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5ccc904a-a04e-11e3-878c-65222df220eb_story.htmlWashington Post/AP:

2/28/14

 

YANGON, Myanmar — Doctors Without Borders said Friday it has been expelled from Myanmar and that tens of thousands of lives are at risk. The decision came after the humanitarian group reported it treated nearly two dozen Rohingya Muslim victims of communal violence in Rakhine state, which the government has denied.

 

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Myanmar’s presidential spokesman Ye Htut had criticized Doctors Without Borders in the Myanmar Freedom newspaper for hiring “Bengalis,” the term the government uses for Rohingya, and lacked transparency in its work.

 

He also accused the group of misleading the world about an attack last month in the remote northern part of Rakhine. The United Nations says more than 40 Rohingya may have been killed, but the government has vehemently denied allegations that a Buddhist mob rampaged through a village, killing women and children. It says one policeman was killed by Rohingya and no other violence occurred.

 

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The Mynamar Apartheid/Genocide

Hugh Hewitt

6/6/14

 

Intrepid New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has recently filed a troubling column from Myanmar, long considered the sole success of the Hillary Clinton years at State and President Obamas tragically fumbled, at-best-feckless foreign policy on every other front but the country formerly known as Burma.

 

Kristof, to his great credit as this column will win him no friends in Hillaryland or the White House, looks hard at the terrible underside of our emerging relationship with the Burmese. Read the column, then listen to or read the interview I conducted with Kristof Friday. Then read this story on the advance copy of Hillarys memoir, obtained by the New York Times, which has zip to report of interest from getting the book, but nothing critical to say of Clintons record on Russia, Egypt, Syria, Libya, the PRC or even Burma. When I spoke with Kristof a few months back transcript and audio here he cited Burma as the sole success he could point to on Hillarys win column. But that was before he was given a journalists visa to the country and witnessed first hand what the president and his two secretaries of state have allowed to develop without much of a comment. The tragedy that is unfolding in Burma is just another chapter in a real account of Hillarys tenure at State, which should be bluntly put before her as her book tour begins, just as her whereabouts and specific actions (and inactions) on the night of 9/11/12 should be.

 

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NK: Well, I mean its true that, I mean I think there is something to that achievement, and that Burma had been, you know, this brutal dictatorship that was kind of in Chinas orbit. And then Im usually very skeptical of economic sanctions. And in fact, when we imposed sanctions on Burma back in the early 2000s, I said oh, its not going to work. And in fact, I think partly because of those sanctions, partly because Burma for all kinds of reasons wanted to be closer to the West, it began to become a little bit more democratic, wanted to connect more with the West, and so the Obama administration, you know, negotiated with them. President Obama visited Burma. Andyou know, but, and all that is real, but theres also something else going on, which is this horrific, just horrific abuse in the northwest of the country. And this year, its gotten worse.

 

HH: All right, lets describe it to people. In your column, and Ill link it over at www.hughhewitt.com, theyve created their own apartheid that you say would make the South Africans of the old generation blush.

 

NK: Thats right. Its a million people, based on their ethnic group. Theyre called the Rohingya, and theyre locked up in closed quasi-concentration camps, or locked up in their villages. Theyre not allowed to leave to get jobs, in some cases to go to fields to farm. Theyre not allowed schools. Theyre, and worst of all was that early this year, they were denied medical care. So theyre left in these camps essentially to rot. Women go into labor and cant get a doctor to deliver the baby. Babies get sick. Theres no medical attention. And you know, this is in the 21st Century, allowing people on the basis of their ethnicity to die of the simplest things.

 

HH: Well, it sounds like the Warsaw ghetto.

 

NK: Yeah.

 

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More Here Myanmar,

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SrWoodchuck

You are bound to meet people that can't accept the concept of Doctors without Borders.

 

Those that are threatened by the truth & what it might do to the power structure they've so carefully protected by killing their opposition.

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