The Impact of Statelessness on the Rohingya
June 3, 2010
Exposing Statelessness: Understanding the Plight of Burma’s Rohingya (May 27, 2010)
For decades, the xenophobic military junta in Burma has refused to recognize the Rohingya, a distinct Muslim ethnic minority living in western Burma, as one of the country’s many ethnic nationalities. As a result, the Rohingya have suffered human rights violations and a vast majority of them have been denied official recognition of citizenship.
Using Saiful Huq Omi’s photographs and the recent Physicians for Human Rights report Stateless and Starving: Persecuted Rohingya Flee Burma and Starve in Bangladesh as a point of departure, a recent forum explored the impact of statelessness on the Rohingya.
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