The Myanmar Rohingya Issue History Assignment

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The Myanmar Rohingya issue
The Rohingya refugee crisis occurred in 2015. It refers to the migration of people from Myanmar in large numbers. Most of the people moved to South East Asian countries including Malaysia, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Indonesia. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says that most people lost their lives during the migration. According to the current research, the Myanmar government is in its preparation to conduct a massive genocide against Rohingya, something they have called the international community to address the situation as it is. However, there are some refugees who are not Rohingya. Most of the Bangladeshis who are trying to escape poverty are amidst the migrants. In light of this, therefore, this essay paper puts into focus the Rohingya issue at length, the time it happened, what happened, why and how it happened until its end and the justice about it with regard to Jasper’s concept.
The Rohingya people are a group of Muslim people residing at the west of Rakhine. They belong to the Sunni religion and are considered as stateless entities because the Myanmar government no longer recognizes them as one of the ethnic groups in the country. The government of Myanmar, therefore, does not support them legally because they term the Rohingya as Refugees from Bangladesh, something, which makes them face a lot of hostility. They also lack humanitarian assistance from other countries. Fundamentally, they are subjected to the worst inhuman conditions, being neglected by the state, which should offer them protection as well as being mistreated to conditions beyond humanity.
Historians argue that Rohingya settled in Rakhine since time immemorial during the era when British colonized the Myanmar in 1824 to 1948. Shortly after the colonization, the partition of Pakistan and India in 1947 led to the formation of Bangladesh. In the view of Human Rights Watch (HRW), THE British ruled Myanmar as a province of India, something which the native population viewed negatively. After its independence in 1948, the government illegalized the migration. The Rohingya population was denied several rights and freedoms such as their citizenship and exclusion from citizenship in the union. Additionally, a city law passed in 1982 failed to include Rohingya as one of the 135 ethnic groups in the country. Also, the law acknowledged three aspects of citizenship, something wh...