Rohingya Refugee Crisis: A Looming Threat for Regional and Global Security

Social Science

The Rohingya people are stateless Indo-Aryan-speaking Muslim minority people who reside in North Rakhine State in western Myanmar or Burma. ‘Rohingya Refugee Crisis’ is a glaring example of how a minuscule factional rivalry can synthesize into a credible threat to regional and global stability, peace, and security. State-sponsored persecution of the Rohingya minority by the Myanmar military in collaboration with the extremist Buddhists has made a huge number of Rohingya people stateless. Furthermore, the persuasion of the respective interests in Myanmar by international actors like China, Russia, and India has added fuel to the fire. The huge number of persecuted, illiterate, underemployed, and poor Rohingya people concentrated within a small peninsula of Bangladesh, bordering to Myanmar, has become susceptible to extremism with possible linkage to international terrorism. Consequently, they are likely to cause an immense threat to regional and global stability, peace, and security if a credible solution cannot be attained before it is too late. The core of the solution to the crisis lies in the creation of a conducive environment in Rakhine state that can encourage volunteer and sustainable repatriation. Democratization of the rogue state Myanmar is the prerequisite for a sustainable solution of Rohingya Refugee Crisis.

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