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Report on Rohingya Issues in Myanmar

   

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ROHINGYA ISSUES IN MYANMAR 2IntroductionAljazeera reported that it had been a month of misery for the Myanmar community livingin Rohingya. For the past one month, hundreds of the Myanmar have crossed the border to enterBangladesh since Rohingya crisis started in Myanmar’s Rakhine state[ CITATION AlJ17 \l 1033 ].The cause of the crisis is attributed to the Rohingya fighters’ raids that prompted the armycrackdown. The crisis has created the international attention, and global organizations such asUnited Nations have condemned the army attack and destruction of Rohingya communityproperty. On the other hand, Bangladesh has experienced influx of Rohingya refugees with themajority of them being children and women. The international community led by the UnitedNations Human Rights Agency has termed the Burma' Rohingya Crisis as ethnic cleansing(Lumpur, 2017). Human rights activists have accused Burma leader for not being able to protectRohingya community that has been stateless for over three decades. As much as the international community and the west continue condemn how theleadership of Burma is dealing with Myanmar issue (Calamur, 2017) says that there aremisunderstandings on the cause of Rohingya crisis. The tensions between the Buddhists andBengali-speaking Muslims in Rakhine state have been existence for decades, though manypeople says it has been place for centuries. However, the most identifiable root can be traced in1982. This was the period when Burma’s junta legislated a law that identified 135 communitiesbut excluded Rohingya community. The move came as an astonishment to Rohingya peoplebecause they had lived and enjoyed equal rights when Burma obtained independence in 1948.This was the beginning of the Rohingya ethnic group cleansing since the neighboringcommunities felt that Rohingya people did not deserve equal rights as other Burma’s citizens. The years to come saw the Rohingya community being persecuted and victims ofviolence. The worst violence occurred in 2012 that was perpetrated on religious grounds. As aresult over 140,000 Rohingyans become internally displaced (Calamur, 2017). The mountinginternational pressure resulted in Burmese government agreeing to offer the Rohingyans reducedform of citizenship but with the condition that they had to be registered as Bengali. However,being agitated from the years of oppression and mistreatment, Rohingyans people denied theoffer. The rejection of the offer has continued to render Rohingya community as stateless withother communities oppressing and initiating threats against them. It is out of this oppression

ROHINGYA ISSUES IN MYANMAR 3where Rohingya formed a group of fighters with the aim of protecting their community. TheBurmese terms the group as terrorist and hence starting the measures of cracking down the wholecommunity. The sate-orchestrated humanitarian catastrophe can be termed as a crime againsthumanity. Even before the start of the army crackdown, their lives had become so desperate inMyanmar to the point where they resulted using risky human trafficking networks. For example,in 2015 many of the Myanmar community died out of starvation and others drowned as theytried to cross-border to the neighboring countries to seek refuge. For a long time Rohingya haveendured tenuous and bare life. According to the World Food Programme report, the Myanmarcommunity has recorded the highest level of extreme food insecurity. The World FoodProgramme report show that over 80,500 children under five years in the community suffer fromacute malnutrition. The large part of the Rohingya suffering and lack of essential resources islargely tied to the dehumanizing acts that they have been exposed to them since 1982. Society thrives in the presence of peace where all members are guaranteed their rights.Besides, the economic growth and development of a region will be attained if all members of aretreated fairly and equally[CITATION Ric151 \p 12 \l 1033 ]. However, this not the way to go inMyanmar. The Rohingya have been isolated from the society, and they are treated as the thirdrate citizens yet sincerely speaking the form part of the Burma ethnic groups. For example,before the start of the evictions by the Burmese government, Rohingya had been denied theirlivelihood opportunities and had been confined in villages an act that can be referred ascontaining them in open-air prisons. Besides, the Rohingya had been exposed to the violenceintimidation that is perpetuated through disenfranchisement[ CITATION Moh17 \l 1033 ]. TheRohingya people suffer from starvation, malnutrition, destitution and severe mental and physicalillness resulting from restrictions from education, childbirth, marriage, movement and the ever-existing threat of extortion and violence. The oppression and the mistreatment directed towardsthe Rohingya equal to indirect mass killing.The treatment of the Rohingya can be attributed to the modern genocide. Ideally, moderngenocide entails long-term social engineering process[CITATION Gre15 \p 21 \l 1033 ]. It usuallybegins with mass murder, isolation and dehumanization, a systemic process of weakening thetarget ethnic community. The acts were well calculated by the Burmese government in 1982

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