The Globalist

Across Asia, governments not only refuse to recognize a quest for cultural, ethnic, national or political rights, but are often willing to suppress them with brutal force.

Canada hosts several hundred stateless Rohingya people who have fled persecution in Burma.

The transition to democracy has not included protections for minorities like the Rohingyas.

Asian nations must worry that Myanmar’s moves against the Rohingyas won’t start untangling all colonial-era boundaries, however illogical in terms of ethnic or religious issues those may have been.