Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis & to remain in refugees camps fully guarded by Military and the our resources.
our resources. With the help of Dalai Lama and other rational
Possible Solutions Ubaid Bahussain
At some time in Eight century, from
Bengal in South East Asia, an ethnic
group migrated to independent state of
Rakhine near Myanmar. Arabs came on
the coastal areas of Rakhine, introduced Islam to Rohingya and
at the end of ninth century majority among them accepted Islam.
They lived peacefully in independent Rakhine state but when
Britishers took the state in their control (1824-1942) and offered
favors to Rohingya Muslim and other tribes. This appeasement
by British Empire caused violent clashes between local Buddhist
and Rohingya Muslims. Violence erupted just few days after one
of the Japanese King invaded (1942) Myanmar and Rakhine.
Britishers again controlled this region after defeating (1946) to
Japanese King with the help of Local Buddhist and Rohingya
fighters. Eventually Britishers before leaving South East Asia
made an interim government. The Buddhist Fighter Aung San
become the first premier of independent Myanmar, which also
included Rakhine State. Aggrieved upon this, local Muslims
demanded autonomy for Rakhine state and they even approached
Mohammed Ali Jinnah to get annexed some part of Rakhine
state in the new born Islamic State of Pakistan. Jinnah simply
refused saying it is an internal matter of Myanmar. Rohingya
formed an organization and named it as Mujahid. This
organization took violent ways to pursue their cause. They
attacked Myanmar military, initially they succeeded in
controlling of some parts of Rakhine state but when Myanmar
military retaliated with full capacity, they surrendered
themselves at large and this mutiny ended in few years (1960).
A decade long democratic government was overthrown
by Myanmar Military; they declared it as Military state (1962)
and this continued for five decades (2010). In between, Military
government initiated strict military action against Rohingya
Muslims and amended laws of citizenship, denouncing (1982)
Rohingya as their citizens.
This crisis continued and remained unresolved since
decades. Hundreds got killed and millions of Rohingya got
displaced and migrated in neighboring countries. Their own
country did not recognize them as their citizen, compelled them
movement of Rohingya and rights to access the education,
employment and healthcare treatment is completely restricted.
This problem is widely discussed in television debates and
newspaper editorials throughout the world, but less is written
about its possible solutions. So here are five point possible
solutions to tackle the Rohingya Humanitarian crisis.
1. It is not just Myanmar Military systematically targeting
Rohingya but also the majority community of Myanmar is also
involved in the violence. In this matter, no country or group of
nations can stop un-ending violence continued since decades by
waging war against Myanmar. If the country is attacked, it will
cause serious blow to country's democratic government and its
military will again get opportunity to take back the full control
of the country.
2. If Turkey or any other country is looking for military action
on Myanmar, it will prove to be a very wrong fate for Rohingya
living in Myanmar. For many years, the Military Government
and religious leaders overtook each other. They preached among
the majority Buddhist community that Rohingya Muslims are
hateful. If military action is embarked, this will bring the
innocent citizens of Myanmar at foreign targets; will cause
deaths and casualties of even those who have not been so
impressed by the propaganda of extremists. This will enrage the
majority community at large and that they are bearing these
losses just because of Rohingya and their foreign sympathizers.
3. International fraternity should exert pressure on Myanmar's
largest supporter China on various International Platforms,
such as ASEAN, SAARC and in United Nations. India,
Pakistan and Bangladesh should collaborate and should extend
cooperation to the Myanmars democratic government. In order
to maintain peace and order in South East Asia, neighboring
nations should emphasize the Myanmar government and its
military, that they should recognize Rohingya as their country's
citizens and take necessary measures for their safety and
security.
4. If China uses their hard power to invest millions of dollars in
Myanmar. India should use its Soft power to resolve this issue.
Vulnerable Rohingya Muslims are living in Delhi, Hyderabad
and Jammu, creating threat to internal security and burden on
Muslim religious leaders, Government of India should take
initiative to send a Peace Caravan from India to Myanmar. The
sole aim of this caravan must be to severe mutual hatred between
the Buddhist community and Rohingya Muslims. Government
of India and concerned civil society members should try to
initiate dialogues with thousands of Buddhist believers visiting
Bodh Gaya temple every year.
5. International fraternity should not only offer Rohingya
Muslims an opportunity to get education, skill based trainings
and employment in their nations but they should also offer
scholarships and job visas to Buddhist Community youth of
Myanmar. This engagement will empower the youth of newly
democratized nation to get an idea of civilized culture in
developed and developing societies about communal harmony
and living with peace among the diverse ethnical communities.
International fraternity should also seek opportunities for
continuous dialogue with Myanmar government, its
representatives, military establishment, religious leaders and
representatives of non-governmental organizations to solve the
problem. The solution of this matter seems to be possible in the
near future, if the dialogues remained continuous with all the
stakeholders.
Along with this, Rohingya Muslims should take this
into their consideration, that there is no solution to this problem
of violence against violence. Ahimsa the non-violence
principle of Mahatma Gandhi, states that the mightiest can be
brought to the ground. Whichever government perpetrates
violence against a community or ethnic group, it exposes its
intimidation in front of the entire world. But when the same
group responds to violence by violence, no one at the
international level sees who initiated the violence and thus this
gives government a moral sanction, to respond to violence with
extreme use of military actions. If some of the community
members take up arms against the government, in retaliation by
government many innocents of their own community would
bear collateral loss. Non-violence is the only way that will make
Rohingya cause justifiable and their struggle stronger and
powerful, regardless of how weak or less in numbers they are
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