Tuhin Chakraborty
Sep 4, 2017

Rohingya Persecution and Flight of Bangladesh

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Edited: Sep 6, 2017

NPR recently reported that famous Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai has condemned the violence in Myanmar by Buddhists against the minority Rohingya muslims, many of whom have since fled to Bangladesh. In her statement, Ms. Yousafzai claims that the Myanmar government has a duty to provide citizenship to the Rohingya Muslims and that this may somehow reduce the violence. However, what is notable is that another Nobel Peace Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, has remained mostly silent on this issue. In doing this, she implies agreement that perhaps Muslims may not find the best home in Myanmar. While I believe that this violence is unethical, I also believe that the climate in Myanmar has worsened to the point where perhaps the Rohingya are better off in a Muslim country. I disagree with Ms. Yousafzai, how will citizenship help the hated Rohingya succeed in Myanmar? If anything, citizenship will only make the Buddhists more furious at the Rohingya due to their perceived Islamization of Myanmar.

 

 

 

source: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/04/548436637/malala-yousafzai-criticizes-aung-san-suu-kyi-over-violence-on-myanmars-rohingya

 

 

 

 

Rachna Shah
Sep 9, 2017

Which country do you believe that the Rohingya minority should be accepted into?

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Aung Myo Htun ( Kelly)
Nov 4, 2017

 

After attacks between ASRA Muslim extremist group and the Myanmar military, millions of Rohingya Muslims have been fleeing to Bangladesh. Yet before we discuss this issue, we first need to know who the Rohingya people are and where they came from. Some experts say that the Rohingya Muslims came into the Rakhine State of Myanmar from the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh. A variety of reasons have been pondered - were they emigrated by the British colonial government? The military government, which had attempted a coup? Nonetheless, the actual problem must be faced - they were forced to flee.

European countries have accused Myanmar of violating human rights in our treatment of Rohingya Muslims. However, our de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Prize laureate, has strongly stated that no kind of ethnic cleansing has ever happened in Rakhine state. All of Myanmar’s citizens, including Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, and Christians stand with our leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

I have two questions for you. 1) Is this situation ethnic cleansings or threats from extremists, such as in India-Kashmir and Indonesia? 2) Who are the ASRA extremist groups?

If you are interested in this crisis, please share with us your experiences or opinions .

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