Bhattacharjee
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Geographical map of the Rakhine State. © Myanmar Information Management Unit 2017. https://reliefweb.int/map/myanmar/myanmar-district-maprakhine-state-23-oct-2017-enmy.
The distinctiveness of the Rohingya community has been
governmentally, politically, and administratively infested by offering
two solid unions in Myanmar, namely the Pro-Rohingya and the AntiRohingya. Historical analysis of the Rohingya community is similarly
disputed, and the people who are affirmative towards this community
declare that during the 9th century, Rohingya settlement was done in
Myanmar by mixing with Bengalis, Turks, Moghuls, and Persians
(Ullah, 2016). This argument focuses on the traditionally diverse
demography of Rakhine (Albert and Maizland, 2020). In contrast, the
Anti-Rohingya bloc declares that Rohingya is an up-to-date, selfproduced individuality created by illegal Chittagongnian Bengali
immigrants entering Myanmar due to the rule of the British colony.
The Government of Myanmar (GOM) applies the word “Bengali” that
recommends status as migrants for labeling Rohingya. Moreover, the
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Rohingya community is not accepted as inhabitants of Myanmar;
rather, people of this Muslim minority group are termed as “resident
foreigners” (Ullah, 2016). Accordingly, Rohingyas are deprived of a
state-individuality or identity and residency and are effectually
stateless (Farzana, 2017: 2).
The Government of Myanmar has been oppressing Rohingyas for
hundreds of years. Due to the intentions of the Myanmar authorities,
people of the Rohingya community have been excluded from the national
identity of Myanmar (Ullah and Chattoraj, 2018). Bangladesh similarly
ignores the people of this community, and the Government of Bangladesh
(GOB) claimed that the Rohingya issue is Myanmar’s own problem.
This paper aims to explore why Rohingyas are stateless or
excluded systematically from some significant human, social and
political rights and confront interference even in their personal life
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