“Immigration Cleaning” and Direct Violence in Myanmar



We will start with direct violence: “When an individual or group is physically or mentally harmed, through direct action. Direct violence also includes crimes against humanity, where systemic direct violence is directed at an ethnic group by a group or individuals in a position of power”(Murphy)

An example of direct violence could surely be a topic such as genocide. Genocide is “the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.” Genocide occurs all over the world and remains more common than one would expect.

Let's take a look at  the Rohingya, a group of muslims who live in Rakhine state in northwestern Myanmar. Myanmar is considered a Buddhist country as it is the most commonly practiced religion there, while Muslims have longly endured as second class citizens. This is due to the fact that the majority of Myanmar believes Muslims are “illegal immigrants and terrorists from Bangladesh.”(Kranz)

This issue has not only caused mental harm towards the Rohingya, due to the way they are treated, but has become an issue of physical harm. It has been recorded that roughly 3,000 Muslims have been killed and over 200,000 have been unwillingly displaced.

For direct violence we often are looking at a topic that is straightforward to identify, as we did, possible to investigate and establish who was responsible, in this case the Buddhists of Myanmar, and possible to identify so that those responsible can be held to account. As much as the Myanmar Buddhists are held responsible for these killings and displacements by other countries, communaly and socially, they are not being held to account because it is considered ok and right to “cleans” their country of Muslims.




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