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The Rohingya Muslim in the land of pagoda
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Abstract Regarding Southeast Asia as a multi-ethnics region, this paper attempts to examine about why Buddhist Community turns into religious violence against Rohingyas in the State of Rakhine (formerly known as Arakan). Through understanding the triggers of conflicts, this paper applies historical perspecti... view more
Regarding Southeast Asia as a multi-ethnics region, this paper attempts to examine about why Buddhist Community turns into religious violence against Rohingyas in the State of Rakhine (formerly known as Arakan). Through understanding the triggers of conflicts, this paper applies historical perspective to analyze why ethnic-religious conflict occur nowadays between Buddhist and Rohingya in Myanmar. This paper also discusses how the influence of history has constructed the government’s policy under military regime to exclude Rohingya. However, the ethno-religious conflict is either an indication of a weak state or failure state in managing diversity.... view less
Keywords
ethnic conflict; ethnic group; Southeast Asia; religion; Muslim; Buddhism; national state; Myanmar; violence; government policy; historical development; military
Classification
Social Problems
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Free Keywords
ethnic-religion violence; Muslim Rohingya; Buddhist Rakhine; state's role
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 37-50
Journal
Journal of ASEAN Studies, 5 (2017) 1
ISSN
2338-1353
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed