Tragedy in Myanmar
Could you imagine what it would be like to be a part of or relive the Holocaust? Be an unwanted minority and prosecuted for your ethnic background? This is what happened in the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, and sadly we see this repeated with a group of people called the Rohingyas. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel the Jewish people were being killed for no apparent reason besides the fact that they are Jewish. The Rohingyas are a minority muslim group in a majority Buddhist country called Myanmar. Rohingyas are being murdered everyday in what is called g make up around one million of the total 50 million population.”(Al Jazeera News)After a bad The Rohingyas are experiencing Genocide now and the world is not doing anything about it. …show more content…
This genocide was clearly pre-planned in Myanmar before the genocide occurred. According to Al Jazeera Investigation unit and an independent study report by Information Sciences Consulting, Inc (ISCI) concluded that “The riots in 2012 which saw conflicts between ethnic Rakime Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims erupt, were pre-planned.” (Al Jazeera News) Many Rohingyas have tried to escape but it's almost impossible to leave the country. United nations high commissioner for refugees, (UNHCR) estimates that 130,000 Rohingyas have fled Bangladesh and western Arakan state since the outbreak of violence in 2012, according to U.S. campaign for Burma.(the guardian) Sadly less than half of those people actually made it out of the country safely. Even with the genocide starting five years ago we were not able to control it then (at its weakest part) and we won't be able to control it now, because nobody tried to help and be an upstander in this
Could you imagine what it would be like to be a part of or relive the Holocaust? Be an unwanted minority and prosecuted for your ethnic background? This is what happened in the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, and sadly we see this repeated with a group of people called the Rohingyas. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel the Jewish people were being killed for no apparent reason besides the fact that they are Jewish. The Rohingyas are a minority muslim group in a majority Buddhist country called Myanmar. Rohingyas are being murdered everyday in what is called g make up around one million of the total 50 million population.”(Al Jazeera News)After a bad The Rohingyas are experiencing Genocide now and the world is not doing anything about it. …show more content…
This genocide was clearly pre-planned in Myanmar before the genocide occurred. According to Al Jazeera Investigation unit and an independent study report by Information Sciences Consulting, Inc (ISCI) concluded that “The riots in 2012 which saw conflicts between ethnic Rakime Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims erupt, were pre-planned.” (Al Jazeera News) Many Rohingyas have tried to escape but it's almost impossible to leave the country. United nations high commissioner for refugees, (UNHCR) estimates that 130,000 Rohingyas have fled Bangladesh and western Arakan state since the outbreak of violence in 2012, according to U.S. campaign for Burma.(the guardian) Sadly less than half of those people actually made it out of the country safely. Even with the genocide starting five years ago we were not able to control it then (at its weakest part) and we won't be able to control it now, because nobody tried to help and be an upstander in this