Rohingya Issue Its Impact | Assignment 1

RUNNING HEAD: ROHINGYA CRISIS AND IMPACT
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Table of Contents
Executive summary:...................................................................................................................2
The empirical problem of the Rohingya refugee issue:.............................................................2
Analysis of the Rohingya issue:.................................................................................................5
Civilians are paying the price most of the complex issue:.....................................................5
Rohingya issue is related to religion:.....................................................................................6
Utilization of natural resources:.............................................................................................6
Impact on Bangladesh:...........................................................................................................7
No other international actors are there to solve this political issue:......................................8
Policy recommendations:...........................................................................................................9
Recommendation 1:...............................................................................................................9
Recommendation 2:.............................................................................................................10
Conclusion:..............................................................................................................................11
References:...............................................................................................................................12

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Executive summary:
The 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis indicates to forced displacement of people from
Myanmar. The forced displacement of Rohingya people to most Southeast Asian countries
like Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, and Thailand from Myanmar. Before starting this issue, the
history of Rohingya should be understood. These Rohingya people are the Muslim minority
group from the western part of the state Rakhine, Myanmar. The government of independent
Myanmar declared them as illegal. The citizenship of these Rohingya people was denied.
This paper is going to analyse the Rohingya crisis issue thoroughly.
The empirical problem of the Rohingya refugee issue:
Myanmar is the state where Buddhist is the majority population. These Rohingya
people are from Rakhine state, and maximum numbers of them are Muslim (Parnini, 2013).
In 1784, the Burmese empire conquered the independent coastal area, Arakan state. In the
year 1824, the British army conquered Burma. Burma was ruled by the British, until the
independence of Burma in 1984. As migrant labour, Muslims from Bengal entered Burma.
These Muslim labours lived in this area of Burma or Myanmar for centuries (Mahmood et al.,
2017). These Rohingya people were promised by the British to have an autonomous state for
their help in the Second World War. Britain did not fulfil the promise. The government of
Myanmar sees them as an invasion of unwelcomed Muslim labours. The government of
Myanmar tried to cast out these Rohingya people. To exclude these Rohingya people from
the constitution, the Myanmar government passed a citizenship law, which rejected the
Rohingya people citizenship in 1984. These Rohingya people lost their rights, as they lost
their citizenship. Except for Rohingya, 135 distinct ethnic groups were recognised by the
government of Myanmar.

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In 1962, Myanmar turned in to a military state, and these Rohingya people became the
target of the government of Myanmar. Government of Myanmar used “Operation King
Dragon” to target these people. The army of Myanmar was accused of rape, human rights
violation, mass arrests, and ruin of house and villages. Then Rohingya people started
migrating to nearby southeast countries in a large number. “Operation Clean and Beautiful
Nation” was used to target these Rohingya people and because of this massive number of
Rohingya people tried to migrate to nearby counties like Bangladesh, Thailand, and India
(Freeman, 2017).
Myanmar, the then Burma has consistently persecuted these Rohingya people. Now
this persecution has added violence. Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), which is an
armed rebel group, invaded on military and border police of Myanmar. ARSA killed more
than 25 security personal of the Myanmar army. Ata Ullah, the leader of this group, was a
Rohingya but Pakistani born and Saudi raised militants. Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army
wanted an autonomous state for these Rohingya people (Kipgen, 2013). However, the
government of Myanmar listed this group as a terrorist group. After this attack by ARSA, the
military army of Myanmar started an enormous clearance operation. The army of Myanmar
was accused of rape, massacres, murder, land mines, destruction of the whole village, mass
arrest. This Rohingya issue created a negative impact on neighbouring countries like
Bangladesh, India, Thailand, and Malaysia. These neighbouring countries are facing a
refugee problem.
Since August 2017, near about 720000 Rohingya Refugees were victimised by the
state-sponsored violence. These massive Rohingya people joined the existing refugee group
of 213000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Most of these refugees are women and children.
Now refugee settlement of the Kutupalong has become the largest refugee camp of this type
in this world (Unrefugees.org, 2019). For at least three decades, Bangladesh, a neighbouring