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The
West has turned a blind eye to the plight of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar in
an attempt to maintain its economic interests in the Asian country’s lucrative
market, a political analyst says.
“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,” Ramzy Baroud wrote in an article published on Press TV website on
Monday.
“Yet
their plight is suspiciously absent from regional and international priorities,
or is undercut by giddiness over the country’s ample resources of hydrocarbons,
minerals, gems and timber,” the analyst pointed out.
Over
a dozen Muslims were killed on June 3 when a mob of ethnic Rakhines, who are
mostly Buddhist, attacked a passenger bus in the Rakhine state in the west of
the country that borders Bangladesh.
Over
the past two years, throngs of ethnic Muslims have attempted to flee by boats
in the face of systematic oppression by the government.
Baroud
lashed out at the world’s mainstream media for their “passing and dispassionate
coverage” of the Rohingyas’ ordeal, noting that such media blackout takes place
against the backdrop of the minority group’s struggles “to escape imminent
death, torture or arrest at the hands of the Ethnic Buddhist Rakhine majority,
which has the full support of the Myanmar government.”
The
analyst also slammed the Myanmarese pro-democracy groups, particularly Aung San
Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, for “staying on fence” and “sidestepping
the hot-button issue.
The
West’s silence over the bloody crackdown on Rohingya Muslims comes as “Western
companies jumped into Myanmar” in an attempt “to offset the near-exclusive
Chinese influence over the Myanmar economy,” the writer said.
Myanmar’s
President Thein Sein insists that Rohingya Muslims must be expelled from the
country and sent to refugee camps run by the United Nations.
Myanmar's
current government, run by military figures and accused of massive rights
abuses, refuses to recognize nearly-one-million-strong Rohingya Muslims
community, which the UN calls one of the world’s most prosecuted people.
Myanmar
claims the Rohingya are not native and classify them as illegal migrants
although they have lived in the country for generations.
(press tv)
Mildly edited by PCF Web desk
Pakistan Cyber Force
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