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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..."
Source/publisher:
Academia Letters
Date of Publication:
2022-01-00
Date of entry:
2022-02-28
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Myanmar
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