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“Eight Brazilian football fans shot dead”

“Eight Brazilian football fans shot dead, Sao paolo shootings take place a day before Corinhians clash with local rivals Parmerias”

In the last class, we discuss the article about football in South America.　          The summary and my opinion are as follows.

1) The summary of the article

Eight football fans were gunned down ahead of a semi-final match at the Corinthians fan club headquarters in Sao Paulo.

The shooting was confirmed by a Corinthians club official to AFP. The source noted the fan club is not affiliated with the official Corinthians football squad. And the team tweeted “Mourning” at ahead of semi-final game.

Brazil football matches have been tainted by violence in the past. Police shot and killed a teenager when clashes erupted between rival football hooligans near Porto Alegre in the south of Brazil. It is estimated around 30 people died in football violence in the country in 2013.

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2) Opinion

I think Brazilian football fans have passion for football.

Passion is very good. But violence is not good and it is not support for football.It is not defile the football by violence.

So we have to think how to stop violence from Brazilian football. I make the two proposals for violence stop.

First, to make a call for violence stop. For example, to make many posters and emphasize “Mourning” voice. Football fan loves football. So I think if team say “Mourning”, they stop violence.

Second, the official Corinthians football squad affiliated with the fan club. I think if official squad take care to fan, they do not violence each other.

In conclusion, Brazilian football fan have to stop violence. Therefore official football squad and region cooperation are necessary.

 

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China anger at Japan-Taiwan disputed island fishing deal

The last class we read an article about an agreement between Japan and Taiwan and talk about it. This is the story of the article and my opinion for it.

Japan and Taiwan have signed a deal that allows Taiwan to fish within 12miles of the island that is known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. The island is controlled by Japan, but China and Taiwan claim the sovereignty over the island. This area has rich fishing resources and thought to have oil deposits.

Japanese government says that these negotiations are about the protection of fishing sources in the area and there are no issues  of territorial dispute.Many analysts think that Japan tried to prevent China and Taiwan from cooperating with each other over territorial dispute.

I think this deal is effective to improve Japan-Taiwan relationship. Troubles over fishing resources in this area have been diplomatic problems between Japan and Taiwan for a long time. This agreement will reduce troubles and make Japan-Taiwan relationship better.

The deal is also effective to prevent China from  unreasonably interfering in affairs of East Asia. China often claims the rights in the area unreasonably. This attitude is harmful to peace-keeping in East Asia. This time China tried to cooperate with Taiwan to claim sovereignty over Senkaku. Making Japan-Taiwan relationship better is effective to control balances of East Asia.

 

 

Burma riots:Muslim gold shop workers jaild

This sentence it is written about the religious conflict in Myanmar. There are Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar. I live in Japan. Therefore, I did not know that the country is caught up in religious strife. Muslims were kicked out of home by conflict.Many people lost their lives by conflict. Freedom of religion should be recognized. It was a fight that occurred in one of the town, but it also extends to other town. Is it not possible to respect the religion of each other.
Because the majority is Buddhist, Muslim shoulders are narrow. It’s persecution rather than say religion conflict. It is not recognized as a national as fact. It has been much dispute for a long time. Myanmar, as well as neighboring countries also a unstable. Myanmar government does not know the ultimate solution.Myanmar has progressed to democratization. But, there are a lot of problems such as religious strife. Myanmar government should find a fundamental solution. We are waiting for the new measures. And I pray the unity to meet the international community.

The Collision of religions in Burma.

I read the news about religious conflict.

I wrote the summary and my opinion about the news.

<Summary>

Three Muslims who are the owner of a gold shop, his wife and employee collided with Buddhist customer at the gold shop.

According to the report, the owner beat a Buddhist customer on the head. Besides, Buddhist monk was attacked and died.

Then, the news of this collision spread in Burma and it happened big communal violent clashes between Muslim and Buddhist communities in Meiktila and three other towns.

Unfortunately, this collision have forced 12000 Muslims to displace from their home and their neighborhoods have been demolished.

According to state prosecutors, religious extremists cause many cases against a lot of people like Buddhist and Muslims.

Last month, Burmese president Thein Sein advised that if it is necessary,  the government would use force to stop “political opportunists and religious extremists” and all people who committed violence would be prosecuted to the extent of the law.

Last year, nearly 200 people died and many people were forced to get out their home by violence in Rakhine. It is the worst conflict.

In recent month, Rohingyas have run away from persecution in Burma because they are not recognized as Burmese.

<Opinion>

I think that the clash like this between Muslims and Buddhist will never happen in  Japan. Because Japanese are not sensitive about religious.

However, in the world, religion make life, culture, community and so on. It means that religion is an important thing for them. It is far different from Japan, so Japanese is difficult to understand religious conflict but I think we have to understand and think about it.

Finally, to understand religious, Japanese should be interested in own religions. It is the best first step to understand what religion is.

Violence at a gold shop in Meiktila has caused clashes between Muslim and Buddhist in Burma

Reportedly, the dispute started when a Muslim owner of the gold shop beat a Buddhist customer on the head. The dispute has spread to neighbor towns. Many Muslims have been persecuted or been destroyed since the clashes began on 20 March. Burma’s government intends to use force if the state of the dispute turns for the worse, Burmese president said. I think religious disputes are difficult to settle, because beginnings of these disputes are very old. However, reason for many of these disputes is that many people discriminate others only by their religions. So I think we have to see people by many points, not only by their religions.

Burma riots

Today, I read about religion problem in Burma. In Burma Most people are Buddhists and Muslims are minolities.

Rohingya Muslims are said to cause unstainability in Burma.So they are not recognized as Burmese citizens.They fight the persecution.

In Meiktila,three Muslims worked at the gold shop.One day, a dispute occurred .They were convicted of theft and assault. A court in Burma has sentenced them to 14 years in jail for their role in communal violence that has left more than 40 dead. That’s because the dispute at the shop is thought to have triggered deadly clashes between Burma’s Muslims and Buddhist communities.

The violence spread to other  towns.More than12.000 Muslims have been displaced from their homes since the clashes began on 20 March.The influence of the news extended violence.AP agency reports state prosecutors say religious extremists are building several cases against  dozens of people involved in the violence,includingBuddists and Muslims.But  there are no evidence.

Government of Burma wants  to hide this religious conflict between Buddhist and Muslim.Last year, Prime Minister of Burma Thein Sein said the government would use force to stop political opportunists and religious extremists from make relationship between faiths worse.

I think it’s necessary to solve religious conflict for democratization.But it’s so delicate problem and it takes long time.So the conference and  the corporation of global society are needed.

 

China angere at Japan-Taiwan disputed island fishing deal

　Today we discussed the problem between Japan and China about the territorial rights over the Senkaku islands. China angered at Japan, because Japan and Taiwan signed a deal, which made it OK for Taiwan to fish within 19km of the islands. China claims independence of Taiwan, because Taiwan doesn’t have offisial diplomatic relations with Japan. On the other hand, Japan insits that it made the deal to prtect maritime resources in the East China Sea, so the deal doesn’t have relation to the territorial dispute. I think it’s need to discuss the territorial rights over Senkaku islands with the countries around the Senkaku islands and to make a rule.