Comments on Aye Chan's seminar, hosted by the BDMA, UK
The Burmese Democratic Movement Association, UK cannot behave like an entity that is supporting the hated SPDC regime through its hosting meetings and seminars that promote division, exclusion and xenophobia. It is simply unacceptable of any organization that pretends to be a democratic movement and yet airs views of a Rakhine racist who does not want inclusion of the minority Rohingyas of Burma, who falsely depicts them as foreigners who had infiltrated the country from Bangladesh. Rohingyas are not intruders but are the indigenous people who lived in the Arakan since before the Mongoloids from Tibet - the forefathers of today's Rakhaing - migrated into the territory. It is sad to see that Aye Chan's sickening mentality, and foggy, highly flawed and biased research from a third rate university has not allowed him to correct his deplorable chauvinism and make him a force in uniting the democratic movement that is struggling to find common grounds for unity and cooperation that binds the mosaic of various religious and ethnic minorities and the Burman majority that live inside and outside Burma today. His is a sickening mind that needs to be treated as a pariah, a promoter of hatred and bigotry.
As we have established elsewhere (including the First International Conference on the Rohingya people in Japan), Aye Chan's rhetoric, flawed and half-baked theories provide the blueprint for extermination of a minority. As a promoter of genocide against the Rohingya minority, he should be castigated as a person non-grata by not only the BDMA, UK but also all organizations that care about human rights, democracy and freedom around our globe. As a signatory to the EU rules against hate speech, the government and institutions within the UK ought to ensure that the dark and evil forces of bigotry, xenophobia, and racism are not allowed to poison their soils.
If the BDMA, UK is serious about unity, democracy and freedom, it needs to walk the talk and not appear as a phony, hypocritical organization that is actually strengthening the grip of the hated SPDC regime through divisive programs that promote hatred and bigotry. It must stop itself from being abused and exploited by forces of division and exclusion. It is a shameful and highly condemnable act that they got into by sponsoring a seminar where a bigot is invited. The BDMA, UK ought to rescind its invitation to Aye Chan and desist from such activities in the future.
As we have established elsewhere (including the First International Conference on the Rohingya people in Japan), Aye Chan's rhetoric, flawed and half-baked theories provide the blueprint for extermination of a minority. As a promoter of genocide against the Rohingya minority, he should be castigated as a person non-grata by not only the BDMA, UK but also all organizations that care about human rights, democracy and freedom around our globe. As a signatory to the EU rules against hate speech, the government and institutions within the UK ought to ensure that the dark and evil forces of bigotry, xenophobia, and racism are not allowed to poison their soils.
If the BDMA, UK is serious about unity, democracy and freedom, it needs to walk the talk and not appear as a phony, hypocritical organization that is actually strengthening the grip of the hated SPDC regime through divisive programs that promote hatred and bigotry. It must stop itself from being abused and exploited by forces of division and exclusion. It is a shameful and highly condemnable act that they got into by sponsoring a seminar where a bigot is invited. The BDMA, UK ought to rescind its invitation to Aye Chan and desist from such activities in the future.
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