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22-06-2024, 09:40 PM
What’s Really Happening in Myanmar’s Northern Arakan?.
Many people claim to know what’s happening in northern Rakhine State, but judging by the statements and counter-statements and different figures, no one really knows and most people are seeing the situation through their selective lenses and echo chambers with the truth somewhere in the middle. “Myanmar’s Junta Plays Both Rakhine and Rohingya for Fools. Desperately trying to survive in Rakhine State with a large defeat looming, the junta is fomenting ethnic divide as fast as possible. The question is how deep the reconciliation between Rakhine and Rohingya is, to what extent they will see through and reject the junta’s games, and to what extent they will allow themselves to be the junta’s puppets again.”
Judging by social media, junta has successful. I'm sed extreme, contradictory points of view are dominating drowning out moderate voices. This was of course the junta’s intention, they have 70 years of experience in psychological warfare. Many of the X posts accuse Arakan Army (AA) of any crime they can think of, including genocide, while conveniently failing to mention any of the junta’s crimes. One suspects that some of these are actually junta-controlled X accounts. Unfortunately, many members of the Rohingya diaspora and activists have joined this chorus, with the AA responding with racist tweets and anger that escalates the tension.
There's a lack of empathy understanding on all sides. By empathy don’t mean sympathy, although it can lead to mean putting oneself in another person’s position trying to understand how they feel, think and what motivates them; action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, experience of another. One may still strongly disagree, but empathy enables one to better strategize how to respond to others. The prominent condemnation approach drowns out moderate voices.
People in a corner from which they tend to come out fighting, especially if they are proud and nationalistic. From the AA leadership’s point of view, they had provided the Rohingya with humanitarian aid and protection and were betrayed when some Rohingya joined the junta and fought for them. The majority of Rohingya support the revolution and many have joined the AA administration, police and even military voluntarily,
Many people claim to know what’s happening in northern Rakhine State, but judging by the statements and counter-statements and different figures, no one really knows and most people are seeing the situation through their selective lenses and echo chambers with the truth somewhere in the middle. “Myanmar’s Junta Plays Both Rakhine and Rohingya for Fools. Desperately trying to survive in Rakhine State with a large defeat looming, the junta is fomenting ethnic divide as fast as possible. The question is how deep the reconciliation between Rakhine and Rohingya is, to what extent they will see through and reject the junta’s games, and to what extent they will allow themselves to be the junta’s puppets again.”
Judging by social media, junta has successful. I'm sed extreme, contradictory points of view are dominating drowning out moderate voices. This was of course the junta’s intention, they have 70 years of experience in psychological warfare. Many of the X posts accuse Arakan Army (AA) of any crime they can think of, including genocide, while conveniently failing to mention any of the junta’s crimes. One suspects that some of these are actually junta-controlled X accounts. Unfortunately, many members of the Rohingya diaspora and activists have joined this chorus, with the AA responding with racist tweets and anger that escalates the tension.
There's a lack of empathy understanding on all sides. By empathy don’t mean sympathy, although it can lead to mean putting oneself in another person’s position trying to understand how they feel, think and what motivates them; action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, experience of another. One may still strongly disagree, but empathy enables one to better strategize how to respond to others. The prominent condemnation approach drowns out moderate voices.
People in a corner from which they tend to come out fighting, especially if they are proud and nationalistic. From the AA leadership’s point of view, they had provided the Rohingya with humanitarian aid and protection and were betrayed when some Rohingya joined the junta and fought for them. The majority of Rohingya support the revolution and many have joined the AA administration, police and even military voluntarily,
