Discrimination Of Ethnic Rohingya

Ethnic Rohingya in Myanmar there for years . However , they continue to be one group of people in the world who suffer from discrimination in their own country .

Not recognize his nationality and is regarded as the excluded , often systematically Rohingya scapegoats by the former military junta ruling Myanmar . Discrimination that persists despite Myanmar has been ruled by a military junta and continue the process of reform .

There Myanmar Rohingya Muslims are a minority in the middle of the citizens of Myanmar are Buddhist majority . Rohingya live in northern Rakhine region . So reported the Associated Press , Sunday ( 11/08/2013 ) .

Demonstration of saving Rohingya

In the early 1900s , the ethnic Rohingya is not unlike other citizens of Myanmar . They are integrated with other community kelompol , economic activities , public and community events in general . They really blend .


But the situation changed when the military staged a coup in 1961 . General Ne Win start to change the agenda of Myanmar into a socialist state . In 1978 , a government program called Operation Naga Min , yag apply strict immigration rules .

The identity card must be owned by citizens , showing the status of ethnic and trigger cruel against illegal immigrants . It is used by the government to control the Myanmar junta and the Muslim Rohingya use as a scapegoat .

Rohingya given only the lowest civilian status , " foreign immigrants " , despite the fact the men would have become part of the people of Myanmar more than a millennium .

Basically Rohingya reject the junta 's program , but when the Naga Min Operation took root , the akhirya lead to attacks , arrests and persecution suffered by Muslims Myanmar . All the torture carried out by the military in Myanmar and Rakhine residents .


Approximately 250 thousand ethnic Rohingya finally decided to go to Bangladesh , while the rest remained memutusak . There are those who formed guerrilla groups against acts of violence .

Under international pressure , Myanmar agreed to accept the return of Muslims in repratriasi agreement with Bangladesh . But three years later , the Government of Myanmar Citizenship Law passed in 1982 . The law was again rejected the Rohingya citizenship .

Approximately 800,000 Muslims in Rakhine , a citizen who does not have citizenship . It is the beginning of a long- ranging discrimination faced by the Rohingya to 40 years into the future .