Worth reading editorial article in NYT about the plight of Muslim minority in Burma. Even the West’s human right darling and champion Aung San Suu, Noble Peace prize winner, has refused to condemn the violence by Buddhist extremists; Some excerpts;

A cynical decision by Myanmar to ban Doctors Without Borders from the state of Rakhine has left some 750,000 people without medical care since Feb. 28. About 150 people, including women with difficult pregnancies, are estimated to have died since the ban was imposed.

Myanmar acted after the group, which has provided medical care in Rakhine State since 1994, reported treating 22 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority for gunshot wounds and other injuries after an attack by a Buddhist mob in January. A United Nations investigation concluded that up to 40 men, women and children were killed in the rampage, which Myanmar denies took place.

If the goal in kicking Doctors Without Borders out of Rakhine State, and depriving hundreds of thousands of people of their only source of medical care, is to prevent foreign witnesses to the human rights violations in the region, it is a badly calculated strategy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/opinion/myanmars-deadly-medicine.html?hp&rref=opinion

Posted by F. Sheikh