Myanmar Nazi Monk Wirathu, TIME Magazine’s “Face of Buddhist Terror”
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 1 Feb 2016
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service
Myanmar’s “Nazi monk” Wirathu (and networks), plot to unleash new Islamophobic waves of violence against Myanmar’s Muslims and Rohingya.
The ultimate goal is to destabilize the society with the aim of preventing the election winning NLD and Aung San Suu Kyi from bringing any meaningful change.
Meaningful change involves significant reduction in the military’s economic, institutional and political control of the country.
The underlying and deep-seated anti-Muslim racism is there for political mobilization.
Themselves led by anti-Muslim racist generals and ex-military officers, the military-controlled state organs – especially the entire security sector and the vast general administration – will continue to provide the anti-Muslim attackers and hate-monkers a blanket impunity while leaving Muslim minorities – including the Rohingya extremely vulnerable to all kinds of organized-mob attacks including arsons and further displacement.
The weak discourse of human rights and democracy – which has not really been widely internalized even by the NLD leaders and former student activists themselves such as “88 generation group” – will be overwhelmed by another wave of crude, but powerful mass racism.
Watch this 5-minute clip portraying men with beards and/or Indian physical features as rapists and murderers.
https://www.facebook.com/ven.wirathumsy/videos/782381631905347/
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Dr. Maung Zarni is a Burmese activist blogger, Associate Fellow at the University of Malaya, a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment, founder and director of the Free Burma Coalition (1995-2004), a visiting fellow (2011-13) at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, London School of Economics, and a nonresident scholar with the Sleuk Rith Institute in Cambodia. His forthcoming book on Burma will be published by Yale University Press. He was educated in the US where he lived and worked for 17 years.
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