The US and other Western governments are not sincere about their criticism of the Myanmar government for committing atrocities against the Rohingya Muslims, says a former US Senate policy adviser and diplomat.
“I’m always very suspicious of the motives of the Western governments and Western media when they take up the cause of a Muslim minority in some country,” said James Jatras, who is also a specialist in international relations and legislative politics in Washington.
“We remember how the West did the same thing with the Kosovo Albanian Muslims in Serbia in the 1990s,” Jatras told Press TV on Friday.
“It seems to be a lot of this is crocodile tears; that they will make a big show of showing concern, but what they’re really trying to do is cover up their own actions in places like Iraq and Libya and Syria,” he added.
US and UK officials have expressed concerns about the deadly violence against the Rohingya but refused to…