Dr Kevin Barrett (born February 1959 ) is an American academic, a Muslim convert, a member of the Scientific Panel for the Investigation of 9/11 (SPINE), and a founding member of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance (MUJCA) (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Barrett ) ,
Dr Kevin Barrett interviewed by Iranian Press TV (2013) : “Well what hasn’t happened is that the international community and particularly the West has not pressured the government in Myanmar to stop the violence and to stop this genocide or ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people. Why is that? Quite often we do hear the West making loud noises about human rights and sometimes in situations where the violations of human rights are a lot, less extreme than they are in Myanmar. And I think the answer is in this particular situation, the West and particularly the USA has opened up good relations with the Myanmar government just at the moment that the Myanmar government has started to commit and countenance genocide on its territory. And the US is basically playing a geo-strategic game, is trying to take Myanmar out of the orbit of China and place it more firmly into the Western orbit. The US is deluging Myanmar with representatives trying to establish more trade ties, more business relationships, the money is flowing more than ever and rather than use the pressure and the leverage that they certainly do have to stop these very, very large scale abuses and this horrible suffering of the Rohingya ethnic cleansing victims… US is ringing China with military bases. There is a containment of China strategy going on, Obama has called it the shift to Asia . They are winding down the Middle Eastern war on terror, although you would know that from what is going on in Syria and they are ramping up the future war on China to prevent China from continuing to rise and taking its place as the world’s biggest economy and most powerful technological country.
So it is a big geo-strategic game and the Rohingya Muslims are caught in the middle.” [1].
[1]. “West will never pressure Myanmar over Muslim genocide: Dr Kevin Barrett”, Press TV, 20 April 2013: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/20/299328/west-will-never-stop-myanmar-genocide/ .