Rohingya Solidarity Protest at Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok

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Rohingya Solidarity Protest at Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok

By Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

Protesters in front of the Myanmar Embassy on Sathorn Road in Bangkok on Friday. Image: @Happybirdyday / Twitter

 

BANGKOK — Thai Muslims expressed condemnation Friday in the capital and Deep South for the ongoing clashes in western Burma which have killed an estimated 80 ethnic Rohingya.

 

More than 70 people gathered at the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok at a protest organized by the official agency representing Muslims in Thailand. Hundreds of people also joined in prayer at a mosque in the southern border province of Pattani in solidarity with the Rohingya, a Muslim-majority ethnic group once described by the United Nations as among the most persecuted people on earth.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/asean/2016/11/25/rohingya-solidarity-protest-myanmar-embassy-bangkok/

 

 

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2016-11-26

[Prbkk]

It is to be hoped that the old dragon who is presiding ove this ethnic cleansing will be stripped of her Nobel Peace Prize. She is deeply complicit in this situation.

[DM07]

She is such a disappointment! ^^


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[NongKhaiKid]

53 minutes ago, Prbkk said:

It is to be hoped that the old dragon who is presiding ove this ethnic cleansing will be stripped of her Nobel Peace Prize. She is deeply complicit in this situation.

This wouldn't be the lady who once refused to comment on reports and video of Burmese , including Buddhist monks, committing serious acts of violence etc against Rohingya saying she " didn't know enough about it " ?

She went very quickly from a human rights campaigner to a politician not prepared to risk upsetting her power base.

[elgordo38]

I count over 5 people they are breaking the law. Round em up. 

[Grubster]

How long did these folks protest over all the school teachers and others murdered down south?

[Bluespunk]

29 minutes ago, Grubster said:

How long did these folks protest over all the school teachers and others murdered down south?

People from both faiths are being murdered in the South.

 

All sides in that conflict have committed terrible atrocities.

 

However, why should that stop people, affected by the ethnic cleansing going on in Burma, protesting this state sponsored genocide?

 

[Grubster]

1 minute ago, Bluespunk said:

People from all faiths are being murdered in the South.

 

All sides in that conflict have committed terrible atrocities.

 

However, why should that stop people affected by the ethnic cleansing going on in Burma protesting this state sponsored genocide?

 

Well I can tell you that as soon as the Muslims start to protest their own atrocities and do something about them rather than just drag the much hated infidels into the mix.  Than I will consider caring about the atrocities which are mostly in retaliation for things they have done to their neighbors in the past or present.   What other people in the world kill school teachers for teaching girls. It is Burma's right to not allow sharia law in their country, and Thailand's too.

[khunken]

1 minute ago, Grubster said:

Well I can tell you that as soon as the Muslims start to protest their own atrocities and do something about them rather than just drag the much hated infidels into the mix.  Than I will consider caring about the atrocities which are mostly in retaliation for things they have done to their neighbors in the past or present.   What other people in the world kill school teachers for teaching girls. It is Burma's right to not allow sharia law in their country, and Thailand's too.

 

The usual hatred.

In case you don't know the separists in the deep south regard all government employees as being a party to their suppression - rightly or wrongly.

I don't suppose you bothered to educate yourself about atrocities committed against Muslims there. Tak Bai (around 100 shot or smothered like animals) and Kru Se (another 20 or so shot in cold blood) and many tortured and killed in custody.

 

Myanmar is just behaving like the authorities in the south of Thailand because of fear of a group of fascist monks & their brainwashed followers who regard Buddism as the only religion and have even protested against the government including a Christian in it's appointees.

[Bluespunk]

20 minutes ago, Grubster said:

Well I can tell you that as soon as the Muslims start to protest their own atrocities and do something about them rather than just drag the much hated infidels into the mix.  Than I will consider caring about the atrocities which are mostly in retaliation for things they have done to their neighbors in the past or present.   What other people in the world kill school teachers for teaching girls. It is Burma's right to not allow sharia law in their country, and Thailand's too.

Burma is acting as it is because of bigotry hate and intolerance.

 

It has nothing to do with sharia law nor what happened in the past. The Rohingya have been in Burma since before the french revolution. They are as Burmese as any other ethnic group in that country.

 

It has everything to do with religious hate but not on the part of those suffering this current genocide.

 

Muslim clerics, scholars and followers of the faith have condemned the actions of those bigots acting in the name of their faith, but you don't want to see that do you?

 

 Doesn't fit your agenda, does it.

 

I await your response of ''they haven't done enough for me'' with depressing certainty.

 

 

[Prbkk]

One wonders if any of the idiotic universities lining up to confer honorary degrees is now having second thoughts ( including the Australian one that tried to give an honorary degree to Tommy Suharto until blocked by the Oz govt). The active persecution in Myanmar had started well before the conga line of suckholes appeared in their academic robes.

[Mosha]

It is to be hoped that the old dragon who is presiding ove this ethnic cleansing will be stripped of her Nobel Peace Prize. She is deeply complicit in this situation.

She's a politician, if she spoke out, she'd be out of a job come the election, if not before.

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[Grubster]

4 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Burma is acting as it is because of bigotry hate and intolerance.

 

It has nothing to do with sharia law nor what happened in the past. The Rohingya have been in Burma since before the french revolution. They are as Burmese as any other ethnic group in that country.

 

It has everything to do with religious hate but not on the part of those suffering this current genocide.

 

Muslim clerics, scholars and followers of the faith have condemned the actions of those bigots acting in the name of their faith, but you don't want to see that do you?

 

 Doesn't fit your agenda, does it.

 

I await your response of ''they haven't done enough for me'' with depressing certainty.

 

 

The most hated type of person in the world right now is the European and American White male. We are the bringers of all evil you know.       I don't have an agenda other than to try to be nice to the people around me.    You spew your words around like facts, but they are not facts, they are figments of your agenda. Maybe you should check into the past of these people a little closer so you can see both sides of the hatred there.    This crap has been going on for centuries and you can't stop it nor can I.

[Bluespunk]

2 minutes ago, Grubster said:

The most hated type of person in the world right now is the European and American White male. We are the bringers of all evil you know.       I don't have an agenda other than to try to be nice to the people around me.    You spew your words around like facts, but they are not facts, they are figments of your agenda. Maybe you should check into the past of these people a little closer so you can see both sides of the hatred there.    This crap has been going on for centuries and you can't stop it nor can I.

I know the history but do not allow an agenda to dictate which side to support nor do I try to link completely unrelated conflicts nor do I try to justify the genocidal ethnic cleansing taking place in Burma at present. 

 

Make judgements based on what people do, not the faith they follow.

 

PS: I also do not share your paranoia about ''the most hated type of person''.

[Sphere]

[Grubster]

4 hours ago, khunken said:

 

The usual hatred.

In case you don't know the separists in the deep south regard all government employees as being a party to their suppression - rightly or wrongly.

I don't suppose you bothered to educate yourself about atrocities committed against Muslims there. Tak Bai (around 100 shot or smothered like animals) and Kru Se (another 20 or so shot in cold blood) and many tortured and killed in custody.

 

Myanmar is just behaving like the authorities in the south of Thailand because of fear of a group of fascist monks & their brainwashed followers who regard Buddism as the only religion and have even protested against the government including a Christian in it's appointees.

So again I ask what other group of people anywhere in the word kills school teachers for teaching girls.  They do it man and most of the rest know who is doing it without stopping it.  There is hate and war for many other reasons but that one could teach just about anybody to hate.

[Grubster]

2 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

I know the history but do not allow an agenda to dictate which side to support nor do I try to link completely unrelated conflicts nor do I try to justify the genocidal ethnic cleansing taking place in Burma at present. 

 

Make judgements based on what people do, not the faith they follow.

 

PS: I also do not share your paranoia about ''the most hated type of person''.

Its not paranoia its awareness.   I don't claim to know that much about it, but have read quite a bit mostly supporting the muslim side of it but I believe the hatred has more to do with their actions past or present than with who they are. At some point when an identified evil from a given group or area keeps doing harm to you and yours you will retaliate.  Then the hatred builds and the strongest prevail by eliminating the weaker group.   Thousands of years proving this time and again.  It will never change as greed, jealousy and hate rule our nature. Good luck man, save the world.  I'm gonna just sit back and try to enjoy my retirement that I worked forty years for.

[khunken]

28 minutes ago, Grubster said:

So again I ask what other group of people anywhere in the word kills school teachers for teaching girls.  They do it man and most of the rest know who is doing it without stopping it.  There is hate and war for many other reasons but that one could teach just about anybody to hate.

 

You are now continuing your vitriol against the separists in Thailand. This is deflection as the topic is about the Rohingya in Myanmar. Yes, the virtually genocidal treatment of the Rohingya would be a justification for them to hate the Myanmar government who are allowing the fascists & military to kill, burn and drive them into Bangladesh where they are not citizens and are being driven back to their hellish existence.

 

Like Bluespunk I make judgements on suffering people whatever their religion which you are apparently unable to do.

[Bluespunk]

23 minutes ago, Grubster said:

Its not paranoia its awareness.   I don't claim to know that much about it, but have read quite a bit mostly supporting the muslim side of it but I believe the hatred has more to do with their actions past or present than with who they are. At some point when an identified evil from a given group or area keeps doing harm to you and yours you will retaliate.  Then the hatred builds and the strongest prevail by eliminating the weaker group.   Thousands of years proving this time and again.  It will never change as greed, jealousy and hate rule our nature. Good luck man, save the world.  I'm gonna just sit back and try to enjoy my retirement that I worked forty years for.

What is happening in Burma is ethnic cleansing, genocide based on hatred, bigotry, intolerance and a refusal to accept the Rohingya are as Burmese as any other ethnic group in that country.

 

It has nothing to do with history. 

 

You are lucky you can enjoy the retirement that you worked for, thousands of Rohingya are at present being denied that right.

 

But, hey don't let that bother you...

 

@#@# them, eh...

[Grubster]

30 minutes ago, khunken said:

 

You are now continuing your vitriol against the separists in Thailand. This is deflection as the topic is about the Rohingya in Myanmar. Yes, the virtually genocidal treatment of the Rohingya would be a justification for them to hate the Myanmar government who are allowing the fascists & military to kill, burn and drive them into Bangladesh where they are not citizens and are being driven back to their hellish existence.

 

Like Bluespunk I make judgements on suffering people whatever their religion which you are apparently unable to do.

Well it looks like a protest wasn't good enough for them today. Cast your judgments at that.

[Grubster]

31 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

What is happening in Burma is ethnic cleansing, genocide based on hatred, bigotry, intolerance and a refusal to accept the Rohingya are as Burmese as any other ethnic group in that country.

 

It has nothing to do with history. 

 

You are lucky you can enjoy the retirement that you worked for, thousands of Rohingya are at present being denied that right.

 

But, hey don't let that bother you...

 

@#@# them, eh...

I won't thank you.  The Thais they murdered today won't be able to retire either.

[khunken]

7 minutes ago, Grubster said:

Well it looks like a protest wasn't good enough for them today. Cast your judgments at that.

 

Troll

[Bluespunk]

4 minutes ago, Grubster said:

I won't thank you.  The Thais they murdered today won't be able to retire either.

Really, Rohingya murdered Thais today?

 

Where was that then?

 

[Grubster]

5 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Really, Rohingya murdered Thais today?

 

Where was that then?

 

Maybe Rohingya's yeah, Muslims sure.

[Bluespunk]

6 minutes ago, Grubster said:

Maybe Rohingya's yeah, Muslims sure.

So you do have an agenda then.

 

I've made clear that the atrocities committed by both sides in the south are equally wrong.

 

But you can't do that.

 

You only want to see Muslims as being the ones guilty of atrocities.

 

Hence your inability to condemn the ethnic cleansing taking place in Burma and your condemnation of those protesting state sponsored genocide.

[Grubster]

7 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

So you do have an agenda then.

 

I've made clear that the atrocities committed by both sides in the south are equally wrong.

 

But you can't do that.

 

You only want to see Muslims as being the ones guilty of atrocities.

 

Hence your inability to condemn the ethnic cleansing taking place in Burma and your condemnation of those protesting state sponsored genocide.

amen brother

[Bluespunk]

“My request today is simple. Today. Tomorrow. Next week. Find somebody, anybody, that’s different than you. Somebody that has made you feel ill-will or even hateful. Somebody whose life decisions have made you uncomfortable. Somebody who practices a different religion than you do. Somebody who has been lost to addiction. Somebody with a criminal past. Somebody who dresses “below” you. Somebody with disabilities. Somebody who lives an alternative lifestyle. Somebody without a home.

Somebody that you, until now, would always avoid, always look down on, and always be disgusted by.

Reach your arm out and put it around them.

And then, tell them they’re all right. Tell them they have a friend. Tell them you love them.

If you or I wanna make a change in this world, that’s where we’re gonna be able to do it. That’s where we’ll start.

Every. Single. Time.” 
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing

[Thechook]

5 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

“My request today is simple. Today. Tomorrow. Next week. Find somebody, anybody, that’s different than you. Somebody that has made you feel ill-will or even hateful. Somebody whose life decisions have made you uncomfortable. Somebody who practices a different religion than you do. Somebody who has been lost to addiction. Somebody with a criminal past. Somebody who dresses “below” you. Somebody with disabilities. Somebody who lives an alternative lifestyle. Somebody without a home.

Somebody that you, until now, would always avoid, always look down on, and always be disgusted by.

Reach your arm out and put it around them.

And then, tell them they’re all right. Tell them they have a friend. Tell them you love them.

If you or I wanna make a change in this world, that’s where we’re gonna be able to do it. That’s where we’ll start.

Every. Single. Time.” 
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing

Ok I choose Neil Prakash.  He is different to me in every way. 

 

[Bluespunk]

5 hours ago, Thechook said:

Ok I choose Neil Prakash.  He is different to me in every way. 

 

Yawn

[baboon]

On 26/11/2016 at 6:25 AM, NongKhaiKid said:

This wouldn't be the lady who once refused to comment on reports and video of Burmese , including Buddhist monks, committing serious acts of violence etc against Rohingya saying she " didn't know enough about it " ?

She went very quickly from a human rights campaigner to a politician not prepared to risk upsetting her power base.

Yes but let's be honest, this was always going to happen. Obama received such a build up it was always going to end up in disappointment. Likewise I expect to see a good number of disgruntled Trump supporters in the years ahead.

Then there are the post Soviet peoples who thought everything would be peachy after the dismantling of the USSR and Warsaw Pact. Is life really all that much better for more than a few?

 

I am reminded of the words of the late Viktor Chernomyrdin, former Prime Minister of Russia: "We hoped for the best, but it turned out as always."