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Who are Rohingyas?
The Rohingyas are a stateless Indo-Aryan people from Rakhine State, Myanmar. There were an estimated 1 million Rohingya living in Myanmar before the 2016–17 crisis. Majority of them are Muslim while a minority are Hindu. Described by the United Nations in 2013 as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world, the Rohingya population are denied citizenship under the 1982 Myanmar nationality law. According to Human Rights Watch, the 1982 laws effectively deny to the Rohingya the possibility of acquiring a nationality. Despite being able to trace Rohingya history to the 8th century, Myanmar law does not recognize the ethnic minority as one of the eight national races. They are also restricted from freedom of movement, state education and civil service jobs. The legal conditions faced by the Rohingya in Myanmar have been compared with apartheid.

The Rohingyas have faced military crackdowns in 1978, 1991–1992, 2012, 2015 and 2016–2017. UN officials and HRW have described Myanmar's persecution of the Rohingya as ethnic cleansing. The UN human rights envoy to Myanmar reported the long history of discrimination and persecution against the Rohingya community... could amount to crimes against humanity, and there have been warnings of an unfolding genocide. Yanghee Lee, the UN special investigator on Myanmar, believes the country wants to expel its entire Rohingya population. Under the 2008 constitution, the Myanmar military still control much of the country's government, including the ministries of home, defense and border affairs, 25% of seats in parliament and one vice president.

The Rohingya maintain they are long-standing residents of western Myanmar, with their community being the descendants of the inhabitants of precolonial Arakan and colonial Arakan. Rohingya legislators and MPs were elected to the Parliaments of Myanmar until persecution increased in the late-20th century. Despite accepting the term Rohingya in the past, the current official position of the Myanmar government is that Rohingyas are not a national race, but are illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh. Myanmar's government has stopped recognizing the term Rohingya and prefers to refer to the community as Bengalis. Rohingya campaign groups, notably the Arakan Rohingya National Organization, demand the right to self-determination within Myanmar.

Probes by the UN have found evidence of increasing incitement of hatred and religious intolerance by ultra-nationalist Buddhists against Rohingyas while the Myanmar security forces have been conducting summary executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture and ill-treatment and forced labour against the community. According to the United Nations, the human rights violations against the Rohingyas could be termed crimes against humanity.
Before the 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis and the military crackdown in 2016 and 2017, the Rohingya population in Myanmar was around 1.1 to 1.3 million, chiefly in the northern Rakhine townships, which were 80–98% Rohingya. Over 900,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to southeastern Bangladesh as well as to other surrounding countries, and major Muslim nations. More than 100,000 Rohingyas in Myanmar are confined in camps for internally displaced persons. Following a Rohingya rebel attack that killed 12 security forces, August 25, 2017, the military launched clearance operations that left 400-3000 dead, many more injured, tortured or raped, villages burned, and over 400,000 Rohingya (about 40% of the remaining Rohingya in Myanmar) fleeing to Bangladesh. Rejected by the country they call home and unwanted by its neighbours, the Rohingya are impoverished, virtually stateless and have been fleeing Myanmar in droves and for decades.
The modern term Rohingya emerged from colonial and pre-colonial terms Rooinga and Rwangya.The Rohingya refer to themselves as Ruáingga. In the dominant languages of the region, they are known as rui hang gya (following the MLCTS) in Burmese and Rohingga in Bengali. The term Rohingya may come from Rakhanga or Roshanga, the words for the state of Arakan. The word Rohingya would then mean inhabitant of Rohang, which was the early Muslim name for Arakan. Andrew Tan argues it comes from the Arabic word Raham (God's blessing) and speculates that early Muslims in Arakan referred to themselves as God's blessed people.

버마의 아파르트헤이트 Burma's Apartheid (Korean)

버마 서부 아라칸 주 시뜨웨, 로힝야 무슬림과 라까잉 불교도들이 여러세기 동거해온 이 도시의 거리에 무슬림은 이제 얼씬 거릴 수 없다. 2012년 6월과 10월, 두차례 벌어진 로힝야 무슬림 학살은 한때 도심 인구 절반이었다는 무슬림을 모조리 게토로 몰아냈다. 도심외곽 피난민 (IDPs) 캠프, 아니면 도심복판 ‘아웅 밍갈라’. 전자는 광활한 벌판 게토이고, 후자는 시한폭탄 게토다. 그리고 버마의 아파르트 헤이트다.

2013 - 2014년 리영희재단의 취재지원으로 수행한 버마프로젝트의 첫 멀티미디어이자 2013년 8월 취재물입니다.

Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State in Western Burma has succeeded in virtually ‘Muslims-Free Street’ ever since the sectarian violence turned to be a massacre of Rohingya Muslims took place in 2012. From busy market to quiet alley, Muslims have been driven out to be seen nowhere. Yet they are found either IDPs Camp on the outskirt of Sittwe, or the last Muslims quarter of the city named Aung Mingalar.
The Camp is vast ghetto field sheltering more than a hundred of thousands Muslims. Aung Mingalar is a ‘ghetto in downtown’ which is surrounded by several checkpoints and invisible but vigilant Buddhists neighbors. It is nothing short of segregation motivated racially and religiously. And I call it ‘Burma’s Apartheid‘. First minutes featured the shooting incident by security forces occurred on Aug.9 2013 and aftermath.

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Commission probing sectarian violence issues proposals to ease tensions

SHOTLIST
FILE: Sittwe, Myanmar - 15 June 2012
1. Tracking shot of tents set up for Rohingya fleeing violence, Rohingya Muslims watching by side of road
2. Various of people on road
FILE: Rakhine state, Myanmar - 31 July 2012
3. Wide of Rohingya Muslim refugees in front of camp holding banners
4. Close up of banner reading, (English): Why do we live under human rights violation?
Yangon, Myanmar - 29 April 2013
5. Wide of news conference room at Myanmar Peace Centre
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Yin Yin New, Former UNICEF official and member of the Investigation commission: ++Audio quality as incoming++
''What the report does say is that the high birth rates among the Bengalis and Rakhine has contributed to heightened tensions and heightened fears. For instance the fact that in Botataung and Maungdaw now the Bengalis are 94 percent, whereas the non-Bengali groups are about 6 percent. So you can see that the high population growth rates have again added to the tensions.
7. Cutaway of media
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Yin Yin New, Former UNICEF official and member of the Investigation commission:
You know different people have different viewpoints. We only know that the Tamado, The Armed forces, were able to restore order after few days of violent killings.
9. Cutaway close-up of journalist taking notes
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Yin Yin New, Former UNICEF official and member of the Investigation commission:
What is the official name that the commission has used to describe the people from both sides? On the Rakhine side it is clearly Rakhine. And on the other side we use the name Bengali, because this is the official term as part of the citizenship laws and so on.
11. Mid of Muhammad Salim, leader of National Development and Peace Party talking to the members of the investigative commission
12. SOUNDBITE (Burmese) Muhammad Salim, leader of National Development and Peace Party:
''There can be lots of disagreements in this report. First they addressed us as Bengalis. We are not Bengali, we are Rohingya, that is one of the ethnic groups in this country. We are the citizens of this country since we were born here.''
Bangkok, Thailand - 29 April 2013
13. Myanmar President Thein Sein arriving at UN building in Bangkok for a forum on natural disasters and economic crises
14. Thein Sein with other delegates
15. Close of Thein Sein
16. Wide of Thein Sein receiving a plaque of recognition at forum, honouring his vision and courage in steering Myanmar along the road of democracy
FILE: Sittwe, Myanmar - 15 June 2012
17. Various of armed police patrolling deserted Rohingya Muslim area
18. Wide of deserted street and damaged Muslim homes
19. Wide of damage to Muslim homes, as a soldier stands in street
STORYLINE
A government-appointed commission investigating sectarian violence in western Myanmar last year, issued proposals on Monday to ease tensions in the region.
The proposals included doubling the number of security forces in the volatile region and introducing family planning programmes to stem population growth among minority Muslims.
The committee said it is unlikely some 100-thousand displaced Rohingya Muslims would be returned to their homes anytime soon, saying the widespread segregation of Buddhists and Muslims is a temporary fix that must be enforced for now.
Two outbreaks of unrest between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in June and October left nearly 200 people dead and forced tens of thousands of people, mostly Muslims, to flee burning homes.
The violence appeared to begin spontaneously, but by October had morphed into anti-Muslim pogroms across western Rakhine state that spread last month into central Myanmar.
Its findings had been delayed several times.
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It is vital the information we are going to share with you is made viral as quickly as possible. The ethnic Rohingya people of Myanmar Burma in Southeast Asia are about to be massacred. Barbarous acts are being carried out by Neo-Nazi racist groups like the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party, Arakan Liberation Army, NaSaKa border police and 969 monks led by Monk Wirathu, the self proclaimed Bin Laden of Buddhism. The Government of Myanmar is orchestrating these crimes.

The persecution of the Rohingya people is severe. The Burmese junta considers them to be sub-human and denies them almost all basic human rights. They are subject to torture, gang rape, starvation, slave labor, and forced to reside in the most dire camps in the world - some call these refugee camps but they are actually concentration camps. Over the past few months, thousands of Rohingya have been encouraged onto boats and sent out to sea with not enough food or fuel, and left there to die. Many boats were attacked and sunk, with women and children on board.

Already the violence in Burma has spread beyond the Rohingya to include all Muslims, with 'warm ups' to the anticipated massacre taking place against Burmese Muslims in Meiktila, Naypyidaw and Yangon. Dead and burning bodies, including children, are now lying in the streets.

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Profile; Education: 2010 M.A. Contemporary Art History with a focus on Southeast Asia, University of Manchester with Sotheby’s Institute, Singapore . 2006 B.A. Fine Art, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Nathalie Johnston is Founder and Director of Myanm/art, Gallery and art space and co-founder of MARCA Myanmar Art Resource centre and Archive . She was investigates contemporary Myanmar art and promotes artists to local and international audiences. Since 2009 lived and work in Yangon, Nathalie Johnston (United States/Myanmar) is a curator and researcher currently in Yangon where she has been involved in numerous independent projects and initiatives. In 2016, she founded Myanm/art, an exhibition space, gallery, and reading room dedicated to promoting contemporary art in Myanmar by developing collaborations and showcasing artists’ works to local and international audiences. In 2013, she co-founded Myanmar Art Resource Center and Archive (MARCA), an archive and resource centre that aims to become the largest bilingual digital resource on the history and current state of the arts in Myanmar. Johnston is also the director of the art initiative TS1 Yangon and co-founder of Pyinsa Rasa art collective.

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Artist Profile; Htein Lin is a Burmese artist (painting, installation, performance) and writer, and has also been a comedian and actor. Born in 1966 in Ingapu, Ayeyarwady Division, he was active in the 1988 student movement at Rangoon University where he studied law. Going underground after the military takeover, he spent almost four years in a refugee camp in Indian border. and in an ABSDF (Northern Branch) student rebel camp at Pajau on the Chinese border. Escaping and returning to Yangon in May 1992, He held two solo shows in 1996 and 1997. Arrested in 1998 and jailed on spurious accusations of opposition activity, he spent almost seven years in jail (1998-2004). During this time he developed his artistic practice, using items available to him like bowls and cigarette lighters in the absence of brushes to make paintings and monoprints on the cotton prison uniform. Htein Lin pioneered performance art in Burma in 1996 and continued to perform for fellow inmates while in prison. Following his release, his Rangoon street performance ‘Mobile Art Gallery/Mobile Market’ in May 2005 led to 5 more days of interrogation. During the period 2006-2011 he also performed in the UK and Thailand, at the US Library of Congress (2009) and at festivals and events in Finland, France, Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, and Bangladesh. Many of his performances are intended to raise awareness of the political situation in Burma. Since leaving Burma for the first time in 2006, Htein Lin regularly participates in exhibitions and art festivals globally, as well as events and projects to promote freedom of speech, particularly in Burma. (Ref: hteinlin.com)

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Mizoram (English: ( listen)) is a state in Northeast India, with Aizawl as its capital city. The name is derived from Mizo, the name of the native inhabitants, and Ram, which means land, and thus Mizoram means land of the Mizos. Within the northeast region, it is the southernmost landlocked state, sharing borders with three of the Seven Sister States, namely Tripura, Assam and Manipur. The state also shares a 722 kilometre border with the neighbouring countries of Bangladesh and Myanmar.Like several other northeastern states of India, Mizoram was previously part of Assam until 1972, when it was carved out as a Union Territory. It became the 23rd state of India, a step above Union Territory, on 20 February 1987, with Fifty-Third Amendment of Indian Constitution, 1986.Mizoram's population was 1,091,014, according to a 2011 census. It is the 2nd least populous state in the country. Mizoram covers an area of approximately 21,087 square kilometres. About 91% of the state is forested.About 95% of the current population is of diverse tribal origins who settled in the state, mostly from Southeast Asia, over waves of migration starting about the 16th century but mainly in the 18th century. This is the highest concentration of tribal people among all states of India, and they are currently protected under Indian constitution as a Scheduled Tribe. Mizoram is one of three states of India with a Christian majority (87%). Its people belong to various denominations, mostly Presbyterian in the north and Baptists in the south.
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