Rohingya Issue:


Many burning issues are going on in this world. The Rohingya Issue is one of them.The Rohingya are often described as "the world's most oppressed minority".They are an ethnic group, majority of whom are Muslim, who have lived for centuries in the majority Buddhist Myanmar. Currently, there are about 1.1 million Rohingya who live in the Southeast Asian country.
They speak Rohingya or Ruaingga, a lingo that is different from others spoken in Rakhine State and throughout Myanmar. There are about 135 official ethnic groups in this country. But They are not considered one of the country's official ethnic groups. In 1982, Myanmar denied their citizenship, which has effectively executed them stateless.
Almost all of the Rohingya in Myanmar live in the western coastal area of Rakhine and are not allowed to leave without government permission. It is one the poorest areas in the country with shanty and a lack of basic needs and opportunities.On account of ongoing violence and repression, millions of Rohingya have fled to neighboring countries either by land or boat over the course of many decades. 
Muslims have lived in Myanmar since as early as the 12th century, according to many historians and Rohingya groups.The Arakan Rohingya National Organization  has said, "Rohingyas have been living in Arakan from time immemorial," referring to the area now known as Rakhine.
During more than 100 years of British rule (1824-1948), many laborers migrated there (now  Myanmar) from today's India and Bangladesh. Because the British administered Myanmar as a province of India, such migration was considered internal, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). 
The migration of laborers was viewed negatively by the majority of the native population. After independence, the government viewed the migration that took place during British rule as "illegal, and it is on this basis that they refuse citizenship to the majority of Rohingya," according to Human Rights Watch report in 2000.
This has led many Buddhists to consider the Rohingya to be Bengali, rejecting the term Rohingya as a recent invention, created for political reasons. Shortly after Myanmar's independence from the British in 1948, the Union Citizenship Act was passed, defining which ethnicities could gain citizenship. According to a 2015 report by the International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, the Rohingya were not included. The act, however, did allow those whose families had lived in Myanmar for at least two generations to apply for identity cards.
Rohingya were initially given such identification or even citizenship under the generational provision. During this time, several Rohingya also served in parliament.

                     
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