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How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village
- andrepd 9y agoExcellent journalism, as always. I have been following the case of the two imprisoned journalists; I hope for their release.
- M_Bakhtiari 9y agoPerhaps the US should send a few delegates from the bay area to explain to them that "dude, Buddhism is like, all about mellowing out and taking it chill, man!"
- pokemongoaway 9y agoIt's chiller than Islam!
- aptidude187 9y agoThis is not the kind of comment we need on Hacker News. Please take a look at the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- pokemongoaway 9y agoSo people can discuss politics here but my comment is totally off the wall. Got it.
- occidentalist 9y agoThis is akin to arguing that since nearly all software has bugs and security holes, that all software is equally buggy and insecure, which seems obviously false.
- sctb 9y agoThis is a seriously uncivil comment. Please don't post like this on Hacker News. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- eimg 9y agoI'm a Burmese Buddhist and strongly against both the arrest of reporters and killing unarmed people of any race/religion. But there is a hidden agenda behind such article. It used the word "Buddhist" many many times, such as Buddhist village, Buddhist neighbors, Buddhist community. The conflict is much more complicated than religious and those Buddhists mentioned are in fact local "Arakan" people. See following NY Times article, not to defend the killing or anything but to show the matter is much more complicated than it seems. The western medias have been entirely one-sided and barely listen to the other side of the story of local Arakan. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/world/asia/rohingya-myanmar-camps.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/world/asia/rohingya-my...
- inglor 9y agoExcuse my ignorance - but does Buddhism have a concept of "holy war" like in Christianity, Judaism and Islam? If so - are they using religious justification for the killings or is the killing purely ethnical? I don't want to spark arguments - so feel free to just post some reading material as a reply if you'd prefer to and I'll read it.
- Santosh83 9y agoNo, Buddhism as a religion doesn't, although you must understand that even in Christianity and Islam, the whole notion of "Holy War" is more a smokescreen to hide the much more prosaic underlying causes for war that have always been true throughout history: land, resources, human slave labour, control in general. And it doesn't matter what justification is used for killing, really. One must look at the case from all angles, as the your parent said. However war and killing has never resolved long running conflicts in history. It merely subsides for a while before rearing its head again. We really must put an end to quarrelling based on religion, race, ethnicity, and other puerile differences, or our species is never going to reach its potential on this planet.
- falcor84 9y agoI agree with everything you said, except for " it doesn't matter what justification is used for killing". I think that we should strive to understand the reasoning and aspects of human psychology/sociology that make some such "justifications" more effective than others, so we could do better at promoting peace.
- crankylinuxuser 9y agoI understand informing myself of the world events, for sake of a better education and world citizen. But what is there I can do from the Midwest US? There's not too damn much I can do. Post it on Facebook? It'll be drowned out the 80% other party political issues of the week. Give them money? I can't guarantee it'll get to the right place (or me deemed terrorist). Feels bitterweet honestly. Horrible situation, and there's absolutely nothing I can do that has any positive effective change.
- jonatanheyman 9y agoI totally get your frustration. One thing you could do is to write to your elected officials, and urge them to press for American and international sanctions agains Myanmar.
- crankylinuxuser 9y agoToo true, I could write to my congresscritters. However, here in Indiana, we're pretty heavily gerrymandered. It's republicans, and r-leaning democrats. I've written to them before regarding tech issues (net neutrality) that had direct bearing on us. I received either nothing or a form letter. Maybe it did have an impact, but it sure didn't feel like it to me.
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- occidentalist 9y agohttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/persecution-of-egypts-coptic-christians/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/persecution-of-egypts-coptic-ch... http://www.newsweek.com/christian-persecution-genocide-worse-ever-770462 http://www.newsweek.com/christian-persecution-genocide-worse... https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-christians-appeal-convictions-islamic-revolutionary-court/29017122.html https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-christians-appeal-convictions-i...
- vonmoltke 9y agoPlease don't post bare links, particularly multiple. At least add a brief summary of how their content adds to the discussion.
- occidentalist 9y agoChristians are heavily persecuted globally, particularly in the Middle East, and their plight goes largely ignored relative to the Rohingya. Compare the number of HN search results for "Rohingya" and "Coptic"/"Copt".
- aptidude187 9y agoI wonder why s/he is not using his/her main account to 'contribute' to this thread: user: occidentalist created: 29 minutes ago
- stevenh 9y agoRelated interview with a monk in Myanmar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvEBaAiy5b4&t=1m17s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvEBaAiy5b4&t=1m17s
- tasuki 9y agoAccording to Wikipedia, Ashin Wirathu is "the spiritual leader of the anti-Muslim movement in Burma". Calling this "interview with a monk" is like calling an interview with Donald Trump "interview with a politician". Correct, but perhaps not very helpful.