The Ethnic Cleansing Of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims

The Rohingya are a Muslim Ethnic group there are around 2 million in world right now, and every single one of them is been persecuted. The Nationalist say that the Rohingyas were originally brought to the country Bangladesh by the British Colonizers. Rohingyas population right now is most in Myanmar and Bangladesh they have no formal status, they have no citizenship and they can't get a

African Americans are heavily distributed in the Southeast portion of the United States. From Louisiana to Virginia, there are a lot of areas with 25% or above. The main reason for the concentration in the South is due to the slave trade of colonial times. African Slaves were brought over to work for the colonials. And most of the slaves were bought to assist cotton plantation owners, who live solely in the south due to the temperance of their crop. And once the slaves were freed, many of them stayed to farm as sharecroppers, and stayed in the south to make permanent homes. On a smaller scale, the only concentration of African Americans of 5%-24.9% in Minnesota is in the Minneapolis Area. This is because after slaves were freed, the United States went through an industrial revolution, and many workers

The world is currently facing the highest human displacement levels ever recorded (UNHCR 0). According to data recorded by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), an astonishing 65.6 million (UNHCR 1) people around the world have been forced from their homes. This number includes 22.5 million refugees (UNHCR 1). In facing this so-called “refugee crisis,” it’s critical to understand important definitions. A refugee is legally defined as someone who has been externally displaced from and cannot return to their host country due to a “well-founded fear of persecution” (Refugees in international relations, p.5). In vernacular terms, refugees are often identified as people who are escaping “authoritarian regimes; conflict; human rights violations; large-scale

Did you know that today there are still acts of genocide happening around the world? “The Ten Stages of Genocide” is an article written by Gregory H. Stanton, the president of Genocide Watch, an organization that is fighting to end genocide. In this article, Stanton lists ten stages that will occur in a genocide, starting with the stage of classification and ending with the stage of denial. In Burma, a sovereign state, also known as Myanmar, a minority ethnic group named the Rohingya is being discriminated by the majority of the population and the government in Burma. The Rohingya have been denied Burmese citizenship since 1982, when a law was enacted by the state government that excludes the Rohingya as one of Burma’s ethnic groups (“Myanmar Will Not Recognize”). There has also been reports of ethnic cleansing, anti-Muslim violence, and forced labor (“Plight”). Because the Burmese government refuses to recognize the Rohingya Muslims as one of their official national races and denies the Rohingya of their rights, the United Nations and Gregory Stanton, president of Genocide Watch, recognize the ethnic discrimination of this group as a growing problem. The United Nations strives to stop the mistreatment of the Rohingya, and Genocide Watch declares that Rakhine State in Burma is in a state of genocide emergency, going through the ten stages of genocide.

When you think of Muslims what do you think of? Do you think of ISIS, do you think of president Trump, or do you think of ethnic cleansing? When most people think of Muslims in America it is usually tied to something negative but in this story the Muslims are the ones who are getting persecuted by nationalist Buddhists. The Rohingyas are a Muslim ethnic group that are currently experiencing ethnic cleansing because they are not considered citizens in the country they have been living in for decades.

How do you wake up in the morning knowing that you no longer have a home? How do you go about your day facing the memories of loss, of persecution, or of torture that still haunt you? How do you continue with your life knowing that many of your loved ones have been killed? For many refugees, that is daily reality. They wake up not knowing what their future holds, in a country that is not theirs, in a house that is not a home. But somehow, someway, they persist; they continue to live, for themselves, and for their families. They cope with their situations, developing new habits and new hobbies, becoming closer to their families, and growing stronger in their faith. Through these different coping mechanisms, they can continue to live their lives on a day to day basis, each day a battle, but getting through nonetheless. The coping strategies they adopt allow them to keep moving forward in an existence full of uncertainty.

This conflict spans multiple generations of Burmese with a deep seeded hatred towards the Rohingya, and creates questions that would help understand the root causes for the Rohingya genocide. Why are the both the ethnic majority and the government in Myanmar, so driven to commit genocide on the Rohingya minority? The answer to this question is asserted by examining the economic circumstances in the country. Burma has faced extreme underdevelopment and corruption post the military junta takeover in 1962. The difficult economic circumstances in the state of Myanmar are the primary driving force for the majority to commit genocide on the Rohingya by what they view as the most rational solution to better their economic circumstances. In order to illustrate this assertion and draw conclusions from it, we must analyze the major economic risk factors and warning signs that have been prevalent in Burmese history since the British colonial period. This paper will first outline who the Rohingya people are, their origins, and their significance to Burmese history. Secondly, the economic situation in Myanmar as well as the logic of understanding this atrocity from an economic circumstance. Lastly, the response and treatment by the military and ethnic majority towards the Rohingya will be

During Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month, it’s vital to educate yourself and others on the atrocities of the past. Though the word “genocide” brings to mind well-known horrors like the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, massive atrocities have slipped past popular historical radar. One of these forgotten massacres is the genocide in Bangladesh in the 1970s. This was no small matter — the upper estimates for the death toll numbers around three million. To prevent abominations like this from occurring again, we must bring awareness to what the Bengali people suffered through.

For most of its history, Myanmar (also known as Burma) has had its destiny shaped by external influences. Colonialism, poverty, civil war, brutal dictatorships, and more have determined Burma’s rocky history. In the late 1940’s beloved Burmese general Aung San negotiated Burma’s independence from British Rule. He was assassinated only months after. A coup organized by the military in 1962 relegated the country to harsh dictatorship.

The tarnished status of the Rohingya — a cause of their dehumanization — has allowed for military troops to carry out unbridled, vicious acts against the stateless ethnic group. Because the Rohingya are viewed as a disgraced people, they have been left without an

Described as the world’s most persecuted people, 1.1 million Rohingya people live in Myanmar. They live predominately in Rakhine state, where they have co-existed uneasily alongside Buddhists for decades.

The history of violence in the Rakhine State against the Rohingya stretches back to the colonial rule of Myanmar by the British. For over a century the British ruled the country and set in place policies that would encourage a new migrant workforce of Rohingya to enter

The Rohingya are the minority people of Myanmar residing in the Rakhine state of the country. They are the world’s most harassed minority. Majority of the ethnic group are Muslim while some of them are Hindu, who lived in Myanmar for centuries. They have been denied citizenship since 1982 in the Buddhist Southeast Asian country. There are 135 official ethnic groups in Myanmar but the Rohingyas are not considered among them. Most of the Rohingya people live in the Western coastal state of Rakhine and are not allowed to leave without permission from the government. Though they have been living there for quite a long time they are deprived of the basic services and opportunities of the country.

The Rohingya are reviled by many in Myanmar as illegal immigrants and they suffer from systematic discrimination. The Myanmar government treats them as stateless people, denying them citizenship. Stringent restrictions have been placed on Rohingya people’s freedom of movement, access to medical assistance, education and other basic services.

Rohingya’s are a Muslim ethnic minority group that has lived as an inhabitance in Mayanmar for centuries, Today more than a million of them lives in the country, most in the western coastal state of Rakhine . Where they make up around a third of the population .They speak their own language which is not recognized by the state. It is one of the poorest states in the country with ghetto- like camps and a lack of basic service and opportunities due to ongoing violence persecution, hundreds and thousands of Rohingya have fled to neighbouring Countries either land or boat over the course of many decades. Muslim have lived in the area now known as Myanmar since as early as the 12th century,