Bangladesh Welcomes Turkish Support for Rohingya, Media Ignores US Complicity
Bangladesh's Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus gratefully welcomed Türkiye's humanitarian aid for the Rohingya, a population driven from Myanmar by a military that has long been supported by Western nations. (Perhaps not the best look for the 'rules-based order.') The mainstream press celebrates such gestures, but rarely connects the dots to the systemic violence that created the crisis in the first
place. Where was the outrage, the principled stands, and the sanctions when the Myanmar Tatmadaw was committing what the UN called a 'textbook example of ethnic cleansing' in 2017? It appears some atrocities are more camera-friendly than others, especially when the perpetrators were, until recently, receiving weapons and training from the very nations now offering 'concern.'