The World’s Deafening Silence on the Rohingya Genocide is Shameful

 Michael Shammas writes, "When powerful governments kill political minorities, those minorities necessarily depend on external help from other nations.

No one else can stand for those whose own governments have abandoned them and have become not protectors but persecutors. In the case of Myanmar, where approximately 10,000 have already been killed, and from which nearly 870,000 Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh, Tisdall points out, “their government has not only failed to protect them. It also appears directly culpable.”

Syrian factions do, in fact, receive some help from interested states—namely, Russia and the United States.

Unfortunately, no country seems to have enough vested interest in Myanmar, or in the powerless Rohingya, to take action. Indeed, it’s quite likely that China—due to its own regional geopolitical interests—would effectively block any related action by the Security Council. Russia set a precedent when it similarly blocked concerted action against al-Assad in the early stages of the Syrian Civil War.

The Rohingya, it seems, are utterly alone. We should be ashamed of ourselves."
 
He is right and we should be ashamed of silence on the Rohingya genocide. When Niki Haley, US Ambassador to the UN abuses her position in the UNSC to discuss recent incidents of US-Israel-inspired anti-government rallies in Iran and ignores the obvious genocide of the Rohingyas inside Myanmar - partly boosted by Obama's faulty decision to lift embargo on Myanmar, we know that how human rights have taken a back seat in the Trump administration. It is simply shameful and unacceptable! When those who have the power to undo a crime and punish the culprits not only ignore to see the crime but behave as if nothing has happened, it is the height of crime.
 
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