Monday, August 01, 2016

Ceylon and Burma--state-sponsored (racial) violence

Think about it--state sponsored racial violence, similarities between Burma and Ceylon--


My source, a high level BSPP cadre during 1967 anti-Chinese "rioting" in Rangoon told me the same, and video since 2011 of cold blooded attacks on Rohingya show the same--

in one case some hired? thugs were just beating at a Muslin owned building.

During Saffron Revolution

in 2007 a VOA broadcaster told me that thugs had been fed dhanbauk ( a special meat and rice dish) as payment to beat up the monks (led by U Gambira)

--however, now the army has its own pet racist monks.

kmk
8-1-2016


Place names I came across in reading DGE Hall--Mainly a history of the rivalry between the French, the British and the Dutch in S and SE Asia from the 16th century onwards.

I'm only reading the reigns of Naresuan,his brother Ekathasarot and his great grandson Narai-- Narai was very progressive and sent the ...