A 1982 citizenship law legally excluded and delegitimized Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims

Evidence

In 1982, the government of Myanmar passed an anti-Muslim citizenship law that set things in motion. It officially recognized eight different races and 130 minority groups within Myanmar—but deliberately omitted the country’s one million Rohingya Muslims. Since the passage of the law, many people in that country have been subjected to propaganda designed to make them feel that Rohingya are Muslim “intruders” who were brought in by British colonialists from neighboring Bangladesh. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 132

Categorization

• XREF: The legal erasure of a native population via citizenship law parallels how US and European Islamophobia operates through legal categorization—connects to the book’s legal-institutional thread and to Kumar’s work. — connects to: The Rohingya are indigenous to Myanmar despite government claims they are immigrants — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 131; Myanmar’s 1982 Citizenship Law legally stripped Rohingya Muslims of citizenship.; Rohingya constitute four percent of Myanmar’s population and were rendered stateless at home. (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 132

Related

• The Rohingya are indigenous to Myanmar despite government claims they are immigrants (similarity 0.91)
• Myanmar’s 1982 Citizenship Law legally stripped Rohingya Muslims of citizenship. (similarity 0.86)
• Rohingya constitute four percent of Myanmar’s population and were rendered stateless at home. (similarity 0.86)
• Ethno-religious markers and a citizenship law rendered the Rohingya stateless at home in Myanmar (similarity 0.85)
• Rohingya met citizenship criteria yet were excluded as a class (similarity 0.81)
• Rohingya population in Myanmar fell from over a million to under 200,000. (similarity 0.80)
• The ICJ unanimously ordered Myanmar to prevent genocide against the Rohingya (similarity 0.79)
• Myanmar state forces and civilian mobs committed systematic atrocities against Rohingya. (similarity 0.79)
• Myanmar’s 2016 ethnic cleansing used citizenship status to justify violence (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Myanmar’s 1982 Citizenship Law legally stripped Rohingya Muslims of citizenship. #corroborates (0.95)
• Rohingya constitute four percent of Myanmar’s population and were rendered stateless at home. #expands (0.60)