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Rohingya people

A stateless Indo-Aryan Muslim minority from Myanmar.

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An estimated 1.4 million Rohingya resided in Myanmar prior to the 2017 genocide, after which more than 740,000 sought refuge in Bangladesh.[1] Myanmar's 1982 nationality law strips the Rohingya of citizenship rights.[1]

Key facts and history

In 1799, Francis Buchanan wrote that Mohammedans in Arakan called themselves "Rooinga, or natives of Arakan."[2][3] The British policy encouraged Bengali inhabitants to migrate into Arakan as farm labourers.[4] Later, political authority moved to Waithali.[5] The Chandra dynasty governed Arakan.[5]

What the cited sources add

Salim states that Rohingya were recognized as a legitimate ethnic group in early independent Myanmar.[3] Salim reports that Prime Minister U Nu in 1954 talked about Rohingya Muslims' political loyalty to Burma.[3][6] The New Mandala article argues that the Rohingya identity had been "gestating" for at least three hundred years.[7] The New Mandala article states that the first known record of a word similar to Rohingya is in Francis Buchanan's 1799 article.[7]

The New Mandala article notes that present-day Rohingya are descendants of both pre-colonial and colonial waves of migration.[7] Salim writes that a May Yu administrative zone was created, where Rohingya formed the majority ethnic group.[3][6]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Rohingya people" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: UNHCR news briefing, 20 October 2020, https://www.unhcr.org/news/briefing/2020/10/5f8d7c004/unhcr-calls-solidarity-support-solutions-rohingya-refugees-ahead-urg; "Myanmar Buddhists seek tougher action against Rohingya", The Washington Post; Simpson, "Language and National Identity in Asia", Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 267; Minar, "The Rohingyas of Rakhine State: Social Evolution and History in the Light of Ethnic Nationalism", Social Evolution & History, 2020; Broomfield, "Nobel Peace Prize winner accused of overlooking 'ethnic cl en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Rohingya people" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Buchanan, "A Comparative Vocabulary of Some of the Languages Spoken in the Burma Empire", Asiatic Researches, 1799, p. 237; Buchanan, "A Comparative Vocabulary of Some of the Languages Spoken in the Burma Empire", Asiatic Researches, 1799, p. 219–240; Charney, "A Comnparative vocabulary of some of the Languages Spoken in the Burma Empire", SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, 8 April 2018; Leider, "Interview: History Behind Arakan State Conflict", The Irrawaddy, 9 July 2012; Salim, "ROHINGYA CRISIS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE", HeritageTimes, en.wikipedia.org
  3. Salim, "ROHINGYA CRISIS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE", HeritageTimes, 20 September 2019. facts only, no text reused. heritagetimes.in
  4. Wikipedia, "Rohingya people" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Aye Chan 2005, p. 396–398; "Rohingya and national identities in Burma", New Mandala, 22 September 2014 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Rohingya people" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The History of Myanmar", ABC-CLIO, 9 January 2013, p. 17–22 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Rohingya people" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Salim, "ROHINGYA CRISIS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE", HeritageTimes, 20 September 2019; "Who are the Rohingya?", Radio Free Asia (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. "Rohingya and national identities in Burma", New Mandala, 22 September 2014. facts only, no text reused. newmandala.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Rohingya people (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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