{"id":35301,"date":"2018-10-31T16:18:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35301"},"modified":"2018-10-31T16:18:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:48:15","slug":"there-is-a-rohingya-in-all-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/there-is-a-rohingya-in-all-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"There is a Rohingya in all of us:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/there-is-a-rohingya-in-all-of-us\/article19627155.ece\">There is a Rohingya in all of us<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Centre refused to revise its stance on deporting Rohingya immigrants from India.<\/li>\n<li>What is the present-day situation?<\/li>\n<li>Rohingya are being forced to flee the violence in Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine state.<\/li>\n<li>The Minister of State for Home Affairs informed Parliament that 40,000 Rohingya are yet to be deported.<\/li>\n<li>The Government of India has returned to an idea of hard state, dropping its dreams of compassion, care and civility.<\/li>\n<li>Most persecuted minority<\/li>\n<li>Rohingya are the world\u2019s most persecuted minority<\/li>\n<li>They are Muslims belonging to the Sunni sect, scattered mainly over the Rakhine state of Myanmar.<\/li>\n<li>Harassed by the Myanmar Army and forced to serve as slave labor, they have been systematically persecuted by the Buddhist majority.<\/li>\n<li>They were denied an autonomous cultural status.<\/li>\n<li>They lost all claims to the entitlements of citizenship.<\/li>\n<li>They were denied access to health, education and also any claim to the idea of citizenship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>An unhurried exodus<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Persecuted by the army and the Buddhist majority, they began a slow exodus over India, Bangladesh, spreading to States such as Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, moving as far as Tamil Nadu and Kerala.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The Rohingya then attempted to cross into Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 It is still unclear whether Rohingya are refugees or illegal migrants.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Refugees become a target for an informal economy of bonded labour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Being inhuman or just practical?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0On August 18, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued a notice to the government over its plan to deport Rohingya staying illegally in India<\/li>\n<li>However, despite all the efforts by the NHRC the decision stands<\/li>\n<li>The government has the obligation to protect and harbor anybody during difficult times, no matter they are a group of refuge, however it also holds a bigger responsibility to safeguard the interests of its citizens first.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a Rohingya in all of us: Context\u00a0 \u00a0 The Centre refused to revise its stance on deporting Rohingya immigrants from India. What is the present-day situation? Rohingya are being forced to flee the violence in Myanmar\u2019s Rakhine state. The Minister of State for Home Affairs informed Parliament that 40,000 Rohingya are yet to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/there-is-a-rohingya-in-all-of-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There is a Rohingya in all of us:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704666181},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}