Rohingya Crisis: US Government Responsibility
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Running head: INTERNATIONAL SECURITY STUDIESInternational Security StudiesName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor’s Note
1INTERNATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES Policy Brief to the United States’ Ambassador to the United Nations on the MyanmarGovernment’s Decision to End of the Crisis, October 2017Mr /Mrs, The recent decision for the solution of the crisis in the Rohingya has been interrupted dueto several reasons. The violation of the human rights in the Rohingya has been the main reasonfor the crisis in the region. Rohingya, Myanmar has been an extreme backward region withhaving limited facilities for livelihood. The basic facilities of living has not been provided to theregion that have caused aggression in people of Rohingya. More than 500,000 Rohingya haveleft their homes within a month in neighbouring Bangladesh (Parnini, Othman and Ghazali2013). The discrimination with the people on various basis have been creating violence amongpeople of Rohingya. Actually, Rohingya are the Muslim Minority group of Myanmar’s RaphineState having a population of approximately 1.1 million. These people are considered as thelowest minority group in Myanmar (Beyrer and Kamarulzaman 2017). The government of thecountry have not recognized their identity in the national identity record. The Myanmar militaryhave been executing a campaign for cleansing against the Rohingya people. The situation in thestate has been worse due to the crisis. The Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have been burningtheir homes, shooting, stabbing and raping in the state. The violence has been increasing with thenegligence of the Myanmar Government. In October 2016, an insurgent group of Rohingya Refuges named as Arakan RohingyaSalvation Army (ARSA), causes attack on the border guard post and killing nine police officers
2INTERNATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES (Singh and Haziq 2016). The High Commissioner of the UN have published the stories of rapeand civic violence scenario in the report. The Government of Bangladesh has published various documents related to the officialcomplaints for laying land mines along border of Myanmar (Prodip 2017). This causesaggression in the army and causing damage to the Rohingya people. The High Commissioner forHuman Rights in the United Nations carried out interviews with the fled people of Rohingya andconcluded that abuses are happening due to the crisis in the human rights and humanity. Thecurrent crisis began in August 2017 after attacks of ARSA on 30 police officers (Khan et al.2016). There have been various cases abut raping, shooting, sexual assault and burning of thepeople in this crisis. The human rights of the people has been continuously violated in theRohingya region. There has been a controversial report by the Myanmar government regardingthe Rohingya crisis by disallowing the United Nation to conducts an investigation (Hoffstaedter2017). In July 2017 report, the documented file reported that 87,000 Rohingya who had fledaway in Bangladesh are facing several humanitarian challenges in living (Murray 2016). Thesechallenges includes inability to get shelter, food and gender-biased. The United nation has beenaffected by this crisis in Rohingya. The UN has been allowed to interfere in this matter forinvestigating it. The Government has announced several plans for the refugees to build morethan 14,000 shelters over 2000 acres of land. There has been serious challenges in theimplementing of the plans into practice (Ahsan Ullah 2016). The civilians were not ready tounderstand the situation in the state and were out of control of the militants. The US governmenthas provided $32 million in humanitarian aid. This have helped in maintaining the financialcrisis among the refugees. While the UN and Red Cross have expanded guide to the Bangladesh
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