Thailand’s move will encourage Min Aung Hlaing to consolidate control by escalating crimes and atrocities, analyst warns.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6592761

Thailand has invited regime leader Min Aung Hlaing to a regional summit that it will chair next month, becoming the second country in the world after Russia to welcome the leader of a 2021 coup that has devastated Myanmar.

    • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I’ve visited also, and have family there, although certainly not an expert - far from it.

      My take is simply that culturally, there’s a deeply held kind of zenophobia. It’s exacerbated by poverty, inequity, and the way they’ve been so closed off for so long.

      I don’t mean that in a judgy derogatory way - given the circumstances an unbridled hatred of the rohingya is not unexpected.