{"id":69261,"date":"2016-02-01T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=69261"},"modified":"2016-02-01T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T11:32:42","slug":"myanmar-nazi-monk-wirathu-time-magazines-face-of-buddhist-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/02\/myanmar-nazi-monk-wirathu-time-magazines-face-of-buddhist-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar Nazi Monk Wirathu, TIME Magazine’s \u201cFace of Buddhist Terror\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"maung<\/a>Myanmar’s “Nazi monk” Wirathu (and networks), plot to unleash new Islamophobic waves of violence against Myanmar’s Muslims and Rohingya.<\/em><\/p>\n

The ultimate goal is to destabilize the society with the aim of preventing the election winning NLD and Aung San Suu Kyi from bringing any meaningful change.<\/p>\n

Meaningful change involves significant reduction in the military’s economic, institutional and political control of the country.<\/p>\n

The underlying and deep-seated anti-Muslim racism is there for political mobilization.<\/p>\n

Themselves led by anti-Muslim racist generals and ex-military officers, the military-controlled state organs – especially the entire security sector and the vast general administration – will continue to provide the anti-Muslim attackers and hate-monkers a blanket impunity while leaving Muslim minorities – including the Rohingya extremely vulnerable to all kinds of organized-mob attacks including arsons and further displacement.<\/p>\n

\"wirathu<\/a><\/p>\n

The weak discourse of human rights and democracy – which has not really been widely internalized even by the NLD leaders and former student activists themselves such as “88 generation group” – will be overwhelmed by another wave of crude, but powerful mass racism.<\/p>\n

Watch this 5-minute clip portraying men with beards and\/or Indian physical features as rapists and murderers.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/wirathumsy.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ven.wirathumsy\/videos\/782381631905347\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dr. Maung Zarni <\/em>is a Burmese activist blogger<\/em>, Associate Fellow at the University of Malaya,<\/em> a <\/em>member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>,<\/em> founder and director of the Free Burma Coalition (1995-2004), a visiting fellow (2011-13) at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, London School of Economics, and<\/em> a nonresident scholar with the Sleuk Rith Institute in Cambodia. <\/em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 maungzarni.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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