GENOCIDE IN MYANMAR

2. BACKGROUND
… it is time people know that these so-called Myanmar Muslims who are inside the country –
these human animals who are only lying in wait to ask for their rights – and the Muslims in the
entire world are on the side of the Rohingya people and feel hurt. 65
An internally displaced Rakhine man in his forties said:
The conflict is mainly because of the Muslims, they have been brainwashed by those Muslim
religious leaders, they always follow their instructions and in Muslim communities they even
rape their own daughters... We can live together with other ethnic groups whether it is Chinese
or others, Kachin, but Muslim – not like that, they are just very arrogant. We cannot live together
with Muslim community, they are very scary… they are like animals, they are like dogs. The
Muslim people… are trying to make the whole war begin, they are just trying to Islamise the
whole world… I hate the Muslim people. 66
A 43-year-old Rakhine woman said:
I heard from Muslim workers who used to work in the village, that ‘kalar’ leaders teach them to
live and to kill. I don’t know what the government should do about the situation. It’s even worse
because more Bengalis are coming across from Bangladesh so the population is increasing.
‘Kalar’ workers told me this. 67
Another woman reported:
I asked a Muslim man, ‘what do you do in the mosque’? And he replied, ‘our religious teachers
told us that we had to kill Rakhine people’. 68
65 Toe Tet Yay [Development] Journal (RNDP) - Volume 2. No. 12, 2012 November, Page 9, copy available on file with authors,
obtained from Al Jazeera.
66 Interviewed in a Rakhine IDP camp, Sittwe, 25 November 2014.
67 Interviewed in a Rakhine village, Sittwe, 28 November 2014.
68 Rakhine woman, interview in a Rakhine village, Sittwe, 6 December 2014.
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