Why International Media is silent about the massacre in Burma? or I’m the only one who haven’t seen news about Burma in International column (in news) published in any local/international newspaper? I read/hear news published in private blogs, FB, Twitter of individuals about Burma but yet to see published by any media (internationally). Why is that?
By searching online I came across these news.
An argument between a Buddhist couple and the Muslim owners of a gold shop in the Burmese city of Meikhtila escalated into a riot involving hundreds of people last week. The sectarian violence escalated over the weekend and has led to the deaths of dozens of people, the displacement of at least 10,000 more and the destruction of property.
“20 boys from a Muslim school were cut down and burned on the spot”
“A Muslim community that dates back many generations has been wiped out”.
Many buddhist using stickers to identity themselve. They are boycotting business with Muslims.
Mosques and other Muslim buildings have been attacked by crowds of Buddhists in towns on the road from Rangoon to Pyay, about 200km (125 miles) to the north.
The US has warned its citizens to avoid travel to parts of Burma due to the violence, which began a week ago.
A state of emergency is in force in the central town of Meiktila, where some 40 deaths have been reported.
Soldiers clearing debris from buildings torched by angry mobs retrieved eight more bodies in the town, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported on Tuesday.
In Bago region to the north of Rangoon, state television said Muslim religious buildings, shops and houses had been damaged.
Residents outside the capital said they did not feel safe.
“The situation is better than the previous day but we can’t sleep well at night,” one man, a Buddhist, told Reuters. “People are still afraid of buildings being set on fire because there isn’t security everywhere.”
A Muslim man said: “We are safe during the day, but we cannot go back to our houses because security personnel are only on the main roads. But there has been no more attacking and destroying houses. There are just thieves who steal from burnt buildings.”
I was reading some history about Burmese and found that Pakistani nationals and Burmese citizens who have ancestral links to Pakistan, their history predates the partition of India and the independence of Pakistan in 1947. Similarly, Burmese Indians who have lived in Burma for many centuries, most of the ancestors of the current Burmese Indian community emigrated to Burma from the start of British rule in the mid 19th century to the separation of British Burma from British India in 1937, known as a group of people of Indian ethnicity who live in Myanmar (Burma).
While the idea of monks actually leading rioters may seem unusual, certain details make it less so. Burma’s large and much feared military intelligence service, the Directorate of Defense Security Intelligence, is commonly believed to have agents working within the monk-hood. Human Rights Watch also reported that monks in the 2001 riots were carrying mobile phones, a luxury not readily available to the Burmese population, as very few without government connections can afford them. It is also reported that there was a clear split between monks who provoked violence and those who did not. It has been suggested by Human Rights Watch and others that these facts may reflect the presence of agents provocateur among the monks.
