The Myanmar genocide History Research Paper Essay

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Myanmar Genocide
Terrorism is one of the most significant and challenging situations, which can lead to loss of lives, disrupt peace and affect the nation on political, social and economic spheres. Unless the security issue is addressed in a serious way, the issue of terrorism remains to be a major challenge in most countries. The issue of terrorism should not only be addressed to the Myanmar community alone, but to the world at large because it can affect any country, otherwise it will remain a global challenge and not for any reason should it be condoned. The Rohingya people blamed the government for rape, mass killings, and destruction of property, a rejection of its people as well as denying them citizenship, in other words, it disregarded their welfare. The safety, security and fair treatment of all nations should be a great area of concern for any nation, which aims to prosper. The government should also treat all the people within its jurisdiction equally and allow each citizen to enjoy their democratic right. In light of this, the plight of thousands of Rohingya people is marked as one of the world’s largest refugee crisis. Following the crisis, most Rohingya people were evicted from Myanmar by the Myanmar military since the military argued that they did not belong to the country. It is for this reason that this essay seeks to address the Myanmar issue at length.
The Rohingya are a minority tribe living in Myanmar, which was then known as Burma (Parnini, 295). The government did not recognize the Rohingya people and, therefore, denied them citizenship. It is estimated that the majority of the Rohingya people are stateless Muslims in an overpoweringly Buddhist state that has been so unfriendly to their presence. Myanmar’s discriminatory citizenship law strongly stated that only the people who could trace their citizenship in the country by 1923 qualified to be the citizens of the country or those belonging to Karen, Kayah, Mon, Chin, Shan, and Rakhine. The other 135 ethnic groups which were later discovered were not regarded as part of the Rohingya, something which led to its migration.
The eviction of Rohingya people from Myanmar began in 1950’s when the Rohingya started supporting the British against the Japanese without the knowledge that the Japanese were highly supported by the larger part of the Buddhi population in the area (Parnini, 297). Indeed, just after attainment of independence, the Rohingya Muslims separated to form their Muslim nation, something which catalyzed the bitterness between the rest of Myanmar and Rohingya. At the beginning of 2012, a major effort to evict the Rohingya ethnic Muslims began. The raping and killing of the Buddhist woman triggered the conflict between Buddhists and the Rohingya. The “Human Rights Watch” released pictures of the Rohingya villages burning. This made many people shift to Bangladesh to have the security of the UN in Rakhine. Nine policemen were shot and killed by an armed group in Rakhine. Since then, there have been many cases of human rights violations and injustices by the army of Myanmar against the Rohingya.
The beginning of August 2017 marked the mass evacuation of Rohingyas after several Rohingya militants attacked the police and left twelve of them dead. This action annoyed the military team, and they decided to begin what they called “clearance operations” to evict fighters whom they said could be hiding somewhere in the villages. As a result, most of the Rohingya people left in fear of the military crackdown, burning of villages and attacks. This was a significant move which, according to the UN saw the migration of about 300,000 Rohingya Muslims moving to Bangladesh to escape and look for more secure areas to settle.
Historically, Rohingya have been living in Rakhine. After the British colonized Burma, there was significant migration from Bangladesh and India to Myanmar by the laborers. The separation of India and Pakistan in 1971 led to the formation of Bangladesh. The Human Rights Watch considered the migration as an internal one since the British ruled Myanmar as a province, something which was negatively viewed by the native population. After Myanmar attained independence in 1948, the government argued that their migration was illegal and the Rohingya people were denied citizenship. This meant that they could not enjoy some of the state’s privileges and was negatively treated vis-à-vis the natives of that country.
Additionally, the Rohingya was withdrawn from being among members of the Citizenship Act and a new law, which was introduced, failed to include them as one of the 135 ethnic groups in the country (Panini, 275). To worsen the situation, the introduced three citizenship requirements with naturalization at the basic level and which required family proof of living in Myanmar before 1948. Since Rohingya had already been denied citizenship, they lacked these documents, something which attracted their negative treatment and the Myanmar military team began inhuman acts against them such as brutal destruction of Rohingya villages and burning of property, which forced the Rohingya people to flee Myanmar and they were forced to migrate to Buddhist villages illegally.
On May 2015, several graves were found near a mountain in a remote area in Thailand in a place, then named “waiting for the area” where illegal migrants were first kept before smuggling them to into Malaysia. According to Thai news report, a Bangladeshi migrant was treated in hospital after having been found in the grave. Also, the Myanmar navy brought to rescue 208 more migrants at sea. As a result of the incident, nationalist protests began urging the international community not avoid blaming Myanmar for causing the Rohingya crisis. On 24th May 2015, the police from Malaysia found out 139 graves in a series of camps which had been abandoned and, which human traffickers abandoned at the Thailand border and where Rohingya Muslims who were leaving Burma were usually held. Rakhine, which was the main ethnic group in the region, rejected the name “Rohingya.” The group was governed by specific laws which restricted them on issues of family planning, marriage, education, employment, freedom of movement and religious choice. Also, poverty is an underlying factor among the Myanmar people, with over 50% of the residents living below the poverty line. The differences between the Rohingya and other religious affiliations led to conflict. For instance, the Rohingya got into a conflict with the Buddhist nationalists after the rape and killing of the Buddhist woman. The Buddhists reacted violently by burning and destroying the Rohingya villages, something which the international community intervened and called “campaign of ethnic cleansing.”
Once the Rohingyas were evacuated from their country, India failed to allow the refugees to enter their country for security reasons. India argued that the idea was a threat to national security. However, it dawned later than about 40,000 Rohingyas had already settled in West Bengal, Assam, and Jammu (Rahman, 235). The news of Rohingya settling in Jammu annoyed the general public because they felt that it might change the population of most Hindus, something which would later bring violence and disrupt the peace among the people. The presence of the Rohingya Muslim in Jammu was, therefore, considered a great security issue for India. A few months later, the state minister in India announced that Rohingya refugees had entered the country contrary to the law and they were to be deported back to their country. However, he did not state specifically the methods to be used in deporting them as well as when they were to be deported. The United Nations reacted with several criticisms and termed India as the country with the highest population of refugees worldwide; therefore, India did not require any lectures regarding refugee safety and management. The Indian ministry of external affairs on September 2017, requested the Bangladeshi government through an official response to urging the Myanmar government to bring the conflict to an end and restore normalcy despite the refugee ongoing refugee crisis.
The Rohingya Muslims have also filed a case to challenge the Indian government’s decision to deport them back. The government of India has resolved to solve the issue to avoid the conflict from going beyond control since the Rohingya refugee crisis has become a major area of concern and a threat to both India and Bangladeshi. The refugees accuse Myanmar’s security forces of mass killings, rape and burning of the villages. Additionally, th...