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 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 …show more content…
On 4 September, the UN said its aid agencies had been blocked from supplying life-saving supplies such as food, water and medicine to thousands of civilians in northern Rakhine state. What’s the background to the story? For decades ethnic tensions have simmered in Rakhine state, with frequent outbreaks of violence. In October 2016 nine police officers were killed by armed men, believed by officials to be Muslims. Amid the ensuing violence, 87,000 Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh and government troops expanded their presence in Rakhine state. At the time, a senior UN official alleged that the Myanmar government was seeking to rid the country of its Muslim minority – an accusation that has been made repeatedly by human rights groups. The government denies the charge. In August, Myanmar further increased the number of troops in Rakhine, after seven Buddhists were found hacked to death. The buildup of troops prompted warnings of a fresh wave of violence. The most recent violence is seen as a major escalation not only because of the scale, but because of the involvement of the new Rohingya militant group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army. It says the attacks on government forces were an act of
The attacks affected the civilians living in the region, leaving as many as 300,000 dead and 2.8 million displaced (Darfur Conflict). Aicha el Basri, a former UN spokesperson, stated, “In one instance last September, peacekeepers "watched" the pro-government Janjaweed militia group carry out an assault on civilians travelling in a truck, but did not intervene (Darfur Conflict).” The UN hasn’t acted on the attacks occurring right in front of them. The civilians of Darfur feel the UN has betrayed them, by standing back and not protecting them. The UN organization, the African Union Mission In Darfur (UNAMID), has also failed to bring safety to the civilians. According to Ahmed H. Adam, “...UNAMID neither has a mandate nor the equipment for intervention, so even in the midst of conflict; it is unable to effectively respond (Adam).” The destruction of the population by their own government is the most recent failure of the UN, since the genocide in Darfur still continues
In Yang’s The Latehomecomer, the author describes how her Hmong family and many other families are chased out of their homes in the Laos mountain. No longer having anywhere to call home they have no other choice but to become refugees in another country where they don’t feel welcomed. In Ban Vinai Refugee Camp, in Thailand the Hmong people make a dramatic change in there life. The Hmong go from a life of freedom before the war, to having restrictions in everything they do, “There were Thai men in uniforms with guns that surrounded us”(66). The idea of being surrounded comes up constantly throughout Yang’s life in the camps, as a sign of constriction to their human rights. The liberty to roam freely is effortlessly taken away from the Hmong people
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
Soldiers coming back from the war in the east and see that a corruption keep going. They are asking themselves what they fought for and what their mates died for. But they are manage to handle with weapons Daria Kaleniuk states to Afterposten reporter. - A new insurrection will not be peaceful. I sincerely hope that it won't happen. A present regime and a president must to grasp how dangerous to keep doing that they
Burma fought with the British in 1945 to prevent Japanese invaders from entering Burma during World War II. Aung San, leader of an anti-fascist movement popular since the struggle in Japan, built a military and political base to negotiate with Britain. According to Dulcinea, he was temporarily in charge of the government which stirred conflicts in Burmese ethnic groups, yet he proved to unify the nationalist movement. Fortunately, San signed a deal granting Burma independence from the British in 1947. However before the deal went into full swing, San and cabinet members were assassinated. These mournful deaths halted the advancement towards independence. In the midst of the 1988 unrest, Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of Aung Sun, returned to Burma to care for her mother. She remained in Burma due to her sudden interest in politics. On
Lives will continue to be lost until treaties are established and international law is strengthened to apply to each and every country. Activists and protesters deserve fair and just treatment, and officials need to be monitored appropriately. The UN has officiated more than 560 treaties, and has an International Court of Justice to carry out the enforcement of human rights (UN). Civil action must be taken, and on a higher level than previous years. Growing discipline for all nations and setting the bar higher for everyone will slowly but surely regulate behavior and settle international relations. In an article from The Hindu, written by Nehginpao Kipgen, an ethnic cleansing is reported taking place in Myanmar during 2017. The government felt they had the power to drive 700,000 Rohingya muslims out of the country, and their actions were depicted as “crimes against humanity” by the UN (Kipgen). The ultimate solution was brought upon by the United Nations security council, and scrutinized the government by ordering them to resolve their wrongdoings and check their authority. This source again shows how international organizations have the power to stop unjust fatalities and unproportional governmental
Concerning the ethnic minorities of Burma, I believe that we are in a period where carefully analyzed humanitarian input can have a successful impact. Unlike the genocide in Darfur, we’re aware of a developing situation where large-scale genocide has not taken place yet. History further lends a hand in paralleling the cordoning in society of minorities such as the Rohingya with that of the black African minorities in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. Lessons gained in the events in Sudan should be considered in defending the minorities of Burma who are facing human rights violation.
The conflict in Myanmar is best described under a “soft” rational choice/instrumental approach. The conflict in Myanmar has incredible historical context that can specifically be related to Horowitz’s causal mechanisms of conflict. In an article by Donald Horowitz, he explains the “hard” and “soft” approaches to violence. The conflict in Myanmar can be understood using a “soft” approach because it is apparent that Muslims and Buddhists in Myanmar “ can be decomposed into the motives of their members, that they are instruments for the pursuit of those motives, and that their actions need to be explained in terms of individual calculations of utility in specific
On Mar. 6, the rebel Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army attacked Myanmar police and military forces in Laukkai, leading to the death of 30 people. The violence also caused the people of Kokang to flee from the region. Chinese paramilitary forces, on the other hand, have reportedly sent reinforcements to help in disaster
Anyone who is subject to violence and persecution should have the right to seek protection in another country. Many Rohingya have fled their homes due to religious conflicts in Myanmar by the Buddhists militants, terrorizing, burning and bulldozing the homes of the Muslim minority. These Rohingya have migrated to Thailand, Malaysia but mostly Bangladesh to seek protection in a new country. This migration in the nation state has its positive effects as the people in danger have the chance to escape and start their own life somewhere else, away from burning villages and ignited homes. They get the opportunity to find a safe new neighborhood and look for work elsewhere. Although the negatives do out way the positives, leaving a significant number of growing refugees in the world especially off the coast of Indonesia. These refugees are being kept in overcrowding refugee camps that are causing an issue that is affecting more than just people disturbed in the Rohingya crisis. Everyday there are crowds of homeless people swamping countries with no place for them to go. The military has planted landmines along the Bangladesh border to prevent the Rohingya from returning.
Burma/Myanmar, in January 12, 2007, in the Council’s firs substantive consideration of the violence, insecurity and humanitarian crisis in Burma/Myanmar, the US and Britain sponsored a draft resolution that called upon the Government of Myanmar to cease military attacks against civilian in ethnic minority regions and in particular to put an end to the associated human rights and humanitarian law violations against persons belonging to ethnic nationalities, including widespread rape and other forms of sexual violence carried out by members of the armed forces and also to permit international humanitarian needs of the people of
The group has resided in Myanmar and for a long time, but the Rohingyas have been denied citizenship in their country of origin (Rahman 233). In addition, the government, through its security personnel has been coordinating attacks against this small ethnic community (Rahman 233). Consequently, a majority of Rohingyas have been fleeing from their nation and have become refugees in other regions. Precisely, over 700,000 Rohingyas have been moving away from their state, and crossing to Bangladesh (European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO)
The leaders include the president of Burma, Thein Sein, and a famous politician of the country, Aung San Suu Kyi. The two groups comprise of the Sangha, which is a community of Buddhist monks, and the Rakhine Nationalities Development Group (RNDG), which is a political party in Myanmar. In 1991, Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize for forming the National League for Democracy and coincidently disapproved of violence and hoped that all ethnic groups could “cooperate in harmony.” Since then, she has denied any evidence of an ethnic cleansing, when asked about it in an interview and she has talked about the Rohingya Muslims, stating that “They are not our citizens.” The president, Thein Sein, has done many things to contribute to the ethnic cleansing. He has come up with ideas to end the ethnic cleansing, such as “expelling” the muslims from the country or getting the United Nations to “resettle” them somewhere else.
Before that time, they had been a British colony since 1885. After fourteen years as an independent country, they removed their government in 1962 and finally adopted a new constitution in 1974, becoming a socialist republic. Shortly thereafter in 1988, the country’s welfare turned into a brutal military government and the military established a State Law and Order Resolution Council (SLORC) to govern the country. Finally, in 1989 the country’s name changed from Burma to Myanmar, a name change that would parallel a change in the way the people of Burma would appreciate their lives prior to 1988.
The nation of Myanmar, also known as Burma, is currently under the rule of a ruthless totalitarian regime, guilty of numerous human rights violations and target of intense international criticism. Located in Southeast Asia, on the western border of Thailand and Laos, it has been under military rule since World War II. Burma is mired in socioeconomic crisis stemming from the rule of the military junta, and the citizens are suffering. The environment of Burma is being destroyed, the people are treated inhumanely, and the country is notorious for its contribution to global narcotics. The paragraphs below detail the current situations facing the country, why they came about, and the parties that are to blame for