The conflict affects the
Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic
group, who are attacked by
the Buddhist Burmeses.
Who are the
Rohingya?
The Rohingya are considered an
ethnic group; a minority, mostly
Muslim, that is persecuted by the
Burmese State. The United Nations
describes them as a nation “without
state” and “virtually without friends”,
not even in their own continent.
What has been
taken place?
Since the 2nd World War, this
ethnic group has problems
with the Burmese People
because of their religions, the
Burmese People is Buddhist
and the Rohingya are Muslims,
what always causes conflicts
among them.
What radical violent
actions have been
taken place?
Torture, negligence and
repression, also this ethnic
group has tried to defend
themselves but the government
has made counteroffensives
aggravating the situation
Where have the
Rohingya gone?
The Rohingya have concentrated in
Maungdaw and Buthidaung, two of the
poorest cities in Myanmar. Thanks to the
violence they face in their country, most
of the Rohingya population have flee to
the neighbor country Bangladesh.
Where are they
planned to be
relocated?
Bangladesh, the country where many
of the Rohingya population have
migrated, is planning to relocate these
immigrants in an isolated island that
was recently discovered just eight
years earlier to this proposal
What has Aung
San Suu Kyi
said and done?
She is a Burmese politician, is the leader of the National
League for Democracy and the first and incumbent State
Counsellor. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. She is also
the first woman to serve as Minister for Foreign Affairs.
She created a commission of experts, chaired by former U.N.
secretary general Kofi Annan, to investigate the violence.
Foreign pressure on her to stop the Rohingya crisis seems
to have made her even more intransigent. Her indifference
has hurt aid organizations’ ability to get people on the
ground and to potentially raise money to help the Rohingya.
Have the Rohingyabeen
given the status of
“refugees”?
Officially, they are treated as
Bengali immigrants, confined in
large ghettos - in very precarious
conditions - and the violence
against them is not curtailed.
What has the most
well-known Buddhist
leader the Dalai
Lama has stated?
Tibetan Buddhists believe Tension Gyatso is the 14th
reincarnation of the original Dalai Lama. He has trod
a careful line which has kept him spiritually pure
but also politically crafty. The Dalai Lama is the man
who brought Buddhism to Hollywood. If people find
their own culture's spiritual traditions, he says, they
should look into themselves to find out why. But his
charisma and tolerance have made him one of the
best-known religious figures alive today. He won the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
Why is it
consider an
ethnic cleansing?
They are considered to be trying to cleanse
their ethnicity because they can not marry
or travel without permission from the
country's authorities and have no right to
land or other property. They are practically
not totally separated from any civilization,
which seems an attempt to disappear the
ethnicity.
Ariadna Martínez
Fernando Aceves
Carolina O'Quinn
Alberto Moreno
Vianney Iniesta