Mansouled Fiery Islands: The Genocide of Rohingyans: Patriotism is the world's most powerful aphrodisiac

It does not matter what religion you profess, what economic theory governs you, when something universal lights a spark, you will kill whom you see as your enemy.

"Patriotism" is a generic name for the spark. Patriotism is the most powerful of human emotions, and the most overlooked by psychologists. It is not even mentioned on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of he APA.

Until we find a powerful alternative to patriotism, we will will continue to kill our kith and kin.

Patriotism is the world's most powerful aphrodisiac: the more we kill, the more we give birth to.

I would like to know how to end the so-far eternal cycle.

Mobs of young Buddhist men on motorcycles roamed the streets of Lashio, Myanmar, on Wednesday, brandishing sticks and metal rods and throwing rocks. Photo courtesy Gamunu Amarasinghe/Associated Press Columbia Telegaph

Dalai Lama tells Suu Kyi to do more to protect Rohingya - Al Jazeera English
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Myanmar's Nobel Peace laureate urged to oppose persecution of Muslim minority that has led to mass migration crisis.28 May 2015 13:53 GMT | Humanitarian crises, Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar, Asia

Thousands of Rohingya migrants are feared trapped in boats after fleeing Myanmar [AFP]

Thousands of Rohingya migrants are feared trapped in boats after fleeing Myanmar [AFP]The Dalai Lama has urged fellow Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, a main opposition leader in Myanmar, to do more to help protect the persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority in her country amid a worsening migration crisis.Despite thousands of Rohingya fleeing on harrowing boat journeys to Southeast Asia to escape a wave of deadly attacks and discriminatory treatment by the country's Buddhist majority, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has yet to speak out against their plight.The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader said on Thursday she must voice her opposition to the persecution, adding that he had already appealed twice to her in person since 2012, when deadly sectarian violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state pitted the Rohingya against local Buddhists, to do more on their behalf."It's very sad. In the Burmese (Myanmar) case I hope Aung San Suu Kyi, as a Nobel laureate, can do something," he told The Australian newspaper in an interview in advance of a visit to Australia next week."I met her two times, first in London and then the Czech Republic. I mentioned about this problem and she told me she found some difficulties, that things were not simple but very complicated. But in spite of that I feel she can do something," he added.Analysts have attributed her silence to fears about alienating voters in the lead-up to elections set for November.Global spotlightThe Rohingya crisis was thrown into the international spotlight this month when thousands of the minority group, together with Bangladeshi migrants, were rescued on Southeast Asian shores after fleeing by boat.It has drawn attention to the dire conditions and discrimination faced by the roughly one million Rohingya in western Myanmar, a group widely seen as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.The Dalai Lama, perhaps the world's most famous refugee, added from his exile in the Indian Himalayas that it was not enough to ask how to help the Rohingya.