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"When genocide is committed, it must be seen. People must look at it with open eyes, not minimize its impact." -- Nadia Murad

Good to know you’re doing your part in raising awareness

This channel should be called "Why Humans Suck"

I'm glad this is getting media attention again ... I hope Myanmar and Bangladesh manage to sort things out. Peace be with you all! 🙏🙏🙏

1:00 - Chapter 1 - A stateless history 4:50 - Mid roll ads 5:50 - Back to the video 9:35 - Chapter 2 - 2017 crackdown 13:55 - Chapter 3 - Life in kutupalong 19:40 - Chapter 4 - What the future holds

Thank you Simon for doing your part to remind the West that there are still genocides happening in places not named Ukraine or Palestine. Could you please do one about the Uighur people of China? The Chinese Government is waging deliberate genocide against them and has been actively trying to suppress any news about the genocide.

11:50 "We have the authority to r*pe women" this is sickening how can people be so cruel and commit horrendous acts against others. Today with all the camera technology and social media atrocities like this are more spread across the world and it is saddening that this and other violent acts are being done.

I’m grateful that you made a video for this. The media and online users on social media like Twitter have fallen to selective outrage which I find disgusting but bringing more awareness to other atrocities being committed helps relieve that problem in our discourse today.

It is wrong to say that Malaysia and Indonesia and Thailand are not willing to help. We did. In 2017, we took many of them in. The results? Crime rates increase, they open business selling local products which competes with local, in the apartment which I'm living in, a Rohingya man boosted of his business success (driving a luxurious car) before being detained for not paying taxes, you can often see red bearded Rohingya man with underage girls (holding hands) that is DEFINTIELY not their daughter or grand daughter, videos of Rohingya complaining that food provided is not enough, throwing rubbish into the rivers, using public spaces as toilet, etc. There are also protest or demand by this group to demand land or certain states or areas to be given to them, request for more rights the same as locals, etc. So you tell me - besides driving them away, what are we supposed to do? In Malaysia, due to our location as the Guardian of Strait of Melaka, and generally wealthier country, there are many refugess in this country, stretch from as far as I personally know from Iraq or Palestine. They assimilate and we welcome them. They do not compete with locals - selling Arab food or goods, pay their taxes, and we generally leave them alone. After Myanmar Civil War started, I personally know of at least TEN Myamnar Buddhist - living peacefully in Malaysia (without valid papers). They work in Food and Breverages, long hours up to 12 hours a day, get paid like any other regular migrants, but no locals attack them or go against them. We leave them alone, cos like us, they are here to make a living, and they do not demand for same rights as local. They know they are here to work, and leave in due time, whether back to Myanmar or marry a local, etc. But when you start making problems to the locals, and create bad and unhealthy culture (mostly underage 13-15 years old marriage), then we have problems.

I’m glad you brought this atrocity up. Its very shameful that its not being covered more

Humanity just never learns from its past mistakes

those refugee that came Malaysia demanded very high minimum pay than the locals. they actually more fierce and lazy than how they look here.

Ranong is a Thai province bordering myanmar. It is suffering the final throws of economic migration from there. Thai's are now a minority. Business has been destroyed by the pay downgrade. I seen this and my family. Young thai's leave as it is becoming an empty husk. I think this is a view into the future.

Sylvester Stallone made this the backdrop in Rambo 4 back in 2008. Back when Myanmar was call d Burma. And from from what I understand a lot of the atrocities the villains committed in the film are *not* exaggerated or altered for dramatic effect. The main villain was even played by a former rebel that fled to Thailand who wanted to raise awareness about what was happening there. This was 5 years, in 5 days 6 years, ago. And look at the nation now. *Nothing* has changed.

I’m so thankful for this channel. Global awareness is necessary now more than ever.

I remember this being a thing people were upset about in 2016. Everyone was upset about it for a week, and then everyone moved on to the next thing. It's when I started realizing how difficult it is getting people to care about something for longer than a day. Most people do care, but can't care for very long because they, themselves, are struggling and to preoccupied with keeping their own heads above water. Fair enough. It's the people that make a show of caring that are rotten. They make it their whole personality, change their profile picture to a flag or symbol, and interrupt every conversation in the comments with their new cause. They use suffering and death to make themselves look good, but what's truly awful is that these are the people who will make sure no one forgets about the causes. Unfortunately, they're also the same people that make the everyday person tune out because they're so in-your-face.

Thank you for sharing this. It’s beyond devastating. But so Important.

As a Bangladeshi, I just feel sad and powerless knowing such atrocities are taking place right next to us. I really hope a resolution takes place where these people can finally live in peace.

This is just a smaller part of the massive war on minorities in myanmar. As a burmese citizen, there are news about a remotr village being burned everyday. I just want to inform that this is not just a rohinga issue, it is a whole issue about the junta's grip on power

How could Myanmar do this ridiculous genocide against innocent rohingyas

The Rohingyas are targeted simply because of their religious beliefs ??? Check your facts.

Hey Simon, sorry to hear about what happened in Prague, hope you and your family are all OK after what happened, from New Zealand

Rest in peace to those that passed away. We must stop this genocide.

That's why when I tell people I'm Buddhist and they react with "That's awesome! Buddhists are so peaceful compared to these other religions" I let them know about this, not enough people know. It's horrible.

I am Indonesian living in medan, north sumatra. I don't know where your information source come from, but almost all of it are wrong. Rohingya crisis is a unhcr made crisis. More than 1 thousand bangladeshis just arrive on aceh in the last 2 months. All of them come from bangladesh, not myanmar. Half of them already have unhcr refugee card stating that they had already refugee in indonesia for more than 2years when they come ashore. All of them testify that their family was approached by unhcr officer or affiliate to purchase this unhcr card and boat passage to indonesia for as little as 10 millions rupiah. Now these man made refugee demands land title in aceh. This also happen in myanmar and malaysia. Rohingya is not a refugee crisis, rohingya is a legalized human trafficking crisi. Please come to indonesia before making such a youtube video to research your materials truthfully. Please don't spread more hoax. Thank you.

One minute in and it's definitely not "simply because religious beliefs" .... If you know Burmese you know it's more complicated than that.

A deep felt thank you for doing a video on this

The fact that we get free videos on KZfaq by Into the Shadows is truly a gift. 👏👏👏 May I also remind you the fact that our Native American population in our motherland, the Continent of America before the European Colonizers arrived, was around 15 millions, while the European population in their motherland, the Continent of Europe was around 25 millions. Today, Native American population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering TWO BILLION! A shocking sad truth. 😔 In my humble opinion, it's about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return it to rightful owners Native American people.. Notorious global cardinal crimes the Christian West has committed, and benefited a great deals, such as Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why on earth is notorious Colonization still lingering on, may I ask? 🤷

Thank you for covering this unfortunately forgotten genocide.

I'm a Bangladesh and majority of the people here don't like that the Bangladeshi government is giving shelter to the rohingya people because they think the government is doing this as a way to garner international support for ultimately their political motives and think the government should help it's own citizens first because majority of Bangladeshi people still live below the poverty line..as a Bangladeshi my mind is divided about this issue to tell the truth

there is one important fact that this documentary FAILED TO MENTION: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and a few other neighboring countries (especially the islamic ones) actually started out as very helpful in welcoming the Rohingya refugees in the beginning, even created all sorts of programs to help them settle down and such. but over years, all these countries slowly changed from being very supportive to outright hating these refugees, they are not adorable at all, they dont appreciate the help, cause civil disorder, and keep giving the local citizens of the host counties all the reasons in the world to despise them. yea, pushing them out back into the sea on their small boats are inhumane, but do know that it didnt started out that way, at least in the beginning

I had learned a bit of this from my Thai wife. But it seems Thai hate Burmese, and refugee from there just as much.

I’m Rakhine Ethnic Minority from Burma. I’m grateful to see us getting genuine attention from you. Some of the things are a bit off. 1. Rakhine State always been Buddhist state even way before Islam reach south east Asia (look up Mauke Oo, capital of ancient Rakhine) We always had freedom of religion and some of locals Rohingya were converted to Islam not when foreigners were introduced to region. Needless to say Rohingya are always been minorities within minority Rakhine. I’m not proud of what Burmese & Some Rakhine have done on the Rohingya people but claiming the whole entire state as there own Muslim state is equivalent of getting a ticket and claiming you own the whole bus. 2. I’m not surprised but the events in the history, you has been told by Rohingya as Rohingya centric. If you do a bit of research, you’ll figure out multiple ethnic from Myanmar had similar experiences only except they wouldn’t blame the whole state but their tribal villages. And British bringing Rohingya back to Burma is also incomplete, British bring half a million of Indians (sik, pancha,and various others ethnic) into Burma as farm hands. They had had fair share of scrutiny from the government because you know it’s Burmese government is the military. But the rest of society, except them as brothers and cousins. They’re not talking about taking over the land. I really hope this end up good for Rohingya because even the other South East Asian Muslim nations are no longer accepting them.

so any religion can be used with extremist nationalism

Can you do an episode on the Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia committed by the Ustaše from 1941 to 1945 during WW2?

Just saw the awful news in Prague, hope you and your family and loved ones are safe. ❤️

I know I can't do a whole lot about this tragedy as an individual. However, I'm going to share this with everyone I know to spread awareness of this. Hopefully enough people will know about this and get our leaders to do something.

Oh I don't know. Just like China, I love Myanmar's policy towards the "religion of peace" followers

Dare you to cover the ethnic cleansing of Hindu Pandits in Kashmir and minorities in Pakistan

Its crazy that even the most peace loving religion (that I know of) is capable of such a radical movement. It proves to me that no religion is inherently good or evil, but instead it is the "people" that use religion for their own agenda that are inherently evil. I really hope the actual Buddhists denounce this and try to show the radicals what their religion is actually about.

You are a busy man. Always working, always educating

Sad indeed but in various African countries Christians are killed by the 1000s. In SA the boars are killed daily

Even though I think it is supposed to cover the Karen genocide in Myanmar (pronounced Ka-rin), Rambo 4 actually raised a lot of awareness on the subject

After WWII we said, “Never again.” Then came Cambodia and we said, “The Khmer Rouge are supported by China, and we need China against the Soviet Union, so never again… starting next time.” Then came Rwanda and we said, “Too small and unimportant, and those people have always been like that, so never again… starting next time.” Then came the Rohingya…

The first Buddhist precept is to abstain from taking life. How can these monks still consider themselves Buddhist when they break the first rule?

Thank you for raising awareness of the atrocities around the world.

Thankyou for informing us

what again does the Quran say about non muslims? i forgot.

I don't think Rohingya are native to Arakan state. The Rakhine people are native to Arakan. The Rohingya language is closely related to the Chittagonian language spoken in south eastern Bangladesh. That shows where the Rohingya came from originally. There were muslim communities in Arakan state in more older times but they were mainly traders and were small in numbers. The Rohingya try to claim that they are descended from those older small trading muslim communities but in actual fact, they are descended from much later immigrants from what was then British Bengal to British Burma. The British encouraged this types of mass movements of people throughout their empire.

Congrats to Myanmar for continuing to remind us what genocide really looks like.

Thank you brother for covering this video

I have been paying attention to this story. It’s been going on for significantly longer than the latest ukranian invasion

thanks for covering the background to this so thoroughly, I was aware of the current atrocities but not of the history. Devastating situation and hopefully with increasing international attention, pressure will be put on the aggressors to resolve this.

"You may call it myanmar but in my heart itll always be burma"

Over hundred of hindu were killed by Rohingya muslim extremists 😢 in Myanmar

How is this not on main stream media. Unbelievable!

Yo simon you gonna do a video of all rhe muslim countrys eradicating christians in Africa and asia ????? No? Didnt think so

I know a phrase Simon references frequently is " the past was the worst." But ...idk , I gotta say for quite a few people around the world, the present is pretty bad too.

Why islamic country never integrate their own muslim brotherhood?? Many European country allow refugees muslims ? Although its hard to say what exactly happened but it shocking how none of islamic nation show any friendly gestures towards muslim rohingya

But they're bad people, they're asking for it.

Myanmar, China do this for decades and the world never seem to care

it’s just beyond my understanding how India, a Hindu Majority Country which the World Media Projects hate Muslims, gave the Rohingyas Asylum while Countries like Bangladesh and Indonesia a Muslim Majority kicked their own people out.

This is a celebrated event in India.

Those certain groups love to be a nuisance spouting justice but conveniently ignore appalling acts like this.

wow, I'm actually shocked. Thank you so much for shedding light on this

Thanks for understanding, from Bangladesh. ❤

Insightful & interesting Simon; certainly I was not aware to this depth of the Rohingya refugees ongoing struggle for acceptance & more basically survival. Troubles in the world today, Syria, Sudan, Gaza, Ukraine, Yemen, Myanmar , Haiti, Afghanistan .........& the list goes on. Sure glad & greatly appreciated that I live in Sydney Australia. You can always find something to whine about but with a global picture of what is happening in the world today it pales into insignificance. “The optimist sees the donut while the pessimist sees the hole”.

despite fully understanding the psychology that leads to people behaving this way, it still boggles my mind that anyone, let alone large groups of people, is capable of such cruelty. and to then go on and think they're in the right for it too.

Unfortunately, the Rohingya are being unruly in Malaysia and Indonesia

Would you be willing to do a video on India's Operation Blue Star? I recently learned a bit about it and would love your deep dive.

I think most people miss understand this onesided conflict. This is not based on religion as much as it is about race. A lot of Rohinga hindus have crossed over here in Bangladesh as well as muslims. In the late 70's president Zia asked them to come over, why didn't they? If they came over this "conflict" could have been avoided. And in return we could remove the "mongoloid asians" from our country. Would have been a win win for both.

i thought Buddhist were peaceful until i learned about this genocide

If you pick 1780 as a starting point; then your arguments seem logical. But that is a western view on the world. But if you go back to the 7th or 8th century the story changes. When Muslims occupied the area, the question of where the Rohingya are occupants or occupiers changes. The Rohingya were not the first people in the area.

it's forgotten because you can't blame it on Israel. So it quickly forgotten

Yes a lot of people don't know those facts about the monks here. Good video as those of us who live and work here can't talk about these things.

I'm shocked, I didn't even know this was happening. Humans cause so much suffering and anguish to each other

Funny how all the feminist movement is more focused on game and movie characters being sexualised while groups of women are being abused this horribly and yet all I hear is how the latest game development was delayed due to boycott as the fictional characters are too sexualised and objectifying women...

I am a Rohingya Thank you so much for sharing

Excellent video as always sir. It angers and saddens me that millions of lives have been lost throughout human history simply due to religion. It’s a poison that continues to kill even today…

My father worked as a doctor without borders doctor in the city and camp in Bangladesh where the refugees have fled, he was the only fully trained MD for 10 million residents and over 1 million refugees, all of the rest of medical care was basically a well trained decision tree. Its incredibly sad and horrifying the problems that go untreated due to lack of aide, help, or focus on this catastrophe.

As a Polish's, knowing deeply about Myanmar. Do the Bengalis think that Burmese will forgive the actions of the British and Bengalis committed against the Burmese people during the Burmese Independence war?

It's so sad that one of the worst characteristics of "mankind" is the willingness to harm others. And, often, the people who cause harm are "religious"

This is such a rarely talked about issue. Thank you, Whistler for doing this. It would have been nice to mention the part Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg had played to make things categorically worse with relation to this genocide. Theres a lovely Johnny Harris video about Facebook and Myanmar, anyone who wishes to learn more should definitely head over and watch that. Long story short, in many places across the developing world, internet access is mostly coming in for the first time in people's hands via cellphone devices. Once online, due to language barriers, people tend to stick to their own language, and this is dominated by Facebook. Facebook likes engagement, higher engagement means higher ad revenue. People generally stay engaged with stuff that angers them over stuff that doesnt. This made hateful content being shown with greater priority over normal stuff. Users werent just posting random bits of hate speech but were putting down live locations of Rohingya people, telling them where to attack and whom to expect in opposition. Facebook made a genocide more efficient and made tons of money from it. They were asked to stop promoting hate speech by the rohingya diaspora but Facebook didn't care. For anyone who thinks Zuckerberg is some genius billionaire, a left wing hero that just hates Trump supporters and the USA, no, he doesnt. He cares more about money. Until the US senate stepped in with regulations, he made money supporting a genocide.

Rambo 4 comes to mind when one brings up Myanmar

They may call themselves Buddhist, but nowhere do the teachings of Buddha condone behavior like this, shame on them 😢

Thanks

i am speechless. And all of that because religious ideology stands above human rights in some peoples minds. The center of most religions form the peace and stability within your community and yourself. Hearing about this as a Buddhist myself makes me sick. In no type of Buddhism is this 'The Way of Buddha'.

I’m always surprised that he’s not holding a drink while telling these painful stories. It must be difficult.

Thank you. It’s discutyu

They are Bengali

I have heard of this and I donated to a fund to help and I shared posts. It's all I can do from here. I had a friend who escaped Burma and came to America. He couldn't go home. His mother was still there. 😢

I like to sh*t on KZfaq, but I will give them credit for not removing this controversial topic from my feed.

Maybe, the British empire should’ve kept its colonies. Seems they had a better grasp on governance without mass murder.

Make a video on Bangladesh hindu genocide in 1971 by Pakistani muslim army 😢

This community isngoing to Indonesia on boats now and Indonesia government is worried now. The issue no one has accepted them no Bangladesh,pakistan or india. They have come to india illegally which now indian government is now scanning them in area of Kashmir. Islam is problem in every part of the of the world

I just read about the Prague shooting. I hope you and your family are safe. I love your content.

How is it always the British at the root of every problem/conflict occurring today?

Tnx

The less educated one is less accepting the community is !!