Myanmar’s Long-term Strategy of Displacing Rohingya: Bangladesh, Regional and International Responses

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"Myanmar government’s discriminatory policies with the Rohingya ethnic group since the late 1970s have forcefully compelled a great number of Muslim Rohingya to escape their homes in the predominantly Buddhist country. Most of them have crossed by land into Bangladesh, while others took the sea route to reach Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. The violence of Rohingya displacement chronologically occurred after Burma had got independence from the British, and finally, in 2017, the brutality of Myanmar Junta aroused extremely with reported rape, murder, and burning that generated a massive migration of Rohingya towards Bangladesh. There are compelling reasons for studying the refugee policy of Bangladesh. First, the magnitude of Rohingya influx in 2017 drew unprecedented global attention when an estimated 750,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar’s Rakhine state entered Bangladesh. (Ashraf, 2021) The Assignment has been designed with short answers to the following questions: a) Did the military junta in Myanmar make a long-term plan to forcefully displace hundreds and thousands of Rohingya’s painful journey to Bangladesh since August 2017? b) How did they (military junta of Myanmar) execute their plan? c) Did the Bangladeshi authorities fail to detect Myanmar’s plan? d) What could have been done to prevent the 2017 Rohingya influx? The assignment also contains four sections: the first section depicts an introduction including four questions on the Rohingya crisis, the second section draws a short identity of Rohingya and Myanmar, the third section explains the mainstream covering the real and logical answers to the questions of section one and the final section depicts a brief conclusion. Myanmar and Rohingya Myanmar is the largest Buddhist-dominated country at the meeting point of South and Southeast Asia. After his independence from the British on January 4, 1948, Aung San, the general of his national army took charge of the country’s government. During the time of General Ne Win, it became a one-party socialist state until 1988. The military junta was melted down authoritarian with a parliamentary election in 2010 and a nominally civilian government was formed. The Rohingya are an ethnic Muslim minority who practice Sunni Islam in Rakhine State in Myanmar. They differ religiously, ethnically, and linguistically from dominant Buddhists. Rohingyas have lived in Myanmar for centuries and they are the descendants of Muslim Arabs, Moors, Persians, Turks, Mughals, and Bengalis who came mostly as traders, warriors, and saints through overland and sea routes (Kipgen, 2014). They have a glorious past that informs us about Muslim Sultanate. The Rohingya trace their origins in the region to the fifteenth century, when thousands of Muslims came to the former Arakan Kingdom. (Eleanor Albert, 2020). But the local people and the government of Myanmar says that the Rohingya are gradual migrant from Bangladesh. They did never confess them as the ethnic of Myanmar..."

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Md. Abdul Qader

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Academia Letters

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2022-01-00

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2022-02-28

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Myanmar

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English

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