Conflict In Myanmar Essay

Myanmar, since political isolationism in 1962 and under military rule, this state was closed from outside world. There is not much information acknowledged by international community regarding the situation in Myanmar. There is no clear and obvious information in how Rohingyas becomes object of perpetrator and getting brutal violence from the majorities. For example, in 1991-2, the army has arranged for about 250,000 Rohingya communities to flee to Bangladesh, and they were repatriated without ‘given citizenship’ by the state (Dittmer, 2010).
In addition, the data reported by Rianne ten Veen and the Islamic Human Rights Commision said that in 1991, Muslim Rohingya was targeted as object of abuses. While, the data had also shown that in the 1994, at least 110,000 Karen and Mon people as another minority groups in Myanmar fled to Thailand during the intense offensive by the military of Rakhine (http//www.burmaproject.com). Muslim Rohingya might not the only minority group who targeted in the violence, but compared to the others groups, the issue of Rohingya Muslim is more complicated.
Meanwhile, in 1995, according to “Human Right Watch Report (2009), Bangladesh government forced most of them to

The identity could not be separated from homeland or ethnicity, it can be seen from Palestine conflict between Palestinian and Israeli which fighting and claiming each other that Palestine as their homeland. For Rohingya people or the Rakhine Buddhist, Rakhine state is the place where their ancestor lived in and they are emotionally engaged with. Arakan is the place where they find the memories of their identity. Although the oppressed government compels them to leave the land, they are returning again with consequence of stateless. It is because they have no place and choices for both staying and