Trump’s Muslim Ban Emboldens Myanmar Racists: Suu Kyi’s Sole Muslim Adviser Shot Dead Upon Return from Jakarta
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 30 Jan 2017
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service
 A gun man pictured here shot dead Ko Ni (holding a child) at point blank range at Yangon International Airport, 29 Jan |
29 Jan 2017 – “Muslim Insurgency” NOT a game changer, but this political killing is.
Myanmar Generals don’t like inter-communal peace & reconciliation.
Shooting U Ko Ni dead in the head at a high profile place like Yangon Airport, upon arrival from the official visit to Jakarta to go and study peaceful, interfaith life in Indonesia, was, in my view, to make the point that Muslims assuming advisory positions to NLD and ASSK would cost life.
Additionally, it is meant to further inflame religious bigotry as the news of the killing is widely reported and shared on Burmese language social media.
This is a calculated political move, not simply a homicide.
Donald Trump’s official anti-Muslim policies and Muslim refugee ban may have emboldened and inspired this very first anti-Muslim political assassination in Myanmar.
Here is Ko Ni’s organizational efforts/background:
http://www.usmuslims.com/muslim-lawyers-association-formed-in-myanmar-1829h.htm
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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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I condemn senseless killing. There should not be any extra judicial death sentence. However, the Muslim community in all countries must take a step forward to merge with the main stream of the country they reside in.Maintaining a separatist attitude and not observing Law of the Land makes Muslims a separate entity and vulnerable to attack by the majority community of the country they live in.
Law of the Land is supreme. The Constitution of the country wherein Muslims live must be observed in letter and spirit.