The Rohingya Refugee crisis is a
large question on the humanity; it’s a major consequence of the Muslim invasion
in the Asian countries. Rohingyas were settled in the Rakhine State of Myanmar
but they were not considered as the ethnic groups of Myanmar and they were also
not considered in the census. They are considered as an illegal immigrants from
neighbouring Bangladesh. Myanmar's government has stopped recognizing the term
"Rohingya" and prefers to refer to the community as
"Bengalis". Before the 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis and the military
crackdown in 2016 and 2017, the Rohingya population in Myanmar was around 1.0
to 1.3 million, chiefly in the northern Rakhine townships, which were 80–98%
Rohingya. Since 2015, over 900,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to southeastern
Bangladesh alone and more to other surrounding countries, and major Muslim nations.
More than 100,000 Rohingyas in Myanmar
are confined in camps for internally displaced persons. Shortly before a
Rohingya rebel attack that killed 12 security forces, August 25, 2017, the
Myanmar military had launched "clearance operations" against the
Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state that left over 3,000 dead, many more injured,
tortured or raped, villages burned. It is said that Rohingya is the major
persecuted community in the world. Now Canada is seeking to take the Rohingya
in their Refugee camp but Bangladesh Governement is not ready to give them the
exit Visa as they want all the Rohingya to move to Rakhine State, the state
from where they had repatriated.
One class of people should not rule
the other, it will definitely become the reason for bloodshed. This is what we
learned from our history but could not understand it and still history is being
repeated and the consequences are affecting the life of whole world.
Myanmar is a Buddhist majority
country and it has a state namely Rakhine State which has majority of Muslim
population. This muslim population started capturing all the businesses in the
state and the ethnic group realized that their survival is on toll. They
refused the Muslims which made the muslim population to vacant the Rakhine
State and somewhere in 1978, 1991 and 1992 they started repatriating to
Bangladesh. Bangladeshis never accepted them and now Government of Canada is
taking initiative to accept limited immigrants as they did for Iraqi
Yazidis.
Beatrice Fenelon, a spokeswoman for
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, said Canada's latest Rohingya
plan was similar to a 2017 initiative to resettle 1,200 Iraqi Yazidis -
particularly rape victims - targeted by Islamic State, or Daesh.
"As we did with the
resettlement of survivors of Daesh, our intent is not to resettle large
portions of these communities, but rather to focus on the small number of
people for whom resettlement is the best option," she said.
Before moving forward lets have a
look why the Rohingyas were displaced from the Rakhine State.
The 2012 Rakhine State riots were a
series of conflicts between Rohingya Muslims and ethnic Rakhines who are
majority in the Rakhine State. Before the riots, there were widespread and
strongly held fears circulating among Buddhist Rakhines (who were a large
majority) that they would soon become a minority in their ancestral state. The
riots finally came after weeks of sectarian disputes including the death of ten
Burmese Muslims by Rakhines and murder of a Rakhine by Rohingyas. From both
sides, whole villages were "decimated". According to the Burmese
authorities, the violence, between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya
Muslims, left 78 people dead, 87 injured, and up to 140,000 people have been
displaced. The government has responded by imposing curfews and by deploying
troops in the region. On 10 June 2012, a state of emergency was declared in
Rakhine, allowing the military to participate in the administration of the
region. Rohingya NGOs overseas have accused the Burmese army and police of
targeting Rohingya Muslims through arrests and participating in violence. A number
of monks' organisations have taken measures to block aid from NGOs that help
Rohingyas. In July 2012, the Burmese Government did not include the Rohingya
minority group in the census—classified as stateless Bengali Muslims from
Bangladesh since 1982. About 140,000 Rohingya in Burma remain confined in IDP
camps.
Canada offered to take in a limited
number of vulnerable refugees, including victims of sexual violence, in May
when Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland visited Bangladesh, according to
Canadian officials, adding that the proposal still stands.
Canada was willing to discuss cases
with Bangladesh but Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister responded that the
officials would look into it. Prime Minister Hasina said in September that the
Rohingya must return to their own country because Bangladesh does not have any
policy of local integration. She also called on Myanmar to abolish laws that
discriminate against the minority.
It is known from the sources that
discussions between the two governments were ongoing, facilitated by the U.N.
refugee agency (UNHCR).
More than 700,000 Muslim Rohingya
crossed into Bangladesh from Buddhist-majority Myanmar, U.N. agencies say,
after Rohingya insurgent attacks on Myanmar security forces in August 2017 were
followed by a sweeping military response. And now Bangladesh Government wants
them to go back to their state. The U.N. human rights investigator on Myanmar
urged Bangladesh on Tuesday to drop plans to start repatriating hundreds of
thousands of Rohingya refugees to Rakhine state this month, warning they would
face a "high risk of persecution".
Experts working to protect Rohingya
refugees said traumatised women who had been raped by Myanmar soldiers - some
of whom have been ostracised after giving birth in the sprawling Bangladesh
camps - would benefit from resettlement in Canada.
"It is the humanitarian thing
to do. If limited resettlement opportunities are available for this particular
group, Bangladesh should think again and issue exit visas," said Laetitia
van den Assum, a former Dutch diplomat who served on an international panel
headed by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to advise on the crisis in
Rakhine state.
The U.N. has documented a
"frenzy of sexual violence" by Myanmar soldiers against Rohingya
women and mass killings, calling for senior generals to face genocide charges.
Myanmar denied this as "one-sided" finding.
Canada was one of the top providers
of asylum to Rohingya refugees until Bangladesh stopped the programme, saying
it could encourage more people from Myanmar to leave their homes to seek asylum
in the West. Canada resettled more than 300 people from camps in Bangladesh
between 2006 and 2010, Shannon Ker, a spokeswoman for Immigration, Refugees and
Citizenship Canada, said.
Rohingya refugees are still arriving
in Bangladesh and rape survivors are a priority for overseas resettlement, said
UNHCR spokeswoman Caroline Gluck. "Repatriation or permanence in the
country of asylum may result in additional risk and further
traumatisation," she said. "This could also apply to children who may
have been conceived as a result of sexual violence, who could face severe
stigma throughout their lives."
Bangladesh has not issued exit
permits for the resettlement of Rohingya refugees to other countries since
2010, she said. The UNHCR asked Bangladesh in February to allow it to negotiate
with Canada, the United States and some European countries to resettle around
1,000 Rohingya refugees.
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