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Comments on MetaFilter post The Forgotten PeopleSat, 28 Feb 2009 19:53:35 -0800Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:53:35 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60The Forgotten People
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What if you were one of the <a href="http://www.islamawareness.net/Asia/Burma/ro_article003.html">Rohingya</a> people, and you faced <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DHA408299.htm">death</a> in trying to escape, or were <a href="http://www.zimbio.com/Bhutan/articles/712/Rohingya+People+Forcibly+Expelled+Myanmar">expelled</a> from your Homeland. Would you <a href="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2009/02/mistreatment-of-myanmars-rohingya.php">wait</a> for others to <a href=" http://article.wn.com/view/2009/02/08/US_wants_Myanmar_to_stop_persecution_of_Rohingyas/">help</a>, or would you <a href=" http://www.rohingyaboatpeople.com/scmp19Jan09news.html">try</a> and do it yourself...post:www.metafilter.com,2009:site.79580Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:18:22 -0800hadjiboyAsiaMyanmarBangladeshThailandPeopleHopeDreamsWorkLifeBy: netbros
http://www.metafilter.com/79580/The-Forgotten-People#2470364
"We express our serious concern that Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed on February 27, 2009 in Hua Htin, Thailand to send hundreds of Rohingya boatpeople back to Burma. We have not expected such a verdict from the 10-member regional bloc.
We would remind the ASEAN leaders that Burma under the ruling military SPDC is just like a hell particularly for the Rohingya people. The military regime is cunning, cruel and brute, and it has not the least sense of human rights. It will be totally injudicious to send the boatpeople back to Burma against their will." - <a href="http://www.rohingya.org/">Arakan Rohingya National Organisation</a>
"<a href="http://www.america.gov/st/hr-english/2009/February/20090203164705esnamfuak0.8709833.html">The Obama administration</a> says countries to which Burmese Rohingya migrants have fled should carefully screen them — with the involvement of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) — to determine if they need protection."comment:www.metafilter.com,2009:site.79580-2470364Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:53:35 -0800netbrosBy: bitteroldman
http://www.metafilter.com/79580/The-Forgotten-People#2470388
I am not sure whether to stop believing in God or start believing in the devil.
What is it about humanity that causes us to be such horrible people?
Someone, in another post, made a comment about dropping E in the worlds water supply. I'm starting to believe that's a good idea.
There was a short story by Stephen King, where two brothers discover a water source that makes people kinder, gentler (but they also start to lose their brain power). Anyway, the brothers manage to get the water into a live volcano and when the eruption occurs, the mist makes its way around the world and every one stops killing and hurting each other.
If only we could find such a water source.comment:www.metafilter.com,2009:site.79580-2470388Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:20:13 -0800bitteroldmanBy: kozad
http://www.metafilter.com/79580/The-Forgotten-People#2470403
A terrible story about a forgotten group. Things would be different were the <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action/time-release-aung-san-suu-kyi">elected leader</a> of Burma were in power.comment:www.metafilter.com,2009:site.79580-2470403Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:42:39 -0800kozadBy: typewriter
http://www.metafilter.com/79580/The-Forgotten-People#2470438
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7916254.stm">Burma will 'welcome' them back if they identify as Bengali.</a>comment:www.metafilter.com,2009:site.79580-2470438Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:33:22 -0800typewriterBy: shii
http://www.metafilter.com/79580/The-Forgotten-People#2470492
In case people aren't familiar with ASEAN, it's a Southeast Asian mockery of the European Union: it <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/01/content_10922290.htm">makes absurd declarations of progress</a>, <a href="http://nationmultimedia.com/2009/02/28/regional/regional_30096859.php">creates toothless human rights panels to lend legitimacy to regimes like Burma's</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnqXEYI1yGg">manufactures imperialist cartoons to teach SEA urbanites about its great benefits</a>.comment:www.metafilter.com,2009:site.79580-2470492Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:11:52 -0800shiiBy: homunculus
http://www.metafilter.com/79580/The-Forgotten-People#2471115
<i>Things would be different were the elected leader of Burma were in power.</i>
True, but <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2210439/pagenum/all/">the junta will never let that happen</a>.comment:www.metafilter.com,2009:site.79580-2471115Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:15:15 -0800homunculus
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