An interesting take on the current events in Bangladesh that i think is worth considering but i'm not sure that i agree with this perspective. Honestly i just don't know enough yet about the situation and i will reserve judgement until i do.

  • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
    hexagon
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    4 months ago

    The West is responsible for what has been happening to the Rohingya, more specifically the British whose divide and rule ethnic policies purposely and strategically inflamed ethnic tensions while they were the dominant colonial power, and when they were forced to leave they knowingly left behind political and border situations that were akin to time bombs that were guaranteed to erupt into ethnic conflicts all over the world, from Africa to South East Asia.

    I'm not excusing the perpetrators, but i think we should be aware of the larger historical context. Such things don't happen in a vacuum and there are larger forces at work that benefit from continuing to fuel such conflicts and destabilization, especially in such a geopolitically important region.

    • ButtBidet [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      I think we all forget the Rohingya genocide because AFAIK the West isn't currently responsible

      I'm trying to explain why most people on this site don't follow the Rohingya situation, not debate it's causes. Christ this is so damn tedious.