ROHINGNYA
The
COVID-19 Refugees
figures, including Desmond Tutu,
a famous South African antiapartheid
activist.
Since then, the Rohingyas
have been suffering for more than
50 years by this transnational
criminal syndicate trafficking
which is against all rights in
humanity. According to Human
Rights Experts, due to violence
and involuntary prosecution, the
Rohingnyas fled from Myanmar as
well as Bagladesh nationals trying
to reach others near countries
such as Thailand, Indonesia and
Malaysia.
COVID-19 Refugees
According to the United
Nations of High Commissioner for
Refugee (UNCHR), In 2012 until
2015, there were approximately
170,000 people who fled to
Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
by sea during the three-year
period. The following violence in
Myanmar’ws Rakhine state left
more than 100,000 Rohingyas
internally displaced and confined
into the concentration camps.
The Rohingyan population
were the earliest Muslim
settlements in the Arakan
region which began in
the 7th-century. According to Syed
Islam, This is due to the Arab
traders back then who were started
began converting the local Buddhist
population to Islam by about 788 CE.
The Arakan region is now known as
the Rakhine state which is situated in
the northern part of Myanmar. This is
basically the place where the conflict
had started between the Rohingnya
Muslims and Rakhine Buddhist.
How the Conflict Arise ?
The conflict arises mainly from
the religious and social differences
between the Rakhine Buddhists and
the Rohingya Muslims. During the
World War 2, Rohingya Muslims,
were allied with the British and
promised a Muslim state in return,
so they fought against local Rakhine
Buddhists, who were allied with the
Japanese.
After independence in 1948, the
newly formed union government of
the predominantly Buddhist country
denied citizenship to the Rohingyas,
subjecting them to extensive
discrimination in the country.
This has been widely compared to
apartheid by many international
academics, analysts, and political
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