The Historical Background of the Play. Before the 2017 crisis, an estimated 1 million Rohingya people lived in Burma. The 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis refers to the forcible displacement of Muslim Myanmar nationals from the Arrakkan & Rakhine state of Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand in 2015, collectively dubbed "boat people" by international media. Purpose: Bangladesh is a country that is consisted of various ethnic groups. Many settled in … The rapid spread of the Rohingya crisis also has been surprising for the last three years to the Bangladesh government. IB O The Rohingya Crisis: History and Politics ctober 02, 2017 are not recognized as a race in the country despite having Rohingya history that dates back to the th15 century. Rohingya Muslims: A brief history of centuries-long persecution. July 29, 2012. As of August 2018, over 723,000 Rohingya refugees had fled to Bangladesh. Chapter. But the Myanmar government won’t even use the word “Rohingya… In the last few years, before the latest crisis, thousands of Rohingya made perilous journeys out of Myanmar to escape communal violence or alleged abuses by the security forces. The Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar: the Historical Background and Possible Outcomes THIS EVENT IS ARCHIVED. Rohingya Refugee Crisis [Myanmar (Rakhine State), Asia] The Rohingya are a Muslim-majority ethnic group inhabiting Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine State, near the border of Bangladesh. Originality: In the future, this study will be helpful for the background study of the Rohingya Refugee crisis. The UN describes Rohingya Muslims as being "the most friendless people in the world.”6 The Rohingya are a largely Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar at the center of a humanitarian catastrophe. The Misunderstood Roots of Burma's Rohingya Crisis “This fear is very deeply felt and not understood in the West—and it comes from a real place rooted in history.” Krishnadev Calamur THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. First, I am going to discuss what I think is important about the longterm historical background of the current crisis involving Rakhine and Rohingya, because so much is already going around about more recent decades, the citizenship law of 1982, the Tatmadaw, NLD etc, that I do not have to do that here. Attempts to evict an ethnic group of Rakhine, the Rohingya, have been a blight on Myanmar's international reputation for some decades. CANCELLED. After the 46 years of freedom, Bangladesh remains under the title of a developing country with numerous afflictions.