Responding to a terrorist attack clearly doesn't justify the deliberate massacre of civilians, either legally or morally. Most people don't exonerate Bashar al-Assad's crimes against civilians because the Syrian government suffered terrorist attacks (which it very much has).

I agree, but most news outlets are painting this whole thing as a sudden genocidal action from Myanmar without any rhyme or reason. In reality it is response to a terror attack. There is no excuse for brutality on innocents, but there is no excuse for bad journalism too.

“They burned houses and tried to shoot us. They killed my husband by bullet.” - I don't think this is in any way similar to the Afghanistan war.

Yeah I agree, the atrocities committed in Afghanistan were much worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0

The terrorist attack was in response to decades of persecution and genocide. In 2013 they've been described by UN as "the most persecuted population on earth"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_people

Is this the same UN whose human rights council chair is Saudi Arabia? Because that totally invalidates any such description.

Totally agree. And much of the violence being attributed to Burmese forces is just hearsay attributed to Islamists.

Western media/NGOs seems to buy it at face value and support these said Islamist, but hey they also supported ISIS affiliates in Syria against secular Asad regime so that's not surprising to me at all.

This apart from the fact that anyone from subcontinent will tell you that these are not Rohingyas, but Bengalis speaking Bangladeshis who have flooded rakhine and made ethnic rakhines a minority in a few decades.

They are Bangladeshi Muslims, much like the "Assamese" flooding the labor market in South India right now.

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