The Rohingya Crisis: Perception Management, Rumours, Reality and Ramifications

Andrew Korybko
Sputnik
The world, and especially the Ummah, is incensed at what is being portrayed as genocide against Muslims in Myanmar, but the reality of what’s happening there is a lot more complex than the simplistic rumors lead one to believe, and the geopolitical ramifications of this crisis could become very far-reaching.
Right off the bat, killing innocent people is wrong, and everyone is justified for feeling outraged when they believe this is happening, as it plainly is in some cases in Myanmar’s coastal Rakhine State. The question, though, comes down to identifying who’s doing the killing and why, and whether the victims were intentionally targeted or ‘collateral damage,’ be it from a military ‘anti-terrorist’ operation or a ‘rebel’ one against the government. It’s also important to ponder what the geopolitical ramifications of all of this could be in terms of the larger dynamics at play in the New Cold War.

This post was published at 21st Century Wire on SEPTEMBER 16, 2017.