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Explainer: What's Happening to Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims
(Allison Joyce/Getty Images) Over the past several months, the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar's Rakhine state has been subject to a large-scale military and police crackdown that has yielded wide ...
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II. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
After Burma became independent in January 1948, tensions between the government and the Rohingya grew. Immediately following independence, a group of Arakanese Muslims went on the political ...
Armed Rohingya Group’s Leader Is Arrested in Bangladesh
Attacks by the group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, were used as a pretext by the Myanmar military to launch a campaign ...
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Performing the Nation in Myanmar: Buddhist Nationalist Rituals and Boundary-Making
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde In 2012, Buddhist nationalist movements in Myanmar started to emerge, disseminating a Buddhist nationalist discourse that aimed to protectively demarcate ...
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Over 300 Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar arrive in Indonesia's Aceh region after weeks at sea
About 740,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar to camps in Bangladesh since August 2017, following a brutal counterinsurgency campaign. Myanmar security forces have been ...
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Argentine court issues warrants for Myanmar officials accused of Rohingya 'genocide'
The Rohingyas, mainly Muslims, are originally from Buddhist-majority Myanmar where, according to Amnesty International, they have been subjected to a regime akin to apartheid. Beginning in 2017 ...
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Indians and Chinese in Burma
What has been said of the Indians applies as well, of course, to the Pakistanis of our Muslim communities. As the number of Indians in Burma decreases, that of the Chinese appears to be growing.
India lambasted for deporting Rohingya refugees to Myanmar in violation of international law
The move to deport the Rohingya refugees happened just as India enacted a controversial new citizenship law The Rohingya are at risk of becoming 'victims of genocide' amid the ongoing civil war in ...
Bangladesh arrests leader of Rohingya insurgent group
ARSA chief Ataullah Abu Ammar Jununi is accused of carrying out deadly 2017 attacks that led to a brutal military crackdown ...
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Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper
The violence started when a group of Burmese Buddhists attacked shops and restaurants owned by Muslims in the central town area. The Muslim owners retaliated angrily, defending themselves and ...
Rohingya in Bangladesh pray for release of arrested insurgent leader
Dozens of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh gathered to pray for the early release of a Rohingya insurgent leader arrested this week on charges of murder, illegal entry and militant activities. Ataullah ...