Yearning for Justice: A Testimony from Rohingyas Misery in Bangladesh

Authors

  • Nasir M. Ali Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies University of Hargeisa, Somaliland
  • Ayan Rashid Ibrahim Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies University of Hargeisa, Somaliland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24203/ajhss.v8i6.6455

Keywords:

Rohingya, minority, genocide, ethnic-cleaning, Myanmar, Bangladesh

Abstract

The Rohingya crisis has been a global news item both in newspapers and television in most recent times. The central objective of this study is to investigate the causes and drivers for uprooting the Rohingyas and forcing them to leave their ancestral land and to unveil the distressing and destitute situation of the Rohingyas from the refugee camps. The evidence that emerges from this study is that the Government of Myanmar is deliberately involving in the extermination and forceful displacement of the Rohingyas for political, ethnic, religious, and economic ends. Reacting to what is happening in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, a top United Nations human rights official considered a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”. The study calls for the international community to hold Myanmar state accountable to its acts of mass execution and annihilation of its citizens, and permit the Rohingyas to return to their ancestral lands in Myanmar.

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2020-12-29

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Ali, N. M., & Rashid Ibrahim, A. . (2020). Yearning for Justice: A Testimony from Rohingyas Misery in Bangladesh. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies, 8(6). https://doi.org/10.24203/ajhss.v8i6.6455

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