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> A couple of hours outside Yangon, the country’s largest city, U Aye Swe, an administrator for Sin Ma Kaw village, said he was proud to oversee one of Myanmar’
by TazeTSchnitzel 9y ago
> A couple of hours outside Yangon, the country’s largest city, U Aye Swe, an administrator for Sin Ma Kaw village, said he was proud to oversee one of Myanmar’s “Muslim-free” villages, which bar Muslims from spending the night, among other restrictions.
> “Kalar are not welcome here because they are violent and they multiply like crazy, with so many wives and children,” he said.
> Mr. Aye Swe admitted he had never met a Muslim before, adding, “I have to thank Facebook because it is giving me the true information in Myanmar.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/world/asia/myanmar-rohingya-ethnic-cleansing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/world/asia/myanmar-rohing...
I found this chilling when I saw it on Twitter.
- IBM 9y agoThis company is complicit in ethnic cleansing and the top comment in this thread is about activating interest groups to ward off regulation. It's outrageous.
- shawn-furyan 9y agoAAAND Zuck has been very publicly polishing up his presidential running shoes for 6 months...
- tim333 9y agoIn fairness to Zuck the news about this has only been out pretty recently and they may not have had time to fix things. Hope they do though.
- LyndsySimon 9y ago> This company is complicit in ethnic cleansing I mean no offense, but this comment coming from a user named "IBM" is a bit ironic considering that IBM provided infrastructure support to both the US Japanese internment camp programs and the Nazi concentration and extermination camp programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II