The Rohingya Crisis: A People Facing Extinction

by Muhammad Abdul Bari

Overview

Widely-known as the world’s most persecuted minority group, the Rohingya in Myanmar are now facing extinction. Denied citizenship rights, denied their very ethnic identity, hundreds of thousands have fled Rakhine State in Myanmar over the border into Bangladesh, where they face squalid conditions.

Many have witnessed death, mutilation and rape, as well as whole villages, what they called home, burning to ashes. Leading British Muslim fi gure Muhammad Abdul Bari has no doubt that what the Rohingya have been subject to, is genocide.

In this concise but powerfully argued book, he brings to light the scale and barbarity of their suff ering and argues that the international community, through the UN, must ensure their full repatriation with full citizen rights to their homeland.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847741257
Publisher:	Kube Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	11/26/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	104
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari is an educationalist, community activist, author, parenting consultant and commentator on social and political issues. Dr Bari has written for various newspapers, blogs and journals including The Huffington Post and Al-Jazeera English, and is the author of a number of books on marriage, family, parenting, identity and community issues from contemporary British Muslim perspectives.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi

Foreword xiii

Preface xv

Introduction xxi

Chapter 1 Origins of the Arakanese Muslims 1

Chapter 2 Arakan's thriving legacy 7

Chapter 3 British rule and post-colonial Rohingya 11

Chapter 4 Myanmar's scorched-earth campaign against the Rohingya 19

Chapter 5 A human tragedy with debasement of women and children 29

Chapter 6 Genocide by all counts 35

Chapter 7 Geo-political competition 41

Chapter 8 Other factors impeding justice for the Rohingya 49

Chapter 9 What is to be done? 59

Conclusion 65

Index 71

Editorial Reviews

‘Well-sourced and accessible, this excellent book should be read by anyone wanting to understand the unbearable suff ering currently affl icting the Rohingya.’ — Rushanara Ali, MP for Bethnal Green and Bow. Co-Chair, All Party

Parliamentary Group for Democracy in Burma ‘Th is … short book by Muhammad Abdul Bari is carefully documented and records facts in a sober way. He makes clear that there is no question that what has occurred is a genocide.’— Peter Oborne, Columnist for the Daily Mail and Middle East Eye

‘For anyone who wants a concise and readable explanation of the situation of the Rohingya, this is the book.’ — Mark Farmaner, Director, Burma Campaign UK

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