Impact of Genocide Towards the People, Environment and International Relations

When we talk about impact of the genocide, of course that most of the impacts are the negative impacts, because right now, we’re talking about the big number of people getting killed mercilessly by the armed forces of Myanmar. In addition, the Rohingya are the minority ethnics that didn’t get any recognization by the central government of Myanmar nor the Rakhine’s dominant ethnic Buddhist group. In other words, the name of ‘Rohingya’, is a self-proclaimed group of people that surfaced in the 1950s. The Rakhine community as a whole has tended to be cast internationally as violent extremists – ignoring the diversity of opinions that exist, the fact that the Rakhine themselves are a long-oppressed minority, and rarely attempting to understand their perspective and concerns. This is counterproductive: it promotes a siege mentality on the part of the Rakhine, and obscures complex realities that must be understood if a sustainable way forward is to be found (International Crisis Group, 2014).

The white cards, that give the temporary residents to the Rohingya

As for the Rohingya’s legal status, they somehow, do not have any legal documentation, and thus, made their status as stateless people. Myanmar’s 1948 citizenship law was already exclusionary, and the military junta, which seized power in 1962, introduced another law twenty years later that stripped the Rohingya of access to full citizenship (Albert, 2018). Yes, the government do offered the Rohingya the idenfication as temporary residents, known as white cards. The white cards granted rights, but after we looked on how the government treated the people, is this the correct treatment that they reserve. White card holders were allowed to vote in Myanmar’s referendum and 2010 general elections but President Thein Sein canceled the temporary identity cards in February 2015, effectively revoking their newly gained right to vote (Albert, 2018). So, where’s the so-called human rights that has been promoted by Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize Winner and one of the greatest human right activists. Why didn’t she condemned any of the junta’s action,as the act that against human rights?

This genocide crisis has somehow, provoke to the great impact towards regional stability. As we have stated before, the state of Rakhine has a shared border between India, Bangladesh and Myanmar, and this mix borders is an unstable mix of ethnic insurgencies and communal tension. In the infamous Indian seven sister states, a host of insurgencies encompassing all the states are raging with mass attacks on civilians, and armed forces have expanded beyond the border with a purported Indian special forces raid inside Myanmar territory (Jawad Falak, 2015). As from this statement, we can see that Rohingyas are trapped in a very serious issue, where they, themselves doesn’t have any figures to back up their rights, and somehow, their place has a great tensions between the three big nations.

Based on this map, we can see that Rakhine has shared border between 3 nations ; Bangladesh,India and Myanmar

As of October 2018, according to the United Nations, 80 thousand Rohingya were in Malaysia, and tens of thousands of others are in the country unregistered. Rohingya who arrive safely in Malaysia have no legal status and are unable to work, leaving their families cut off from access to education and health care. Based on this action made by Malaysia, we can see that Malaysia has played its role towards human right, as Malaysia is one of the Muslims countries, and they promoted the fairness towards human rights. But, on the other side, the international relations between Malaysia and Myanmar will somehow affected towards this actions, because, we know that Myanmar does not recognized the Rohingya. The Rohingya also seek asylum from Indonesia, where Indonesia President Joko Widodo pledged more help during a visit to refugee camps in Bangladesh in January 2018.