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Rohingya
The Worlds Most Forgotten People

Bangladesh and Burma , two of Asia 's poorest nations , displaced and stateless people of Rohingya suffer in silence at the hands of the military government in Burma 's Orwellian new capital of Naypyidaw Bangladesh. This is not the first time that Rohingya Muslims were persecuted in Myanmar. In their history, such mass killings have happened several times. People of Rohingya are being crashed to death. Their children are starving in the darkness of dawn in this Asian century. India and China are interested in resuscitating decrepit colonial era ports and WWII era transport routes in their weak states in the name of securing resources for their respective domestic economic progress. In Myanmar the year 2012, Buddhist monks issued religious edicts banning social and economic ties with the Rohingya people and yet they are consisted the world’s most forgotten people. We are all college students in Texas, how does a group of people located across the planet affect us? We are all studying to become someone or achieve something, we are the future. If we are ignorant to the sufferings of individuals then each death becomes just a statistic instead of a life lost and 50,000 deaths become reassuring as long as it is not a million. The Rohingyas are called the world’s most forgotten people because the few that know about the genocide that they are enduring are doing nothing about it. I believe we should all be aware of who the Rohingyas are, why they are prosecuted and the global response to this tragedy. Rohingya Muslims are arguably becoming one of the most endangered populations in this world, and definitely one by which is experiencing an absolute amount of remarkable trauma among their people. Rohingyas people are fighting to stay a live and fighting to protect their identity. According to a July 2012 article by Syed Zubair Ahmad, in 1982 the Rohingyas were stripped of their citizen rights in Myanmar through the Citizenship Law thus

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