Posted on 09/27/2017 12:03:04 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Thousands of cows and goats grazed in abandoned fields and wandered through charred out Rohingya Muslim villages after a military crackdown sent nearly a half-million members of Myanmar’s long-persecuted religious minorities fleeing across the border.
Now, more than a half-dozen witnesses told The Associated Press, soldiers and police are cashing in on the humanitarian catastrophe. They all spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns.
In violence-wracked northern Rakhine state, where village after village has been burned to the ground, security forces and local administrators have been collecting the livestock and bringing it by foot, truck and sometimes boat to Buddhist-controlled areas. The prized beasts are then being sold to traders and residents for $200 a head — a quarter of their value.
From there, cows are being taken to the Rakhine state capital, Sittwe, where more than 120,000 Rohingya Muslims displaced by earlier violence in 2012 have been living in sprawling, apartheid-style camps that have been denied access to food and medical assistance. The AP has photos of seized cows being traded behind the state parliament building.
The government has blocked U.N. agencies and international aid organizations from delivering aid to the camps for weeks and the Rohingya living in flimsy bamboo shelters are growing more desperate by the day. …
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The AP would rather the Mohammadan Satanists stay and the bodies of a half-million Burmese Buddhists be strewn about.
AP = Always on the side of evil.
>Thousands of cows and goats grazed in abandoned fields and wandered through charred out Rohingya Muslim villages after a military crackdown sent nearly a half-million members of Myanmar’s long-persecuted religious minorities fleeing across the border.
The Myanmar army just found a mass grave where a Hindu village used to be. The Rohingya rounded up all the men, women and children and killed shot them all to death for the crime of being a Hindu. Of course being Muslims they kept the young women sex slaves.
The Rohingya are getting everything they deserve.
[ The Myanmar army just found a mass grave where a Hindu village used to be. The Rohingya rounded up all the men, women and children and killed shot them all to death for the crime of being a Hindu. Of course being Muslims they kept the young women sex slaves.
The Rohingya are getting everything they deserve. ]
Abso-( expletive deleted ) - lutely!
Palestinians by any other name...
May the Buddhists prevail.
Cast out the war mongering conquistadors of Islam!They have raped, pillaged and killed quite enough.
Alahwahoo Rebar!
500 thousand have fled, but another 500 thousand still remain in Myanmar. That’s 500 thousand too many imo. Myanmar needs to drive them back to Bangladesh and build a fence, if they want to keep their country.
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