Abstract
Myanmar is an ethnically diverse country with 135 recognized ethnic groups among 140 groups under the 1982 Citizenship Law of Myanmar. Unfortunately, the Muslim predominant Rohingya ethnic minority group was not among the recognized groups. The violence against Rohingya mainly started from 1977 by operating “Operation Nagamin or King Dragon”, under the leadership of General Ne Win. A grave violation of human rights has taken place under this Operation, and about 300,000 Rohingya flew Myanmar and took shelter in Bangladesh. Therefore, Myanmar denied the citizenship of Rohingya by adopting 1982 Citizenship Law, since then they are ‘Stateless’. There are three types of Citizens (Burma Citizen, Associate Citizen, and Naturalized Citizen). On 21 February 1992, the Foreign Minister of Myanmar, U Ohn Gyaw, stated in the Foreign Ministry Press release, “Historically, there has never been a “Rohingya” race in Myanmar. Moreover, the persecution of the Rohingya people was routine work in Myanmar. The recent persecution in 2016 and in 2017 is crossover all previous atrocities. This year, Rohingya people faced grave violations of human rights and killed more than 1,000 Rohingya. After this latest persecution, around one million Rohingya people left the Rakhaine state of Myanmar and have taken shelter in different Camps in the Cox’s Bazar district of the neighboring country Bangladesh. This paper discusses the systematic violations against Rohingya Refugees. This paper also analyzes a possible solution to this never-ending problem.
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Rohingya, Refugee, Crisis, Solution, Myanmar, Bangladesh
