HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, STATE POLICY AND ETHNIC PROBLEM: THE CASE OF ROHINGYA IN MYANMAR

Abstract

The study examines the historical perspective to resolve the Rohingya crisis problem. The study finds that the Rohingya, a group of ethnic Muslim people have been living in Arakan, Myanmar over 1300 years but have no rights of Citizenship in Myanmar. From the independence in 1948 to present, there were no Myanmar government who was willing to give the rights and solve the Rohingya problem. Rather, during time being, several eras, thousands of the Rohingya people had to flew to Bangladesh from Arakan due to heavy torcher, destroy, and killing mission by the military under the all kinds of regime and have been living in Bangladesh. The Myanmar governments had no desire to bring them in Arakan. To resolve this problem, the government of Myanmar must change the state policy and give citizenship to the Rohingya people under the supervision of the United Nations or regional powerful countries.  

Key words: Rohingya, Arakan, Myanmar, ethnic people.