The monk veered right of the middle path ages ago, he is as Buddhist as i am marxist. He just will never give up his 'monk privilege' as it gives him the platform to spout his islamaphobic nationalist bile.
That is what it is. Using religions is very effective.
The leading monks are nothing but thugs in my eyes.
Su kyi has massive problem dealing with it. What people outside don't know is how much pressure she is getting from a lot of people in Burma for not standing up against 'violent people' in the area.
Burmeses generally accept both Buddhist and Muslim Arakaneses as one of their miniority. But not so much with their so called 'rohinga'.
The fact that many of them don't or can't speak either arakanese or burmese despite 'living in burma for generations' does not help anything there to integrate them into so called ' majority's society'. Many there seem to think that the muslims rohingas are invading and swallowing their culture and lands.
It has been going on for ages. And there are many many factors and reasons involved that no leaders of the current government could solve it easily in a short while. Some of their own Muslims representatives that were hired by the government to help the whole situation were killed violently by some nutters there for ' being government's man'. So no one even dares to talk to the government for anything.
The genocide accusations are pretty serious though. Especially, only military can approach any of rohinga villages with fully equipment usually. The rest don't even get close. The area is 97% muslim rohinga. If you are not one of them, you will be in pretty much serious trouble around there.
The military usually leave the area as it is except when they get attacked. The attackers usually run into the villages hiding. When the government troops come searching, all shits happen for various reasons from not willing to cooperate for the fear of getting killed later or actively helping terrorism to hoping to get some free shit or help from outside by playing 'refugees'. And some apparently even came from refugees camp in Bangladesh.
The Buddhist and other minorities have always fled from the violences that caused by some extremists as well in the area.
The area itself is very messed up.
P.s before anyone accusing me of being apologist to genicides or nuttes from everywhere, i have many arakanese relatives living there. I don't believe in any religions. I am against wirathu organization. I have been to those areas a few times and am just stating some of the stuff I saw and heard I got from 'the other side'.
It was just to show how complicated this issue is at the moment. It is not that very simple to say that a government organization is killing people for genocidal purpose. And it won't be entirely true or fair. As usual with these kind of headlines, the agenda or narratives that doesn't suit will be left out.
Some people or countries probably have not overreacted because some of them are probably well informed about the situations. At least by the government people.