The analyst also slammed the Myanmarese pro-democracy groups, particularly Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, for “staying on fence” and “sidestepping the hot-button issue.”
The West has turned a blind eye to the plight of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar in an attempt to maintain its economic interests in the Asian country’s lucrative market, a political analyst says.
“The Rohingyas are currently undergoing one of the most violent episodes of their history, and their suffering is one of the most pressing issues anywhere in the world,” Ramzy Baroud wrote in an article published on Press TV website on Monday.
“Yet their plight is suspiciously absent from regional and international priorities, or is undercut by giddiness over the country’s ample resources of hydrocarbons, minerals, gems and timber,” the analyst pointed out.
Over a dozen Muslims were killed on June 3 when a mob of ethnic Rakhines, who are mostly Buddhist, attacked a passenger bus in the Rakhine state in the west of the country that borders Bangladesh. Full story...
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The West has turned a blind eye to the plight of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar in an attempt to maintain its economic interests in the Asian country’s lucrative market, a political analyst says.
“The Rohingyas are currently undergoing one of the most violent episodes of their history, and their suffering is one of the most pressing issues anywhere in the world,” Ramzy Baroud wrote in an article published on Press TV website on Monday.
“Yet their plight is suspiciously absent from regional and international priorities, or is undercut by giddiness over the country’s ample resources of hydrocarbons, minerals, gems and timber,” the analyst pointed out.
Over a dozen Muslims were killed on June 3 when a mob of ethnic Rakhines, who are mostly Buddhist, attacked a passenger bus in the Rakhine state in the west of the country that borders Bangladesh. Full story...
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