Cause Of Conflict In Rohingya

If we see in the history background, Rohingyas was existed before the state of Myanmar. As ethnicity, Muslim Rohingya has been living there since the seventh century with name of kingdom is Arakanese. Around three and a half centuries under the Muslim Rohingya rules to Burma Empire invaded and annexed by the British. After that, Rohingya became the part of British India which that they are not independence yet. Until the Burma’s independence, there are already around a hundred ethnic groups in Burma, and since that happened the Rohingya already did not recognize as ethnic groups in Burma anymore.

For decades, the Muslim Rohingya experiences the discrimination until made them now as stateless. Rogingya had been suppressed for decades, both by

Cause of the conflict itself is not really so clear. However, some sources said that the conflict causes was the aftermath of robbery and the rape of Rakhine woman. The Myanmar police are actually arrested three suspects that incidentally the two of them were Rohingya ethnic. Yet, those actions are not enough to prevent the riot in Rakhine area that located in the west of Myanmar. The conflicts continue and there was an attack against a bus carrying suspected perpetrators of rape and their friends, and recorded if ten of Muslim Rohingya was killed. Since then, the racial riots in Rakhine were widespread. One root of the chronic conflict is the Rohingya ethnic minority status that is still considered as an illegal immigrant in Myanmar. The Myanmar government did not recognize and did not giving any nationality status to them. As the impact that did not have nationality, Rohingya ethnic cannot access the educations, medical health, and even the proper job. They are truly neglected and marginalized. As we know, in every community is always coloured by conflict and integration fluctuating. Conflict turned into integration in the event of a compromise based on the sense of justice. Another root of the conflict is the envy of Rohingya. The population of Rohingya ethnic in decades continues to rise. Of course, this causes suspicion and jealousy on the majority of Rakhine ethnic. For them, the existence of Rohingya ethnic were highly likely to be considered as “a pebble in the shoe”, that is something which kept bothering. The existence of Rohingya ethnic considered decreasing the rights to the land and the economy, particularly in the Arakan region, which is became the central life of Muslim