Human Rights Violations Against the Rohingya People in Myanmar

As part of my research for my Human Rights presentation, I read an article from BBC News titled “Myanmar Rohingya: What you need to know about the crisis.” It was very clear and succinct about the issue, and it also contained a lot of images and statistics that were a lot easier to understand than some of the other sources that I saw. It talked about human rights violations about the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar since August 2017, which is when the most recent attacks by the military started. Myanmar is a majority Buddhist country, so the Rohingya have faced a lot of discrimination for a long time. The majority of them live in the Rakhine state of Myanmar and face a lot of restrictions due to the fact that they are considered by Myanmar to have illegally immigrated from Bangladesh, so they are not considered citizens of Myanmar. Since the violence against them started up again in August 2017, the military has commited many acts of what is considered “ethnic cleansing” and even “mass genocide.” These include mass murders, burning of villages, sexual assault, and rape, and many more violations of human rights. Do to all of this violence, almost 700,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh.
Many countries around the world, along with the UN have encouraged Myanmar’s government to put a stop to the violence, although as of yet, no sanctions have been imposed. Many countries have offered humanitarian aid to the refugees living in Bangladesh, but the government of Myanmar has done little so far.

“Myanmar Rohingya: What you need to know about the crisis.” BBC News, 24 April 2018. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41566561.

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