Citizenship Challenges in Myanmar’s Democratic Transition: Case Study of the Rohingya-Muslim

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Humanitarian Solutions to Improve Dignity and Wellbeing for Rohingya Refugees In Bangladesh

“…Al Imran & Mian (2014) argue that Bangladesh should enter into bilateral or multilateral treaties to garner the support needed to resolve the crisis, as well as engage the international community in general to pressure Myanmar to take the lead in resolving the problem, while Brinham (2017) talks of a "joined-up effort to secure durable solutions". Suaedy & Hafiz (2015) take a different approach in examining the decades-long struggle of the Rohingya to gain citizenship in Myanmar, noting that "stronger international and ASEAN involvement is needed to change the Myanmar government policy of discrimination against minorities, particularly the Rohingya" (p. 57). The fundamental flaw in this collective pressure approach, however, is the fact that the international community, led predominantly by the United States (US) and the EU-itself a collection of sovereign countries-have been attempting to pressure the Myanmar government to address their deplorable human rights policies for decades.…”

The National Laws of Myanmar: Making of Statelessness for the Rohingya

“…In line with this view, many suggest that the early Muslim settlers had largely assimilated to local Rakhine society and did not articulate a separate ethnic or communal status. In the 1872 population census the British therefore simply recorded them as the Arakan Muslims (Suaedy and Hafiz, ). In other documents they further distinguished between Burmese Muslims, who had inhabited the land prior to the arrival of the British and Indian Muslims (Pugh, ).…”