Nightslantern Suppressed News // July 1, 2019 - #Myanmar (#Burma)

3.7.19

http://www.nightslantern.ca/2019bulletin.htm#jul1 Gerald and Maas 2019 Suppressed News July 1, 2019 Myanmar (Burma): (see below). The following may help to understand the world community's inability to demand accountability from Myanmar: the World Bank is proceeding with a large investment in businesses in the Rakhine as the area cleared of its Rohingya inhabitants opens to new settlers. This may explain ongoing acts of violence against Rohingya which discourage their return. Aung San Suu Kyi is reported attempting to raise European investment in the country by strumming the commonality of 'problems with Muslims' to Czech and Hungarian State leaders as Europe slides to the right. With Myanmar's human rights violations the West has slowed investment as Asian investment increases. The ratio of investment from the West and from the Asian countries is about 1 to 5. Of the world's silence and inaction the problem is nakedly money and particularly Asian investment. With Myanmar under arms embargoes by the EU and US, Israel is said to be the only power supplying arms to Myanmar with sales of 11 million dollars of weapons in 2017, despite efforts against the arms trade within Israel (Buzz), but the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute extends the list of those recently supplying Myanmar with arms to China, Russia, the Ukraine, and India (Asia Times). AOAV finds that in 2016-2017 Great Britain sold 537 thousand pounds sterling of weapons to Myanmar; a large portion of this was security-related equipment. Arms sales by nations on the UN Security Council and Beijing (where Muslims and Christians are under pressure) which provides substantial support for Myanmar's government makes it unlikely that the Security Council will take any action to counter the genocide in Myanmar (these countries would become vulnerable to charges of complicity). Myanmar's tactics in avoiding accountability for its alleged genocide against the Rohingya and other minority groups provide a warning to the UN Convention on Genocide itself, as international organizations become corrupted to the service of economic interests. Partial sources online: "Aung San Suu Kyi meets with Hungary’s Orbán to lament their “growing Muslim populations," Alex Ward, June 7, 2019, ; "The World Bank is rewarding ethnic cleansing in Myanmar," Azeem Ibrahim, May 30, 2019, The Washington Post; "Czech PM Backs Investment in Myanmar as State Counselor Visits Prague," Nan Lwin, June 4, 2019, The Irrawaddy; "Asia Investors Split With West Over Myanmar's Rohingya Crackdown," Livia Yap and Tom Redmond, March 6, 2019, Bloomberg; "Up in Arms About Israeli Arms Exports," Adi Pick, Feb. 15, 2019, Buzz; "Burma’s Suu Kyi joins Hungary’s Orbán in promoting anti-Muslim chauvinism," Peter Symonds, June 12, 2019, World Socialist Web Site; "UK arms exports to Myanmar," AOAV, Nov. 15, 2018, Action on Armed Violence (UK); "Myanmar arms trade 1990-2016: Who sold what?" Shakeeb Asrar, Sept. 16, 2017, Al Jazeera. -J.B.Gerald, Gerald and Maas nightslantern.ca