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MSF are treating wounded refugees, so there is definitely proof of violence. There are 800,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh [1]. They must be running

• tptacek 9y ago
  It's political. For reasons I don't fully understand, part of the identity surface area for a certain (hard to articulate, but let's call it "Trump-sympathetic") political orientation has come to include "the Rohingya Genocide is manufactured". It's difficult to understand why that would be a useful stance; it seems like pure malice, since neither side of this conflict is particularly germane to US partisan politics. But if you dig in, you're going to discover that Rohingya Truthism is a phenomenon of the performative branch of the right wing.
  • Mikeb85 9y ago
    And part of left-wing identity is to ignore all evidence and history which would ever suggest a particular people or religion could commit atrocities themselves lest those left-wingers ever be accused of being racist. There's actual history to the Rohingya conflict, it didn't come out of a vacuum and your comment just hand-waves all that away.