Ethnic Tensions in Myanmar and the Rohingya Crisis: A Transnational Issue Sara Ahmed PSC 135 Word Count: 1885 "I pledge on my honor that I have done this work with honesty and integrity, without giving or receiving unauthorized assistance." In June and October 2012, Myanmar, also known as Burma, saw two surges in violent ethnic conflict between the Rohingya, a minority Muslim group, and Burmese Buddhists who constitute the majority population in the country. The conflict was centered
submitted to the Human Rights Council to report on the human rights violations and abuses against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. This report focuses on the protracted enforcement of discriminatory policies that seek to marginalise and control Rohingya population namely of the Rakhine state. This report argues that Myanmar’s 1982 Citizenship Law and state and federal legislative acts function as the catalyst to excluded and marginalise the Rohingya. Theses policies violates their human rights as it contributes
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
situation that is currently taking place in Myanmar. The Myanmar government is being accused of extremely hostile actions against the Rohingya people in their country. This includes the burning of villages, rape, and murder. Many of the Rohingya have fled the country in search of asylum. This news story specifically addresses how Amnesty International, a human rights organization, has released evidence of the government’s actions and how, as expected, the Myanmar government is denying every accusation
the Myanmar government, the Rohingya are the enemy. Since the 1970’s, the military has raped, murdered, tortured, and burned alive Rohingya people living in the Rakhine State (Ekin, 2017). In 1982, the Burma Citizenship Law proclaimed the Rohingya as stateless, which, in the words of human rights consultant and research associate in the Centre for Asian Legal Studies Katherine Southwick, has “been used to rationalize various forms of marginalization and the denial of rights, services, and identity”
AKA people, in a bordering country of India, is the situation of another minority group who are also facing a verge of disappearance. In the case of this minority group, the Rohingyas, are victims to disappearance of an entire ethnic group. This Muslim minority population, living mainly in the
The Rohingya are an ethnic group with majority being Muslim who live in the Buddhist Myanmar. Often, the Rohingya are called the “worlds most persecuted minority.” As of today, there are at least 1.1 million Rohingya that currently live in Southeast Asia. The language spoken by the Rohingya is known as Ruaingga and is very distinct. Out of the 135 ethnic groups in the country they are not considered one and have continuously been denied citizenship in Myanmar since the year 1982. They are not allowed
The video “The ethnic cleansing of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, explained” and the article “Myanmar: Who are the Rohingya” talk about the Rohingya, an ethnic minority in Myanmar that are persecuted because of their identity as Muslims within the majority Buddhist country. The Rohingya have lived in Myanmar since the 12th century, and have been prosecuted many years. Starting in 1948, when the Union citizenship act was passed, the Rohingya Muslims were not included as an ethnic group with the country’s
Executive Summary The Rohingya are the stateless minority people of Myanmar and have been residing there for a long time. They have deprived citizenship as Myanmar government consider them as illegal immigrants. So they are being deprived of many of the basic rights and being tortured for a long time but the recent “Ethnic Cleansing” mission of the Myanmar government has severely destroyed the Rohingya and forced them to leave the country. Who are the Rohingya people? The Rohingya are the minority
frequent natural disasters. In addition, Bangladesh is hosting over 200,000 Rohingya refugees from Burma in the eastern region(AKM.Ahsan, 2011 p.139). The Rohingya ethnic minority of Burma are trapped between severe repression in their homeland and abuse in neighboring countries. Bangladesh has hosted thousands of Rohingyas fleeing persecution for more than three decades, but at least 200,000 Rohingya refugees have no legal rights there (Samima&Kayoko,2014 p.225). They live in squalor, receive very limited