Sacrifice In Brave New World

Over 100,000 Rohingya have been murdered. The Rohingya are an Islamic minority that live in Rakhine State, Burma, which is near Bangladesh. They have resided there for centuries, yet the Burmese government refuses to give them humanitarian aid unless they sign documents as Bengalis, or in other words, illegal immigrants. In 2012, local political leaders and Buddhist monks started targeting the Rohingya with hate speeches towards Muslims, and since then, the violence and hatred have escalated. Humanitarian aid has been prevented from helping the Rohingya, and the government denies that any genocidal acts have taken place although reports say otherwise. The government denies them citizenship and continues to ignore their situation although Burma’s
Elie Wiesel said, “But this time, the world was not silent. This time we do respond. This time, we intervene. Does this mean we have learned from the past? Does this mean that society has changed? Have we really learned from our experiences?” This quote asks the readers (and those present at Elie’s speech) to think and askaks ourselves if anything has changed that tells us that we have learned from past experiences. This quote relates because Elie asks for change to continue to take place in genocidal e situations. When the global community respects the wishes of Holocaust survivors, the world fulfills its duty to prevent genocide. The international community must take action by having an international convention with Burma’s government to accuse them of genocide and warn them of intervention not only because the global community is obligated to answer pleas to learn from the past, but also to end the Rohingyas’
In the article about Burma’s genocide case it says, “Today, the Rohingya in Burma are forcibly isolated, cut off from nearly all goods and services, and unable to provide for themselves.” This quote means that the Rohingya are starving prisoners, cut off from civilization, and brutally treated. The international community should not allow this to be happening. If the international community put themselves in the shoes of the Rohingya, wouldn’t we plea for help and , cry for justice? For humane reasons, the global community must take the responsibility ourselves, when no others will, and end the torment that victims suffer, unless we would rather take upon their blood on our