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19. Sept. 2017 · Seit 2011, als die Militärdiktatur in Myanmar die Macht (teilweise) an gewählte Politiker übergab, schüren buddhistische Mönche Feindseligkeit gegen die Minderheit. Im Zentrum steht dabei der ...
Myanmar is a Buddhist majority country, with significant Christian and Muslim minorities. While Muslims served in the government of Prime Minister U Nu (1948–63), the situation changed with the 1962 Burmese coup d'état. While a few continued to serve, most Christians and Muslims were excluded from positions in the government and army. [3] .
The Muslims of Myanmar are the descendants of Arabs, Persians, Turks, Moors, Indian-Muslims, sheikhs, Pakistanis, Pathans, Bengalis, Chinese Muslims and Malays who settled and intermarried with local Burmese and many ethnic Myanmar groups such as, Rakhine, Shan, Karen, Mon etc. [34] [35]
Rohingya Muslims represent the largest percentage of Muslims in Myanmar, with the majority living in Rakhine state. They have their own language and culture and say they are descendants of Arab...
The persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar dates back to the 1970s. [11] Since then, the Rohingya people have been persecuted on a regular basis by the government and nationalist Buddhists. [12] The tensions between the various religious groups in the country were often exploited by past military rulers of Myanmar. [53]
21. März 2022 · Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar since the military crackdown that began in 2017. More than 6,000 people were killed in the first month of the onslaught.
Myanmar is now facing a genocide trial at the International Court of Justice in the Hague over its treatment of the Rohingyas. That the same army is now forcibly recruiting them is a telling sign...
