Heather: > Hi all, > > For those that aren't aware, 800,000 Rohingya Muslim people in Burma are > being cut off from communication as the military and government try to > drive them out of the country. Over 100,000 are being starved to death > in concentration camps, the rest are driven into boats which > neighbouring countries are refusing to allow to land. There have been > two large scale massacres as well, one in June, one in October. Our > contacts have been saying for weeks there is another massacre planned > for the end of March, but even if there weren't, they are living in > houses made of straw and plastic bags with no food or medical aid and > the rains are coming. This is a full scale genocide supported by the > current Burma/Myanmar government. Media and aid groups are blocked and > the people are jailed just for having a TV, they have no phones. > > More information, check out over 100 pages of links here > http://topsy.com/s/georgiebc+Rohingya?window=a the #Rohingya tag on > Twitter or google. > > We have a way to hopefully get some journalists in to document war > crimes. We need satellite phones for the Rohingya people as well, as > many as possible, donated would be great. If anyone has any ideas for a > good phone source it would be appreciated. > > All the best, > > Heather Marsh
So if you say that there's possibly a massacre the next few weeks, we should advise the media and journalists of this situation, so that at least it would be reported. So we have a basis for a war crime accusation. I personally think the the biggest fear of a regime like that is a world watching them. Andreas -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
