Iranian Press TV (2013): “A political analyst says 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. The comments came after the UN refugee agency warned of a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Myanmar as the country’s displaced Rohingya Muslims face the threat of monsoon floods. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday said it is “seriously concerned about the risks facing over 60,000 displaced people in flood-prone areas and in makeshift shelters.” Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar account for about five percent of the country’s population of nearly 60 million. They have been persecuted and faced torture, neglect, and repression since the country's independence in 1948.” [1].
Dr Kevin Barrett (American academic, 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 ) , 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].
Genocide Watch on Myanmar Rohingya Genocide (2013): “Estimates suggest that 300 Muslims have been killed and up to 300,000 displaced since the military junta nominally ceded power in 2011. No longer is this violence restricted to the state of Rakhine where the majority of Burmese Muslims live” [2].
[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/ .
[2]. Dom Hammond, “The Genocide Happening Right Now That Nobody Is Talking About”, Genocide Watch, 28 August 2013: http://www.genocidewatch.org/myanmar.html .
[Editor: nearly 1 million Rohingyas have now fled Myanmar. For further details, context and assessment see:
“Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/home .
Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm .
“Experts: US did 9-11”: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/ .]