Photo AFP By Maung Zarni March 13, 2014 “What can we do, brother? There are too many. We can’t kill them all.” He said it matter-of-factly—a former brigadier and diplomat from my native country, Myanmar, about Rohingya Muslims. We were in the spacious ambassadorial office at Myanmar Embassy in an ASEAN country when this “brotherly” conversation took place. I am familiar with Myanmar's racist nationalist narrative. I have also worked with the country’s military intelligence services in pushing for the gradual re-engagement between the West and our country, then an international pariah. Apparently, knowledge of my background made the soldier feel so at ease that he could make such a hateful call in a friendly conversation on official premises in total candor: Islamophobia normalized in the highest ranks of the bureaucracy and military in Myanmar. He wanted to make sure I understood he had special knowledge of the situation, stressing that he was stationed for years in Rakhi