Rohynga refugees sent to island prison against their will

[PSOL]

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/dec/03/bangladesh-begins-moving-rohingya-families-to-remote-island

Bangladesh has begun moving Rohingya families from camps near the Myanmar border to a settlement on a remote island, despite concerns about its safety and a lack of consent from the refugees.

Families could be seen loading white sacks of belongings into buses that arrived overnight on Wednesday to take them to the port city of Chittagong for transfer by boat to Bhasan Char. Around 1,000 people had already been moved, regional police chief Anwar Hossain told AFP.

Bangladesh said it planned to move 2,500 families but rights groups say refugees have been listed without their consent. They called on Bangladesh to halt the relocation to allow an independent inspection of the island.

Someone do the moral thing and depose the sheikh B!tch already.

[CumbrianLefty]

Can't even rescind her Nobel Peace Prize.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

ASSK is not the problem in Burma. The problem is the Burmese military and the fact that anti-Muslim sentiment in Burma is so pervasive that ASSK, even if she did want to do something for them, can not do anything.
Depose ASSK, and democracy is dead in Burma, and the Rohingya still don't get any relief.
It's a fool's gamble.
Burma as it is right now is a state wrecked by societal tensions only made worse by the military and complicated by the state of the country in 1948. Burma, in retrospect, should have been released from British rule as part of another country as opposed to an independent state by itself. Burma as an independent state made sense on paper, but in practice, Burma is among the most dystopic, sad nations in the world, below-average in most metrics (pun intended).

[CumbrianLefty]

But the thing is, there is next to no indication (even privately) that she disagrees with the military on this - and tbh I do think those who imagine otherwise are somewhat kidding themselves.

At the end of the day she is a Burmese nationalist just like her dad was.

[PSOL]

This is in Bangladesh btw

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

But the thing is, there is next to no indication (even privately) that she disagrees with the military on this - and tbh I do think those who imagine otherwise are somewhat kidding themselves.

At the end of the day she is a Burmese nationalist just like her dad was.

Yeah, when it gets to the point of arguing that a country's head of government "couldn't do anything for [persecuted minority] even if she wanted to", it might be time to acknowledge that she, well, doesn't want to.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

But the thing is, there is next to no indication (even privately) that she disagrees with the military on this - and tbh I do think those who imagine otherwise are somewhat kidding themselves.

At the end of the day she is a Burmese nationalist just like her dad was.

The thing is, even if the critics are fully right on this, and she is Burmese nationalist just like her dad, that still renders her the (relative) hero of Burmese politics, because the choice is either a nationalism-driven democracy or a return to the good ol' days when the military was in charge of everything.
Better a nationalistic democrat than a military junta. The people of Burma have suffered long enough at the hands of the Burmese military.

[PSOL]

This is still happening in Bangladesh

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

This is still happening in Bangladesh

Fair enough.
I for one agree that Sheikh Hasina is more bad than good in terms of her overall record.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

This is still happening in Bangladesh

I get that this is in Bangladesh, but the disconnect between ASSK's former Bono-and-benevolence image and her current complicity in a genocide is shocking enough to most people's consciences that it's inevitably going to get brought up when the Rohingya get brought up.