Hate In Osama

Hate: a strong feeling which can be developed without a reason or motive. Such a word can help describe the relationship between the Buddhists and the Muslims in Myanmar. Filmmaker Adam B. Ellick documentary 21st Century Concentration camps brings to a light a growing issue between the reservations of Muslims and Buddhists. These Muslims in Myanmar are constantly oppressed and face harsh conditions in “concentration camps”, while the rest of the world remains oblivious to their situation. Throughout the documentary, Nicholas Kristof’s main object is to put pressure onto the rest of the world, to intervene and take action upon this issue.

Ellick opens and closes the documentary by emphasizing the problem with the lack of medical aid and the life threatening conditions of which these Muslims suffer from. Children in Myanmar are at a great risk of falling to life-threatening
There is a severe problem in Myanmar about how far the extent of this hate towards the Muslims goes. It is so deep that the government officials do not even acknowledge them as people, and they are not referred to as an ethnic group because they say Rohingy people do not exist. Such actions cause the level of hate to spread and the treatment to worsen. It shows that if the government can treat them unfairly, the common people can do so as well. Hate is does not come instinctively, it is learned. A boy in rural Myanmar has even confessed that if he came in contact with a Muslim, he “would kill him.” Murder is heinous crime easily fueled through ignorance and foolishness. Likewise, their ignorance is promoted by their environment, which is constantly oppressing and discriminating muslims. Yet, a child is willing to commit murder because the victim is a Muslim, doesn’t that emphasize the importance that there is a problem in Myanmar which requires our ultimate