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Suu Kyi, Rohingya, Oxford and Hypocrisy

#Britain (and a lot of other nations are) condemning the Myanmar Army, Administration and the Nations for the Rohingya crisis.
Myanmar is Buddhist majority nation. Buddhists are by far the most peace loving religion in the world. What is forcing the most peace-loving religion to take such drastic action? 
The world media is showing pictures of miserable families and children of the refugees and writing stories of atrocities on them. The refugees would love playing victims. Narrate stories that may not have even happened. After all they want is sympathy. They would never talk about what they as a community have done to anger the nation and a peaceful community.

Oxford University dropped Noble Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi from common room's name ( as she had not been able to stop (the so called) atrocities on Rohingya community and the blatant Human rights violation. Myanmar is trying to solve their internal problems, forced to take extreme measures by those playing victim now. And the British and Oxford conscience awakens to Human Rights. Where was their conscience when they invaded almost every country in the world (a telegraph article states there are only 22 countries that Britain didn't invade). They ruled (read enslaved) 70 plus countries for centuries, mass murdering any resistance that rose its head or asked for freedom from British empire. A nation with such a history talking about Human Rights is such a sham.

 If Britain is really concerned about the condition of Rohingyas; being an economic might (and having plundered the wealth of hundreds of nations it invaded and enslaved); it is welcome to send aircraft to the poor and developing countries like Bangladesh, India etc, where these refugees are flooding to and take them to Britain. Provide them political asylum, food and shelter, not just lip service.
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