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09-20-2017, 12:07 PM
The Rohingya have been living in those lands for over two hundred years, but resentment over the internal displacement of Buddhists stems back to 1826 when Britain annexed the part of Myanmar where most Rohingya Muslims live today. Bengali Muslims arrived in large numbers to become labourers and administrators for the British, but it is not the colonists who are blamed for this in today's nationalist narrative, but the descendants of these migrant workers.
Myanmar gained independence from Britain in 1948, but the position of the Rohingya Muslims has become ever more perilous. The United Nations has described the Rohingya Muslims as the most persecuted minority in the world. Attempts at creating an independent state for themselves have failed, and they have been denied citizenship in their own country since 1982 and with it the right to education, healthcare or even property ownership.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/uk-owes-rohingya-protection-170919100556527.html
Yes the Brits were dicks for moving them into Myanmar in the first place, but still illegals!
Myanmar gained independence from Britain in 1948, but the position of the Rohingya Muslims has become ever more perilous. The United Nations has described the Rohingya Muslims as the most persecuted minority in the world. Attempts at creating an independent state for themselves have failed, and they have been denied citizenship in their own country since 1982 and with it the right to education, healthcare or even property ownership.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/uk-owes-rohingya-protection-170919100556527.html
Yes the Brits were dicks for moving them into Myanmar in the first place, but still illegals!