Countless national groups around the world; probably scared by the Globalist agenda of merging populations to suit Big money interests; claim they want no external groups to live anywhere near themselves
The Ethnic Bengalis of Western Burma/Myanmar are a group rejected by many of the Burmese; Race and religion being the reason given
They have lived there for a very long time but were a minority group. The British Empire encouraged Bengalis from the Easternmost parts of its Indian Empire to move into those regions more
So really we are to an extent seeing yet another Colonial mess still producing nefarious results and being played out
Barbet Schroeder here makes a tame attempt at showing some of the mechanisms; but really in a clumsy way and a very one-sided one too; his entire view is centered around demonizing the Venerable W; a monk who does not seem as peace and love as Buddhists come across normally
The premise here seems to be Rohingyas are victims of racist intolerant Burmese led by W. End of debate. As I mentioned one-sided.
Religion and Racial hatred are very bad indeed. And plenty of that is evident in the last 20 years in Myanmar. But the story has many other levels and factors at play which are not even looked at. Globalization. The Fear of expanding population in Western Burma. None of this. Just bad racist guy here boohoo.
I am a HUGE fan of More La Vallée and other earlier films by Schroeder
This here is disappointing. Maybe documentary is not a medium for a man who is essentially an artist; a fiction artist. The rigour of research is sorely absent it seems.
