Tag: Rohingya refugee crisis

What is it that is not sounding quite right about the Rohingya refugee crisis? That thing we’re not quite able to put our finger on? Ah! There it is. The reason for it! Why on earth has the Myanmar army led by Nobel peace prize hero, Aung San Suu Kyi, suddenly begun picking on this innocent folk called the Rohingya, who have just been going about their business all these decades? Perhaps it’s because they haven’t merely been going about their business. A violent Islamist group called the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) is forcing all Rohingya males – even very young boys – to attack Rakhine Buddhists and other civilians and to provoke the Myanmar army into violence. This group has been getting its funding and weapons from Islamic countries like Pakistan and Malaysia and its tra...