The Rakhine State (Arakan) of Myanmar
Author | : Swapna Bhattacharya |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Ethnic conflict |
ISBN | : 9789350980620 |
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Author | : Swapna Bhattacharya |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Ethnic conflict |
ISBN | : 9789350980620 |
Author | : Martin Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Communalism |
ISBN | : 9789070563691 |
Author | : Anthony Ware |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190928867 |
Offers new analysis of the complexities of the conflict and new insights into what is preventing a peaceful resolution to this intractable
Author | : David Scott Mathieson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 23 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Arakanese (Burmese people) |
ISBN | : 9781601278340 |
Armed conflict in Myanmar's Rakhine State between the Arakan Army and the Tatmadaw, the national army, has escalated sharply in the past two years. This development has been largely eclipsed, however, by the continuing international focus on the human rights crisis of the Rohingya Muslim minority. As this report explains, if this new conflict continues to expand in scope and ferocity, the hope of repatriating Rohingya refugees will recede into the future and the rest of the country will suffer from the increasing violence and destabilization.
Author | : John Clifford Holt |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2019-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0824881877 |
Myanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis is a probing search into the reasons and rationalizations behind the violence occurring in Myanmar, especially the oppressive military campaigns waged against Rohingya Muslims by the army in 2016 and 2017. Over more than three years John Holt traveled around Myanmar engaging in sustained conversations with prominent and articulate participants and observers. What emerges from his peregrinations is a series of compelling portraits revealing both deep insights and entrenched misunderstandings. To understand the conflict, Holt must first accurately capture the viewpoints of his different conversation partners, who include Buddhists and Muslims, men and women, monks and laypeople, activists and scholars. Conversations range widely over issues such as the rise of Buddhist nationalism; the sometimes enigmatic and unexpected positions taken by Aung San Suu Kyii; use of the controversial term “Rohingya”; the impact of state-sponsored propaganda on the Burmese public; resistance to narratives emanating from international media, the United Nations, and the international diplomatic community; the frustrations of local political leaders who have felt left out of the policy-making process in the Rakhine State; and the constructive hopes and efforts still being made by forward-looking activists in Yangon. Three main perspectives emerge from the voices he listens to, those of Arakanese Buddhists who are native to Rakhine (once called Arakan), where much of the conflict has taken place; Burmese Buddhists (or Bamars), who make up the vast majority of Myanmar’s population; and the Rohingya Muslims, whose tragic story has been widely disseminated by the international media. What surfaces in conversation after conversation among all three groups is a narrative of siege: all see themselves as the aggrieved party, and all recount a history of being under siege. John Holt gives voice to these different perspectives as an engaged and concerned participant, offering both a critical and empathetic account of Myanmar’s tragic predicament. Readers follow the hopes and dismay of this seasoned scholar of Theravada Buddhism as he seeks his own understanding of the variously impassioned forces in play in this still unfolding drama.
Author | : Ashley South |
Publisher | : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2018-05-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9814786225 |
Myanmar is going through a period of profound - and contested - transition. The country has experienced widespread if sometimes uneven reforms, including the start of a peace process between the government and Myanmar Army, and some two dozen ethnic armed organizations, which had long been fighting for greater autonomy from the militarized and Burman-dominated state. This book brings together chapters by Burmese and foreign experts, and contributions from community and political leaders, who discuss the meaning of citizenship in Myanmar/Burma. The book explores citizenship in relation to three broad categories: issues of identity and conflict; debates around concepts and practices of citizenship; and inter- and intra-community issues, including Buddhist-Muslim relations. This is the first volume to address these issues, understanding and resolving which will be central to Myanmar's continued transition away from violence and authoritarianism.
Author | : Arakan Human Rights and Development Organisation (Thailand) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Buddhists |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Shwe Lu Maung |
Publisher | : Khan Publications |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2014-09-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781928840107 |
The Rakhine State Violence Vol. II: The Rohingya The Rakhine State Violence by Shwe Lu Maung is published in two volumes. The Volume 1. The Rakhaing Revolution (ISBN 13: 978-1928840-09-1) deals with the strategic problems of the decolonization of Burma (Myanmar). The author asserts that the recognition of the Rohingya rights is a part of the decolonization of Myanmar. In the 2014 Myanmar census more than 1.3 million identified themselves Rohingya. The self-identification is a birthright that every human has. Nevertheless, the Myanmar authorities did not accept their identity "Rohingya" and excluded them from the 2014 census. The Myanmar authorities announced that the "Rohingya" will be included in the census only if the "Rohingya" accept the identity "Bengali." The Myanmar government labeled them "illegal Bengali immigrants." The Rohingya, more than one million, claim that they are the indigenous to Arakan. They defy the injustice and brave to live a "stateless life" in the concentration camps or in the open prisons. Now they are known as the 'internally displaced persons' or IDP. Keeping this in mind, the author explores the Rohingya issues various angles that includes the followings- 1. The 'out-of-Africa' human migration. 2. The population genetics 3. The Anthropological approach 4. The history 5. The traditions 6. The historical materialism 7. The politics 8. The human rights 9. The common humanity In The Rakhine State Violence, Vol. II: The Rohingya the author made a scientific and revolutionary approach in exploring the Rohingya crisis. The author, Shwe Lu Maung, a biological scientist by profession, is a former Burmese guerrilla, and this is his third book on Burma. His earlier books are (1) Shwe Lu Maung, Burma Nationalism and Ideology, University Press Ltd., Dhaka, 1989, and (2) Shwe Lu Maung, The Price of Silence: Muslim-Buddhist War of Bangladesh and Myanmar - A Social Darwinist's Analysis, DewDrop Arts & Technology, USA, 2005.
Author | : Pamela Gutman |
Publisher | : Weatherhill, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This thorough introduction to the history, art, and culture of Arakan, an ancient state located in the northeast corner of Burma, explains and illustrates how Southeast Asia from the beginning of the first millennium absorbed and reinterpreted the influences of many cultures. It is written by a noted scholar who visited the area over many years while conducting research for her doctoral thesis on Arakan. Off the Bay of Bengal, in the northwest corner of Burma lie the splendid capital cites of ancient Arakan; Dhanyaawadi, Vesali and Mrauk-U (Myohaung) being the largest. Mentioned in Ptolemy's "Geographia" (2nd century), Arakan was from earliest times a cosmopolitan state with a vigorous and mixed culture. Indian Brahmins conducted the royal ceremonials, Buddhist monks spread their teachings, traders came and went, and artists and architects used Indian models for inspiration. Through Buddhism, Arakan came into contact with other remote countries, including Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet, and China. To the east were the many early empires of Southeast Asia: Burman, Siamese, and Khmer, while later came influences from the Islamic courts of Bengal and Delhi. This is the first comprehensive study on the history, art, and culture of Arakan. It also serves as an excellent introduction to the hitherto almost unknown bronze and stone art of Arakan.
Author | : Azeem Ibrahim |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Burma |
ISBN | : 1849049734 |
The Rohingya are a Muslim group who live in Rakhine state (formerly Arakan state) in western Myanmar (Burma), a majority Buddhist country. According to the United Nations, they are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. They suffer routine discrimination at the hands of neighboring Buddhist Rakhine groups, but international human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) have also accused Myanmar's authorities of being complicit in a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya Muslims. The Rohingya face regular violence, arbitrary arrest and detention, extortion, and other abuses, a situation that has been particularly acute since 2012 in the wake of a serious wave of sectarian violence. Islam is practiced by around 4% of the population of Myanmar, and most Muslims also identify as Rohingya. Yet the authorities refuse to recognize this group as one of the 135 ethnic groups or 'national races' making up Myanmar's population. On this basis, Rohingya individuals are denied citizenship rights in the country of their birth, and face severe limitations on many aspects of an ordinary life, such as marriage or movement around the country. This expose of the attempt to erase the Rohingyas from the face of Myanmar is sure to gain widespread attention.