wikipedia page on the news story. If you go to the References section at the bottom there are dozen of news reports on the story.

Perhaps due to the fact that only a relatively small number (62) on deaths have been officially declared, as well as a ban on foreign news journalists in Burma have made this a difficult story to report or get any solid information on. Silent media? Certainly not.

I meant TV. We don't see anything on our electronic media and my friends said there is nothing on BBC and CNN and the likes (TV not print media).

I don't know, those cavemen taliban don't allow journalist to poke into their business. These TV channels manage to get their footages without a full story or proves.

The pictures are too tragic. There should be an investigation or whatever. UN should have done it's part.

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The widespread killings of Rohingya Muslims in Burma—a.k.a. Myanmar—have received only passing and dispassionate coverage in most media. What they actually warrant is widespread outrage and decisive efforts to bring further human rights abuses to an immediate halt.

“Burmese helicopter set fire to three boats carrying nearly 50 Muslim Rohingyas fleeing sectarian violence in western Burma in an attack that is believed to have killed everyone on board,” reported Radio Free Europe on July 12.

Why would anyone take such fatal risks? Refugees are attempting to escape imminent death, torture or arrest at the hands of the Ethnic Buddhist Rakhine majority, which has the full support of the Burmese government.

Recently, Clinton held a meeting with Burma’s President Thein Sein, who is now being branded as another success story for US diplomacy. On the agenda are US concerns regarding the “lack of transparency in Burma’s investment environment and the military’s role in the economy” (CNN, July 12). Thein Sein, however, is guilty of much greater sins, for he is providing a dangerous political discourse that could possibly lead to more killings, or even genocide. The ‘reformist’ president told the UN that “refugee camps or deportation is the solution for nearly a million Rohingya Muslims,” according to ABC Australia. He offered to send the Rohingyas away “if any third country would accept them.”

The Rohingyas are currently undergoing one of the most violent episodes of their history, and their suffering is one of the most pressing issues anywhere in the world. Yet their plight is suspiciously absent from regional and international priorities, or is undercut by giddiness over the country’s “ample resources of hydro-carbons, minerals, gems and timber.”

Meanwhile, the stateless and defenseless Rohingyas continue to suffer and die. Those lucky to make it to Bangladesh are being turned back. Aside from few courageous journalists—indifferent to the country’s promise for ‘democracy’ and other fables—most are simply looking the other way. This tragic attitude must immediately change if human rights matter in the least.

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/...-human-rights/

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(Original post by Sime)
A quick search revealed that this was actually reported on the BBC's Website on more than two occasions, Reuters, Huffington Post as well as Independent Burmese News Outlets showing that the UK parliament had been informed and had made a statement. There is also a Wikipedia page on the news story. If you go to the References section at the bottom there are dozen of news reports on the story.

Perhaps due to the fact that only a relatively small number (62) on deaths have been officially declared, as well as a ban on foreign news journalists in Burma have made this a difficult story to report or get any solid information on. Silent media? Certainly not.

well if the bbc reported a massacre and a genocide only two times then you can realy see what the western worldis like. if it was christians killed then imagin the christian reaction from christian nation (possiable nuclear retaliation).

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Editorial Desk
The Brunei Times
Publication Date : 19-07-2012

The plight of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is finally getting international attention after recent incidents of violence against one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Not only the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and other bodies have raised concerns over brutal anti-Rohingya violence but also the international media is now highlighting the state-backed persecution of the hapless people.

Recently The New York Times published an article on the issue terming the violence against Rohingyas as "state-supported ethnic cleansing".

However a recent statement by Myanmar President Thein Sein suggests that he is unmoved by the international criticism. The president believes that the only solution to the issue is to expel around 800,000 Rohingyas from Myanmar. "We will send them away if any third country would accept them," he told UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres during a meeting last week.

Although the UNHCR rejected the shocking suggestion, the statement of the President has lent credence to reports that Myanmar government is not ready to give any rights to the Rohingyas who have been living in the country since at least two centuries.

It also shows that the recent much touted political reforms have not changed the bitter realities for Rohingyas. Surprisingly, even Aung San Suu Kyi, who is globally hailed as a champion of democracy and human rights, is silent over this grave injustice in her own backyard. Earlier this month, OIC chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, appealed to her to speak out to end the violence.

So far it seems that mere appeals and statements by the world bodies will not work. The OIC may have to convene its meeting to send a strong signal to the Myanmar government that the Muslim Ummah would not accept the ethnic cleansing of a Myanmar minority.

http://www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=33686&sec=3

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(Original post by kaboon-supreme)
well if the bbc reported a massacre and a genocide only two times then you can realy see what the western worldis like. if it was christians killed then imagin the christian reaction from christian nation (possiable nuclear retaliation).

Can we not be sarcastic please?

It's about more than 21,000 humans dying and the world doing nothing. Christians or Muslims wouldn't really matter. If innocent men, women and children are getting crushed like this, isn't it enough for us to feel the pain?

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Huge demonstration in Punjab against Muslim massacres in Myanmar

http://twocircles.net/2012jul21/huge...s_myanmar.html