An Essay About Rohingya

The Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Democracies ignore their plight and they have been discriminated against for decades. Rohingyas have effectively stateless since the passing of the Myanmar's 1982 citizenship law. The Myanmar government does not recognize the Rohingya as an ethnic group, instead insisting they are Bengali economic migrants. In Febuary this year it declared that Rohingya "is terminology which has never been included among over 100 national races of Myanmar (Burma)". (http://www.theweek.co.uk/63745/the-rohingya-boat-crisis-why-refugees-are-fleeing-burma) Recently, in the Buddhist dominant Myanmar, there has been Buddhist attacks against the Rohingya Muslims. The cause of the attacks sparked

I feel that this is necessary in the long term, because the only way to stop more Rohingya migrants from leaving Myanmar and Bangladesh would be to state firmly that any more boats will be pushed away and not allowed to enter the ASEAN countries. Australia shares the same views and feels that although the Rohingya migrants should be treated with decency and humanity, but if more migrants are going to flee Myanmar or Bangladesh to go to other ASEAN countries, it will be putting economic strain on these countries. As these countries cannot be inevitably accepting many more migrants, more of them will die at sea.

This economic supports can be channeled towards the creation of facilities, and the provision of food, water, shelter and other emergency needs, to house the thousands of people who have been stranded on sea and accepted into Malaysia and