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"The successive waves of violence and aggression involving Muslims
and Buddhists in Rakhine state of Myanmar1 in 2012 and 2013
attracted widespread international attention. The communal violence
resulted in the death of more than 200 people and the displacement
of over 130,000, mostly Muslims, as well as the destruction of
housing properties. It highlighted ethno-religious tensions, harsh social
problems and long-standing resentment. It also demonstrated, over the
last two years, the risks inherent in the political transformation of
the country, releasing tensions that had been repressed for decades
1 The word “Rakhine”, a spelling adopted after 1991, is an ethnonym and can be used
as an adjective. Rakhine state is the official name of the state in western Myanmar
that is still known in most history books as Arakan. The people of the state are
the Rakhine or Arakanese, and they refer to their country as “Rakhine-pray”. For
reasons of convenience, as this article mostly deals with history, the name “Arakan”
will be used to refer to the former kingdom whose territory extended, at times, far
beyond the borders of the current administrative division, to the colonial province,
and to the current Rakhine state. UN organizations and international non-government
organizations that deal with the situation of the Muslim Rohingyas have established
the acronym NRS, that is, Northern Rakhine State, referring to the area where Muslims
form the majority population. The majority people of Myanmar will be referred to as
“Burmese”..."
Source/publisher:
"Academia.edu" (USA)
Date of Publication:
2015-07-27
Date of entry:
2019-10-28
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- Individual Documents
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Countries:
Myanmar
Administrative areas of Burma/Myanmar:
Rakhine State
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English
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