Introduction: The Rohingya people are denied citizenship in Myanmar, forced into manual labor on government projects and forbidden to marry without official permission. Burma's Rohingya Muslims are said to be one of the world's most persecuted people, and now they have turned to dangerous methods to change their fate. In harrowing attempts to migrate to nearby countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia, many Rohingya ended up stuck on overcrowded boats at sea, with no country willing to grant them safe landing. Hundreds of others have died when such migrant boats capsized. (CBC News)
Why are they leaving Myanmar? In Myanmar, Rohingya Muslims are not looked at as citizens of Myanmar. Myanmar’s 1982 Citizenship Act does not recognize them as one
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Carrying one child in her arm, a second on her back and holding the hand of a third, Hasinah Izhar was moving waist-deep through a swamp towards the Bay of Bengal, toward a fishing boat bobbing in the dusk. “Troops are coming, troops are coming,” the smuggler said. “Get on the boat quickly.” If she was thinking of changing her mind, she would need to it right now. Ms. Izhar, who was 33, had reached the muddy shore after sneaking down paths and the fish pools of western Myanmar, where she and around one million other members of the Rohingya minority. She had signed up for passage to Malaysia, but knew that the trip would be dangerous, that even if she survived, the smugglers could demand ransom before letting her and her children go, and that they may beat, torture or sell them into slavery for those if they were no able to pay. She had left behind her oldest child, a 13-year-old boy named Jubair. Ms. Izhar knew that it was going to cost close to $2,000 just to get her three youngest to Malaysia. Taking the son that she left behind would increase the smugglers’ price and she only had around $500 from selling their house, a bamboo and mud-daub hut in the village of Thayet Oak. Buddhist militants were enraged by rumors that Rohingya Muslims had raped a Buddhist woman, had attacked villages like Thayet Oak across Rakhine State, the coastal region home to most of Myanmar’s Rohingya. The armed forces and police services just stood by and watched. Worried that he would be arrested and beaten like some of his friends, Ms. Izhar’s husband, Dil Muhammad Rahman, had gone into hiding but made short visits home in the dead of night. Then in late 2012, he had disappeared and did not call to tell her that he went to Malaysia until three months after he got there. “How can I stay here?” she asked. “The old, the young, everyone has to keep watch on the village every night to protect the women. All the
Imagine the stress and the hardships of being a refugee and moving to a completely different country. Mawi Asgedom was a refugee starting at age three, and he had to start a whole new life in America. In Mawi Asgedom’s book, Of Beetles and Angels, the Asgedom family lived in a refugee camp in Sudan, but they moved to America because they wanted a safe haven from the wars. They felt that America was a paradise where everyone had things like big houses and fancy cars. That was not the case, however, and many challenges were waiting for them when they arrived.
Literary Analysis of Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water Slava was forced to run at age 11 “Then he was running, too. Running as hard as he could, into the bush. Away from home.” The civil war in Southern Sudan started in 1985.
Amari was a 15-year-old girl who was soon to be married to Besa, a strong young man. All that changed when their village was attacked. The village was celebrating the welcoming of the strangers, the strangers shot the elderly and the children. Amari's parents and her brother, Kwasi, had died that tragic
Living in the middle of a warzone has become second nature for the refugees living in Southern Sudan. The novel, A Long Walk to Water, written by Linda Sue Park is based on the true story of Salva and his journey to refugee camps all over Africa over the last 30 years. Salva was one of the thousands of Lost Boys to make it out of Sudan and travel to America for safety. Through all of this Salva has proven he is a survivor by enduring hostile environments, being a leader for others, and pushing forward despite the loss of his friends and family. There are many ways Salva has shown he is a survivor, but the biggest example was him undergoing the harsh environments of Southern Sudan.
Australia is the only country to have a system of mandatory detention where every single parent, man, woman, child who arrives here without a valid visa or illegal visa must undergo immigration detention immediately. The issue with the refugee treatment and mandatory detention in Australia is that their minds are so vulnerable and stressed after leaving their country. Detention can harm asylum seekers and refugees because they are indefinite meaning the government can detain people for the course of their life which has severe effects on a person’s emotions and wellbeing. Studies have shown that refugees who have come from a warfare filled country have and increased chance to undergo depression, self-harm and even attempt suicide when under a type of imprisonment such as immigration detention.
Introduction The Hmong people have a long history of searching for a homeland. They are among the oldest societies in Asia, yet very few know about them. As they have an oral culture, it is hard to determine certain aspects of their history, like their origin. However, comparing their religious viewpoints to others, they seemed to have originated from Chaldea, a region located near present-day Iraq.
At the age of fifteen, most of the children are forced to join in military including guerilla or rebel militaries are recruited by force into becoming soldiers Ismael Beah is one of them. Most of the children are willingly to volunteer in to the service of these groups. These children
People who flee from countries which are oppressing them, escaping for their lives. Australia’s inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and the mandatory detention policy means that asylum seekers are locked in a detention centre until they are processed, which can take years. In recent events, Australia’s asylum seeker policies have been heavily criticised
This article discusses in detail Beah’s journey as a boy soldier. The article comments on Beah’s feelings, experiences, and reactions when he had to lose childhood and become a child soldier. The article focuses on the point how Beah and children like him become a victim of child abuse due to a civil war.
In Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk to Water, demonstrates one of many true stories of many a Lost Boy. Salva an eleven year old had to flee from his village all alone because his village was attacked due to the Second Sudanese War that began in 1983. When Salva was at school and his village was being attacked,he was told not to go home, but into the bush,that's where his whole journey began. Salva had to show confidence, determination,and perseverance in order to survive in a difficult environment.
So Nya and her mother had taken Akeer to the special place- a big white tent… with doctors and nurses to help” (45). Nya’s father had to make the difficult decision of whether they should take Akeer to the far away doctor or not. Then Nya and her mother had the job of walking Akeer to the medical tent to see the doctor and get medicine. In the difficult living conditions of Sudan, each person in Nya’s family has a specific task and they must complete that task to help keep the whole family
In Australia, refugees and asylum seekers are treated like the enemy in a war: the target of a highly resourced, military-led “deterrence” strategy complete with arbitrary detainment, detention camps, guards to terrorise them, forced deportations and the violent suppression of those who protest. Australia is failing to meet the standards required when regarding the treatment of asylum seekers. It is fact that asylum seekers make up less than 3% of Australia’s annual immigration yet the idea is being distorted to that of which they will overpopulate a country that prides itself on being a multicultural society. I want to shed light on the misconception that asylum seekers are not ‘legal’ when in actual fact it is a human right to seek freedom.
It is hard to imagine a life where people have to leave their family multiple times and fear that they will lose a family member at any moment. Loung Ung, a Cambodian girl, had to endure this through most of her childhood. She has to deal with the loss of most of her family at the young age of five. Family plays an important role within people’s lives. Without them, life becomes a challenge many never thought of having.
Imagine being separated from your family and you might never see them again. Imagine having to walk miles everyday to get water. Most people in the world don’t think about wasting water or being suddenly separated from your family. In A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, the reader goes through an awful story about a girl named Nya who has to walk miles for water in Southern Sudan 2008 and a boy named Salva who’s life gets ruined by the war in Southern Sudan 1985. The reader goes through both stories and experiences what life was like for both Nya, and Salva.
Not only that, but they do it by the millions, moving in independent crowds step by step on the grounds that there is security (Acuesta, 2017). The explanations for their movement include issues such as social, racial, religious and political persecution, war, climate change, hunger and gender orientation. These vulnerable refugees have no other choice than to seek protection and we are denying their human rights and stripping away their human dignity. A United Nations Refugee Agency survey conducted in Australia in 2011 showed that 35% of people favoured turning back boats or detention of arrivals and deportation, while only 22% favoured eligibility for permanent settlement. Clearly there is much controversy surrounding this issue as it can create many effects within a nations, both positive and negative.