Rohingya Case Study

This approach also describe that the elite suggests played role in intergroup conflict. Seeing in Rohingya case, the elite Army played role to mobilize the violence so that the Buddhist accused the Rohingyas as the “impure” in the state, the regime saw it as opportunity to reduce the population. Moreover, Buddhist-Muslim violence is nothing new in Myanmar, especially in Rakhine (Kingsbury 2015). The government statement by President Thein Sein stressed that Rohingyas were unacceptable in Myanmar when he asked the solution of refugee camps or deportation. He commented in 2013 in Radio Free Asia, that they would take a responsibility for their ethnic, but because Rohingya were not their ethnicity, it was impossible to endure them illegally (Caballero-Anthony 2015:76).
However, to understand the Buddhist these two approaches; primordialists and constructivist could examine violence. First, the cultural reason, because ‘us and them’ is very clearly to different Rohingya and Rakhine. Each of them has

Leaving their ancestors to migrate into Rakhine State during British colonial period who called by most non-Rohingya people as Bengali Muslim. But the official view of the Myanmar Government regards all Rohingyas as illegal immigrants from Bengal (present day Bangladesh) and does not address Muslim migration under British rule (Gibson, James & Falvey 2016: 47-48). Otherwise, according to historian and mostly believed by Rohingyas, they argued that their ancestors not only derive from East Bengal alone but also from different Muslim countries and not reached the Rakhine State during the British colonial period but over hundred years earlier, in order that Rohingyas has rooted in Rakhine. The definition of Rohingyas identity seems difficult to explain; hence, the Rohingyas itself as an ethnic identity is still