The Rohingya are indigenous to Myanmar despite government claims they are immigrants

Evidence

In present-day Myanmar (which is the Southeast Asian country formerly known as Burma), the Rohingya Muslims have been the victims of a coordinated government ethnic cleansing campaign under the watchful eye of 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who has done virtually nothing to stop the erasure of Muslims from her country. The Economist magazine once called the Muslim Rohingya “the most persecuted people in the world.” There is good reason for that. In a predominantly Buddhist country, the Rohingya are a small, though indigenous, ethnic group who have lived for centuries in the Rakhine province of Myanmar. And until recent years, they had found ways to coexist with the rest of that country’s population. Although the Myanmar government disingenuously characterizes Rohingya Muslims as immigrants from neighboring countries like Bangladesh, the Rohingya have been living in Myanmar since time immemorial, and virtually all external observers agree they should be considered native to Myanmar. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 131

Categorization

• XREF: The strategy of casting a native Muslim ethnic group as foreign intruders parallels the Great Replacement rhetoric that Iftikhar says unites global Islamophobia—links to the Salvadoran connection and to Beydoun’s new crusades. — connects to: A 1982 citizenship law legally excluded and delegitimized Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 132; 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…, 131

Related

• A 1982 citizenship law legally excluded and delegitimized Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims (similarity 0.91)
• Rohingya constitute four percent of Myanmar’s population and were rendered stateless at home. (similarity 0.90)
• Ethno-religious markers and a citizenship law rendered the Rohingya stateless at home in Myanmar (similarity 0.85)
• Rohingya population in Myanmar fell from over a million to under 200,000. (similarity 0.85)
• Myanmar state forces and civilian mobs committed systematic atrocities against Rohingya. (similarity 0.83)
• Myanmar’s 1982 Citizenship Law legally stripped Rohingya Muslims of citizenship. (similarity 0.82)
• One million Rohingya were displaced into perpetual exile by Myanmar’s crackdown (similarity 0.82)
• The ICJ unanimously ordered Myanmar to prevent genocide against the Rohingya (similarity 0.80)
• Rohingya met citizenship criteria yet were excluded as a class (similarity 0.80)
• Burmese forces displaced a million Rohingya starting in 2017 (similarity 0.79)
• Myanmar killed about 30,000 Rohingya and displaced nearly a million from 2017. (similarity 0.78)
• Human rights organizations identified Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing years before the main genocide (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A 1982 citizenship law legally excluded and delegitimized Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims #expands (0.70) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 132
• Myanmar’s 1982 Citizenship Law legally stripped Rohingya Muslims of citizenship. #expands (0.70)
• Rohingya constitute four percent of Myanmar’s population and were rendered stateless at home. #expands (0.60)
• Rohingya population in Myanmar fell from over a million to under 200,000. #corroborates (0.50) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 678