The government of Myanmar seems to have come to a definite conclusion that the time for reaching a final solution of the Rohingya issue has already approached. It is most likely that such an apprehension has prompted the administration not to hesitate in following the examples of discarded strong men of the past in getting rid of an entire population that it finds irritating. The stage was already set before the start of the most recent drama.
Rohingyas were ordered in 2012 to move to designated camps where they were to remain until their fates were to be decided. Those camps are the stark reminder of the settings for another final solution somewhere else in this world during first half of twentieth century. We know what eventually happened to those unlucky souls caught in the trap of history. For Rohingyas, more or less same fate awaited and it was only a matter of time that the authorities were to resort to that extreme measure. The armed attacks on a number of police stations and security installations in late August served as the trigger and rest of the story we know quite well by now.
It was probably the mere possibility of losing face internationally that the ruling elites of Myanmar, headed now by a lady with the Noble Peace award hanging proudly on her chest, did not resort to the use of gas chambers for reaching the desired final solution. However, what instead they have done is no less torturous than being subjected to forced annihilation in small chambers fitted with devices to release deadly gas. Almost half of Myanmar’s total Rohingya population is by now forcefully pushed to the other side of country’s eastern border with Bangladesh, where they are now compelled to live an existence of which Primo Levi once reminded us with the following powerful words:
You who live safe...
Consider if this is a man Who works in the mud...
Who fight for a scrap of bread
Who dies because of a yes or a no.
Consider if this is a woman
Without hair and without name
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