Is the suspect in the Salt Lake City Murder of 7 Year Old Karen (Christian) Burmese refugee - a Burmese Rohingya Muslim refugee?
comment by Jerry Gordon
Our colleague Anne Corcoran at Refugee Resettlement Watch sent us this horrific story of the rape and murder of a 7 year old Burmese Karen (Christian) girl refugee, Hser Ner Moo, who was buried Monday. A large crowd of over 500 mourners showed up including Utah Governor, Jon Huntsman, Jr and his wife. The suspect in the tragedy may be a 21-year old Burmese Muslim (Rohingya), Esar Met, who was in the same refugee transit camp in Thailand.
Corcoran has been covering this horrific death, we believe, for a reason. If the suspect turns out to be a Burmese Muslim Rohingya we have to question whether there is intense sectarian hatred between them and the Karens and how our legal humanitarian refugee program can sort out the mess and avoid more bloodshed. Note this comment from Corcoran’s latest report on the Utah refugee child’s murder and tension between the two Burmese groups:
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From a reliable source, someone who works with the camps in Thailand, we have heard that Burmese Muslims get into the camps and tensions run high with the Karen people, then our naive (at best) US State Department and the contractors who resettle them in the US place them in the same neighborhoods. In this case they were placed in the same building.
The Burmese Rohingya Muslims are Islamists oppressed like the Christian Karens by the brutal Military regime in Myanmar. Should the Rohingya arrive in the US in significant numbers, they could become another danger equivalent to the Somali Muslim Refugees. Canada, our neighbor or to the north has effectively opened the door to Rohingya Muslim refugees currently in UNHCR camps in both Bengladesh and, likely, Thailand.
Indeed, as Corcoran implies, young Hser’s murder may reflect problems lurking in the chaos of our legal humanitarian refugee program in sorting out who to bring to this country, and who not to.
The tragedy of young Hser’s vicious rape and murder is that it could happen again. The Rohingya hate Burmese Karens because they are kaffirs like you and me. They consider Karen children ‘fair game’. Tragic is an understatement.
If Utah murder suspect is a Muslim….
Acor, Refugee Resettlement Watch, April 9, 2008
On Monday they buried 7-year-old Hser Ner Moo, a Burmese Karen (Christian) refugee girl. 500 mourners, including the governor of Utah, attended her funeral. The little girl who loved school and wearing pink clothes, had allegedly been raped and beaten to death by a 21-year-old refugee from the same camp in Thailand.
A week to the day after she disappeared, an estimated 500 mourners, including Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. and his wife, Mary Kaye Huntsman, attended her funeral Monday at the South Salt Lake LDS Haven Ward Chapel.
The number of mourners was perhaps larger than Utah’s entire Burmese refugee community to which she belonged.
In the same paper on Tuesday, The Salt Lake Tribune reported that the murder suspect faces the death penalty.
Seven-year-old Hser Ner Moo apparently tried to fight the man who allegedly beat, raped and strangled her last week at a South Salt Lake apartment complex.
An autopsy revealed she was clutching hair in her right hand similar to that of accused killer Esar Met. And the autopsy showed Hser Ner Moo had been beaten about the head, neck, and torso. Some injuries were consistent with strangulation or suffocation.
That information and more - including evidence of sexual assault and a bloody footprint matching Esar Met - was included in documents charging the 21-year-old with aggravated murder. The crime is punishable by death.
But, no reporter seems to have the guts to go beyond this standard superficial reporting.
And, yes, before someone pounces and tells me that white American guys are also rapists and murderers, I’m not saying they aren’t. I am saying that maybe this terrible tragedy could have been averted, and someone now needs to look deeper.
From a reliable source, someone who works with the camps in Thailand, we have heard that Burmese Muslims get into the camps and tensions run high with the Karen people, then our naive (at best) US State Department and the contractors who resettle them in the US place them in the same neighborhoods. In this case they were placed in the same building.
We have it from those same sources that Met is a Muslim, and we suggest reporters begin to do some serious work on this case, if there are any investigative minds out there! For those of you saying, it doesn’t matter if he is or isn’t, it does. It matters because resettlement agencies need to start facing the reality of the tensions in the world and be sensible about what refugees can be placed together. We also need to ask why are we bringing all these single men in the refugee program.
The proponents of refugee resettlement can’t be running some grand experiment in multiculturalism at the expense of children like Hser.
P.S. If it turns out I’m wrong I’ll admit it. But, someone first needs to find out the truth about how the murder suspect, Esar Met, came to be living in America in the same building with this little girl.
Note: See our earlier coverage of this story here.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:06 • opinion • news • Refugee Resettlement Watch • suspect • Salt Lake City • funeral • Burmese Rohingya Muslim refugee • Murder of 7 year old Burmese Karen (Christian) refugee • 0 Comments •
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