Mainstream Media Remembers Rohingya, Forgets US Role in Myanmar Junta

Arab News dutifully chronicles the Rohingya's 'Genocide Remembrance Day,' noting their plea for safe return from Bangladesh to Myanmar's Rakhine state. It's a poignant scene: banners declaring 'No more refugee life.' What’s neatly omitted is how many of the nations now expressing concern were, or still are, selling weapons to the very military junta that drove these people out. (Remember the

"democracy-building" after the early 2010s?) While humanitarian groups decry the statelessness of the Rohingya, US military aid to Myanmar was often characterized as fostering 'stability' before the most recent coup. One might wonder if the concern for human rights conveniently resurfaces only when the arms sales have cleared. How many more 'genocide remembrance days' must pass before the global

powers stop arming the perpetrators of ethnic cleansing and start holding them truly accountable?

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