Myanmar Country

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The country of Myanmar has been plastered all over the news in the United States and the entire world recently, with the southeast Asian country being unique among its neighbors having large 1500-kilometer border with the region of south Asia. Which is quite distinct indeed from the peoples and cultures of east and Southeast Asian. However no borders are impermeable and interactions and migrations have occurred through this porous border of mountains and valleys on both sides with there being many groups of east and southeast Asian descent in the north east region of south Asia and parts of regions such as Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh and the seven sister states of India. And seeing how Myanmar is the only southeast Asian country with a land border with any south Asian country and its most likely the country with the most recent and pervasive south Asian influence in all of southeast Asia, the Rohingya people are one of the results of their proximity to the south Asian region and have been highlighted as an example …show more content…

The refugees are blaming the Myanmar military, while the Burmese military declared the Rohingya are burning their own homes. One of the only few people that was allowed into Rakhine was the BBC's Jonathan Head, but under strict government surveillance. While on the tour of the region's villages, he was provide with photos showing Rohingya reportedly burning their home, later on he discovered that the photos he was given were fake (BBC, 2017). It is estimated about 40,000 Rohingya refugees that are in India and 16,000 of them that have acquired official refugee documentation. Most of the Rohingya running away from Myanmar have not made into Bangladesh. Destructive floods in India and Bangladesh over this past summer have made the conditions worse in refugee camps and conducted to a cholera outbreak (which is a disease that is infectious and is developed from infected waters), water shortages, and

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