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Rohingya militants massacred Hindus in Myanmar, says Amnesty {convert to Islam or die}
The Guardian ^ | 22 May 2018 | Hannah Ellis Petersen

Posted on 05/22/2018 8:09:47 PM PDT by Cronos

The Rohingya military group Arsa carried out deadly massacres and abductions of the Hindu community in Myanmar’s Rakhine state last year, a new report by Amnesty International has revealed.

Testimony collected by Amnesty from dozens of witnesses and survivors of the attacks in Rakhine in August have detailed how up to 99 Hindu men, women and children were killed by Arsa militants armed with knives, swords and sticks. Only those who agreed to convert to Islam were spared.

They rounded up all 69 Hindu men, women, and children, before executing 53 of them. Some who agreed to convert from Hinduism to Islam were freed.

Raj Kumari, 18, who witnessed the attack, told Amnesty: “They slaughtered the men. We were told not to look at them. They had knives. They also had some spades and iron rods. We hid ourselves in the shrubs there and were able to see a little. My uncle, my father, my brother – they were all slaughtered.”

Another witness, Formila, 20, told Amnesty that the Arsa fighters had taken the men away to kill them, then “came back with blood on their swords, and blood on their hands”.

She said: “I saw men holding the heads and hair [of the women] and others were holding knives. And then they cut their throats.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bangladesh; burma; islamophobia; rakhine; rohinga; rohingya
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The report also details other Arsa attacks on 26 August, on the outskirts of Maungdaw town, near Myo Thu Gyi village, where more Hindus and Buddhists were killed.


1 posted on 05/22/2018 8:09:47 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

No wonder the Burmese Government drove these savages out.

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2 posted on 05/22/2018 8:10:43 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Lurker

I have absolutely ZERO sympathy for these monsters. And you’re right...it’s very understandable why they want to drive these monstrous invaders from Burma.


3 posted on 05/22/2018 8:13:23 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: Cronos

Quelle surprise.


4 posted on 05/22/2018 8:17:42 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: House Atreides

Every place not indigenous muslim, needs to purge all of these people out.


5 posted on 05/22/2018 8:21:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Cronos

If they lost an organization like the commie lovin lyin Dhimmi folks at Amnesty International then they must be doing something wrong.


6 posted on 05/22/2018 8:29:08 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: Cronos

The Pope will be really disappointed with Amnesty International.


7 posted on 05/22/2018 8:31:20 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Exactly


8 posted on 05/22/2018 8:38:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Cronos

I guess the Rohingya were driven to do this by the unbearable nature of the Hindus’ White Privilege?


9 posted on 05/22/2018 8:47:28 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Cronos

In India the Hindus have always given as well or better than they got when attacked by Muslims.

I wonder of Myanmar Hindus will do the same?


10 posted on 05/22/2018 8:56:41 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Cronos

Just a couple months ago we were supposed to save the poor Rohingya http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3638384/posts


11 posted on 05/22/2018 8:59:38 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Cronos

This is the weird Muslim sect that was making headlines around the world because they had been kicked out of their homes and no other country would take them.

The story was presented in isolation, as if for some strange reason these poor people (only women, children, and old men were shown in the press coverage) were being treated so badly, possibly for reasons involving racism.


12 posted on 05/22/2018 9:22:26 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Lurker

“No wonder the Burmese Government drove these savages out.”

In 1991, Aung San Suu Kyi (who has aged well, by the way), won the NOBLE PEACE PRIZE for her opposition to the military, who was running the country, which essentially forced her to never leave the country (or, if she did, she’d never get back in).

So when the latest band of the Religion of Peace raised hell in their territories, and were then driven out by the Burma Government, one WOULD have expected her to take the side of the terrorists (i.e.., the Muslims).

...But SHE DID NOT. She supported her government, essentially saying what we here already know about these ‘aggrieved’ people.


13 posted on 05/22/2018 9:28:24 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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Islam is a war plan.


14 posted on 05/22/2018 9:29:50 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Rebelbase; FreedomPoster
Both the Hindus and their attackers were the same ethnicity, Bengali (as as the people of Bangladesh "Bangla-desh" ie "bengali-land" and India's west bengal state)

The Hindu Bengalis are a tiny minority in the Rakhine state, unlike Buddhists as a whole in Myanmar or Hindus as a whole in India. Hence they will not be able to "give it back"

15 posted on 05/22/2018 10:05:57 PM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: RightGeek; BeadCounter

That was John McCain who wanted the USA to support Islamicjihadi terrorists in Myanmar just as he with Obama supported Islamicjihadi terrorists in Syria.


16 posted on 05/22/2018 10:07:53 PM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Steely Tom
It's not a sect

"Rakhine" state in Myanmar is in the western part of Myanmar,along the border with Bangladesh ("bangla-desh" = "bengali-land" where Bengalis are an ancient nation (2500+ years of history))

Many Bengalis converted to Izlam during Turco-Mongol rule (14th to 18th century) but a sizable hindu population remained

During British colonial times Bengalis were sent to Rakhine state and many remained. At the same time the British split up the Bengalis into hindus to the west (West Bengal) and Muslims to the east (East Bengal) -- later East Bengal became part of Pakistan and remained part of Pakistan until 1971 when the west Pakistanis committed genocide against their muslim brethren and Bangladesh fought and gained independence)

Anyway, so the Bengalis in Rakhine state aren't natives but the Muslims among them started calling themselves Rohingya. The Myanmarese call them "Bengalis"

They are all Sunni Muslims (the Hindus and Christians don't call themselves Rohingya) and now they are a sub-sect of Sunnis call Wahabbis -- Saudi version of Sunni Islam - the Saudis, thanks to money gained by selling oil to the west have funded the spread of Wahabbism in Afghanistan (Taliban, Al Qareda), Somalia (Al Shabab), nigeria (Boko haram), Palestine (Hamas), Pakistan, Indonese, the USA etc.

17 posted on 05/22/2018 10:14:03 PM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: BobL

and she was savaged by the Western media for that.


18 posted on 05/22/2018 10:14:52 PM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: BobL

Islam of the ishamelite’s greatest weapon is crying deceptively


19 posted on 05/23/2018 12:38:08 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Cronos

Yep, she was savaged - they wanted to take away her Nobel...rather than even consider the fact that she just might have a point.

It still ASTOUNDS me that a certain ‘religion’ can run around beheading people, throwing them off rooftops, start wars with their neighbors on a regular basis, fly airplanes into buildings, mutilate young girls, force young girls to ‘marry’ guys 4 times their age...and still be a ‘victim’ group.

And it’s all due to Western Leftists, the people Trump and other Republicans are supposed to ‘find common ground’ and ‘reach across the aisle’ to.


20 posted on 05/23/2018 3:19:50 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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