The Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh: A Matter of White Elephant
The Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh: A Matter of White Elephant Background The Rohingya people (historically also called Arakanese Indians) are an Indo-Aryan stateless people from Myanmar, Rakhine State (Noor et al., 2011). They recognize themselves to be a separate group of Muslims indigenous to their society with a language and cultural identity. While they often referred to as "Rakhine Muslims," after Burma's independence in 1948, the name Rohingya spread widely (Ullah, 2011). 1948 Myanmar's government acknowledged Rohingya as a citizen of the state, but government rejected their citizenship in 1982 (Jaffer, 2017). Although being able
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