{"id":2707,"date":"2025-09-19T05:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2025-09-19T06:46:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:46:53","slug":"first-they-came-for-the-rohingyas-bengalis-indians-muslims-and-at-last-all-the-democratic-forces-nld-and-dassk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/2025\/09\/19\/first-they-came-for-the-rohingyas-bengalis-indians-muslims-and-at-last-all-the-democratic-forces-nld-and-dassk\/","title":{"rendered":"First they came for the Rohingyas, Bengalis, Indians, Muslims and at last all the Democratic forces NLD and DASSK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-dr-ko-ko-gyis-blog wp-block-embed-dr-ko-ko-gyis-blog\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1wiYwbY8lL\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drkokogyi.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/13\/first-they-came-for-the-rohingyas-bengalis-indians-and-at-last-all-the-muslims\/\">First they came for the Rohingyas..Bengalis..Indians and at last all the&nbsp;Muslims<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;First they came for the Rohingyas..Bengalis..Indians and at last all the&nbsp;Muslims&#8221; &#8212; Dr Ko Ko Gyi&#039;s Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/drkokogyi.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/13\/first-they-came-for-the-rohingyas-bengalis-indians-and-at-last-all-the-muslims\/embed\/#?secret=rIwjWprUVt#?secret=1wiYwbY8lL\" data-secret=\"1wiYwbY8lL\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_they_came%E2%80%A6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">First they came for<\/a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rohingya_people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rohingyas<\/a><\/strong>,<br>and&nbsp;I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a Rohingya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then they came for the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bengali_people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bengalis<\/a>,<\/strong><br>and&nbsp;I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bengali_language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bengali<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then they came for the&nbsp;<strong>Kalas&nbsp;<\/strong>(Indians in rude derogatory term),<br>and&nbsp;I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a Kala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then they came for&nbsp;<strong>MUSLIMS in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=19.75,96.1&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=19.75,96.1%20(Burma)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Myanmar<\/a><\/strong><br>and&nbsp;I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a Muslim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now they came for Christian in Myanmar<br>and and I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a Christian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then they came for NLD Government and democratic forces in Myanmar and there was no one left to speak out for me, NLD Government and democratic forces.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Adapted from the following famous words of pastor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drkokogyi.wordpress.com\/wiki\/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller\">Martin Niem\u00f6ller<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_they_came%E2%80%A6\">Wikipedia.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First they came for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drkokogyi.wordpress.com\/wiki\/Communist\">communists<\/a>,<br>and I didn\u2019t speak out<br>because I wasn\u2019t a communist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Then they came for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drkokogyi.wordpress.com\/wiki\/Trade_unionist\">trade unionists<\/a>,<br>and I<br>didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a trade unionist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then they came for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drkokogyi.wordpress.com\/wiki\/Jews\">Jews<\/a>,<br>and I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a<br>Jew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then they came for me<br>and there was no one left to speak out for<br>me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"487\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ZMK-487x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ZMK-487x1024.jpg 487w, 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https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-64.png 1087w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-66-678x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-66-678x1024.png 678w, https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-66-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-66-768x1160.png 768w, https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-66-1017x1536.png 1017w, https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-66.png 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Credit U Aung Tin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image 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Then they came for the&nbsp;Bengalis,and&nbsp;I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a&nbsp;Bengali. Then they came for the&nbsp;Kalas&nbsp;(Indians in rude derogatory term),and&nbsp;I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a Kala. Then they came for&nbsp;MUSLIMS in&nbsp;Myanmarand&nbsp;I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a Muslim. Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,6,16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anti-racism","category-articles","category-history","category-opinion","category-world-muslims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}