Buddhists and Muslims, Myanmar

Myanmar Buddhist violence against the Muslim Rohingya minority understandably causing much concern here among the victims' co-religionists in Geylang Serai. A particular Buddhist monk apparently in the vanguard, of whom it is said, using an old native proverb: the dog's crooked tail can never be straightened. Over the generations in the Balkans the pig's more artfully spiraled tail has suggested something similar. In a beer hall, a pub in the Western suburbs of Melbourne, over a pool-table where one of the author's compatriots was being given a master-class in the art of doubling from hard up against the cushion into the middle pocket, this expression was first deployed in his hearing. The dazzle resulting was indeed far more striking than the simple geometric trick of cannoning ivories.

         — Ovo se nije dogodilo odkad je prase rep izkrivio.
         This has never happened since the swine's tale was bent.
         Late 1970's. Vale Stole Laketa, 2011, born in a small village named Brdo near Mrkonic Grad, Yugoslavia, which the author hopes to visit one fine day.
         Needless to say, we in the Balkans are graduate students in this kind of ethnic strife.