Thailand sends Rohingya Muslims back to Burma, regardless what refugees might face in future

[hellheaven1987]

Why not send them to EU or Canada? I thought both places want some?

The Thai authorities have announced that 1,300 Rohingya refugees were sent back to Burma last year.

They had been held at Thai detention centres and deported late last year, but the news has only just emerged.

Human rights groups have criticised the move, saying Rohingyas face persecution in Burma, also known as Myanmar.

Many thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled Burma in the wake of repeated outbreaks of ethnic and sectarian violence in recent years.

The worst of the violence affecting Rohingyas has been in Rakhine state, in the west of Burma, which has seen fierce clashes between Buddhists and Muslims. Rights groups say tens of thousands have been displaced there, with many still living in camps.

The Rohingya people are considered stateless and are rejected by both Burma and neighbouring Bangladesh, which already hosts several hundred thousand refugees from Burma and says it cannot take any more.

Source

Well, to be fair, if they did not fulfill the requirement of be a refugee Thailand government could do little to them besides sending them back to where they came from; furthermore, I remember Thais do not have good impression about Muslims anyway, especially the long ethnic violence in southern Thailand. I do, however, find it surprising that Bangladesh reject those refugees...

[Tankbustaz]

not2worry. They will soon come to India via the Bangladesh border where they will immediately be given Voter ID cards and become Indian citizens, and will be allowed to suppress the local Hindus under the benevolent patronage of the government.

[Condottiere 40K]

That seems less likely under the BJP.

[John ''True Grit'' Wayne]

Many thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled Burma in the wake of repeated outbreaks of ethnic and sectarian violence in recent years.

The worst of the violence affecting Rohingyas has been in Rakhine state, in the west of Burma, which has seen fierce clashes between Buddhists and Muslims. Rights groups say tens of thousands have been displaced there, with many still living in camps.

Right so we let them in and they cause trouble again.They obviously are trouble makers.Were they fighting with their neighbours.What is going to stop them fighting their host country.

[Greymane]

Right so we let them in and they cause trouble again.They obviously are trouble makers.Were they fighting with their neighbours.What is going to stop them fighting their host country.

The refugees are the troublemakers? Right...
Also, this is just a single mouseclick away from the link in the OP:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23846632
I really hate to use the Nazi vs. Jews analogy, but read the article entirely and make up your mind (even though I don't expect anyone to agree with me ).
And yes, the article is a little biased, but reading the average post on this forum, I suspect that won't be a problem here.

[John ''True Grit'' Wayne]

They are unpleasant viewing. The pictures from October last year show dead children with their heads cut open and the bodies of women with their internal organs spilling out of their torsos.
Wirathu said he put them up as a reminder to Buddhists that the country is under attack from Muslim "invaders".
"Muslims are only well behaved when they are weak, " he said. "When they become strong, they are like a wolf or a jackal; in large packs they hunt down other animals."
Wirathu believes there is a Muslim "master plan" underway to turn Myanmar into an Islamic state.
If he is right, it is a long-term project. Latest estimates suggest that of Myanmar's 60 million people, 90% are Buddhist and about 5% Muslim.

From your link.

[Greymane]

From your link.

Exactly. And what crimes did the jews commit again?
These are just pictures of dead people. Even in Europe the media has manipulated us with pictures in this way (although much more innocently).
Wirathu's justification for his actions is this, yet the last sentence makes this Muslim 'master plan' completely unbelievable, so there is no reason for anyone to do this except to make someone look bad.
I'm not ruling out Muslims did this, humans have commited worse crimes for nothing, all I am saying is that it's not really proof of anything. We have also seen worse 'necessary sacrifices' made. On all sides.

[hellheaven1987]

I'm not ruling out Muslims did this, humans have commited worse crimes for nothing, all I am saying is that it's not really proof of anything. We have also seen worse 'necessary sacrifices' made. On all sides.

Send those refugees to EU then, and lowland countries would get largest share of booty for its shining human rights records.

[Greymane]

The people who live there know if the images are true.I am sure the victims family's know.This is a sectarian war AND BOTH SIDES ARE BEING KILLED.We should not take sides.Both sides are committing sectarian violence.Christians are being killed in Syria and Egypt by Muslims.Why are you only against the Buddhists.Religious people are killing each other all over the world.Jews did not kill children with their heads cut open and the bodies of women with their internal organs spilling out of their torsos.Muslims are doing these things in Afghanistan Pakistan India Syria Libya Lebanon Yemen Iraq.

I guess it would be more accurate to say 'people' are doing these things in Afghanistan Pakistan India Syria Libya Lebanon Yemen Iraq.
I'm not against Buddhists, nor am I pro-Muslim. I simply observe history and see that atrocities are of all time and not resticted to Muslims, despite what some would like to believe.
I realize both sides are being killed in this conflict and in no way am I trying to justify the massacre of innocents, sorry if I came of as insensitve on that count.
From your post I originally reacted to, I missed this 'both sides are being killed and we should not take sides' attitude that you do display here.
I read it as: Muslims stir up trouble everywhere, so innocent refugees who happen to be Muslim will stir up trouble in other places as well.
I reacted and while doing so, found this article and decided to post it, to emphasise things are not going well in said country and to try and think (for myself) of a reason these people would be fleeing.
Despite what either of us would like to believe to be the cause, things are getting out of hand and no one benefits from the murder of innocents. On both sides.

Send those refugees to EU then, and lowland countries would get largest share of booty for its shining human rights records.

I can't even blame you for that. The Netherlands are not a shining example of human rights now, especially not where refugees are concerned.
Also, this does not really have anything to do with the part of my post you quoted and my stance on the matter.

[John ''True Grit'' Wayne]

The pictures from October last year show dead children with their heads cut open and the bodies of women with their internal organs spilling out of their torsos.
Wirathu said he put them up as a reminder to Buddhists that the country is under attack from Muslim "invaders".

The people who live there know if the images are true.I am sure the victims family's know.This is a sectarian war AND BOTH SIDES ARE BEING KILLED.We should not take sides.Both sides are committing sectarian violence.Christians are being killed in Syria and Egypt by Muslims.Why are you only against the Buddhists.Religious people are killing each other all over the world.Jews did not kill children with their heads cut open and the bodies of women with their internal organs spilling out of their torsos.Muslims are doing these things in Afghanistan Pakistan India Syria Libya Lebanon Yemen Iraq.