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Propaganda of omission: Britain's role in Rohingya genocide absent from UK reports

Coles, T.J.
http://www.rt.com/op-ed/449332-rohingya-genocide-britain-arms/

Publisher:  RT
Date Written:  21/01/2019
Year Published:  2019  
Resource Type:  Article

The British military supports the Myanmar army with training. While coverage of Myanmar violence against innocent Rohingya is covered the media say little about British involvement and politicians find ways to excuse it.

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The media had, in previous years, reported that the UK trains the Burmese (aka Myanmarese) military, yet the media have not only failed to put two and two together and explore Britain’s role in the recent atrocities, but as the atrocities increased, coverage of British involvement disappeared.

The plight of the Rohingya people is a tragic remnant of colonialism. Prior to colonization and the imposition by Western governments of national boundaries on subjugated peoples, the Rohingya lived in what is now Bangladesh and Burma. When both countries achieved independence (Burma from Britain and Bangladesh from Pakistan), the Rohingya found themselves trapped behind two national borders....

In [2014] sixty officers of the Burmese military were trained by the UK at an annual cost to British taxpayers of £100,000. Commenting on the Burmese Army's human rights violations against Rohingya, then-Foreign Secretary William Hague said:"It is always difficult to make decisions about whether to give training to an army where crimes have been committed or alleged, but part of the argument for that training is to ensure that such crimes are not committed in future. That is why such decisions have been made in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office."

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