The Rohingyas reside in the Arakan (Rakhine) State in Burma. It is estimated that there are 800,000 Rohingyas in Arakan, constituting one-third of the population. The Rohingyas reside mainly in North Arakan and comprise 80% of the population there.
Rohingya Muslims are the most persecuted humans of the world declared by the United Nations. Doctors Without Borders calls them among the most likely to be extinct.
Since 1942, they have been facing more than 15 massacres in which thousands of people lost their lives in each massacre. They are not accepted as being a citizen of Burma from the time of late 1970s. They are not allowed to get any kind of government jobs. They are not allowed to go to any public schools, colleges, and universities. They are not allowed to open a bank account and do official transactions. They are not allowed to get married without the government's permission and to get the permission, they have to bribe the officials and wait for 2 years. Even then, only 3-5% of people get it. Most of the people are very poor and their only source of income comes from cultivating their lands. But wth every massacre, their lands have been snatched and occupied by the Buddhists and they are expelled to concentration camps.
Since no international media and human rights organizations are allowed to get in, it is difficult to get an accurate numerical picture of what is happening there. The numbers vary from 800 killed in the current round of genocide to tens of thousands raped, killed, and made homeless. At least 100,000 are in the concentration camps.
Source: Burma Task Force Canada (www.burmamuslims.org)
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Verily, Allah does not and will not forget any type of oppression done onto anyone. If the score isn't settled here, then it will be settled in the Hereafter.
Allah does not forget and we should try our best not to.
May Allah save the Rohingyans. Ameen.
Posted by Aiman Azlan (Toronto)
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