{"id":172064,"date":"2020-11-09T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=172064"},"modified":"2020-11-04T07:12:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T07:12:03","slug":"rohingya-refugees-are-being-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/11\/rohingya-refugees-are-being-ignored\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohingya Refugees Are Being Ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>The world must better support the Rohingya, and address the politics of why they have sought refuge in the first place.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_134511\" style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rohingyas_bangladesh-burma-myanmar.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134511\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rohingyas_bangladesh-burma-myanmar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rohingyas_bangladesh-burma-myanmar.jpg 641w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rohingyas_bangladesh-burma-myanmar-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-134511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Reuters\/File<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>2 Nov 2020 &#8211; <\/em>Solidarity around the world for people who are victims of political or human rights abuses should not know any boundaries. And those of us that spoke up for Aung San Suu Kyi when she was under house arrest \u2013 those of us who marched and called for her release \u2013 will also speak up for the Rohingya people.<\/p>\n<p>There are approximately one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh who have been driven out of their homes in Rakhine state in Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>With the world\u2019s attention focused on so much of what is happening in the Middle East, with refugees trying to enter Europe, or refugees in Europe not getting the support they should, the Rohingya refugees are being ignored, and the causes of them seeking a place of safety are also being ignored. Those are the crucial issues that have to be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>We need to give more economic support to the Rohingya refugees in the camps. But we also have to turn our attention to the politics of why they have sought refuge in the first place. And that is the systematic abuse of their rights, abuse of their language and abuse of their faith in Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>The international community has to address why people are effectively being driven out of their own country by a process which looks very much like ethnic cleansing in that part of Myanmar. It has to be done and it has to be said, because if it isn\u2019t, then what is the future?<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-on__heading\"><em>Keep Reading:<\/em><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2020\/8\/25\/the-world-cannot-forget-the-rohingya\/\" class=\"more-on__link\" >The world cannot forget the Rohingya<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/10\/22\/uk-gives-63m-for-rohingya-refugees-ahead-of-un-donor-meeting\" class=\"more-on__link\" >Call to recognise genocide ahead of UN Rohingya donor meeting<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/10\/8\/rohingya-report\" class=\"more-on__link\" >Rohingya living in \u2018open prison\u2019 in Myanmar: Human Rights Watch<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/jeremy-corbyn-e1604471974521.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-172066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/jeremy-corbyn-e1604471974521.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/jeremy-corbyn\/\" >Jeremy Corbyn<\/a> is a member of the UK Parliament. He is former leader of the UK Labour Party and a human rights advocate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2020\/11\/2\/rohingya-refugees-are-being-ignored\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Nov 2020 &#8211; Those of us that spoke up for Aung San Suu Kyi when she was under house arrest will also speak up for the Rohingya people. There are approximately one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh who have been driven out of their homes in Myanmar. The world must better support the Rohingya, and address the politics of why they have sought refuge in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":172066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[240,1692,1688,1198,526,101,100,1199,1782,865,260,487,1644,651,1417,103,107,527,985,99,124,1948],"class_list":["post-172064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-updates-on-myanmar-rohingya-genocide","tag-asia","tag-aung-san-suu-kyi","tag-bangladesh","tag-buddhism","tag-burma-myanmar","tag-cultural-violence","tag-direct-violence","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-free-rohingya-coalition","tag-genocide","tag-history","tag-human-rights","tag-international-court-of-justice-icj","tag-justice","tag-maung-zarni","tag-racism","tag-religion","tag-rohingya","tag-social-justice","tag-structural-violence","tag-united-nations","tag-yanghee-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172064","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=172064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}