The Plight of the Rohingya

Very Bored · 10-06-2015 09:17AM #1

In many circles the Rohingya are termed the most persecuted people in the world. I've often wondered why there hasn't been a more high profile focus. Surely something should be done about this. What can be done and how? Also, as Ireland has an interest in this, there being many Rohingya refugees in Ireland, particularly in Carlow amongst other places, should Ireland be putting international pressure on the big world players to act?

www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33007536

StewartGriffin · 10-06-2015 10:04AM

Possibly it's because here in the Western world we like to keep our poster heroes squeaky clean and any mention that Aung San Suu Kyi and those happy orange robed Buddhist Monks may not be perfect, is unpalatable. And since it's unpalatable, the spineless media will report on other stuff that sells better.

smash · 10-06-2015 10:08AM

I can't even pronounce that, let alone form an opinion on it.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 10-06-2015 10:53AM

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old_aussie · 10-06-2015 10:54AM

Ron who?

Nucular Arms · 10-06-2015 11:06AM

They look to be in a bit of bother alright..

old_aussie · 10-06-2015 11:09AM

Very Bored wrote: »

Rohingya refugees in Ireland, particularly in Carlow amongst other places, should Ireland be putting international pressure on the big world players to act?

www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33007536

And what type of pressure would that be?

I don't think Australia wants them, and it appears that no one else, big world players or Asian countries, wants these muslims

I wonder why they dont go to Bangladesh or Pakistan?

Sheep Lover · 10-06-2015 11:10AM

The poor fcukers. How awful for them. Having to live in such a backward, uneducated and violent society of Carlow.

SEPT 23 1989 · 10-06-2015 11:11AM

Watched news reports of where these people live and the conditions

it looked like hell

Nodin · 10-06-2015 11:12AM

old_aussie wrote: »

And what type of pressure would that be?

I don't think Australia wants them, and it appears that no one else, big world players or Asian countries,wants these muslims

I wonder why they dont go to Bangladesh or Pakistan?

Whats their religion to do with it?

goose2005 · 10-06-2015 03:42PM

StewartGriffin wrote: »

Possibly it's because here in the Western world we like to keep our poster heroes squeaky clean and any mention that Aung San Suu Kyi and those happy orange robed Buddhist Monks may not be perfect, is unpalatable. And since it's unpalatable, the spineless media will report on other stuff that sells better.

Burmese monks wear maroon.

And I suppose it's just that Burmese people don't want Muslims, they don't want Islam.

ClovenHoof · 10-06-2015 03:47PM

Nucular Arms wrote: »

They look to be in a bit of bother alright..

Fool!!

That's the People of Gondor in trouble, the Rohan are coming to rescue them.

Clearly you were not paying attention in school.

Nodin · 10-06-2015 04:01PM

goose2005 wrote: »

Burmese monks wear maroon.

And I suppose it's just that Burmese people don't want Muslims, they don't want Islam.

Otherwise known as "sectarianism".

Arsemageddon · 10-06-2015 04:16PM

Nodin wrote: »

Whats their religion to do with it?

It's of vital importance if your world view sees all Muslims as evil.

topper75 · 10-06-2015 05:04PM

Does boards need a separate Bleeding Hearts forum to stop clogging up After Hours?

Generic Dreadhead · 10-06-2015 05:09PM

topper75 wrote: »

Does boards need a separate Bleeding Hearts forum to stop clogging up After Hours?

OHHHHH SNAP!!!!! :pac:

PopePalpatine · 10-06-2015 05:10PM

topper75 wrote: »

Does boards need a separate Bleeding Hearts forum to stop clogging up After Hours?

We'd need a Heartless Bigot forum for balance.

TheLastMohican · 10-06-2015 05:22PM

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topper75 · 10-06-2015 05:38PM

PopePalpatine wrote: »

We'd need a Heartless Bigot forum for balance.

Oh, I have a heart, but no apologies to anyone that it doesn't pretend to stretch across vast swathes of the globe that most Irish have never even heard of not to mind travel to. This kind of thread topic originates in people LOOKING for problems.

brevity · 10-06-2015 05:39PM

Are those the guys in Lord of the Rings? The ones that came down the hill with Gandalf.

Arsemageddon · 10-06-2015 05:41PM

topper75 wrote: »

Oh, I have a heart, but no apologies to anyone that it doesn't pretend to stretch across vast swathes of the globe that most Irish have never even heard of not to mind travel to. This kind of thread topic originates in people LOOKING for problems.

Well it's either that or maybe, just maybe it's because some people take an interest in stuff that happens outside Ireland

Very Bored · 10-06-2015 05:43PM

They do go to Bangladesh but then they get put into refugee camps and get persecuted there to.

This is not a bleeding heart issue, nor it it an attempt to search for problems. To the user who suggested why the issue may be of little or zero importance to Ireland, I qualified this in my first post by stating Ireland has taken in a large number of Rohingya as refugees, many of whom now have Irish citizenship.

crockholm · 10-06-2015 05:52PM

PopePalpatine wrote: »

We'd need a Heartless Bigot forum for balance.

Quite possibly the first time I have ever agreed with you on boards:D I would like to nominate myself as heartless bigot mod for this new sub forum,any bedwetter type posts and.....permaban.

FTA69 · 10-06-2015 05:59PM

old_aussie wrote: »

And what type of pressure would that be?

I don't think Australia wants them, and it appears that no one else, big world players or Asian countries, wants these muslims

I wonder why they dont go to Bangladesh or Pakistan?

They do, and they get treated like sh*t there too. I was in Bangladesh in January and saw some of their camps in Chittagong near the border with Burma, they resemble prison camps more than anything else; concrete expanses ringed with wire and walls and staffed by guards. In an already desperately poor country, these people are on another level entirely.

Bangladesh denies them citizenship and suggests they have no place in the country.

jonnypacket · 10-06-2015 06:49PM

Most of us in Ireland are still riding the Palestinian bandwagon. It's not fashionable to pretend to care about the Rohingya yet.

Nodin · 10-06-2015 07:08PM

jonnypacket wrote: »

Most of us in Ireland are still riding the Palestinian bandwagon. It's not fashionable to pretend to care about the Rohingya yet.

Speak for yourself.

Hans Bricks · 10-06-2015 07:19PM

You would swear Ireland is that semi-mythical last known location of dry land that Kevin Costner finds at the end of Waterworld.

Mysterypunter · 10-06-2015 11:55PM

That an si soo ki wan is a prick. Where are all the hippy musicians for these poor bastards? Where are the candles and the amnesty international know alls? Imagine being unwanted by Bangladesh.Poor sods.

Nucular Arms · 11-06-2015 12:30AM

Hans Bricks wrote: »

You would swear Ireland is that semi-mythical last known location of dry land that Kevin Costner finds at the end of Waterworld.

I have seen it... it is not a myth.

Nucular Arms · 11-06-2015 12:32AM

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Fool!!

That's the People of Gondor in trouble, the Rohan are coming to rescue them.

Clearly you were not paying attention in school.

Just chasing the sight gag of title..

I doubt anyone ever actually watches youtube embeds on here.. I know I don't!

goose2005 · 11-06-2015 10:29AM

Nodin wrote: »

Otherwise known as "sectarianism".

Perhaps. But also self-preservation. Afghanistan used to be Buddhist. Indonesia. Northern India/Pakistan. Jihad has also reached to southern Thailand in recent years.

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