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Summary Rohingya Genocide
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Summary of 4 pages for the course ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES at JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA (Rohingya Genocide)
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ICJ’s latest judgment on Rohingya GenocideJudges at the United Nations’ highest court have dismissed preliminary objections
by Myanmar to a case alleging for genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority.
Who are the Rohingyas?
Rohingya Muslims comprise one million out of the 53 million people that
live in Myanmar, forming the world’s largest stateless population in a single
country.
Universally reviled by the country’s Buddhist majority, they have been
oppressed by the government since the late 1970s when the government
launched a campaign to identify ‘illegal immigrants’.
Serious abuses were committed, forcing as many as 250,000 Rohingya
refugees to flee to Bangladesh.
The 1982 Citizenship Law in former Burma made the Rohingyas stateless
people.
They have often been called the most persecuted minority in the world.
The 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims squeezed precariously into the northwest
state of Rakhine, in mainly Buddhist Burma, bordering majority Muslim
Bangladesh, are stateless and unwanted.
Why are they persecuted by Myanmar?
To qualify for citizenship, Rohingya applicants had to renounce their
identity And accept being labelled as ‘Bengalis’ on all official documents.
They also had to prove that they could trace the presence of their family in
Rakhine back three generations, something which is extremely difficult as
many Rohingya lack documents or had lost them in 2012.
Why did the Rohingya Crisis happen?
Since World War II they have been treated increasingly by Burmese
authorities as illegal, interloping Bengalis, facing apartheid-like conditions
that deny them free movement or state education.
The army “clearing operations” sparked the mass exodus of Rohingyas in
both October 2016.
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