Daily Archives: July 3, 2014

United Behind So-Called ‘Rohingya” Genocide

by Maung Zarni    A poem in memory of the two Rohingya infants who became the well-publicized victims of Myanmar’s “Buddhist” genocide. We are a great nation of “Buddhist” Myanmar We send our waves of Metta for World Peace We boast about our Oxonian Nobel Lady who was once a (vastly mistaken) global icon of…

The Ethnic Cleansing Going On Right Now You Probably Haven’t Heard About: Burma, aka Myanmar

by Joseph Allchin   Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled their homes, their leaders tortured and killed. Is this what democracy in Burma was supposed to look like? Two years ago, I stood in searing heat along a dusty rural road in Burma, lined for miles with local people waiting with hope and…