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Post by Admin on Oct 26, 2017 10:35:22 GMT
These are all great posts thus far. Nice job referencing the articles directly! Laura, thank you for the additional resources and visuals!
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Post by Olivia Girdwood on Oct 26, 2017 10:43:07 GMT
@brookegentile
I never thought about the fact that if this crisis were in the news, it could throw people over the edge. Although, what would them being upset do? Most likely these people want someone to do something about the crisis, but won't do anything themselves. They probably would not want any of the Rohingya people in their homes, like I assume the Bangladesh prime minister is going to ask of the other countries. So what would be the point in getting upset, or sent over the edge, if it is just gonna be a waste of time? What would I even change if they did?
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Post by Meghan Miller on Oct 26, 2017 13:55:49 GMT
@lauragutauskas When you said "I wasn’t sure whether or not the Rohingya people would be let in anywhere, so I was surprised when Bangladesh changed their mind to decide on building a camp for 400,000 of them" do you think that the Bangladesh government had no choice but to build the camp because there were so many refugees flooding into their country? Thank you for the extra sources, that was very self-motivated of you and shows that you are interested in the topic! Do you think Bangladesh is more willing to accept the Rohingya because they share a faith?
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Post by Barbie Cessar on Oct 27, 2017 0:55:54 GMT
I believe that the removal of more than 300,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar was an act of racial cleansing rather than about the fear of terrorism. Even though the Myanmar government denies it, this act results in genocide. The government was forcing the Rohingya people out of their homes and displacing them thousands of miles away in unwelcoming countries. The journey alone is dangerous. I can’t even imagine this dangerous journey for the women and children. They are not even given the vital necessities of survival such as food, water, bathrooms, or shelter. “Rohingya people are forced to risk everything for a chance at safety.” These people are so desperate for a sense of identity that they are willing to risk their lives. If a government refuses to provide these basic necessities then it is evident that they are purposely eradicating a group of people. The images were impactful, especially the image of a 40-year-old Rohingya refugee, wincing in pain at from an injury that was given from a Myanmar solider. I came to the conclusion that there is no way this woman was able to fight back. She was one of the many victims of unnecessary violence. It is easier for the Myanmar government to say that the situation is about a fear of terrorism rather than an act of racial cleansing or genocide because it keeps other countries from getting involved. I am not surprised that this crisis has not been spread through the news or media because the Myanmar government denies any act of genocide or racial cleansing. I do not believe that there is any way to prevent a situation like this but getting other countries involved could aid the Roingya Muslims in surviving. I find it shocking that the United States has not made any efforts to help the Rohingya Muslims relocate or survive since we got involved with the mass killing of Jews during World War Two. The Rohingya Muslims have no home or rights to citizenship. They are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world and nothing will happen until they receive global attention.
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Post by Ricky Mineo on Oct 27, 2017 2:12:33 GMT
The Rohingya Muslims are facing very strong feelings of hatred and neglect towards them in Myanmar. Violence is sprouting in Myanmar by the military to rid the country of the Rohingya people. The Rohingya people are fleeing into Bangladesh to escape persecution. There is no way that they the people of Myanmar are doing this because they are afraid of terrorism. Honestly, they could be sparking terroristic feelings of radical Rohingya Muslims by the persecution of their people. Terrorism can come from anywhere, they cannot just persecute one group of Muslims and expect terrorism to be gone. The NPR article says that Myanmar wants the Rohingya Muslims gone for good and that Bangladesh is not willing to keep the Rohingya forever. Rohingya Muslims probably do not want to go back to Myanmar but if they were forced to, the situation would be worse due to the already strong and fierce tensions that are built up. According to the New York Times article, Myanmar officials have placed landmines on the border of Bangladesh to kill any Rohingya trying to escape the country. If they want to fix the situation, they should remove the mines and set aside a small portion/ reserve for the Rohingya Muslim to live their lives away from persecution. The question I am asking is how much support do the Rohingya Muslim people need to make this a national issue?
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Post by Cole on Oct 27, 2017 2:18:43 GMT
The Rohingya Muslim Refugee Crisis was purely an act of xenophobia due to the stereotype that all Muslims are bad. Yes, there are Muslims that are bad and terroristic, but that segment of the group is relatively slim in comparison to the entire Islamic religion. It can also be viewed as a form of racial cleansing if you want to look at it through the censored lens, but when looking at it with our adult eyes, you can clearly see that it was all about the stereotype that Muslims are terrorists. This is also part of the reason why it isn’t a well known topic. The Buddhists in Myanmar don’t want to be known as the jerks that kicked out Muslims because they were scared of them, so they just attempted to keep it hidden from the public. Buddhism is also one of the smaller religions in the world, therefore it’s not well known over in Europe/ North and South America. Myanmar taking back the refugees is just going to cause way more problems for both groups of people. The Muslims will still be treated like trash because they are Muslims and the Buddhists will be getting harsh words from the Muslims because they kicked them out of their country. There is really no way to keep this from happening again. There will always be religious discrimination as long as man is still on this planet. Man will disagree with each other, or do something to cause the feeling of harm towards one another until every man is dead on this planet. The human race as a whole is like that and that’s one of the many things that will never change. The refugees are going to start fleeing to more countries around the world rather than just Australia and other countries around Myanmar.
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Post by Maya French on Oct 27, 2017 3:24:37 GMT
The most recent action taken by Myanmar, to allow Rohingya refugees back into their country, is going to make this terrible situation much worse. Over a range of multiple articles the Rohingya were referred to as the most persecuted Islamic minority. This was proven over and over again with the gruesome stories of how these people were treated by what was once their government. The Myanmar government has made it very clear that they want the Rohingya gone. Not just from their country, but from the face of the Earth. No matter what political name they give these actions, all that was done was for the sole purpose of killing off these refugees. Not only has the government been mistreating the people for years, eventually leading to forcing them out of the country, but they were reported to have placed land mines along the border. The militant hostility, burning of villages, raping of women and children, and overall mass murder will not simply come to an end. The Washington Post points out that the de facto leader of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, is a Nobel Prize laureate which originally showed high hopes for the suffering refugees. Unfortunately she has had nothing to say on the issue and even refuses to attend the UN meeting. This destroys what little hope the Rohingya people had for a better life style. With their returning to their old homes, for many people there will be nothing left. Most villages were burned down, food supplies were ruined, livestock left unattended, and there are little to no water supplies. At this point there is no where safe or stable for these people; they are almost safer to stay in Bangladesh where the living conditions are similar to those of their homeland but the government is not out to kill them. Situations such as this may seem impossible to resolve and is likely that this problem will drag on for years to come, eventually reaching some form of resolve but not without massive loss. In a short time the mortality rate has been alarmingly high, with thousands not even making out of the country. It is very likely that this number will spike with the refugees coming back to their homeland.
Is this type of “government intervention” crossing a line? Should be the duty of other countries to react in defence of the wronged people?
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Post by Chloe Fetter on Oct 27, 2017 3:59:03 GMT
The events that occurred in Myanmar were definite examples of racial cleansing. Instead of expressing fear toward the Rohingya Muslims, the Myanmar government and militia expressed acts of hatred, cruelty, and provided extremely inhumane conditions or the people whose roots travel back generations of family lines living in the very country that terrorizes them today. As this is my first time discovering this topic, I am overwhelmed and taken aback by how little attention is being paid to the subject. I believe that news coverage is not being provided in Western regions because there is a negative connotation surrounding the Muslim background of the Rohingya. As well as being a social minority, the west doesn’t want to further pressure Bangladesh to house more refugees as their population is already becoming difficult to sustain and resources are difficult to come by. With lack of resources, the risk of the refugees bringing in infection is very high which poses a threat on the larger population of Bangladesh. Taking the refugees back to Myanmar will further damage the identities and family of the Rohingya Muslim religion. I believe the militia would even go as far as to severely lower or completely deteriorate the Rohingya Muslim population. As for a remedy to this humanitarian crisis, there is none as hatred can never be unlearned for lack of better terms. In today's day and age, stigmatism lasts as long as we are here to fulfill those generalizations. It is always a bloody battle of who is better and more superior. The images in the readings did really speak to me as I seen the people clenching on the the last of their defining belongings and searching for any food. Images like so really make you appreciate what you have and put into perspective how little these people are granted purely because they are diverse. The struggle for shelter continues to rain upon the Rohingya people and the world will feel their pain.
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Post by Wyatt Heyl on Oct 27, 2017 4:04:57 GMT
What is going on with the Rohingya refugee crisis is terrible. What the country of Myanmar has done to the people is terrible, form killing and torturing the men, and raping the women, as found in every article provided. What Myanmar is doing is racial cleansing. One of the reasons being is that the Rohingya people have not committed any terroristic acts upon Myanmar. Besides why would the Myanmar military be burning down their homes and wrongly treating Rohingya people. What the Myanmar military is doing should be considered terroristic in their acts. Until now, I have never heard of the country of Myanmar or its trouble with the Rohingya people. I believe that news sources of the United States have not covered it due to the U.S. not having any problems with the refugees coming out of Myanmar. I believe that it will worsen the situation because Myanmar thinks of the Rohingya as terrorists as stated in New York Times article. A way to remedy the situation is for other countries to accept the refugees and give them citizenship and rights. However reasons that countries won't accept them is because they will take away their identification and won't replace it as said in the article by Amnesty International. The images taken by that british photographer added to the effect of how the Rohingya are struggling on their journey to find a new home. Such as they supplied an image of some of the things that the photographer described in the article, such as the tents that the Rohingya people made from the tarps and bamboo. What is possibly going to happen next is that the UN will get involved in the violent acts in Myanmar in an investigation. However as stated in the article by the New York TImes, that Myanmar has prohibited the investigation.Which leads to another possibility is that Myanmar might get in trouble for genocide and the expulsion of an entire ethnic group.
Question: Would this event be considered a mass genocide? Why or Why not?
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Post by Admin on Oct 27, 2017 16:17:37 GMT
Nice job with the original posts. It is clear the most of you read the articles and can cite commonalities across all of the readings. I see a number of points emerging: *Lack of media coverage of this topic, and ignorance to the situation *At what point, if any, should foreign governments intervene in dire situations? *Have we seen similar examples of this in history? For the peer responses, continue to make your points specific and avoid generalizing. Also, make sure they are more than one sentence in length.  AM |
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Post by Maya French on Oct 29, 2017 17:08:22 GMT
@barbie Cessar, in your post you said "displacing them thousands of miles away in unwelcoming countries", referring to the Myanmar Government actions against people of the Rohingya religion. Its true that some countries were pushing away boats of refugees but Bangladesh, the country that had the largest influx of Rohingya people, tried to make accommodations for them. It was said in an article by the Washington Post that the Bangladesh government was making plans to construct 14,000 shelters that could hold 6 families each. Though one could argue that the living conditions in these camps may not be perfect, it is still living place where your family in not in constant danger of slaughter, rape, or having their houses burned to the ground. The amount of money, man power, and time this country was willing to put towards the lives of people who they have no legal obligation to care for seems to me like quite the welcome gift.
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Post by Maya French on Oct 29, 2017 17:38:26 GMT
@makayla Rieder. Referring to the allowing of Rohingya people back into the country "They are trying to go back after reaching the point of no return." I agree with you 100% and you did a great job summing that up. When you think about the damage done to the families, their homes, their mental state, and the peoples relationship with their government it is easy to see a serious line has been crossed. The rising death rate alone is enough to cause a widening gap between the people and "their government". This situation is only going to be one of increasing dangers for years to come and this mass genocide will be looked back on as the "point of no return."
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Post by Jonah Foster on Oct 29, 2017 23:01:05 GMT
@meghan Answering your question "do you think the Myanmar Government could accidentally escalate the situation?" My answer is no they could not "accidentally" escalate the situation. They could definitely say it was nt on purpose but in all reality they want to get rid of the Rohingya People.
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Post by Jonah Foster on Oct 29, 2017 23:07:58 GMT
ricky I agree the Myanmar government wants rid of the Rohingya people and they will not even think about letting them back into the country and/or making up refugee camps. And even if they were afraid of terrorism they should not just be focused on the Rohingya people.
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Post by Wyatt Heyl on Oct 29, 2017 23:41:48 GMT
@rickymineo An answer to your question, what support the Rohingya people need is the support of any one of the countries that is a part of the United Nations. Plus, I agree that there is no clear solution on this problem on whether or not brining them back into Myanmar is a good solution or not. I do agree that making there own reservation could possibly settle the unrest.
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