...Fear of the Burma Genocide The Burma Genocide affected over 2 million people. “It is not power that corrupts but fear,” said Aung San Suu, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 and protested against the military and government which was in control of Burma at the time. Suu also lead the national league for democracy in May of 1990, which was the first free election in Burma since 1962. The Burma Genocide affected the Karen people who believed in Christianity. The Burma military burned down churches and other religious buildings that were not connected to Buddhism, (the religion that they believed in). Origin 1962 is when Burma’s postcolonial democracy was thrown into a military coup (“Burma << World without genocide - working to create a world without genocide”). Burma has been the center of conflict for it’s severe oppression of human rights. The Burmese military has inflicted counterinsurgency campaigns toward ethnic minorities, which lead to a large amount of death. Counterinsurgency is when the military or political action is taken against the activities of guerrillas or revolutionaries. This caused Burma to be one of the worlds most isolated and suppressed nations for forty years...
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...Genocide is a type of torture. All through Europe, thousands of Jews were getting killed during the Holocaust and in Rwanda, thousands of Hutu were getting killed. Like the Holocaust and the genocide in Rwanda, there was genocide in Cambodia. In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge took control in 1975. A man named Pol Pot became the head of the government in 1976. During his “reign”, he counted many of his citizens as enemies of the country and killed them. He had mines placed all over the country and had work camps and facilities made essentially for killing people. He also took control of everything including schools, hospitals, and houses, “under the Khmer Rouge, there were, of course, no markets – nor money or schools or medicine” (“Cambodian Genocide”). By doing this, everyone in Cambodia barely had access to the necessities of life, including clean water. The result of his reign before he was overthrown was the death of about 25% of the population, so around “1.7 million people” (“Cambodian Genocide”). Israel and United States also have problems. In Israel, torture “has a long tradition”(Watzal). People in Israel have tortured many people throughout the years secretly and then “the Israeli public was first informed of torture practices in 1977”(Watzal)...
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...Burma Pipelines Case Study OL 690 Helen Cowell Prof. Jan Wyatt August 16, 2012 Torture, forced displacement, land confiscation, genocide and arbitrary arrest are connected to the Shwe natural gas and oil project in Burma. What is the damage to the environment and the livelihood of the thousands of the displaced people? Are the people’s human rights being violated by being forced to give up their land? Are Chinese companies being unethical and prey-hunter businessmen? These are just a few of the questions being asked concerning the new pipelines being built. Natural gas and oil pipelines, which will start in Kyaukphyu, are being constructed to provide gas and oil to resource hungry China. The oil pipeline will be 479 miles long and will be able to discharge 240 thousand barrels of oil per day. The natural gas pipelines will extend even further to Guangxiin China, running a total of 1700 miles long. Burma relies on agriculture and exports of rice to keep their economy afloat. Climate changes, due to burning gas, will have huge impacts on global temperatures in Burma. Burma is a lowland delta region which is vulnerable to flooding. The project has led to the confiscation of thousands of acres of land across the area of Burma due to creating a “security corridor” adjacent to the pipeline, destroyed the livelihood of farmers due to land confiscation, bankrupted fisherman by devastating the marine ecosystem, due to underwater mining, and killing fish. Some farmers...
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...Bloodshed everywhere,blood all around; Is the blood invisible,why aren't we reacting? I believe that we have totally become inhumane and fail to react to the brutal massacre of mankind. Eventhough history is flooded with such examples, yet the mass killings of Muslims in Burma is a living testament to that. Gun shots echoed everywhere. According to global post, in Burma Arakan Buddhists along with Burmese security forces were tearing the city apart and were carrying out genocide of Rohingya Muslims by burning them. There were scenes of Burmese security forces committing killings, rape, and mass arrests against Rohingya Muslims. There was another scenario of Arakan Buddists seizing a baby from a mother and literally throwing it in a fire. Millions of Muslims throughout the globe were watching these scenarios on tv yet no action was taken. There was a time period when Muslims were really close to their religion Islam. As a result they were God-fearing and followed the teachings laid down in the holy Quran and acted upon by Prophet Muhammad(P.B.U.H). The Prophet (P.B.U.H) said, "God does not show mercy to those who donot show mercy to others." "The best of people are those who are of help to other people." These teachings were instilled in everyone's minds. But with the passage of time, Satan was finally dominant in making them go astray. Since then Muslims are forgetting the fundamentals...
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...African Culture of Rwanda Tutsi’s and Hutu’s The monarchy of the Tutsi was predestine for greatness but, due to the Tutsi’s believe Godly sanctions has occurred and the monarchy over power. I will make a comparison between the culture of Americans and Africans and the similarities of both obsessed ethnic groups in each society and is the culture and the conflict between the various ethnic groups. The Tutsi’s and Hutu's who had an essentialist that stereotypes a powerful factor in mobilizing civilian's to participate in the killing in of the lives of Rwandan's despite, the current state policies. Rwanda civil war began in 1994 where there were two ethnic groups called the Hutu’s and Tutsi’s. It was shortly after World War I when Belgium expanded control over Rwandan. The Tutsi’s were mainly chosen, because of their skin color. The fact’s that their skin was whiter than the Hutu’s. The Tutsi’s enter into a leadership position in which they promote discrimination against the Hutu’s. The Tutsi’s had favored over the Hutu’s because of how light they were. Additionally, they were position to receive the better jobs and better education opportunities but, between the two groups. The Tutsi’s is now as the majority in Rwanda compared to the Hutu’s. They denied Hutu’s the right to own land and a better education. They had to governmental representation in order to maintain the dominancy within the country. They figured out early on how to suppress there people...
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...peaceful religion, but Buddhist extremists have taken their interpretation of the religion to a whole new level recently. After a prayer ritual in Myanmar in the Summer of 2013, Ashin Wirathu started ranting in front of thousands of Buddhists, trying to convince them that Muslims are the enemy, saying, “I call them troublemakers, because they are troublemakers,” and, “You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog.” Ashin Wirathu is a Buddhist monk in Myanmar who has turned into an extremist. While this event didn’t turn violent, it was a call to incite violence and an example of Buddhist extremism leading to violence and genocide in the name of their religion. (“Extremism Rises Among Myanmar Buddhists.” The New York Times)...
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...time after all physical injuries have healed. Myanmar (Burma) is a beautiful Southeast Asian country with about 53.26 million people and 8 different ethnic groups (google.com). For decades, there has been conflict between the Burmese and other minorities. There has been peace agreements signed between the Burmese and other minority groups, yet the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) continue to suppress the minorities with cruelty and brutality, which some sources even call genocide or ethnic cleansing. Through their "four cuts policy" the SPDC tries to brutally assimilate the ethnic groups and minorities of Burma and suppress their language, culture and identity (unknown, helpwithoutfrontiers.org). The main minority to face these problems are the Karen people. According to helpwithoutfrontiers.org, “Since 1990 around 2,000 villages have been plundered and burnt to the ground. People are randomly tortured and killed, men and youth kidnapped to be forced porters and living mine detectors, women systematically raped.” This is a very large problem; many people are being killed, tortured and raped by the same people who are supposed to protect them. This is causing many to flee from their homes to different countries in hope for safety. Torture is widespread in Burma, it often occurs in police stations in the form of beatings and being hit with blunt objects. An example of a case of torture and injustice in a Burma police station occurred on July 2, 2014.Reportedly, Thet...
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...Culture exist in every society, it is based on attitudes, values, and beliefs. Culture can either be visible or invisible; usually the invisible value-belief system of a particular culture is often the major driving force behind the visible. Culture can be defines as the context for interpreting human experiences such as health and illness and provides direction to decision and actions. All culture has systems of health beliefs to explain what causes illness, how it can be cured or treated and who should be involved in the care process. Cultural awareness can be defines as : “an in-depth self-examination of one’s own background, recognizing bias, prejudices, and assumption about other people”. To provide an effective care, health care provider should be of cultural competence and practice. Cultural sensitive care in nursing is important to provide meaningful and supportive care for clients. Beyond the concept that language can often present a barrier to proper understanding and decision making, every client has a unique background and life story that influences what he or she considers appropriate care. Age, race ethnicity, gender, race, religion, economic status, and other factors such as prior healthcare encounter and recent family event can all affect how an individual sees the world. To discover client’s culture care, values, meaning, beliefs and practices, nurses need to be able to assess social, cultural, and biophysical factors influencing treatment and care of client;...
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...states, especially the Latin American states advocated closing all loopholes for intervention when the UN charter was being drawn up. Indeed Article 2(4) of the UN Charter provides for a comprehensive ban on use of force against sovereign states except in self-defence or where authorised by the UN Security Council for the collective benefit of the comity of nations . The UN General Assembly reinforced the concept of complete sovereignty in its 1970 Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations . However, the UN Charter also recognises the legal status of individual human rights as embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which is reinforced by the Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide . This clash between human rights and state sovereignty remains the central issue and one which must addressed each time a humanitarian crisis emerges and intervention is suggested. It was Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld who began the operationalization of the idea that the UN had a responsibility to maintain order and protect life in the newly independent states by creating the United Nations Emergency Force(UNEF) in response to the Suez crisis in 1956 and the offering military assistance to the Government of the Republic of Congo in 1960 . Hammarskjöld’s legacy remains the precedents that he set for expanding executive action to protect violence affected populations. Despite Hammarskjöld’s ‘Master Texts’ and the expansion of the...
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...Compare and Contrast Japanese and Western Imperialism in Asia and the Pacific 23 October 2013 at 18:10 The Japanese pursuit for an empire in South East Asia helped changed the balance of world power away from Europe, by taking their most lucrative colonies. Soon after the Japanese defeat in World War II, most of the colonies won their independence from their European masters. This essay will be arguing that despite the vast geographical distance and cultural, racial differences, as well as the different time periods involved, Japanese and European intentions were very similar, and that these similarities contributed to the weakening of Imperialism as a doctrine. To do so, this essay will be examining the reasons for the Japanese conducting policies of imperialism, when they expanded, what methods they use to expand and the systems of government. Japanese Imperialism will be compared to those of a well known European power active in the region, Britain. J.A Hobson’s seminal work Imperialism: A Study puts forward the idea of the ‘Economic Taproot of Imperialism’. A taproot is the largest root in some plants and is the plant’s primary source of nourishment. Military aggression is simply capitalist expansion. He described it as “As one nation after another enters the machine economy and adopts advanced industrial methods, it becomes more difficult for its manufacturers, merchants and finaciers to dispose profitably of their economic resources and they are tempted more and more to...
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... [pic] |[pic] |[pic] |[pic] | |MALASIYA |SINGAPORE |THAILAND | |[pic] |[pic] |[pic] | |INDONESIA |LAOS |PHILIPINES | |[pic] |[pic] |[pic] | |BURMA |VIETNAM |BRUNEI | | [pic] | |CAMBODIA | MALAYSIA Facts and Statistics Ethnic Make-up: Malay 50.4%, Chinese 23.7%, indigenous 11%, Indian 7.1%, others 7.8% Religions: Muslim 60.4%, Buddhist 19.2%, Christian 9.1%, Hindu 6.3%, Confucianism, Taoism, other traditional Chinese religions 2.6%,...
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...from the Start? According to law that dates back to 1648, nations have the right to govern within their borders in whatever manner determined fitting. Some states, although granted this right that is inherent to the foundation of the international system, fail to protect their citizens from harm. Too often in recent history have governments neglected to protect their people during conflicts or crises, and with a world with increasing visibility and communication, states have responded with a basic plan to prevent mass crimes such as Bosnia and Rwanda. Thus, Responsibility to Protect (R2P) was developed as a caveat for the international community to intervene when a government fails to protect its own citizens from mass atrocities. Genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing are the four conditions under which the international community is authorized to intervene, should a state fail to protect its citizens (Rudolph 2014). In the past 20 years, R2P has been under construction and constantly under evolution from theory to practice. While parameter definition and norm building continue to cycle from lessons learned, the three foundational pillars upon which the R2P model dangles from remains the same: “Pillar 1: Every state has the responsibility to protect its populations from the four mass atrocity crimes Pillar 2: The wider international community has the responsibility to encourage and assist individual states in meeting that responsibility ...
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...World War II Research Report The Soviet Union Danny Buck History 114 Dr. Murphy November 24, 2014 World War II Research Report The Soviet Union Totalitarianism came about in Russia during the time of Stalin. Before doing research I had thought that it would have started with Lenin, but it did not. “Why did Russia, in its enlarged incarnation as the Soviet Union under Stalin, become one of the three most repressive and brutal totalitarian states of the 20th century (the other two being Nazi Germany and China under Mao)? The urge to modernize rapidly is often put forward to explain the character of the Soviet Union. But what equally needs to be explained is the very backwardness that created such an urge. And the Russian intelligentsia had long been preoccupied both with modernization and resistance to it.” (Hollander, 2006). It was a brutal way of life where the people existed to serve the state. The Rise of Totalitarianism In the late 1910’s the czar was over thrown and he and his family were murdered. Lenin came to power and communism took over the country, but it was not totally repressive until Stalin came into power. Stalin’s goal was to modernize the Soviet Union. He wanted to industrialize the Soviet Union and increase the production of products. He thought that if he could make the Soviet Union a manufacturing giant that it could be a super power. He also wanted to maintain complete and absolute control and to not allow any interference from anyone...
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...…………………………………………3 Analysis of terrorism in Kashmir and the India-Pakistan dispute…7 Other factors supporting the rise of terrorism in Kashmir……….10 Impact of terrorism and the proxy war……………………………..12 Potential steps towards a peaceful solution………………………..15 Latest developments………………………………………………….18 Appendix I: List of Works Cited/Bibliography……………….......20 Appendix II: Map of the region.……………………………………21 Appendix III: Copy of instrument of Accession of Kashmir to India…22 War and Peace: An Analysis Of The Kashmir Issue And A Possible Path To Peace Today, the word Kashmir has become synonymous with death, destruction and religious genocide in South Asia. Although the roots of the Kashmir issue lie in a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan, it has evolved into a multi-faceted issue over the years. This paper discusses this dispute, its history, its effects and potential steps towards a peaceful resolution. An introduction to Kashmir and a history of the region Kashmir is a landlocked region in South Asia, sandwiched between India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and China. It is spread across an area of 86,000 square miles, an area bigger than 87 sovereign countries1. Kashmir is home to almost thirteen million people1. Though mostly Muslim, the state also has significant Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh populations. Cradled by the mighty Himalayas and fed by...
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...Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, LLC Asia's Different Standard Author(s): Bilahari Kausikan Reviewed work(s): Source: Foreign Policy, No. 92 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 24-41 Published by: Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, LLC Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1149143 . Accessed: 26/01/2012 05:56 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, LLC is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Foreign Policy. http://www.jstor.org ASIA'S DIFFERENT STANDARD by BilahariKausikan East and SoutheastAsia must respond to a new phenomenon: Humanrightshavebecome a legitimateissue in interstate relations. How a treatsits citizensis no longera matter country for its own exclusive determination. Otherscan claim a concern.There is and do legitimately an emerging global culture of human rights, and a body of international law on human has gradually developed,codifiedin the rights the UnitedNationsCharter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights,and other international...
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