Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis: George Soros, Oil, & Lessons For India

“When George Soros comes to this or that country… he looks for religious, ethnic or social contradictions, chooses the model of action for one of these options or their combination and tries to ‘warm them up’,” Egorchenkov explained…
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The ongoing crisis in Myanmar including tensions between Buddhist and Muslim communities and the military crackdown by Myanmar Army and police seems to be a multidimensional crisis with major geopolitical players involved according to a report by Sputnik International.
As per the report Dmitry Mosyakov, director of the Centre for Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told RT that the conflict ‘was apparently fanned by external global players’ and ‘has at least three dimensions’.
‘First, this is a game against China, as China has very large investments in Arakan [Rakhine],’ Mosyakov told RT.
‘Second, it is aimed at fuelling Muslim extremism in Southeast Asia….
Third, it’s the attempt to sow discord within ASEAN [between Myanmar and Muslim-dominated Indonesia and Malaysia].’

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Sep 11, 2017.