Rohingya Crisis #1-Sr.2-Sep.12

Rohingya Crisis #1   Rohingya Refugee Crisis-OCHA

The Rohingya people are 1. a *stateless Indo-Aryan ethnic group who predominantly follow Islam and 2. reside in Rakhine State, Myanmar, (where Buddhism is the dominant religion). There were an estimated one million Rohingya living in Myanmar before 3. the Rohingya genocide in 2017 by the Myanmar government, whose de-facto leader is Aung San Suu Kyi, a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.   *stateless lacking the status of a national

The Rohingya people have faced decades of systematic discrimination, stateless and targeted violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar. Such *persecution has forced Rohingya women, girls, boys and men into Bangladesh for many years, especially in 2016. Yet it was August 2017 that triggered by far the largest and fastest refugee entry into Bangladesh, 4. where Islam is the state religion. Since then, an estimated 745,000 Rohingya—including more than 400,000 children—have 4. crossed the border and fled into Bangladesh

*persecution the act of continually treating in a cruel and harmful way 

In Myanmar, entire villages were burned to the ground, families were separated and killed, and women and girls were gang raped. Most of the people who escaped were severely traumatized after witnessing unspeakable, cruel violence. These people found temporary shelter in refugee camps around Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, which is now home to the world’s largest refugee camp. As of March 2019, over 900,000 stateless Rohingya refugees reside in 34 extremely congested camps.

After a year of chaos, at least basic assistance has been provided, living conditions in the camps have improved somewhat and disaster risk mitigation measures have been largely successful. However, despite the progress, the Rohingya remain in an extremely unstable situation. 5. The root causes of their devasting situations in Myanmar have not been addressed and their future is yet uncertain. Refugees have access to basic necessities, such as food and health care, but they are still extremely vulnerable, living in highly challenging circumstances, exposed to the monsoon rains and dependent on aid.      

*monsoon: heavy rain season in summer in South Asia.

1. Who are Rohingya people?  

2. Where did most of them use to live? 

3. Who attacked them? 

4. Why did they choose Bangladesh to escape to?
5. Why did the Rohingya people face such persecution in their homeland? 

#4 Bangladesh is the neighboring state/next to their inhabitant and its state religion is the same as theirs, Islam.