Opinion -- There is a desperate humanitarian crisis underway in Myanmar, centering around the Rohingya Muslims. There is what has been described as a “textbook case of ethnic cleansing” against the approximately one million Rohingya who live in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine. As well as retaliation from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army –
The Civil War Inside Buddhism Caused Ethnic Cleansing of Muslims
If Myanmar is to emerge from military rule and become a modern democratic state then it must save its Buddhism from descending into extremism.
By Paul Fuller
