Thousands Forced to Flee Myanmar
By Carter
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In Myanmar there is an ethnic cleansing going on in the Rakhine state and those affected are the Rohingya. The majority of the Rohingya population is Muslim, who have lived for centuries alongside the majority of Buddhist religion. The burmese government are hunting down all the muslim and either kicking them out or killing the. In 2016 the UN accused the government of ethnic cleansing, it was not the first time this accusation has been made. It was also shown at one time that the government was placing landmines in front of the fleeing citizens. More than 500,000 have fled the violence of the country, with thousands more trapped in no man’s land between other countries. In my opinion,this is an example of ethnic cleansing within a country. The burmese government is attempting to wipe out an entire religion that has lived in Rohingya for many centuries. At this time it is hard to know exactly how many people have died during this dark time. What the government is doing is very wrong, Hitler was doing the same thing to the jewish religion in WWII that was ethnic cleansing and it affected a lot of innocent people. The government is doing something very wrong to its own people, these people do not deserve this punishment from their own government.
References
Ratcliffe, R. (2017, September 05). Who are the Rohingya and what is happening in Myanmar? https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/sep/06/who-are-the-rohingya-and-what-is-happening-in-myanmar
Staff, A. J. (2017, September 28). Myanmar: Who are the Rohingya? Retrieved from http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/08/rohingya-muslims-170831065142812.html
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