Stop and/condemn the neo-fascist, racist anti-Rohingya petition campaign: Un-Buddhist, un-Christian and disgusting by Dr. Zarni

Even if the Rohingyas were not native to what we call Burma today, our birthplace, the inhuman and inhumane treatment of nearly 1 million Rohingya in a semi-concentration camp should be UNACCEPTABLE to any nationals from Burma, who think they have human decency and believe in the responsibility to other human beings simply out of common humanity.  

Remember "Chin" as we know it today didn't exist as such until the early 1900, and the Chin as a people, a collective, is the direct result of colonial missionaries.  Within 50 years since they emerged as a people whose new core and collective identity evolves around Christianity, the Chin were recognzied as a signatory to Panglong Agreement, the foundaing document of modern Burma.  I am glad some Chin people are speaking out.  

It looks like not only do we have a government in power that is deeply racist, sexist and Neanderthal but many of our own fellow Bama and Rakhins also drink from the same neo-fascist, racist ideological well.   Adolf Hitler would certainly have a fair hearing in most parts of Burma, it seems.

Mein Kempf, Nazism's required reading written by Hitler, is known to be popular with certain dissident circles along Thai-Burmese borders.

Let's just be honest.

Who is a Bama?  What is this sick notion of "purity" of blood?  

We Bama don't even really know with clarity where we came from except vaguely that we evolved from the Pyu who built early settlements around Prome (or Pyay).  

So, the need to be more understanding, welcoming and compassionate towards the most oppressed and downtrodden is more pronounced among those of us who find our own birthplace unbearable and hence live in more humane and human places OUTSIDE of our own country.  

Further, Burma has always been a blessed country - population density, rich resources, etc. Even the old feudal kings of the old Burma were more enlightened and more strategic about handling migration towards Burma.  To  encourage greater increase in labor, military strength, etc., the kings in those days - I am talking about Kaungbaung Dynasty (1752-1885) -- had an immigration policy to attract voluntary in-migration into Burmese territories:  immigrants to Burma were exempted from paying taxes to the Crown and being called to serve in the military expedition for the first 5 years.  Through a less desirable means, that is, conquests, POWs from amongst Siamese,Portugeese, Assamese, Manipurans, etc were also resettled in different locations throughout the kindom and allowed them to work the land and pursue their own livelihoods.    

There were  French, Armenian, and other Europeans who voluntarily settled in Burma.  The invasion of Rohingya, this rather misguided  and most racist anti-Rohinga campaign, is neo-Fascist.  I would rather brace howls and barkings from racists among my own co-nationals - racist Bama and racist Rakhines alike than remain silent.  

We need to speak out whenever we see signs of neo-Fascist sentiment, whether from our own equally oppressed fellow citizens or from the oppressors.  Otherwise don't call ourselves 'human rights defenders or democrats'.     Human rights is not simply something one shouts,  but one lives.  I am extremely disturbed and disgusted by this deeply racist, neo-Fascist campaign coming from Rakhine and Bama racists.   It misses the point:  that our collective blood is sucked daily by the Bama "Buddhists" in silk skirt and generals uniform.  They are the one who should be the target of mass campaign, not the most oppressed Rohinga.,  Shame on the petitioners !  (If you are not racist Bama or racist Rakhine, my note here doesn't apply, and you need not feel a need to howl at me or anyone who speaks in support the need to treat Rohinga with decency and compassion, as well as solidarity).  

Long live Rohingya People!

Zarni

A "Bama" Buddhist from Mandalay, the heartland of Burma where many racists hail.