Genocide of Rohingya families 
 
Watch the video link embedded at the top of the CNN news clip where the Monks say the international 
community is wrong and it is not genocide. However, the United Nations took a stance by calling it genocide 
and calling for the end of it. https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/25/asia/myanmar-buddhist-nationalism-mabatha/
index.html 
Misusing statistics can happen all the time, and sometimes it is intentional, others accidental. When 
we think back to the example of my grandfather, he would just cite stats out of nowhere. However, he had 
never really studied any of the issues and his sources were unreliable. As a child, I often wondered how 
he knew this? He did not intend to spew inaccurate facts but accidentally did to us because he listened to 
someone who thought they had knowledge. This happens often when people give ‘opinions’ without facts, 
which they are merely opinions. It is important to be able to distinguish this. 
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