All the familiar stories of babies brutally murdered and women gang raped have been given prominent placement in the Western media.
The volume of stories should give a seasoned news consumer pause; after all, there are numerous hot spots around the globe where ethnic cleansing goes almost without mention. Then there is the emphasis on violent rape and baby murder. Combine those two together and you are usually talking about propaganda meant to alter geopolitical boundaries. Think Kosovo and Iraq.
My guess is that it is part of the U.S. pivot to Asia.
We also benefit from the optics of pretending to defend a Muslim population. How dare you call me racist!!! I have a black friend!!
ReplyDeleteWhat's interesting to me is how the reporting is obsessed with rape and stories about the butchering of babies and nothing about the attack on a police station that caused the crackdown. This is from one of the stories last summer:
ReplyDelete"On Aug. 25, a Rohingya militant group staged a series of attacks against police outposts in Rakhine state. In response, Myanmar’s military and local Buddhist vigilante groups began a crackdown on the Rohingya, a Muslim minority."
What's the nature of militancy? Where does it get its money? Is it a separatist movement? Basic questions necessary to understand the conflict. But the readers get nothing. All we get are tales of woe and misery of the refugees, which tells us that we are in the realm of pure propaganda.