{"id":104000,"date":"2018-01-01T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=104000"},"modified":"2017-12-25T17:00:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T17:00:46","slug":"the-denied-oppression-of-myanmars-rohingya-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/01\/the-denied-oppression-of-myanmars-rohingya-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The Denied Oppression of Myanmar\u2019s Rohingya People"},"content":{"rendered":"

An explosion of violence has driven hundreds of thousands of Rohingya out of Myanmar. The continuing exodus is the culmination of decades of oppression and hostility that have stripped Rohingya of their rights, denied them an identity, and forced them from their homes. What comes next for one of the world\u2019s most persecuted minorities?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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25 Dec 2017 – <\/em>The official line is that Myanmar security forces have not committed abuses against the Rohingya. Yet, nearly one million Rohingya are now thronged together in ramshackle refugee camps and settlements in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

Since August 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have surged out of Myanmar. They\u2019ve brought with them stories of burning villages, rape, and executions at the hands of Myanmar\u2019s military and their ethnic Rakhine neighbours.<\/p>\n

Myanmar\u2019s military says it has committed no abuses \u2013 that its counter-insurgency operations were targeting a Rohingya militant group that staged attacks on security posts. Myanmar\u2019s political leaders have rejected charges of ethnic cleansing but blocked UN attempts to investigate. And the country as a whole has rallied around de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and, paradoxically, a military once widely despised during its own decades-long junta rule.<\/p>\n

But the origins of oppression and animosity against the Rohingya are deeply buried. The Rohingya are a Muslim group with roots that stretch back hundreds of years in western Myanmar, in what is now called Rakhine State, on the frontier with Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

Decades of policy stripped them of\u00a0citizenship<\/a>\u00a0and enforced an apartheid system where Rohingya were isolated<\/a>,\u00a0marginalised<\/a>, and, finally,\u00a0driven away<\/a>. It\u2019s a situation that sits well with many in Myanmar who consider the Rohingya to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

Now, rights groups say hundreds of Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine have been torched, razed, and emptied. Remaining Rohingya elsewhere in the state live in fear, cut off from society in isolated villages or\u00a0barricaded camps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Across the border in Bangladesh, once-temporary refugee camps now have the population of\u00a0a bustling city<\/a>, but little of the\u00a0basic infrastructure<\/a>. Hundreds of thousands more Rohingya are in Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and beyond; many Rohingya no longer have a home, but the diaspora stretches around the world.<\/p>\n

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Click on the links below to read each story:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Minzayar\/IRIN<\/p><\/div>\n

Bribes and bureaucracy: Myanmar\u2019s chaotic citizenship system<\/a><\/p>\n

The roots of today’s anti-Rohingya violence begin and end with a simple question: Who has the right to be a citizen of Myanmar?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Jared Ferrie\/IRIN<\/p><\/div>\n

The roots and risks of Myanmar\u2019s new Rohingya insurgency<\/a><\/p>\n

The view that Rohingya are recent settlers from Bangladesh is widely shared in Myanmar, but it\u2019s based on a false history. Even so, the differences between citizenship policies in Myanmar and Bangladesh are striking.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Verena H\u00f6lzl\/IRIN<\/p><\/div>\n

Rohingya refugees overwhelm aid groups in Bangladesh<\/a><\/p>\n

Streams of tired refugees, tents in mud-soaked fields, and a baby with a bullet wound: scenes from a swelling refugee camp at the breaking point.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Aur\u00e9lie Marrier d’Unienville\/IRIN<\/p><\/div>\n

Malnutrition stalks Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh<\/a><\/p>\n

A city-sized refugee camp emerges in a few short weeks, leaving aid workers scrambling to keep pace.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In Bangladesh refugee camps, the nascent Rohingya insurgency commands support and sows fear<\/a><\/p>\n

Even after fleeing Myanmar, Rohingya refugees find themselves caught between militants and the military.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Aung Naing Soe<\/p><\/div>\n

UN, aid groups debate Myanmar internment plan for Rohingya refugees<\/a><\/p>\n

Bangladesh wants to send Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar. That leaves aid groups with an urgent dilemma.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A disaster within a disaster: cyclone fears in fragile Rohingya camps<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

20 December 2017 – In monsoon season, the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh are an accident waiting to happen<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"<\/a>IRIN delivers unique, authoritative and independent reporting from the frontlines of crises to inspire and produce a more effective humanitarian response. After 19 years of award-winning humanitarian news and analysis, <\/em>IRIN, originally the “<\/em>Integrated Regional Information Networks“,\u00a0left the United Nations in January 2015\u00a0to relaunch as an independent, non-profit media venture. We have\u00a0been providing ground reporting on humanitarian crises in a way nearly no other institution does. Outside the UN, we are even better positioned to play this critical role, drawing on the expertise, networks and credibility we have developed, and combining them with increased reach, a more innovative approach and a sharper voice.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 irinnews.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An explosion of violence has driven hundreds of thousands of Rohingya out of Myanmar. The continuing exodus is the culmination of decades of oppression and hostility that have stripped Rohingya of their rights, denied them an identity, and forced them from their homes. What comes next for one of the world\u2019s most persecuted minorities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":104010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}