It is sad for a Muslim person to know that we still have riots happening in Myanmar because of prejudices. It is harder than what anyone from other faith can imagine the discrimination because of it. However, in Myanmar the situation has reached its peak to be a trend thing without finding any solutions to it and any movement to change the situation; it is now taken to be a country of terrorism and political abuse to many ethnics.
In a world where politics rule people to do their actions against others in the name of religion for specific interests; In a world where things are blurry and in the hands of corruption and fraud; this is what is happening in Myanmar.
Demography of Myanmar
The population of Myanmar is estimated at about forty-five million people, they speak the Burmese language with other spoken languages in Burma. The capital is known as Nay Pyi Taw. The official religion is Buddhism with other minor ones like Rohingya Muslims. Myanmar has been occupied by Britain and it got independence in 1948 and by the armed forces from 1962 to 2011.
Those are initial information of the background of Myanmar to learn out more about what is happening now.
The military has been back to declare a long year of emergency in Myanmar. They established control on the first of February after an election won by Suu Kyi, the famous leader of the most authored league in Myanmar “ The National League for Democracy”.
The army has been against those elections claiming it is a political fraud to demand a rerun of voting. However, the commission of election in Myanmar has refused to do a rerun of voting without a piece of evidence to support their complaints. A huge mess happened after this complaint where Ms. Suu Kyi has been arrested with other officials who have also been detained. Then power moved to Min Aung Hlaing who controlled Myanmar’s military despite the fact that the country is Democrat.
Who are the Rohingyas?
The Rohingya are among the minority ethnic groups in Myanmar. They are estimated at one million persons mostly settled in Rakhine state. They are special to other groups, they have their own culture and language that is related mostly to Arabs, this is related to Arab traders who have been passing by Myanmar. Rohingya flee from their country land because at the beginning of August 2017 after local Buddhist mobs killed people and attacked villagers. The military also contributed by raping and abusing kids.
What happened in 2021?
What happened was that finally, this February of 2021, the Human Rights Council will be holding a session to discuss officially the crisis of Myanmar after the military took control over the government. It was declared that people went out to protest against this coup against Aung San Suu Kyi civilian country.
Julian Braithwaite declared that humans rights have been massively taken and took a new dangerous level in which it needed the voice of the UN to be raised against the military governing Myanmar. This session will show Myanmar that things can be solved and will be solved with the power of many countries to help them.
This has a deep relation that the issue of Rohingya people can be solved somehow if the military troops will be declined and a new democrat country with the assistance of UN to preserve them their human rights. However, there are indications that the crisis will be taking a long time till it can be really be solved.
The Last Line
From my point of view, I think it has been too late that the UN can really understand the fact that a strong possible coup will be occurring in Myanmar. Also, the fact that human rights are violated especially Rohingya people’s rights is not something new to be raised now as a strong justification to raise up this session. What can be said is there are new fears have been raised from other countries over the areas to be controlled by militants that can be expanded to their borders like Japan and Korea; hoping that things will get better.
Written By - Manel Benkhalifa
Edited By - Kashish Chadha
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