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Rabab Mehndi Becomes Rallying Point of Enraged Myanmar Diaspora in Gran Chola

- Danny "Dio" Toren

Rabab Mehndi, the now-17 year old daughter of PM Daler Mehndi, has recently revealed herself to be a child super-soldier trained since the age of 14 to fight enemies of freedom from the Himalayan peaks to the jungles of Myanmar. While this certainly has been the biggest shock for me, it has not been for the rest of the nation at large.

Quite serendipitously, Rabab has become a figurehead and a rallying point for the hundreds of thousands of Myanmarese refugees that have settled into Gran Chola fleeing mass killing and genocide across the border by the Chinese regime. While not being part of any ethnic group from Myanmar herself, she has the unique honor of training the hardest and from the youngest age to serve the South Asian military in the name of liberation, with few potential targets other than Myanmar. As a personification of the aspirations of the subjugated Myanmarese, especially that of the ethnic-minority Karen, she has snowballed in popularity and holds immense sway, holding powerful speeches urging fire and fury on tyrants.

This has had quite a big effect, given that the Karen genocide that these hundreds of thousands of people fled from have yet to stop, or even be acknowledged by the Chinese government or the international community at large, more than three years after they have started. This contrasts with the Chinese treatment of the Uyghurs, where they have been given their own state in Chinese acquiesce. The question at the end of the day is: if the Uyghurs can have complete independence from China, why can't we? In addition, the PLA has never ceased the use of indiscriminatory war crimes in which remote villages in the rural Myanmar forests that happened to have rebel presence were flattened by H-6 heavy bombers, only excused with the fantasy that in a guerilla war, only rebels would live outside of a populated urban area.

A movement has emerged, headed predominantly by Karens but encompassing a broad spectrum of ethnicities that similarly want their own autonomous states under a non-genocidal regime and even the ethnic-majority Burmese who simply want their country out of a draconian and Sino-dominated military occupation lasting five years with no signs of ending, with the express purpose of forcibly enforcing a Chinese Han-dominated ideology made up by Chinese Communist Party officials in 2022. This movement demands for ethnic homelands to be set up for each ethnicity in Myanmar to ensure that genocide never happens again and the existing Karen genocide to finally stop. This movement is split between a majority of pragmatists (buoyed greatly by Rabab), who favor working extensively with the USA towards this goal and for these states to be absorbed into the USA (in a manner similar to a state like Holy Chalukya, which is in practice pretty much its own country by this point), and a small minority of hardliners that seemingly want to get themselves killed in a jungle alone if it means not owing the South Asians any favors.