Description:
"Worldwide 70.8 million people were forcibly displaced from their home because of armed
conflict, generalized violence and human rights violations. These millions of stateless people
have been denied national identity and fundamental rights (education, healthcare, employment
and freedom of movement) (UNHCR, 2019a). According to UNHCR, 67% (Two-thirds) of all
the refugees worldwide belong to only five countries: Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan,
Myanmar and Somalia (UNHCR, 2019b). The Rohingya ethnic minority group is among some
of those stateless people who used to live in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. Myanmar is a multiethnic, multi-lingual and multi-religious country which has 135 official ethnic groups. All of
these ethnic groups are aggregated in eight major ethnic groups where Bamars (32% of the total
population) are the majority, and intrastate conflicts are often recorded between the Burmese
military force (Tatmadaw1
) and other ethnic armed groups (Stokke et al., 2018:3-4, 46;
Strömberg, 2018:6; François and Souris, 2018:12; Mithun, 2018:648). In contrast, compared to
the other ethnic conflicts in Myanmar, “The Rohingya conflict is highly asymmetrical in terms
of power, resources and military assets as the Rohingya population as a group has very few
resources, military or otherwise”. Describing the Rohingya conflict as a two-party conflict is
difficult. It is more like systematic discrimination, denial of human rights and violence,
specifically against the Rohingya civilians (SIDA, 2019:2)..."
Source/publisher:
Academia.edu (USA) via Mostakim Bin Motaher
Date of Publication:
2019-00-00
Date of entry:
2020-02-11
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- Individual Documents
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Countries:
Myanmar, Bangladesh
Language:
English
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