{"id":44021,"date":"2014-06-30T14:46:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T13:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=44021"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:33:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:33:44","slug":"united-behind-so-called-rohingya-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/06\/united-behind-so-called-rohingya-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"United Behind So-Called ‘Rohingya” Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Maung<\/a>

Maung Zarni<\/p><\/div>\n

A poem in memory of the two Rohingya infants who became the well-publicized victims of Myanmar’s “Buddhist” genocide.<\/em><\/p>\n

We are a great nation of “Buddhist” Myanmar
\nWe send our waves of Metta for World Peace
\nWe boast about our Oxonian Nobel Lady
\nwho was once a (vastly mistaken) global icon of peace.<\/p>\n

Hey, we ain’t ordinary nation.
\nWith countless Buddhist temples and pagodas
\nWe ARE the proud children of this Golden Land
\nthe land full of mass graves and unending fraternal wars.<\/p>\n

So, we ain’t scared of your sanctions
\nDon’t expect us to share our Buddhist Metta with those Rohinya, nah, Bengali viruses!<\/p>\n

No Metta for the alien invaders.
\nZero. Nil.<\/p>\n

We praise our lordship – President Thein Sein – for his wise policy of ”two child for Bengali’
\nOur President-gyi is ably advised by our genocidal Shan Princess
\nLady Yin Yin Nwe
\nShe ain’t no ordinary woman either,
\nFormer head of UNICEF in China and poshly educated at Cambridge.<\/p>\n

With men and women of world class caliber
\nWe ain’t scared of your feeble American sanctions.<\/p>\n

How dare you liberals tell us Myanmar Buddhists
\nwhat to do about the “Bengali”!??:
\nwe entrust the matter in Immigration Minister Nwa Khin Yi
\naided and abetted by his Nwe Adviser the Cornellian Dr Kyaw Yin Hlaing<\/p>\n

No, we won’t share our food with them – not even their infants.<\/p>\n

Don’t waste your time harping on Rohingya citizenship.
\n1982 Citizenship Act is for eternity
\nEthnicity is what we say it is.<\/p>\n

Be pragmatic like UNICEF.
\nSay, “Sorry for saying Rohingya”.
\nPay your rent to ex-generals
\nIf you really want to save our children.<\/p>\n

Be smart like Norway and its Minister Solheim.
\nTake the corporate contracts – for Telenor and Statoil
\nStay off Rohingya genocide.<\/p>\n

Oslo knows there is no end in sight for Myanmar’s “Buddhist” genocide.
\nReforms may be reversible, but mass atrocities are not.<\/p>\n

Not even Gotama Buddha can save the Rohingya
\nfrom these Myamar’s genocidaires.
\nWe are tourist-friendly “Buddhists”
\nBut don’t mistake our smiles for Buddhist Metta.
\nWe take no shit from nobody.
\nWe may even be worse than your deadliest tropical snakes.
\nOur cruelty and depravity know no bounds.<\/p>\n

How dare you lecture us on Buddhist Metta.
\nWe are the Buddhists who don’t give a shit about Buddhism.
\nWho cares about Nirvana!??<\/p>\n

In monks, we trust.
\nThey are our moral compass.
\nMen with shaven heads in Saffron robes
\nOur President Thein Sein says they are ‘peace loving sons of Lord Buddha’<\/p>\n

These Holy Men raise us on genocidal hatred.
\nThey teach us the virtues of Nazish racial purity.
\nOur generals say our national security is at stake.
\nAnd they agree.<\/p>\n

So, our sovereignty comes before Bengali human rights.<\/p>\n

Our President says he will make us legally Nazi Buddhists
\nThat is our inalienable right.<\/p>\n

Our Lady of Latter-Day Silence denies, “there is no ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Burma”.<\/p>\n

Our feisty multi-ethnic feminists may stand up for their vaginal rights.<\/p>\n

But we are all united in our ‘Bengali” genocide!<\/p>\n

Zarni, 10 June 2014<\/em><\/p>\n

_________________________________<\/p>\n

Maung Zarni<\/em>, Associate Fellow, the University of Malaya. Dr. Maung Zarni is a <\/em>member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment, <\/em>founder and director of the Free Burma Coalition (1995-2004), and a visiting fellow (2011-13) at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, Department of International Development, London School of Economics. His forthcoming book on Burma will be published by Yale University Press.<\/em> He was educated in the US where he lived and worked for 17 years. Visit his website www.maungzarni.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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