YANGON: Cartoons taking aim at Rohingya Muslims are spreading rapidly across social media in mainly Buddhist Myanmar, where public opinion on the crisis stands in stark contrast to the outcry overseas. "There is something untrue about what they (the Rohingya) are saying," Win Naing, one of Myanmar's most famous cartoonists, told AFP. But since the country creaked open a few years ago Myanmar's public has dived head first into Facebook and Twitter. Since late August, around 430,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh, escaping an army crackdown in Rakhine state which the UN has called 'ethnic cleansing'. Armed with crass humour, internet fame and riding a wave of public opinion, cartoonists have delivered sharp counter-punches.

Source: New Strait Times September 24, 2017 03:45 UTC