Posts Tagged ‘Myanmar’
Tidbits and notes. Part 412
Posted on: October 27, 2019
Tidbits and notes. Part 412
Apparently, the Muslim wives have an effective resolution to their retired husband troubles: They marry him with a tad younger second wife. Now, the first wife can travel at leisure to visit with her sons and daughters, dispersed around the world.
China has banned the export of black clothes, often worn by protesters, to Hong Kong. And how Iran will get its black clothes?
Depuis des annees “il flotte comme un parfun de genocide” au Myanmar? What’s that crappy piece of poetry? No doubt of ethnic cleansing. And the UN is still debating whether there was a genocide since 2017?
And why this Buddhist racist State of Myanmar decided to commit genocide? The Rowinga “ethnic Muslims” were procreating like crazy? Another proof that all religions are racist by nature and inciting on violent acts.
Is Boris as big a liar as Trump? A Brexit deal has been struck, says the UK prime minister. As the deadline for Britain’s departure from the EU approaches, Boris Johnson announced, “we’ve got a great new deal that takes back control.”
Le plus grand cannibal est toujours l’Europe colonial, mais l’Amerique l’a surpasse’ depuis 1945.
How would you list the hardest hit States/nations by climate calamities (Storms, earthquakes, flooding, fires) according to their economic/financial potentials to recover from devastation?
The cobra effect is a specific kind of unintended consequence that happens when the proposed solution ends up worsening the problem it was intended to solve. It’s not simply a surprise negative result, it’s the opposite of what was intended. The cobra effect highlights the limitations of linear thinking, and what happens when we underestimate the complexity of a system—or of human motivations
When you introduce an incentive scheme, you have to just admit to yourself that no matter how clever you think you are, there’s a pretty good chance that someone far more clever than yourself will figure out a way to beat the incentive scheme.
The classic example of a fix that fails is relieving road congestion by building bigger roads. Traffic eases at first, but then, because driving is more pleasant when roads are less congested, more people drive, and the cycle starts again.
French-occupied Hanoi attempts to reduce the rat population in its newly-built sewer system with a bounty on tails. Enterprising locals cut the tails from rats and set them free to breed and create more tails. Some also breed their own rats. When the bounty ends, those rats are released, further increasing the rodent population in Hanoi.
The Streisand effect is when the act of trying to make something private calls more attention to it.
Rania avait vite eu de quoi s’ inquieter: Le pretendant etait un vertueux, ne buvait pas d’alcool, pas d’ aventures, un precheur venue de la campagne, intransigeant et “honnete”. La marieuse dit: “Tous les chameaux ont une bosse: j’en trouverais une”. Beware of the “puritan” people.
The Times of London reported that Turkey could have used banned white phosphorus against Kurdish civilians in Rass el Ayn town
US Administrations Not famous for saying the truth to its citizens
Plausible conjecture: Nations are unwilling to treat the capitalist fundamental of retaining 20% of the population always slaves to “Capital”. Thus, a newer influx of refugees toward the developed nations.
A lost chapter of the world’s first novel was unearthed? Parts of the 11th-century epic tale, The Tale of Genji, were discovered in a Tokyo family home.
Debt collection is an $11 billion industry in the US, and medical debt makes up nearly half of what’s collected each year. Debt collectors, working with judges who often have no law degree, decide who gets thrown behind bars and who’s shown mercy.
About 60% of Qatar electricity is used for cooling, the hottest place on earth.
Scammers, running hard-to-cancel “subscription traps,” use free trials to trick customers into paying for products they don’t want
Caring is a case by case endeavor: listening intently on the individual case. Generalization is the perfect concept for Control, over a large swap of people and phenomena.
Myanmar (Burma) brutal ethnic cleansing of Rohingya targeting children and women
Posted on: November 20, 2017
Rohingya women and girls have faced brutalities, rape and violence at the hands of the Myanmar army as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday in a report.
Three days prior, on Monday, Myanmar’s army released a report denying any allegations of rape and violence by the security forces. However, the women in the refugee camps tell stories of gang rapes, assaults and unimaginable violence.
Rohingya camps are full of young women. According to some estimates, the female refugee population is over 50 percent, with many young men being killed in Myanmar, leaving many women widowed.
Sahera Khatun, 18, is in the final month of her pregnancy. She said, in August, when she was six months pregnant, she was raped by the Myanmar military in the same room as other girls.
“Soldiers entered and shut the door. They first took our ornaments and then raped us. We shouted for a very long time and then girls from our neighborhood came out to save us and then the military fled,” she said.
The rape left her seriously injured. She wasn’t sure if her child was still alive. Her husband and his friend carried her on a stretcher made of bamboo for 13 days to reach Bangladesh from Myanmar.
“We cannot even fathom the horrors,” Khatun said,
New refugees wait for a space to be allocated in the camp. /CGTN Photo
A clinic run by a local Bangladeshi NGO in a refugee camp has just opened. But the doctor here has a tough task; the queue is long, mostly women.
A patient enters and says she was beaten up by the military – her story is not rare.
There are many like her and women face acute health issues. Over the past few months, they’ve witnessed horrors and suffered physical abuse.
“They are living in unhygienic conditions, taking not enough nutrients,” said Sushant Maula Chowdhury, senior medical officer.
“Their psychological and social [conditions] there is very big imbalance and when there is some heart problem with the mental side, the body also follows it.”
Dr. Sushant Maula Chowdhury sees a patient. /CGTN Photo
Nuree Begum, 55, lost all her family members in the chaos of the violence – her husband, children and grandchildren.
She walked through forests and swam through a river to reach Bangladesh three months ago and has given up hope of finding them.
“Military was coming from all sides,” Begum said, “and there was noise of shooting and bombing.”
A doctor who saw Begum said she is a classic case of depression, but she’s not alone. She and thousands of other women are suffering from depression and have no will to live.
But for these women, who have lived through injustices, reports and governments are neither important nor relevant.
A look at them makes it clear that recovery for the Rohingya women is a distant dream, and being alive is a miracle.
Note: Just heard that China is stepping in to find a resolution to that human catastrophe. Hoping China will step in in Yemen too
The long-time refugee, the Dalai Lama says Europe has accepted ‘too many’ refugees?
Posted on: June 4, 2016
Dalai Lama says Europe has accepted ‘too many’ refugees
Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, thinks that Europe has accepted too many refugees, saying that they should stay only temporarily and return to rebuild their home countries once the conflicts there have been resolved.
Speaking in Dharamsala in northern India where the Tibetan government resides in exile, the Dalai Lama said in an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that “When we look into the face of every single refugee, especially the children and women, we can feel their suffering.”
“A human being who is a bit more fortunate has the duty to help them. On the other hand, there are too many now,” he added.
He said that countries taking in refugees should take a healthy look at the situation and realize that it’s not possible for all of the newcomers to be integrated into European society, stressing that the main goal for Europe’s leaders is to provide them with temporary shelter.
“Europe, for example Germany, cannot become an Arab country. Germany is Germany,” he said. “There are so many that in practice it becomes difficult.”
When the first massive wave of migration began in 2015, the Dalai Lama praised states like Germany and Austria for welcoming refugees, while also stressing that every country can only provide decent living conditions to a limited the number of people.
Europe is currently facing its worst refugee crisis since World War II.
Some 1.8 million asylum-seekers illegally entered the European Union in 2015 fleeing war and poverty in Middle Eastern countries, according to data from the European Union border agency Frontex.
(Tiny Lebanon with a population of 4 million has received 2 million refugees with no substantial foreign aid to alleviate its tenuous infrastructure and services)
The Dalai Lama added that “from a moral point of view too, I think that the refugees should only be admitted temporarily,” explaining that they should “return and help rebuild their countries.”
The Dalai Lama, who himself has spent over half a century in exile in northern India, expressed hope that someday he will be able to visit Tibet again.
George Galloway MP commented:
The many faces of the Dalai Lama. A so called man of peace who keeps the company of western war criminals.
A man of peace who stands idly by while his co-religionists ethnically cleanse the Rohingya people in Myanmar (other than the occasional hypocritical word or two about things needing to be done). He has a moral authority (by virtue of his position) to be more vocal yet chooses not to be.
The hypocrisy has now entered the European refugee debate. This man, a refugee himself for half a century, says that Europe has taken in too many refugees!
Forget that refugees are dying by the boat load, forget that people are escaping war, forget that people are risking it all to escape death – no, this hypocrite of a man chooses to play the tune of the xenophobe!
He also says ‘they should return [be sent back] to rebuild their country’, a Noble thought if it were not for the fact he himself has not returned to rebuild anything!
Stranded in ocean: Rohingya Moslems migrants fleeing from persecution in Myanmar are not rescued in sea by Indonesia and Malaysia
Posted on: May 22, 2015
Stranded Rohingya migrants: Moslems fleeing from persecution in Myanmar are not rescued in sea by Indonesia and Malaysia
Finally, after intensive pressures from the world community,
Malaysia and Indonesia have agreed to take in the stranded Rohingya, but need urgent support for financial resources.
We’re been witnessing a pattern right now — people around the globe are fleeing persecution with nothing on their backs except hope, only to be abandoned at sea.
Thousands of Rohingya muslims are stranded at sea right now — no food, no water, nothing except hope for survival. With each wave that rocks the boat, mothers cling tighter to their children, wondering what will happen next. If we act quickly, we can help save them. Gulf leaders can shine a light into this darkness. (Why? is the liquidity concentrated in these princedoms?) Malaysia could rescue the stranded Rohingya, but it’s costly to run these ships and then provide for thousands of refugees. The Gulf has strong ties with Malaysia, and have the financial resources, while also being committed to protecting muslims worldwide. With every minute that goes by, families inch closer and closer to death. In order to escape horrific conditions in Buddhist Myanmar, the Rohingya have been fleeing to Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, only to be turned back to sea immediately. With nowhere to go and dwindling supplies, they are stranded and facing their final days. Many neighbours are reluctant to help the Rohingya, worried about long-term consequences. But instead of doing this alone, if we get the Gulf countries involved they can share the cost of bringing the families to safety and work together to pressure Myanmar to stop the cruel crackdown on Rohingya, which is the root of the problem. Malaysia could deploy aid immediately, but they may only move if key allies support them. With hefty investments from the UAE, and having just joined Saudi’s military coalition — the Gulf has strong influence over Malaysia. Let’s now make sure together they bring hope to thousands of muslims. This isn’t just a plea for muslims to help other muslims. It’s a call for humans to help humans. A plea for leaders to use their power and resources to save thousands of innocent people who need our support. Our community in this region has a unique chance to not just witness this catastrophe unfold, but save lives and hold those who can help accountable. Time is running out. We’re seeing a pattern right now — people around the globe are fleeing persecution with nothing on their backs except hope, only to be abandoned at sea.
We can’t sit back and let this happen, and our community was built exactly for challenges like this.
Let’s stand together now to save the Rohingya muslims so that no Rohingya child is dying of thirst.Rewan, Mohammad, Wissam, Alice, Mais and the entire Avaaz team
Stranded Rohingya migrants say: ‘We’re dying on board’ (Al Jazeera) Rohingya migrants tell of horror at sea (Guardian) Malaysian forces join Saudi-led coalition in Yemen (Al Arabiya) UAE looks to South East Asia for investment (Khaleej Times) |
A few of the “45 Most powerful pictures” in BuzzFeed for 2012
1. A boy in Nepal being evicted from his home
A boy cries as he holds his sister in his lap after a confrontation with squatters and police personnel in Kathmandu, Nepal.
2. A couple discovering their family records survived Hurricane Sandy
Rosemary McDermott and her husband opened a safe containing a family genealogy in the Breezy Point section of Queens.
They salvaged the safe from the basement of Rosemary’s mother’s home after Superstorm Sandy.
3. Mars
Thanks to Curiosity, this is one of the clearest images of Mars ever taken.
4. Felix Baumgartner’s 24-mile free-fall from space
5. A man being pepper-sprayed directly in the face
Israeli border police officers use pepper spray as they detain an injured Palestinian protester during clashes on Land Day in March.
Security forces fired rubber bullets, tear gas, and stun grenades to break up groups of Palestinian stone-throwers as annual Land Day rallies turned violent.
A Tibetan exile runs through a street during a protest against the upcoming visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao.
7. A Bolivian woman taking on a group of riot police
Thousands of people with crutches and in wheelchairs protested against the government of Bolivia in February. They were protesting what they believe to be an inadequate welfare system.
8. The Waldo Canyon fire
The Waldo Canyon fire burns an entire neighborhood near the foothills of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
In June, Colorado endured nearly a week of 100-plus-degree days and low humidity, creating a devastating formula for volatile wildfires across the state.
9. Outside the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado
Storm clouds gather above a memorial for the victims in the shooting across the street from the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, in July.
10. Anti-gay hate crimes in Ukraine
Unidentified people beat Svyatoslav Sheremet, head of Gay-Forum of Ukraine, in May.
Sheremet was attacked after meeting with members of the media to inform them that a scheduled gay parade was canceled due to threats of violence from neo-Nazis and other hate groups.
The attackers ran off when they realized members of the media were documenting the attack.
11. People who lost family members during the uprising in Egypt react to Hosni Mubarak’s prison sentence
Relatives of people who died during Egypt’s revolution react after a court sentenced President Hosni Mubarak to life in prison in June.
12. Kicking riot police in Greece
A man in Greece kicks riot police back.
13. Family being forced to go back to Myanmar
Mohammad Rafique, a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar, begs a Bangladeshi coast guard official not to send his family back to Myanmar.
14. Nik Wallenda tightroping over Niagara Falls
Nik Wallenda tightroped over Niagara Falls on a 2-inch-wide wire. He’s the first person to ever cross directly over the falls from the U.S. into Canada.
15. The father saving his daughter’s life in Syria
A Syrian man carries his wounded daughter outside a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo in September. Syrian troops shelled several districts in Aleppo and clashed with rebels.
16. Manhattan without lights
Before and after shots of Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy. Nearly 200,000 people lost power in downtown Manhattan for about a week.
17. A little Palestinian girl vs. an Israeli soldier
A Palestinian girl tries to punch an Israeli soldier during a protest against the expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement of Halamish.
18. The Space Shuttle Enterprise flying above New York City
19. The wedding held during a monsoon in Manila
Ramoncito Campo kisses his wife Hernelie Ruazol Campo on a flooded street during a southwest monsoon that battered Manila, Philippines, in August.
The newlywed couple pushed through with their scheduled wedding despite severe flooding that inundated wide areas of the capital and nine nearby provinces.
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