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A Jingoist Media Foments Violence in Burma's Arakan state

A Jingoist Media Foments Violence in Burma's Arakan state

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Oct 31, 2012
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A Jingoist Media Foments Violence in Burma's Arakan state
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Encouraged by a rabidly irresponsible nationalist press, the Buddhist nationalists that constitute Burma’s majority population, along with the ethnic Rakhine minority, have adopted a siege mentality that Rohingyas, whom they call “Bengali” illegal immigrants and terrorists, are causing the problems in their otherwise peaceful country.

The earlier anti-Ro…

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