A desperate plea to help the Rohingya in Burma

One of the people I follow typically posts pitcures of animal cruetly, or slain dolphins. I RT what I can, and I keep up on her stuff. But tonight, the image she posted was of a murdered Rohingya child in Burma, someone who couldn’t have been more than 3. They’d been hacked with a machete. And within a few minutes, I began getting reports that this is about to happen to thousands of people in Burma.

There are US sanctions against the country for two prior Rohingya massacres, and a third is planned. But despite sanctions, companies like Google are still going over to do business with the Burmese government. Genocide just isn’t as bad for PR in our time as it was after the facts of the holocaust came out. Or it won’t be, if people don’t raise more awareness.

Please, watch this YouTube video, and then go to savetherohingya.blogspot.com or read this press release and share it online. Then if you have a blog, a Facebook profile, a Twtter account…whatever. Get the word out. These people have only a few days or weeks at most, and if the world decides not to sit up and take notice, it will be a genocide that will slip quietly into the night without so much as a mention on the news.

If you are on twitter, follow Aung Aung, a Rohingya who is tweeting live on the ground in Burma as these events go down. Please, if you have children, look at them, and really think how you would feel if a government murdered them like lowly animals. You must listen to your conscience and know that this is not right. Raise awareness, and let Burma know the world is watching them. Let Goggle know that the world is watching them too. Don’t let them treat genocide as business as usual. Please.