Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Burmese ethnic cleansing

I have written about the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingye in the past, even before their plight hit the headlines.

But now things are worse: There is an outbreak of both cholera and diphtheria in the refugee camps in Bangladesh.

NatGeo short film on the refugees




more about the UN and others working to fight this epidemic on my medical blog.

but while checking out articles for my medical blog, I found that they are not the only refugees from Burma who have fled to nearby countries: a lot of tribal ethnic minorities have fled also, mainly to Thailand:

Around 400,000 Karen people are without housing, and 128,000 are living in camps on the Thailand-Burma border. According to BMC, "79% of refugees living in these camps are Karen ethnicity."[31] 

So here in SEAsia, we not only have the problem of legal and non legal economic migrants, but have to cope with repeated episodes of huge number of refugees.

This article is about the Philippines accepting refugees from various wars over the last century.

and as this article points out, the tribal Burmese refugeesare the largest group of refugees being settled in the USA: and they now face another obstacle: An anti refugee president.


In Trump-speak, “refugee” is often used as a byword for conniving Muslims who might be sleeper agents of ISIS. But this indicates profound confusion — or deception — about the origins of US-bound refugees. The No. 1 group of modern refugees in America is neither Syrian nor Iraqi nor Muslim nor Arab. They’re Christians from Myanmar, also called Burma. In the past 10 years, roughly one in four US-bound refugees have come from Myanmar.

this sappy film is about these refugees,(many of whom settled in Iowa).



ok Trumpie boy: Who is my brother?

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