Myanmar’s Military in the Lands of Smoke and Mirrors
Despite malign foreign interferences, Myanmar’s economy and trade are rebounding
The following is a summary of a draft book currently only posted at:
https://www.silkroadvirtualuniversity.org/publications-by-gcb.html
Summary
Although Myanmar’s trade and economy are improving and it is open again for tourism granting e-visas to citizens of over a hundred countries, isolated conflicts continue in some rural areas. Nevertheless, a pall lies over Myanmar’s government cast by charges of a genocide. Western media has unilaterally pinned the blame for that genocide on Myanmar’s military. This book presents strong evidence US paramilitary gleaned from US Special Operations Forces (SOF) were and still are very actively funding and promoting “independence movements” in Myanmar making the conflicts there a covert proxy war driven by the US as compared to a civil conflict. For example, Free Burma Rangers (FBR) is an American “Christian” NGO founded in 1997 by David Eubank, a former US Army Ranger and Special Force major, and Eliya Samson, a Karen “National Liberation Army” soldier. The sources of FBR’s funding are nebulous however it appears to be funded by the US black budget “defense” expenditures which were estimated at $81.1 billion in 2020 and includes the notorious 127e program. FBR claims to provide “relief and assistance to oppressed people in Burma, Sudan, Kurdistan, Iraq, and Syria until freedom and sustainable peace finally comes to them…” Those however are a great deal more than “relief organizations” as they explicitly encourage violent separatist movements. In response to the military coup ousting the American choice for leadership in Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi, who placidly presided over the worst genocide of the 21st Century, USAID, another notorious US “regime change” organization immediately redirected $42 million to help stimulate the already American radicalized minorities in Myanmar’s resource rich regions exacerbating the US driven conflict while laughably claiming to promote “peace, democracy, and freedom.” Myanmar’s military accurately views those “independence movements” as foreign supported violent separatists which must be strongly resisted. No government will permit violent separatist movements free reign (e.g., the American Civil War), and all will vigorously fight back against them. FBR, like so many American sponsored “independence” movements claim to be a humanitarian organization, however the many violent conflicts it promotes belie that thin cover story.
In 2015 Reuters reported a “Myanmar court convicted five people for spreading fabricated allegations that a Muslim man raped a Buddhist woman, which led to deadly riots” the previous July, suggesting fake rape allegations were a strategy known to the rabidly democratic Buddhist nationalist majority.
There is a reasonably high probability real rapes and gang rapes did occur, however definitive proof of the real identities of the rapists has never been put forward and one must acknowledge any group of men can don police and/or military uniforms and pose as police and/or military officers, while most victims will cling to the perceived identity of the assailants until their dying breath, never knowing for sure if their initial perceptions were in fact correct.
False rape claims are also a strategy often employed in the current Ukraine proxy war as well, and were most certainly well known in the old south of the US having led to innumerable lynchings. Preserving the chain of evidence for rape convictions is a specialized field of medical and police work, and no such proofs have been put forward in Myanmar (or Ukraine). The aforementioned Reuters 2015 article went on to report that Myanmar “has struggled to contain outbreaks of anti-Muslim violence in which at least 240 people have been killed since June 2012” and “most of the victims have been Muslims and riots are often preceded by claims that a Muslim man raped a Buddhist woman, as was the case in Mandalay.” In other words, the pro-democratic forces have a long record discrediting themselves as a legitimate political force, and false rape charges are one of their standard, if not preferred methods of garnering international attention and promoting their “cause.”
In sum, it appears US intelligence, SOFs and corporate influence, aided by India and US trained and radicalized pro-democracy and anti-Muslim bigot Buddhist nationalists led to the Rohingya genocide and other violent conflicts involving minorities in Myanmar. For all practical purposes, Myanmar has been a colonized nation for most of the time from the mid-16th Century to January 2022 when it finally rid itself of western oil corporation Chevron however strong vestiges of that foreign rule remain inside Myanmar. Myanmar’s military during that long period of time was largely a tool of western powers because militaries ultimately work for those who pay them and proving motivation for that military to unilaterally launch a genocide is not going to be easy whereas numerous human rights organizations have published reports Myanmar’s military operated on behalf of foreign corporate entities.
The genocide in Myanmar is not an isolated case, as it followed a long string of relatively similar events in other countries also backed by American political, corporate and intelligence forces.
Pushing for absolute power and legitimacy in Myanmar, a US backed color revolution succeeded in taking over the leadership. Whereas Aung San Suu Kyi was America’s choice for Myanmar’s leadership, she wasn’t a complete fool either and went ahead with infrastructure developments plans as part of the trans-continental Belt and Road Initiative launched by President Xi in 2013. Whereas in the old days “one eye west, one eye east” was the strategy employed by most developing nations, in the Trump/Biden era absolute obedience to Washington’s dicta has been required or the wavering national leader of that country is deposed one way or another.
Facilitating that process in Myanmar, Buddhists were over a 20+ year period radicalized by (pseudo-) Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu and the Rohingya radicalized by US covert and proxy operatives, including elements from the GCC, (the same GCC that has pursued a US directed and armed genocidal hegemonic war against Yemen since 2011).
In Myanmar that process was made easier by longstanding US leadership and connections in Myanmar’s organized crime dating back at least to 1949 when American sponsored Nationalists lost their proxy war against China and the creation of the “Golden Triangle,” led by - you guessed it - the CIA. The combined results of those interferences in the domestic affairs of Myanmar led to the genocide, defaming Myanmar and setting the stage for sanctions and trade blacklisting.
A central theme of this book suggests these machinations were set in motion by US foreign policy makers in an effort to block China’s trade routes and assistance in infrastructure development, in promotion of US efforts to construct a new iron curtain dividing most of Asia from the rest of the world as per Hillary Clinton’s “Pivot to Asia” initiative published in 2011 and ultimately the American drive for hegemony in perpetuity, which means “global domination forever,” the singular goal of US foreign policy and military planners. Near the end this book, a solution oriented, phased-in series of steps is outlined that includes granting citizenship to and resettling about a million refugees within protected new development zones in a semi-autonomous portion of Rakhine state. Sanctioning and starving the entire nation, and a glacial effort at ICC prosecution of Myanmar’s leadership will not lead to a peaceful solution to the Rohingya travesty, however a vastly more detailed examination of the causative factors leading to it, combined with a realistic resettlement program might.
Key words: Burma, Myanmar, Rohingya, CIA, American Unocal, Chevron, French Total, hegemony in perpetuity, color revolution, genocide, Belt and Road Initiative, peace
NOTES
India’s Role in the US Proxy War on Myanmar (and on China)
Just as India had in the past aided US foreign policy objectives against China through hosting violent militant groups targeting Tibet, India is once again hosting militants, this time targeting China’s BRI partner, Myanmar in Southeast Asia.
Reuters admits that armed militants and their weapons are staged inside India, crossing over the border to fight Myanmar’s troops and then seeking safety back in Indian territory.
Reuters also hints at the so-called “National Unity Government” likely being based in India – putting at risk youths it has told to “fight” Myanmar’s military while hiding in safety abroad.
Referring to: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmars-chin-state-grassroots-rebellion-grows-2021-12-10
Also see:
https://www.asia-pacificresearch.com/india-role-us-proxy-war-myanmar-china/5630885
GT Investigates: US wages global color revolutions to topple govts for the sake of American control
TRUE COLORS OF ‘DEMOCRACY’ By GT staff reporters Published: Dec 02, 2021
…To start a revolution, first you need to pick a color.
Whether it is the "Rose Revolution" in Georgia in 2003, the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine in 2004, the "Tulip Revolution" in Kyrgyzstan in 2005, or the "Arab Spring" in Asia and Africa in 2011, the past decades have seen the US plan and implement "color revolutions," or wars without gunpowder in many places around the world, frantically exporting "American values."
Instead of launching military operations directly in the name of "democracy," the US prefers to use color revolutions as a tool to intervene in other countries' internal affairs to subvert governments in order to reinforce its global control, which the US has found more efficient and economical.
It is estimated that in the past three decades, among all the toppled governments, those that were subverted by such "non-violent revolutions" accounted for more than 90 percent.
Before that, during the Cold War, the US engaged in 64 covert and six overt attempts at regime change, according to Covert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold War, by Lindsey A. O'Rourke.
However, what color revolutions left in their wake are neither peace nor Western democracy, but mass confusion, chaos, and destruction in the target countries.
That article turned into a book that can be downloaded from: https://www.silkroadvirtualuniversity.org/publications-by-gcb.html