"Hundreds of Rohingyas killed in Myanmar crackdown". UN Report.

I agree with you. I saw that report earlier today from other sources. Organised atrocities committed by the military, including women raped as they watched their infants slaughtered, and the targeting of prepubescent girls for rape and assault.

I had a heated discussion with some local friends about this issue recently...they will tell you the foreign media is biased (lying) and on the Rohingya side...according to them it is the Rohingya burning Burmese villages...I think this type of belief is widespread among the Burmese.

Like many other posters here did I fall in love with Myanmar and its people many years ago when the country and its people were suffering under the gruel military dictatorship.
It was a great moment watching the excited Myanmar people voting for the first time in november 2015 ; such great hopes everywhere but there were quite a lot already warning because the influence of the military would still be very strong.
I think we have now to realise that the civilian democratic government is not as powerful and independent as we wished it to become.
hundreds of rohingyas killed
I have to admit that I will still return to visit Myanmar but I could not imagine going to Rakhine State / Mrauk-Oo until the military stops slaughtering the Rohyingya people.

I think most Burmese are basically brain-washed from an early age to believe that Rohingya are almost sub-human and do not belong in Myanmar.
I keep in touch with some friends I made in Myanmar while working there in 2015. A recent exchange with an intelligent and well-educated friend began with her asking the question 'Have you read the lies the foreign press has been saying about Myanmar?' I quickly changed the topic but sadly this attitude is the norm in Myanmar.

I think Aung San Suu Kyi is in a diificult position on this issue. It's hard to know her true feelings on the Rohingya but it would be politically impossible for her to express any sympathy without alienating large swathes of the community.

Thanks for posting. My husband and I are really struggling with this. We have a trip planned for Burma in a month (our first time there), and now wondering if it's the right thing to still go, or if we should reroute to Thailand. I would welcome any thoughts!

I think most Burmese are basically brain-washed from an early age to believe that Rohingya are almost sub-human and do not belong in Myanmar.
I keep in touch with some friends I made in Myanmar while working there in 2015. A recent exchange with an intelligent and well-educated friend began with her asking the question 'Have you read the lies the foreign press has been saying about Myanmar?' I quickly changed the topic but sadly this attitude is the norm in Myanmar.

I think Aung San Suu Kyi is in a diificult position on this issue. It's hard to know her true feelings on the Rohingya but it would be politically impossible for her to express any sympathy without alienating large swathes of the community.

I couldn't agree more with what you've observed. When we were last there in 2014, we spent a couple nights in Sittwe on the way upriver to Mrauk U. We arrived in Sittwe the middle of big protests let by monks with loud hailers after attacks on various NGO (like Doctors without Borders etc )offices. Really upended my previous beliefs of peaceful enlightened Buddhist monks. These guys were like political party leaders driving around in big SUV's. In several other locations in the country afterwards, speaking to educated Burmese I got the same unsettling feedback. There seems no sympathy at all for the Rohingya and the Burmese seem adamant that they don't want the world watching or meddling in the Rohingya eradication.

Thanks for posting. My husband and I are really struggling with this. We have a trip planned for Burma in a month (our first time there), and now wondering if it's the right thing to still go, or if we should reroute to Thailand. I would welcome any thoughts!