What's next to stop Myanmar?

 Our world media have had a very small attention span and that soon the ongoing genocidal crimes of the murderous Myanmar government and its neo-fascists within the general public will all be forgotten only to be rudely awakened with another surge of violence inside and refugee exodus from Myanmar. At this rate not a single Rohingya would be left behind in that of den of extreme intolerance.

Yesterday, I got a call from my cousin in Chittagong who had gone to the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar to personally find out the condition of the Rohingya refugees and provide humanitarian aid. He was simply horrified to learn of their plight first hand. He said he had never seen a people in such a hopeless and despair condition. To the refugees, the world has failed to stop their suffering and life has lost all its charms and meaning to live long; they are totally hopeless.

It is there that - what's next - is crucial for us to ponder about and find an answer to that may help us all to avoid a repeat of the current events.

'Boycott Myanmar' seems to be a good slogan and tactic to try given that all other earlier activities of human rights activists and conscientious global citizens have failed to put the moral compass right for our powerful world leaders. The latter have not done anything to stop the bleeding process other than airing empty words that don't bite. Talks will surely not sober a rogue and pariah state that has known and learned that it has its backers in China, India, Israel and Russia - to name just few countries.

We have also seen the failure of the BDS movement in making a difference for the Palestinian people again for the same reason - Israel has its powerful patrons within the UNSC. No matter what this 'other apartheid' state does, with patrons like the USA it need not fear the world opinion. Thus, we had dismal failure to repeat the success of the South African experiment.

This experience sums up our dilemma vis -a-vis Myanmar! As brother Dr. Shwe Lu Maung told me the other day when a person chooses not to wake up and pretends to sleep he would ignore the cries and screams of others; even a bucket full of hot water thrown at him may not do the trick. That is what is happening with Suu Kyi and her criminal government, rapist and arsonist military and neo-fascist lynch mobs and monks! As part of a national project to eliminate Rohingyas from the soil of its ancestors, these criminals will continue to do what have proven to expedite their criminal plan. They are all in a state of self-delusion and -denial of their evil!

Perhaps the only way we could stop these savages is to hang them high - of course, via Nuremburg type trials. Will that ever happen in our time? I am not sure. The Rohingyas, sadly, don't have celebrity lawyers like Amal Clooney to start the process of incriminating Myanmar government and its murderers. 

All said, we can surely try a BDS campaign for Myanmar. Who knows what did not work for Israel may work for Myanmar, after all, Myanmar is not Israel! If European countries and the USA plus Japan can be influenced by the moral justification to boycott Myanmar, others may find it difficult to trade with it.