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by junkculture 3201 days ago
Anyone who understand Bengali should listen to the "Rohingya" language. The similarities are unmistakable, even if you can't understand either.

If they really have been in that area since the 8th century - an assertion made by Soros' HRW, and mindlessly repeated by the media - you'd expect the language to diverge a lot more.

They are clearly not native to Myanmar.

Also, it's conveniently forgotten that they triggered the latest spurt of violence by attacking Buddhist and Hindu citizens.

It's odd how suddenly this is the latest humanitarian crisis.

Nothing to do with oil and gas pipelines, I'm sure. Unlike Syria, Iraq, Libya and so on.

Call me cynical but I don't see the international community - code for US interests - caring about people in resource poor regions.

Wonder what would happen if NK suddenly was found to have oil fields ...
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apsec112 3201 days ago
That's a very weak argument. Eg., the Catalan language is more closely related to French than Spanish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallo-Romance_languages). But the Catalans are certainly "native" to Spain, in that they've lived within the current Spanish borders since before Spain existed. And obviously, someone not being "native" to an area doesn't justify killing or terrorizing them.
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junkculture 3201 days ago
Clearly you haven't lived in close proximity to these people.

They trickle in, respect no boundaries and no laws.

Now if they integrated and contributed to the regions culture and economy, that would go a long way towards their acceptance. But that's against the tenents of their religion/culture/ideology and it's demonstrated by their violence.

I'd quote Karl Popper on tolerating the intolerant, but it would be another "weak argument."

You can't drag people who insist on living by pre-medieval norms into the 21st century.

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dang 3201 days ago
> You can't drag people who insist on living by pre-medieval norms

Please don't use HN to fight ideological, national, or racial battles. That's definitely not what this site is for: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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