A New Dimension of Violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

A New Dimension of Violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2019
Genre: Ethnic conflict
ISBN:

Ethnic Rakhine insurgents have attacked four police stations in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, provoking a military counteroffensive. Escalation could imperil both prospects for Rohingya repatriation and the country’s transition toward civilian rule. All sides should step back from confrontation and pursue talks about Rakhine State’s future.

Myanmar's 'Rohingya' Conflict

Myanmar's 'Rohingya' Conflict
Author: Anthony Ware
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2018-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0190050314

The plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims has made international news in recent years. Reports of genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity are commonplace. The Rohingyas have been denied citizenship and are widely discriminated against. Hundreds of thousands have been internally displaced by violence, or have sought refuge in neighbouring or friendly Muslim countries. This conflict has become a litmus test for change in this country in transition, and current assessments are far from positive. Whitewashing by the military, and a refusal by Aung San Suu Kyi's government to even use the name 'Rohingya', adds to international scepticism. Exploring this long-running tripartite conflict between the Rohingya, Rakhine and Burman ethnic groups, this book offers a new analysis of the complexities of the conflict: the fears and motivations driving it and the competition to control historical representations and collective memory. By questioning these competing narratives, offering detailed sociopolitical analysis and examining the international dimensions of the conflict, this book offers new insights into what is preventing a peaceful resolution to this intractable conflict.

The Arakan Army in Myanmar

The Arakan Army in Myanmar
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.

Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar

Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar
Author: Nick Cheesman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2019-12-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367891879

Myanmar's recovery from half a century of military rule has been fraught. As in other religiously, culturally and linguistically heterogeneous countries where a dictatorship has loosened a tight grip, people there have wanted for democratic institutions to express and manage conflict. Under these circumstances, mundane and seemingly apolitical events sometimes unfold into moments of intense violence. Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar addresses one such violent chapter in Myanmar's recent past: the communal violence that shook the country between 2012 and 2014. The violence, most of it involving Buddhists attacking Muslims, ranged from localised, fleeting, inter-group melees, to large scale, apparently well-organised, state-supported killing and destruction of property of a targeted community, running over a number of days. The book's seven chapters comprise a response to the violence by a group of Myanmar and Southeast Asia experts. Their contributions trace the histories and contemporary features of the violence, and the legal and political arrangements that made it possible. Their interpretations, while specific to Myanmar, also contribute to broader debate about the characteristics, causes and consequences of communal violence generally. The chapters were originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Contemporary Asia.

The Rakhine State Violence

The Rakhine State Violence
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.

Myanmar's Enemy Within

Myanmar's Enemy Within
Author: Francis Wade
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1783605308

For decades Myanmar has been portrayed as a case of good citizen versus bad regime – men in jackboots maintaining a suffocating rule over a majority Buddhist population beholden to the ideals of non-violence and tolerance. But in recent years this narrative has been upended. In June 2012, violence between Buddhists and Muslims erupted in western Myanmar, pointing to a growing divide between religious communities that before had received little attention from the outside world. Attacks on Muslims soon spread across the country, leaving hundreds dead, entire neighbourhoods turned to rubble, and tens of thousands of Muslims confined to internment camps. This violence, breaking out amid the passage to democracy, was spurred on by monks, pro-democracy activists and even politicians. In this gripping and deeply reported account, Francis Wade explores how the manipulation of identities by an anxious ruling elite has laid the foundations for mass violence, and how, in Myanmar’s case, some of the most respected and articulate voices for democracy have turned on the Muslim population at a time when the majority of citizens are beginning to experience freedoms unseen for half a century.

Reframing the Crisis in Myanmar's Rakhine State

Reframing the Crisis in Myanmar's Rakhine State
Author: Gabrielle Aron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 5
Release: 2018
Genre: Ethnic conflict
ISBN: 9781601276988

This Peace Brief highlights the ways in which national and international narratives surrounding the recent Rakhine State crisis in Myanmar have shaped political dynamics and how the situation has evolved.