Burma, Post Mortem of a Sectarian Violence
Kanbawza Win Meticulously planned by the hardliners of the quasi
civilian government of Burma have successfully produced a sectarian
violence between the Muslimand the Buddhist communities in Western Burma
of Arakan State. At the timeof this writing the official figure shows
more than 50 person were killed andthousands have been homeless, but the
real figure will be as usual much higher.It is still very fragile
The Target
Their main aim is to:-
(1) Revitalise the importance of military and that in time of
crisis only themilitary is reliable and capable to protect the people
from violence andlawlessness and that NLD led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
cannot do anythingin time of crisis like this and this point has driven
home.
(2) The government is very worried about the support commanded by
DawAung San Suu Kyi at home and in her trip to Thailand which
discredited themilitary and now in her trip to Europe want to discredit
her by forcing her intoa position where she has to make a pro-Rohingya
public statement that coulddamage her popularity among Burma’s
Buddhists, where anti-Muslimsentiment runs high or on the other hand, if
she remains silent she willdisappoint those who support her firm stand
on human rights. i.e. she isdamned if she does and damned if she doesn’t
and put her in a very difficultsituation, which could seriously damage
her reputation and erode much of her popularity. In this respect they
miserably failed because she was wise andtarget the absence of law and
order (the current administration claims to be theancestors of State Law
and Order Restoration Council ) and internationally her popularity
increase instead of being diminished.
(3) The government wants to lure the pro-democracy movements,
particularlythe exiled Burmese media and the 8888 generation leaders
which are veryinfluential, appeal to the resourceful Burmese Diaspora
community and theother ethnic nationalities who agree with them that
Rohingya is not fromBurma and does not belong to the recognized ethnic
nationalities of Burma. Inthis aspect it is partially successful as most
of them like Ko Ko Gyi falls intotheir trap.
(4) To divert the attention from its prolong military offensive
against theKachin where more than half of the military strength has to
be used and over 300,000 Kachin have become refugees while the military
losses weresubstantial running into thousands.
(5) The Generals have successfully implemented the policy of, “ Let
theminority fights the minority ” a sort of a divide and rule
strategy, where thesoldiers came out as a victor.
Implementation This was meticulously plan including the evil genius
Than Shwe, who paintsthe picture that he was on his dead bed but
actually is very active and slyly stayout of sight. He is very allergic
to the name of Aung San Suu Kyi and at thesame time want to divert the
country’s attention from his gross human rightsviolations and ethnic
cleansing policy now going on with might and main inKachin State.The
best way is sectarian violence and earlier Burmese Chinese incident
sprangup in Mandalay but he knew the potential of the China and its
influence andquickly squashed it. Now he found the scapegoat in Kalar a
Burmesedegrading term for the darker complexion of Indian origin. The
Burmesesaying of (ukvm; r Edkif &cdkif rJ) not being able to
conquer Kalar beat up the Rakhine was skillfully turned into
(w&kwfrEdkifukvm;rJ ) being unable totackle the Chinese turned on to
Kalar by giving authority to Aung Thoung whohave now taken up a new
influential position of one of Secretaries of USDP,the ruling party.
Aung Thoung planned the second Depaeyin Incident
by going back to his native village WetLaung village near Kyaukse, in
middle Burmaand recruited all the bad hats, cut throats and after
lavishing them with moneyand much needed resources transport them to
Taunggoke.In the meantime Na Sa Ka via immigration has recruited one bad
Rohingya,name Shaun Shou (aka Htet Htet or Phyo Zayyar Kyaw) by giving
him somecash and Burmese citizen card, he in turned organize Marme (aka
Yaw Pi or Hla Win) and Lu lu (aka Myint Swe, or Wushee) to go after a
girl Thida who isquite flirt and to have sex with her,. The end result
was a rape case but they did not rob the girl of her belonging. The next
day it was highlighted in the mediaincluding the state control media.
(1) How can the media be made known in minutes from such a remotearea where there is no electricity if it is not pre arrange?
Then the Muslim pilgrims returning home were killed by a lynch mob,
but myresearch indicates that it was not the mob but the bad hats and
cut throatstransported from Wetloung village by Aung Thoung.So the
question is
(2) only the security persons at the check gate knew whowere the
people inside the car, they give word to these bad hats whichexplicitly
means they were conniving.
(3) The killing of these Muslimspassengers were done in the
vicinity of the town and yet none of thesecurity intervene, Why.The
confidential report which I got is that some of the dark skin
security personals were torching the Buddhist villagers posing
themselves to beRohingya while some light skin, torched the Muslim
villagers as if they wereArakanese Buddhist youths. In some cases police
were seen acting alongsideArakanese in torching homes of Muslims, while
several reports have emergedof police opening fire on crowds of
Muslims.The end result of this orchestrated events led to sectarian
violence and got outof hand resulting hundred killed and thousands of
home burned. But many people with enough brains suspected this set up
and finally the accompliceShaun Shou was silence in the custody and
declared that he committed suicide.
(4) How can a person commit suicide when his is in the custody of thesecurity authorities?
Epilogue In a place where the atomization of society on the
laissez-faire economic heldtogether solely by an economic nexus and had
no social or cultural ties it became problematic. The ruling generals
have effectively exploited it for their own agendas. By killing each
other, the people themselves become the ultimatelosers. It is the
military that ends up as the clear winner.
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