The author, Benedict Rogers who is a journalist and human rights campaigner, currently working for Christian Solidarity Worldwide, aims to draw attention to the genocide and ethnic cleansing taking place in Burma today. It is not intended to be a scholarly, anthropological book, but more a call to action.
The book tells the history of the Karen people but is focused on the suffering of all the people of Burma.
The gentle Karen, a tribe in Burma’s eastern regions, call their country “a land without evil”. They number between four and five million, and have been fighting for half a century to keep their land and identity. Many – at least 40 per cent – are Christians, and have suffered particularly harsh treatment. Burma today, and Karen State in particular, is a land torn apart by evil. It is a land ruled by a regime which took power by force, ignored the will of the people in an election, and survives by creating a climate of fear. It is a land terrorised by a military regime which to this day perpetrates a catalogue of crimes against humanity. It takes people for forced labour, uses villagers as human minesweepers, captures children and forces them to become soldiers, systematically rapes ethnic minority women, and burns down villages and crops. It is a regime which has killed thousands of people in the ethnic minority areas (Burma Digest).
The book tells the history of the Karen people but is focused on the suffering of all the people of Burma.
The gentle Karen, a tribe in Burma’s eastern regions, call their country “a land without evil”. They number between four and five million, and have been fighting for half a century to keep their land and identity. Many – at least 40 per cent – are Christians, and have suffered particularly harsh treatment. Burma today, and Karen State in particular, is a land torn apart by evil. It is a land ruled by a regime which took power by force, ignored the will of the people in an election, and survives by creating a climate of fear. It is a land terrorised by a military regime which to this day perpetrates a catalogue of crimes against humanity. It takes people for forced labour, uses villagers as human minesweepers, captures children and forces them to become soldiers, systematically rapes ethnic minority women, and burns down villages and crops. It is a regime which has killed thousands of people in the ethnic minority areas (Burma Digest).
Benedict Rogers book is an account of the systematic genocide of the Burmese people. The Karen are a peaceful people who live an agrarian lifestyle.
Dr. Bahar’s works details the plight of the refugees and also seeks to unearth the history of the Rohingya people, and the attempts over many years to deny the Rohingya citizenship of Burma, and the acts of genocide committed by the SPDC and their cohorts among fascist Rakhine ultranationalists. In this book, Dr.Bahar’s version of history gives a rationale for explaining how the Rohingya came to Arakan as early as the eighth century. This obviously doesn’t sit well with the SPDC whose tame scholars claim that Rohingyas first came to Burma following the first Anglo-Burmese war in 1824-26 – a blinkered reading of historical documents to implement persecution of Rohingya Muslims by the xenophobic SPDC and it’s predecessors.
Dr. Bahar also describes what for me are works more akin to Nazi propaganda than history – the works of Rakhine ultranationalists who persist in demonising Rohingya in attempts to support the SPDC racist theories. In fact the works refer to Rohingya as a ‘virus’ – a term used by German Nazis when referring to Jews. I think that this disgusting term when applied to our fellow human beings says all I need to say about the racists who use it! (Burma Digest)
Dr. Bahar’s works details the plight of the refugees and also seeks to unearth the history of the Rohingya people, and the attempts over many years to deny the Rohingya citizenship of Burma, and the acts of genocide committed by the SPDC and their cohorts among fascist Rakhine ultranationalists. In this book, Dr.Bahar’s version of history gives a rationale for explaining how the Rohingya came to Arakan as early as the eighth century. This obviously doesn’t sit well with the SPDC whose tame scholars claim that Rohingyas first came to Burma following the first Anglo-Burmese war in 1824-26 – a blinkered reading of historical documents to implement persecution of Rohingya Muslims by the xenophobic SPDC and it’s predecessors.
Dr. Bahar also describes what for me are works more akin to Nazi propaganda than history – the works of Rakhine ultranationalists who persist in demonising Rohingya in attempts to support the SPDC racist theories. In fact the works refer to Rohingya as a ‘virus’ – a term used by German Nazis when referring to Jews. I think that this disgusting term when applied to our fellow human beings says all I need to say about the racists who use it! (Burma Digest)
Gripping and honest, Secret Genocide gives a voice to a people the world has forgotten. It shows the Karen don't want charity from the Western World; they are simply fighting for the right to live their lives - in peace and without fear.
Journalist and author Daniel Pedersen explores the reasons men resort to violence to consolidate personal fiefdoms at the expense of their own people. He delves deep into the jungles of Burma, travelling into the heart of Karen State to interview some of the most of the most influential members of the Karen National Union and Karen National Liberation Army as well as aid workers, NGOs and everyday people living on the ground.
In a series of interviews, Pederson allows the people behind the world's longest running conflict to say in their own words, what their motivations are, and why they will not stop fighting until they see jusitice done.
Pedersen also asks the reader to consider the legal definition of genocide, a term conceived by global leaders as they recoiled from the horrors of World War II, and to decide if what is happening in Burma right now constitues genocide. If so, he asks, what are we to do about it? (Amazon)
Journalist and author Daniel Pedersen explores the reasons men resort to violence to consolidate personal fiefdoms at the expense of their own people. He delves deep into the jungles of Burma, travelling into the heart of Karen State to interview some of the most of the most influential members of the Karen National Union and Karen National Liberation Army as well as aid workers, NGOs and everyday people living on the ground.
In a series of interviews, Pederson allows the people behind the world's longest running conflict to say in their own words, what their motivations are, and why they will not stop fighting until they see jusitice done.
Pedersen also asks the reader to consider the legal definition of genocide, a term conceived by global leaders as they recoiled from the horrors of World War II, and to decide if what is happening in Burma right now constitues genocide. If so, he asks, what are we to do about it? (Amazon)
The Cusp of Genocide.
By: Lee Lee
Info: She wants people to understand the pain on peoples faces when they have to be put through a genocide. She wants you to be greatful for all the things you have.