The Situation Of Rakhine State

Who are the Rohingya? 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. Rohingya people say they are descendants of Muslims, perhaps Persian and Arab traders, who came to Myanmar generations ago. Unlike the Buddhist community, they speak a language similar to the Bengali dialect of Chittagong in Bangladesh. The Rohingya are reviled by many in Myanmar

what motivates groups to commit such atrocious crimes. In the Rakhine State of Burma a bloody battle has emerged, placing the Rohingya population of the country in the crosshairs of violent military crackdown and discrimination by the majority Buddhist population. Due to a long complex relationship between the different groups of Burma, predominantly the muslims and buddhist, a culture of hatred has cast out those in the Rakhine State, Muslim population, claiming them to be foreign aliens with no

Rohingya have often been called the most persecuted minority in the world. The 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims squeezed precariously into the north-west state of Rakhine, in mainly Buddhist Burma, bordering majority Muslim Bangladesh, are stateless and unwanted. Neither country will give them citizenship even though their families’ roots in modern-day Rakhine, once called Arakan, can be traced back to the Eighth Century. How are they being persecuted? Some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims, a religious and ethnic

The United States plans to pursue targeted sanctions, through the US laws, against people responsible for the alleged abuses of Rohingya Muslims. This move aims to raise the pressure on Myanmar’s military body and civilian leaders to resolve the growing crisis. “The situation in northern Rakhine state constitutes ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya. These abuses by some among the Burmese military, security forces, and local vigilantes have caused tremendous suffering and forced hundreds of thousands

The theological question that this situation raises is whether it is morally right for the Burmese troops to improve violence upon a group of people, yet they are meant to serve and protect the people. Even worse is that the Myanmar government does not make it a priority to protect ethnic minority groups from persecution. The situation also raises an ethical question for the American society today, in that the American society fails to advocate for immigrants such as those from Rohingya. It is even

democratization in Myanmar, however, the consequence of Myanmar reforms are debated worldwide. Some people argue that these reforms are indicators of progresses of democratization, while others believe they triggered more conflicts in Myanmar, which made the situation there more instable and complicated. The Theoretical Analysis of Transitions to Democracy According to Lars-Erik Cederman, “While the democratic-peace hypothesis has been accepted by most scholars, there is still controversy concerning the possibility

were ferried to the country as cheap labor during the British Empire and hence must go back. Bangladesh categorically rejects this claim. At its root, the crisis may be about simple economics, of scarcity and choice. Myanmar is an impoverished state that has witnessed repressive military dictatorship for most of its post-independence existence. Consequently, the Rohingya are not only a drain on resources, but also squat on land that is rumouredly mineral rich. Moreover, we must remember that any

wanted to abolish while the South wanted to keep their slaves. The Rohingya crisis is similar in that it is a conflict happening within the country of Myanmar, but it is over the Rohingya people not being recognized as citizens. Located in the Rakhine State of Myanmar resides approximately 1 million people who are a stateless Muslim minority known as the Rohingya. These people are being denied their human rights by not allowing them to own land or property. This means that the land they are currently

practice of Buddhism is valid or invalid depending on the given circumstance. Jarod Whitaker (2012) takes a look at the study of Warfare in Buddism and finds out that there are scenarios when Buddhist scriptures can be tailored to fit a clear-cut situation. For example, if one needs to terminate someone absolutely because they are in the face of adversity with no other option than to kill, the troubled being internally has to make a decision with regards to the reason they are terminating that victim

have been subjected ethnic cleansing as a result of newly formed nation states throughout the 20th century. Since before Burma’s independence in 1947, it is no exception. The first reports of ethnic cleansing in Burma were as early as 1978 after the Burmese military had attempted to deport the ethnic minority known as the Rohingya in neighboring Bangladesh. Since then the situation has entered a continued spiral of alleged state-sponsored oppression against the Rohingya. The warning signs of genocide