Ongoing Persecution of the Rohingya: A History of Periodic Ethnic Cleansings and Genocides
In their own country, Myanmar, ethnic minority Rohingya Muslimshave suffered persecution and systematic killings which amount to periodicethnic cleansings and genocides. They are often dehumanised and frequentlysubjected to state-sponsored abuses and institutionalised discrimination. Thisarticle dis...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
2020
|
| In: |
Intellectual discourse
Year: 2020, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 675-696 |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | In their own country, Myanmar, ethnic minority Rohingya Muslimshave suffered persecution and systematic killings which amount to periodicethnic cleansings and genocides. They are often dehumanised and frequentlysubjected to state-sponsored abuses and institutionalised discrimination. Thisarticle discusses the origins of the Rohingya in what was the kingdom ofArakan (now renamed Rakhine state) and how Buddhist-Muslim tensions havemounted. It argues that government authorities and Buddhist monkhood inMyanmar as a whole are involved in organised violence against the Rohingya.They incite racial hatred that contributes to the expulsion of the Rohingyacommunity from their country. The exclusionary policies of Myanmar’smilitary government have rendered this ethnic minority stateless and exilicin their own and neighbouring countries. They have suffered systematicoppression, discrimination, civic exclusion, enslavement, mob killing, torture,rape and sexual violence, forced labour, state harassment and so on. In the lightof this observation, this article attempts to analyse the plight of the Rohingyain Myanmar which dates back two centuries but has received sufficient mediaattention only recently. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2289-5639 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Intellectual discourse
|