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There is a history of persecution of Muslims in Myanmar that continues to the present day. [2] Myanmar is a Buddhist majority country, with significant Christian and Muslim minorities . While Muslims served in the government of Prime Minister U Nu (1948–63), the situation changed with the 1962 Burmese coup d'état .
The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar.The genocide has consisted of two phases [3] [4] to date: the first was a military crackdown that occurred from October 2016 to January 2017, and the second has been occurring since August 2017. [5]
Rohingya persecution in Myanmar refers to a recurring pattern of persecution of the Rohingya people, a largely Muslim group in Myanmar. Examples include: Rohingya conflict, a series of ongoing violent clashes in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar Arakan massacres in 1942, commonly regarded as the event that started the conflict.
SPECIAL DISPATCH: Four years after Myanmar’s military coup sparked gunfighting, torture, rape and arson in Rakhine state, young Rohingya men are now being forcibly conscripted to fight for both ...
The Rohingya conflict is an ongoing conflict in the northern part of Rakhine State, Myanmar (formerly known as Arakan, Burma), [37] characterised by sectarian violence between the Rohingya Muslim and Rakhine Buddhist communities, a military crackdown on Rohingya civilians by Myanmar's security forces, [38] [39] [40] and militant attacks by Rohingya insurgents in Buthidaung, Maungdaw, and ...
The Rohingya have been long persecuted in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. More than 730,000 of them fled the country in 2017 after a military-led crackdown that the U.N. said was carried out with ...
The Rohingya have faced decades of persecution and, after a 2017 crackdown by the military, nearly one million fled to Bangladesh, where many now live in crowded refugee camps.
The Muslim Rohingya minority in the region has historically experienced persecution. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] Laws such as the 1982 Myanmar nationality law ban Rohingya people from obtaining citizenship, and military operations in 1978 , 1991 and 1992 against the Rohingya have led to their displacement throughout Rakhine State. [ 43 ]