Questioning the Crisis of “Rohingya Muslim” Ethnic Minority Beyond the Foreign Policy of Bangladesh and Myanmar

Abstract

There are some internal and external complexities and disputing issues of Bangladesh and Myanmar since the Liberation War in 1971 of Bangladesh, when the Rohingya refugee crisis had added a new protracted issue between these two countries. The Myanmar government’s negative attitudes toward the Muslim community mainly instigated frustrations, anger and grief. All these gradually spread regional instability, violence and an organized massacre. This chapter explores whether and how Myanmar and foreign countries are pursuing their interests in the Rakhine state. This study outlines the steps that Myanmar took to resolve the Rohingya catastrophe by analyzing Bangladesh and Myanmar’s foreign policy to address the region’s current humanism emergency. This study recognizes how Myanmar intentionally created this philanthropic calamity for the Rakhine Rohingya Muslim people. Additionally, this study evaluates whether the actual activities of the repatriation agreement[s] are following the official priorities of Bangladesh and Myanmar to resolve this humanitarian vulnerability beyond their foreign policy. Nevertheless, this is a descriptive and persuasive study in which the qualitative methodology frames the conceptual, theoretical, methodological and empirical analysis of the Rohingya ethnic minority’s inhuman emergency in Myanmar.