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Write a comment... Abid Bahar BURMA’S HALF A CENTURY LONG ETHNIC CONFLICT TROUBLES ITS NEIGHBORS AS WELL The author of the article in the Dhaka Tribune didnt know what he was talking about when he suggested for a referendum in the Rakhine state. Surely he is not an informed journalist about things happening in Arakan. However, he has the right to to suggest how to solve Burmas half a century long ethnic problem in Arakan. For, Burma’s internal issues of ethnic unrest is no more its internal problem. it causes serious problems to its neighbors. Bangladesh in the West and Thailand in the East suffer the most from Burma’s refugee influx. In 1978 Bangladesh received about 200,00 Rohingya refugees who carried NRC cards. Burma accepted back those refugees. Then in 1982, Burma passed its citizenship law declaring Rohingya as the non citizens of Burma. In 1992-93, it forced out another 300,000 Rohingya people to Bangladesh. Many of them left for other countries and some are still living in Bangladesh. The influx still continues. When a country due to its internal problem sends out refugees to another country, journalists and scholars of the effected countries are naturally drawn to find solutions to the problem; Dhaka tribune’s contributing author did just that. Most of Burma’s anti Rohingya policies were enacted during the military dictator Ne Win’s time. Even with the quasi military civilian government the continued oppression didn’t go away but intensified to the level of genocide and desperate Rohingya people even taking the sea to get to the safe shores in foreign countries. Burma’s behavior sending refugees to Bangladesh has crossed its tolerable limits. It is no more a cute behavior by the generals in civilian uniform. On the other hand depriving its citizens their citizenship rights due to their racial differences is criminal. Under the circumstances, a Bangladeshi journalist has every right to show concerns to the behavior of a country causing nuisance to his country and show probable solutions to the conflict. In Burma, the press freedom is still limited, then lashing out to condemn Bangladesh’s ambassador for the view of a concerned citizen of that country is truly undemocratic, a bullying behavior, and surely condemnable.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:37:55 +0000

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