The Rohingyas, like India's Muslims, seem to be a second-string hard luck cause

As with Muslims in India, Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims are denied the luxury afforded by the western world to China’s Uighurs: attention.

For the Uighurs, the US and the west weeps copiously and demands that their oppressors cease their actions.

But India’s Muslims and Myanmar’s Rohingyas suffer from the western world’s twin afflictions — selective myopia and amnesia — even though they too are being horrifically repressed and oppressed.

Until Myanmar’s generals totally blotted their copybooks by launching a coup that removed Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021, hardly anyone who mattered spoke about the intolerable conditions created for the Rohingyas in Myanmar. Those conditions forced one million or so to flee to Bangladesh five years ago.

But after the generals behaved as they did towards Myanmar’s experiment with democracy — and imperilled the business climate — the US decided to call the Rohingyas’ massacre a “genocide”.

There are many ways of understanding genocide but the Rohingyas’ sit…