After reading a piece about fighting by an ethnic group in South Eastern Myanmar, I saw similar themes in their struggle to exist on their land while threatened. If a political solution is to be found, would you agree that the people of the different regions - Arakan, South East Myanmar, North East Myanmar, might be able to unite if they knew of one another’s similar struggles? Certain high-school educated members of each community could use their education in Burmese language and culture to do so, couldn’t they? It would involve a different kind of fight.
Thank you for this piece which explains how the for the most part unarmed, peaceful Rohingya farmers were able to be attacked by the Myanmar Army and for that to appear necessary because of ARSA’s violence (in self-defense initially, at least.)
I meant that the piece helped explain the timing of renewed violence, which one might have hoped to see reduced given the presence of a newly elected regime. Though not an expert, i seem to have understood that anti-minority actions were joined with policies disenfranchising the Rohingya since the 1980’s, as you point out.
After reading a piece about fighting by an ethnic group in South Eastern Myanmar, I saw similar themes in their struggle to exist on their land while threatened. If a political solution is to be found, would you agree that the people of the different regions - Arakan, South East Myanmar, North East Myanmar, might be able to unite if they knew of one another’s similar struggles? Certain high-school educated members of each community could use their education in Burmese language and culture to do so, couldn’t they? It would involve a different kind of fight.
Thank you for this piece which explains how the for the most part unarmed, peaceful Rohingya farmers were able to be attacked by the Myanmar Army and for that to appear necessary because of ARSA’s violence (in self-defense initially, at least.)
Hi Ann - no that would not be the correct reading of this. Myanmar's genocidal policies preceded ARSA attacks by decades.
I meant that the piece helped explain the timing of renewed violence, which one might have hoped to see reduced given the presence of a newly elected regime. Though not an expert, i seem to have understood that anti-minority actions were joined with policies disenfranchising the Rohingya since the 1980’s, as you point out.