Rohoingya, ধারাবাহিক প্রবন্ধ
They’re among the most persecuted people in the world, according to human rights organizations. But you probably haven’t heard much about the.
Myanmar’s Rohoingya –
  • They’re stateless, 
  • They’re displaced, 
  • Facing a “genocide’, 
  • Gang rapes, 
  • Killings. 
Mass Gang rapes, killings. Including of babies and young children.
Myanmar’s Muslim ethnic minority persecution for decades. And that persecution has only gotten worse since Myanmar’s transition from a junta to democracy.
“Who the Rohoingya are? And how they became among the most persecuted people in the World?”
The Rohoingya are a Muslim minority the Buddhist – Majority Country of Myanmar. The country previously known as Burma. Until a military Junta changed the name in 1989.
They’re one of more than a hundred ethnic groups in the country, based in the westerm state of Rkahine.
The story of their 1.1 million people begins with Myanmar’s independence from British Colonial Rule in 1948. Now, the British colonial period in present day Myanmar was pretty brutal.
From 1824 to 1885 there were three Anglo-Burmese wars.
Throughout these wars the British would take more and more land from the Burmese Kingdom. Eventually the British took all of it and made it into aprouinee of their biggest colony, INDIA.
Now, the British directly ruled over Burma and they did it by getting rid of two vital institutions in Burmese Society. The monarch and the marriage between religions and the state.
And this was a big deal. The separation of religion and state had a huge impact on Buddhist monks. Who relied on the monarchy for support.
That and the disrespect shown by the British towards Burmese culture and Buddhist tradition pushed monks to be at the forefront of the movement for independence that had begun to take shape by the early 1900s.
And the man responsible for actually creating the Burmese independence movement was “Major General Aung San”
He, by the way, is the father of present-day Myanmar’s de facto civilian leader; Aung San Suo Kyi. Who’s, a former political prisoner and Nobel peace Prize winner.
Remember her Name, because she’s pretty relevant to the story of the Rohoingya, as I’ll discuss in a bit.
Now, after independence in 1948, the Union of Burma, as it was called, had a democratic government. But a military cap in 1962 would bring over a decade of democracy to an end.
“Military coup leader: Ne Win”
The military overthrew the democratically elected government and instituted Junta rule that would last until 2011.
Now, where do the Rohoingya fit into all of this?