The Genocide in Myanmar

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In the past two years, a genocide has been going on in Myanmar that little people around the world know about. The victims that have been affected by this mass murder are the Rohingya Muslims, who originated from the subcontinent of India and are a minority group that makes up 5% of the country’s population. Today, the physical and emotional abuse endured by the Rohingya Muslims prevails a prominent issue in the Middle East. Over in Burma, many of the Muslims are murdered, beaten, or attacked by various religious groups, while government officials either stand and watch or occasionally help.

The Rohingya Muslims is a small Muslim group that emerged in India during the time of the British Raj. The group mainly lived in either Bangladesh or Burma, which eventually was changed to the name, Myanmar. The minority group makes up around 5% of Burma’s population. Around two years ago in October 2012, Rohingya Muslims began to get attacked, displaced, and killed for unexplainable reasons. The people behind the attacks include Burmese Officials, community leaders, Buddhist monks, and ethnic Arakanese; with the monks acting as the leaders behind all of this. When asked about why they displace or kill the muslims, officials state that they are terrorists or act as traitors towards their country.( Not done)

In the past, when forms of genocide have been acted upon countries, such as the holocaust, other nations have intervened and attempted to put an end to it. In this case, no countries have made much of an effort to halt these attacks at all. Countries, such as Bangladesh have been willing to accept some Rohingya Muslims, but they haven’t done anything else to help. On a normal occasion, the United States wou...

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...slims, there are also laws that have been approved in the past and laws that are being attempted to be passed today. In 1982, the citizenship law was passed, which denied Burmese citizenship to any Rohingya Muslims on discriminatory ethnic grounds. Since that law was passed, the government has passed more laws that discriminate the Muslims. Some groups, such as ones with extremist monks, have gone on tour around Burma, made hate speeches towards the minority, and have passed out DVDs that talk about how “horrible” the Rohingyas are. In one instance, a group of monks were able to rally up 3 million petition signatures to pass a legislation which would prohibit the Muslims from getting married with people who are Buddhist. A few months ago, a meeting was also held, where monks made speeches that supported a future legislation of eliminating the right to vote.