Well, they are looking very eager to have a permanent solution to this mess this time... Perhaps, a solution that includes contributions from both Myanmar and Bangladesh...
The refugee crisis of 2015 has actually dented the image of entire ASEAN...
ASEAN is a good economic platform. But they perform poorly in security.
I dont know where you guys shooting at? Sovereignty is a vague word.
You cant just deny a ethnic group with the minimum human rights and chasing them away, even suggesting to deport them to 3rd country en-mass. Only the rogue state will resort to the term sovereignty when confronted.
International community have every right in 21st century to intervene diplomatically, economically and even militarily if such rights are violated. We dont live in medieval monarchic Europe anymore where this
Non Intervention term was invented by the monarchs themselves to cover each other's a$$.
@madokafc knows very well how international community helped East Timuri for their plight in Indonesia. Indonesia could not hide behind sovereignty. Could they?
Sovereignty is important in the sense that any country need a form of space to build itself and run its own affairs. The international community can at best suggest. But they can speak in other words. Nobody in the international community wants military rule, especially the Americans (and for good reason). I'm saying so because the American dollar is the dominant currency and most stable. But, economic sanctions had little effect on Burma's ethnic problems. As far as I see, it only increased their problems. Massive unemployment, a military government, ethnic tensions, a thriving drug trade and illegal trade of precious stones.
I don't know about East Timor. I guess the Indonesians didn't want anything to do with it for any longer. If memory serves, there was a UN mandated referendum. It was not like the Indonesians were forced to allow it to happen. Something that the Indians would never do in Kashmir.
And I'd suppose the international community as in the UN? Well, they have spoken on the issue. Even Obama went there and spoke on the matter. But not even he can solve it. Only suggest. And even that may be offensive/rude depending on how 'nationalistic' one can be. Personally, I think of far-right nationalism as a severe form of mental disorder.
Ask yourself, why do you think the League of Nations and then the UN were created in first place? Do you recall Archduke Franz Ferdinand? Once upon a time, he was visiting the wounded victims of a grenade attack where he was the intended target. And just because the driver of his car made the wrong turn and his vehicle's engine stalled, he and his wife were assassinated by Serbian revolutionary Gavrilo Princip. This lead to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Gavrilo's home country, Germany declaring war on Russia followed by France and Belgium. In turn, the UK declared war on Germany - WWI. A chain of events generated just because some dude's car stalled in the middle of a road in some bad part of town.
The UN were created so that world wars are prevented out of such small events. It was created to keep that peace, not necessarily solve a country's ethnic problems. Look at South Sudan for example. Messed up right? But no one is militarily intervening. The UN peacekeepers are there just to help negotiate the peace between the parties. Keeping the peace is the UN's job.
Now, you might recall the Balkan wars, but they had intervene to prevent a world war from ever happening. After all, it was the actions of a Serb that brought us WWI, WWII, tensions in the middle east and.....here. Iraq and Syria were catastrophic failures. Those alone may lead to more events. Very unpredictable ones.
Now there's a killer on the loose which no one can hope to catch. Even more elusive than OBL. This killer can inspire anyone to do acts like what Gavrilo Princip did anywhere around the globe. We need to catch this killer - and that should be top priority. Or at least, guard ourselves.
See, much of the history of the 20th century had been dominated by the West. Asia never really had much of a chance. Which is why we need to be very, very careful.
What surprised me was that there had been no action, no protest, not even a single word from the Burmese with regards to what happened to that police station. Given that the Rohingyas are illegals from Bangladesh (in their perception), that is a very serious matter. Our government had (thankfully) offered assistance to them. But all I hear is silence. We know for a fact that if anything like that had gone on in India, there would have been some sort of retaliation against Pakistan. Even words worked! But not with Burma. Strange don't you think? That country won't allow any UN observers in the regions close to the Chinese border where heavy fighting had been reported.
Like I said, in this day and age and an upcoming POTUS with a temper issue and technically unsound, we need to thread very carefully. We need to show our credibility by providing results in this war. And not just stay quiet.. We cannot count on anyone or anything as far as our security goes. It is only us.
Even though I disagree with much of our government, I think our Madam Prime Minister had handled the matter well for now. But we need to do more.
more Muslim in Indonesia is caring about Ahok case than the plight of Rohingya. Is the FACT
Some mayor who had allegedly engaged is blasphemy? So you admit that there are indeed quite a few deluded Islamic bigots in your country? The human mind is a dangerous thing.