Not their problem; complacent they were
when the intelligence service
assured the public the ethnic minority
being rounded up, their villages burnt
the men manacled, many killed
the women raped, their children in custody
because they are terrorists
intent on disturbing the culture and
social fabric of the nation
invested in foreign politics
armed with the fervour of a religious
delusion -- not to waste any breath
or sleep over their fate. They're different
than us and so, expendable, a relief to
have them gone. Had no one remembered
the warning of Pastor Niemoller ...
Because they failed to speak out in the face
of human rights atrocities they are now
destined to face their own Gestapo's
brutality against themselves for daring to
protest the military coup when the population
strives to free their leader while bemoaning
lost democracy whose values they
themselves saw fit to spurn.
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