Muslims fleeing sectarian violence in Burma drown as crisis deepens

Guardian:

Many Rohingya people are attempting dangerous voyages to Bangladesh and Thailand, but most are sent back on arrival

Refugee camp

People displaced by the recent violence in Pauktaw pass the time at their shelters at Owntaw refugee camp for Muslims outside Sittwe. Photograph: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters

First one body appeared, floating in the waters of the Bay of Bengal, then another, and another, until those on board the little fishing boat that had gone to their rescue began to lose count.

Those bobbing lifeless among the waves had set out the night before, so desperate to escape the growing sectarian violence in Burma that they were prepared to risk boarding the dangerously overcrowded boat.

At least 130 had clambered aboard, but the boat foundered – whether it capsized because of the weight of bodies or because it struck rocks remains unclear.

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3 Replies to “Muslims fleeing sectarian violence in Burma drown as crisis deepens”

  1. Sorry, I have absolutely no pity for the Rohingas or any other muslims that are trying to colonize a non-muslim country. History presents a very clear picture of what happens to any country that allows them in. May the force be with the Burmese.

  2. If you add to this story, the history of Muslim holocausts in India and the surrounding area, then the Burmese are acting quite rationally and the rest of the area should follow suit. Those giant 100 foot Buddha statues that were in Afghanistan, they were not built by Muslims. Where are the descendants, both genetic and cultural, of the builders of those statues?

    I think I know and I think I know who did it to them. If the Burmese, and for that matter, the Londonese and Torontonese do not wish to follow them into anonymous extension, they had better take measures to guarantee their survival.

  3. Welcome to our future if we don’t wake up and fight now, of course by the time we want to refugee out there will be no place left to go.