Supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi, leaders of the "Saffron
Revolution," leading ethnic cleansing of Myanmar refugees
By: Tony Cartalucci
Source: Alternative Thai News
People don't just come out into
the streets and begin murdering each other. There are always instigators on one
side, perhaps both, leading the anger and violence. In the case of targeted
Muslim Rohingya refugees in Myanmar's Rakhine state, those leading the the
violence against them, which most recently involved 26 killed and 2,000
Rohingya homes destroyed, have been identified.
While the Associated Press (AP) features grainy photos of monks outside the
city hall in Yangon, Myanmar, claiming that it is a rally "against
violence," the signs themselves tell a different tale. One enumerates, in
English, the demands of the "monks." The sign includes:
1. Protect Rakhine People from the Dangers of Islamic
Extremism.
2. Army Must stop Shooting the Ethnic People.
3. We Arakanese Don't Want to Live With Extreme Bengalis Anymore.
4. Mr. President Should be Decisive on the Issue of Arakan.
5. Drive all illegal Bengalis out of the Land of Myanmar.
6. All Ethnic People of Myanmar Should be United.
The sign
continues, but is obstructed in all the shots provided by AP. All of the
news stories featuring the picture do not mention any of the enumerated
points on the sign, and instead claim, "Myanmar Buddhist monks offer
prayers Thursday during a rally of more than 100 people protesting recent
violence."
By "Army Must stop Shooting the Ethnic People," the protesters mean
the army should stop firing on their vigilantes for attempting to eradicate the
refugees, as the points on the sign enumerate clearly they are the united
ethnic people of Myanmar, and the refugees are "illegal Bengalis."
Image: Praying for genocide. While
Associated Press claims these protesters are demonstrating against ethnic
violence, the sign they carry clearly states that they seek the expulsion of
the refugees from Myanmar, and are merely protesting against the Myanmar Army's
use of force to protect them from attacks that have left scores dead and
thousands of refugee homes destroyed.
In the summer and early fall of 2012 when this wave of violence had again
erupted, AFP reported in their article, "Monks
stage anti-Rohingya march in Myanmar," that the marching
"monks" supported President Thein Sein's plan to expel the Rohingya,
before paradoxically admitting that Thein Sein has accused the marchers of
"kindling hatred toward the Rohingya."
AFP, in a grave lapse of professional journalism, refers to the leader of this
movement as merely "a monk named Wirathu."
However, this isn't merely "a monk named Wirathu," but
"Sayadaw" (venerable teacher) Wirathu who has led many of
"democratic champion" Aung San Suu Kyi's political street campaigns
and is often referred to by the Western media as an "activist monk."
In March of this year, Wirathu
had led a rally calling for the release of so-called "political
prisoners," so designated by US State Department funded faux-NGOs. Wirathu
himself was in prison, according
to AFP, for inciting hatred against Muslims, until recently released as
part of an amnesty, an amnesty US State
Department-funded (page 15, .pdf) Democratic Voice of Burma claims
concerned only "political prisoners."
Image: Real monks don't do politics.
The "venerable" Wirathu (front, left) leads a rally for
"political prisoners" loyal to Aung San Suu Kyi's
"pro-democracy" movement in March, 2012. Wirathu himself has been
often portrayed as an "activist monk" and a "political
prisoner" who spent years in prison. In reality, he was arrested for his
role in violent sectarian clashes in 2003, while Suu Kyi's
"pro-democracy" front is
actually US-funded sedition. Wirathua has picked up right where he left off
in 2003, and is now leading anti-Rohingya rallies across the country.
Human Rights Watch itself, in its attempt to memorialize the struggle of
"Buddhism and activism in Burma" (.pdf),
admits that Wirathu was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 25 years in prison
along with other "monks" for their role in violent clashes between
"Buddhists and Muslims" (page
67, .pdf). This would make Wirathu and his companions violent criminals,
not "political prisoners."
While Western news agencies have attempted to spin the recent violence as a new
phenomenon implicating Aung San Suu Kyi's political foot soldiers as genocidal
bigots, in reality, the sectarian nature of her support base has been back page
news for years. AFP's recent but uncharacteristically honest portrayal of
Wirathu, with an attempt to conceal his identity and role in Aung San Suu Kyi's
"Saffron" political machine, illustrates the quandary now faced by
Western propagandists as the violence flares up again, this time in front of a
better informed public.
Image: An alleged monk, carries an
umbrella with Aung San Suu Kyi's image on it. These so-called monks have played
a central role in building Suu Kyi's political machine, as well as maintaining
over a decade of genocidal, sectarian violence aimed at Myanmar's ethnic
minorities. Another example of US "democracy promotion" and tax
dollars at work.
During 2007's "Saffron Revolution," these same so-called
"monks" took to the streets in a series of bloody anti-government
protests, in support of Aung San Suu Kyi and
her Western-contrived political movement. HRW would specifically enumerate
support provided to Aung San Suu Kyi's movement by these organizations,
including the Young Monks Union (Association), now leading violence and calls
for ethnic cleansing across Myanmar.
The UK Independent in their article, "Burma's
monks call for Muslim community to be shunned," mentions the Young
Monks Association by name as involved in distributing flyers recently,
demanding people not to associate with ethnic Rohingya, and attempting to block
humanitarian aid from reaching Rohingya camps.
The Independent also notes calls for ethnic cleansing made by leaders of the 88
Generation Students group (BBC profile here)
- who also played a pivotal role in the pro-Suu Kyi 2007 protests.
"Ashin" Htawara, another "monk activist" who
considers Aung San Suu Kyi, his "special
leader" and greeted her with flowers for her Oslo Noble Peace Prize
address earlier this year, stated at an event in London that the Rohingya
should be sent "back to their native land."
The equivalent of Ku Klux Klan racists demanding that
America's black population be shipped back to Africa, the US State Department's
"pro-democratic" protesters in Myanmar have been revealed as
habitual, violent bigots with genocidal tendencies and enumerated designs.
Their recent violence also casts doubts on Western narratives portraying the
2007 "Saffron Revolution's" death toll as exclusively the work of
government security operations.
Like their US-funded
(and armed) counterparts in Syria, many fighting openly under the flag of
sectarian extremism held aloft by international terrorist organization Al
Qaeda, we see the absolute moral bankruptcy of Myanmar's
"pro-democracy" movement that has, up until now, been skillfully
covered up by endless torrents of Western propaganda - Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel
Peace Prize and a recent
showering of Western bestowed awards, all being part of the illusion.
And not only does the US State Department in tandem with Western corporate
media provide Aung San Suu Kyi extensive political, financial, and rhetorical
backing, they provide operational capabilities as well, allowing her opposition
movement to achieve Western objectives throughout Myanmar. The latest
achievement of this operational capability successfully blocked the development
of Myanmar's infrastructure by
halting a joint China-Mynamar dam project that would have provided
thousands of jobs, electricity, state-revenue, flood control, and enhanced
river navigation for millions. Suu Kyi and her supporting network of NGOs, as
well as armed militants in Myanmar's northern provinces conducted a coordinated
campaign exploiting both "environmental" and "human rights"
concerns that in reality resulted in Myanmar's continual economic and social
stagnation.
The ultimate goal of course is to effect regime change not only in Myanmar, but
to create a united Southeast Asian front against China in pursuit of
long-documented plans to encircle and contain the emerging superpower.
As reported in June, 2011's "Collapsing
China," as far back as 1997 there was talk about developing an
effective containment strategy coupled with the baited hook of luring China
into its place amongst the "international order." Just as in these
1997 talking-points where author and notorious Neo-Con policy maker Robert
Kagan described the necessity of using America's Asian "allies" as
part of this containment strategy, Clinton goes through a list of regional
relationships the US is trying to cultivate to maintain "American
leadership" in Asia.
Image: (Top) The
"Lilliputians" though small in stature were collectively able to tie
down the larger Gulliver from the literary classic "Gulliver's
Travels." In the same manner, the US wants to use smaller Southeast Asian
nations to "tie down" the larger China.
The US Army's Strategic Studies Institute 2006 publication, "String of pearls:
Meeting the Challenge of China's Rising Power Across the Asian Littoral"
details US geopolitical awareness of China's growing influence throughout Asia
and enumerates a plan of action to balk it while maintaining American
preeminence. While Kagan's paper details a broader geopolitical strategy, the
SSI report specifically mentions where China is expanding its influence.
In defining China's "String of Pearls" it states:
Each “pearl” in the “String of Pearls” is a nexus of Chinese
geopolitical influence or military
presence. 4 Hainan Island, with recently upgraded military facilities, is a
“pearl.” An upgraded airstrip on Woody Island, located in the Paracel archipelago
300 nautical miles east of Vietnam, is a “pearl.” A container shipping facility
in Chittagong, Bangladesh, is a “pearl.” Construction of a deep water port in
Sittwe, Myanmar, is a “pearl,” as is the construction of a navy base in Gwadar,
Pakistan. 5 Port and airfield construction projects, diplomatic ties, and force
modernization form the essence of China’s “String of Pearls.” The “pearls”
extend from the coast of mainland China through the littorals of the South
China Sea, the Strait of Malacca, across the Indian Ocean, and on to the
littorals of the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf. China is building strategic
relationships and developing a capability to establish a forward presence along
the sea lines of communication (SLOCs) that connect China to the Middle East
(see Figure 1).
Image: Figure 1. From SSI's 2006
"String of Pearls" report detailing a strategy of containment for
China. While "democracy," "freedom," and "human
rights" will mask the ascension of Aung San Suu Kyi and others into power,
it is part of a region-wide campaign to overthrow nationalist elements and
install client regimes in order to encircle
and contain China. Violence in areas like Sittwe, Rakhine Myanmar, or
Gwadar Baluchistan Pakistan, are not coincidences and documented evidence
indicates immense Western backing for armed opposition groups.
The
report was written in 2006 - and clearly the West has gone
through great lengths since then to destabilize, neutralize, or isolate
from China's influence each and every one of these "pearls." Indeed,
the state of Rakhine in southwest Myanmar is being developed by China as stated
in the SSI report. The city of Sittwe is the site of a Chinese-built port, and
Kyaukpyu is the future site for the terminal of a trans-Myanmar oil pipeline
linking Chinese oil tankers incoming from the Middle East directly with China's
Yunnan province, negating the lengthy trip around the Strait of Malacca and
across the South China Sea.
By destabilizing Rakhine state, either through this current violence, or by
"radicalizing" groups within the Rohingya and expanding the violence
further still, the West can ensure that progress is slow, or all together
brought to a halt, just as it has with Chinese projects up country, or even
abroad in nations like war-torn Libya or Pakistan's now
destabilized Baluchistan province. The SSI report also mentions Chittagong,
Bangladesh, which also, coincidentally, has
been dragged into neighboring Myanmar's violence.
A library of policy papers detailing the US' strategy vis-a-vis China's emergence
is available for the public to read. However, these papers are written in
academic English and require demanding prerequisites across a variety of
disciplines to understand. It also requires effort greatly exceeding that
needed to merely consider and accept base arguments made by prominent and
prolific Western media services. There is always more to a story than mere
superficial religious or ethnic differences - and if a news story fails to
address this, it has failed to report the truth
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