Source: Asia Times:
By Akbar Ahmed and Harrison Akins
“When you leave a seed from a tree to grow in a pagoda, it seems so small at first. But you know you must cut it out before it grows and destroys the building.”
These spoken words are a metaphor for the destruction of Myanmar’s minority Muslim community. Such a threatening statement of intent would be ominous when spoken by anyone. But when the speaker is a pleasant-looking Buddhist monk with a shaved head and wrapped in saffron robes giving an interview to the BBC in the peaceful surroundings of a temple, the words contain the surreal threat of potential genocide.
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