burma issues

The Rohingya Muslims have lived in Burma for more than 1,000 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_people#Early_history Their connections to the land are beyond dispute. However, the government of Burma refuses to recognize them as a people, and therefore refuses them citizenship...

Do Americans just not give a crap? Or is the media covering its own complicity in the beatification process? Over here, it's been common discussion for years that she was just as biased against the Rohingya minority as the ruling class in Myanmar. The British press is at least covering it...

This: Is what many believe led to this: Linky. Which led to this: Linky. But more happily this as well: Linky. Others are speculating about government forces and the possibility of genocide: Linky. Horrible news coming out of the region.

Burma has long been known as a kind of minor league North Korea. Long run by an inner circle of families at the head of the military, it has been on a continual downward slide to utter poverty. Any political dissent has been crushed, sometimes spilling a lot of blood. Now they have held...

The last crackdown against pro democracy protesters in Burma killed thousands, and the Burmese military is now cracking down against protesters again. What can be done to stop the Burmese military junta ?

*Damn, The poll title is meant to be 'do something about Burma* http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6691935.stm If anything frustrates me about American foriegn policy, it is the incredible double standards that exist in it. It is coming across as a John Bolton style pre-emptive...