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Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s True Colors Shine!
NOBEL LAUREATES, 29 Jan 2018
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCED Media
Service
25 Jan 2018 – Aung San Suu
Kyi’s Social Welfare Minister has declared already that all the burned lands in
the region stretching over 100 km (68 miles) are reclaimed by the State.
Northern Rakhine region of predominantly Rohingya residents has also been
designated as the Special Economic Zone II: Zone I is in the area which
were cleared of Rohingya and other Muslim habitation (communities) in the 2012
bouts of large scaled organized ‘mass violence’ backed by the State under Thein
Sein’s presidency (2010-15).
She has made no attempt to travel across the
border j–in fact 30 minutes helicopter ride or 10 minutes boat ride across the
boundary Naf River to the vast Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazaar. Instead
she has gone to N. Rakhine State –not with UN investigators or diplomats in
Yangon, but with her hand-picked cronies.
The world has long been fooled by the true
colours of this manufactured Burmese icon of human rights and democracy.
She made her name on the corpses of Burmese
democrats who died struggling for a freer Burma, and now she is going to
strengthen and deepen her symbiosis with the Burmese cronies and military
families which control the Burmese economy, on the mass graves of Rohingyas.
We are witnessing nothing short of the
emergence of a cold-hearted and immoral Burmese politician. Suu Kyi’s
evident priority to turn the killing fields of Western Burma (stretching over
100 KM in length) into a lucrative opportunity for the local cronies who
financially support her and her party is utterly morally repugnant.
In countries which have a dark history of
genocides and crimes against humanity such as Cambodia, Germany and
Bosnia, the sites of mass killings and destruction are national or world
heritage sites. In sharp contrast, Myanmar State Counsellor is
evidently trying to turn the killing fields and mass graves into industrial
agricultural projects, mineral exploration, beach resorts and tax-free Special
Economic Zone where the Rohingyas who survived the latest bout of slaughter by
her father’s army would be allowed to work as cheap labourers for her cronies.
Aung San Suu Kyi is not simply “lacking moral
leadership” as the US diplomat Bill Richardson put it reportedly, when he
resigned yesterday from what he called Aung San Suu Kyi’s (genocide) “white
wash” international advisory commission; she is proving herself to be as cold,
commercially minded and criminally responsible for the plight of the genocide
victims as any past genocidal leader in history, Europe or Asia or elsewhere.
She has in fact already taken her favorite
cronies and their families on the exploratory tour of parts of these vast
killing fields from where over 750,000 fled in a span of 4 months last
year. We have seen pictures of smiling Suu Kyi posing with these
cronies in these ghostly villages.
Lest we forget genocides are not simply
one-dimensional racist destruction: economic benefits always accrue the
perpetrating. At Auschwitz, Himmler and his men, for
instance, were keen on providing German corporations with inmate labourers, as
well as commercially motivated “agriculturalists”.
The level of callousness this woman displays is
beyond not just words, but imagination.
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A Buddhist humanist from
Burma, Maung Zarni is a member of the TRANSCEND
Network for Peace Development Environment, former
Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and
violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies
with Documentation Center – Cambodia. His analyses have appeared in
leading newspapers including the New York Times, The Guardian and the
Times. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are The
Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingyas (Pacific Rim Law and
Policy Journal), An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From
Strategic Embrace to Genocide, (Middle East Institute, American University),
and Myanmar’s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other
Muslims (Brown World Affairs Journal, forthcoming). He holds a PhD (U
Wisconsin at Madison) and a MA (U California), and has held various teaching,
research and visiting fellowships at the universities in Asia, Europe and USA
including Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education) , National-Louis, Malaya,
and Brunei. He is the recipient of the “Cultivation of Harmony” award from the
Parliament of the World’s Religions (2015).
The Nobel Peace Prize 1991 was
awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi “for
her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights.”
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Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 29 Jan 2018.
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