occidentalist

Christians are heavily persecuted globally, particularly in the Middle East, and their plight goes largely ignored relative to the Rohingya. Compare the number of HN search results for "Rohingya" and "Coptic"/"Copt".

> where Reuters got confirmation from the Buddhist villagers who participated in the mass murder

What do you propose we do? There is "mass murder" all over the world, and as the major faiths go, Christianity globally is much more zealously persecuted than Islam. Why is this particular flash point of religious strife being given such a disproportionate amount of attention by Reuters and other major western media outlets?