Rohingyan genocide - oppression of minorities Flashcards
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challenges indigenous people face today
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- “Left behind” in the sustainable development goals
- Usually poorest and most marginalised communities
- industrialisation takes indigenous land
- unequal use of resources
- 370 mil indigenous people over world
- Vulnerable to climate change as depend on land
- No say in politics as not many involved
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definition of indigenous
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- distinct social and cultural groups that share ancestral ties to lands and natural resources
3
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History of stolen generation in Australia
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- 1937 = not fully aboriginal people should be assimilated into population
- Aboriginal kids were being taken and placed with a foster family who was not indigenous
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problems the stolen generation created
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- tension and resentment towards government
- kids separated from culture so heritage dying out
- don’t know their language
- Discrimination towards aboriginals
- If returned don’t even know their families
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Who are the Rohingya
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stateless ethnic group who predominantly follow Islam and reside in Myanmar
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What is happening to the Rohingya
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- Regime wants to destroy Rohingya people so they are forced to flee
- Myanmar government isn’t allowing investigations
- Raping and killing by soldiers, land mines, massacres, villages burnt
- dying of starvation or exhaustion
- Camping near bangladesh border
- Camps crowded, flooded by monsoons, lack of food and water, disease
- Loosing their home land that have had generations
- Bangladesh doesn’t want them in
- In 1982 a law was passed that denied them citizenship so can’t travel, get married, own land etc
- victims of human trafficking
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Solutions to Rohingya genocide
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- Amnesty international collected evidence eg. statements from survivors and satellite imagery of burnt villages
- International Rescue Committee, Oxfam, and Save the Children
- UN condemned the ethnic cleansing and demanded that myanmar and Bangladesh make and agreement to return the refugees
