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Home / Shop / Sort By Year / 2020 / Genocide and Geopolitics of the Rohingya Crisis

Genocide and Geopolitics of the Rohingya Crisis

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Mohd Aminul Karim, PhD (Author)

Series: Human Rights: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
BISAC: POL054000
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52305/EOSP2787

Set in the South and Southeast Region, this book attempts to analyze the implications of both genocides perpetrated on the unarmed Rohingya minority community in Myanmar, and the geopolitics of the powers of the region that deter the resolution of this festering problem.

The book highlights the helplessness of the UN system to take any punitive actions against the perpetrators i.e. the security forces of Myanmar given that China, India and Russia, who are taking the side of Myanmar for geopolitical reasons. They have exercised their vetoes at the UNSC to such an action. The book describes the key players in this region, their interests, compulsions and imperatives, and covers different strategies launched by the United States, China, India, Japan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar that tend to stall the resolution of the process or even refusing to take back the Rohingya refugees—1.1 million of them including children and women—now languishing in the cramped camps inside Bangladesh. Most of these refugees were forced to flee their ancestral homes after a ghastly genocide meted out to them in October 2017. Such massacres have been taking place in a series of violence starting from 1977-8.

This issue has huge regional security implications. The ugly heads of insurgency are also looming large. This has turned out to be a huge burden on the economy and environment of Bangladesh. However, different donor agencies including UNHCR are providing relief and rehabilitation. The author provides ramifications and reflections in the form of scenario development and suggesting certain options – uniqueness of this book –on this festering humanitarian issue.


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Dr. Mohd Aminul Karim was interviewed by Hana Kim, a Harvard Scholar. In the interview they talked about the Rohingya Refugee crisis, from his time as an officer in the Bangladeshi military to the broader roles of the UN and international community. To learn more about our author and watch the full interview, click here.


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ISBN: N/A Categories: 2020, Asian Political, Social and Economic Issues, Human Rights: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives, Politics, Southeast Asia
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Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Organization of the Book

Chapter 3. Background History of the Rohingyas in Arakan: From the Kingdom of Arakan to the Colonial Era

Chapter 4. Relevant Burmese Modern History

Chapter 5. To Define the Rohingya Problem

Chapter 6. Strategic Significance of the Area

Chapter 7. 1974 Constitution: A Turning Event in Myanmar History?

Chapter 8. Role of the Monks

Chapter 9. What Genocide/Crime against Humanity/Ethnic Cleansing Entails

Chapter 10. Can the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecute the Perpetrators? 91

Chapter 11. Geopolitics Involved

Chapter 12. Possibility of Local Insurgency Getting Entrenched

Chapter 13. Possibility of Rohingya Going back to Myanmar this Time Round

Chapter 14. Plight of Bangladesh in Sheltering the Rohingyas

Chapter 15. Scenario Development

Chapter 16. Suggestions: Few Doable

References

About the Author

Index


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“In his book, Genocide and Geopolitics of the Rohingya Crisis, the scholar General Aminul Karim uncovers the broader canvas of the topic, painstakingly consulting the plethora of existing literature, interviewing various experts, and offering his own analysis and conclusions. General Karim begins with a background of the Rohingyas in Arakan and of modern Burma including its various insurgencies. He then moves on to the strategic importance of the area. Being resource rich, the oil and gas fields are controlled by an enterprise, in which the senior military officers who run the country have economic interests. Major world powers and big corporations have their eyes on these resources. Added to this is the location along the Bay of Bengal, which is vital for Chinese access to the Indian Ocean. Removing Rohingyas strengthens the control of these forces on the area and consequently, upon the resources. Examining the legal issues in subsequent chapters, the author concludes that the Myanmar regime is certainly guilty of committing genocide, but because Myanmar is not a member of ICC and because implementation of the ICJ decision depends largely on the UNSC, punishment of the perpetrators cannot be guaranteed. Chapters 11 and 12 enter into the main theme of the book—geopolitics, and the possibility of a local Muslim insurgency…In his concluding chapters, through interviews, the author suggests some solutions. Sadiqul Islam of Laurentian University, Canada, considers the expulsion of the Rohingyas into Bangladesh an act of war. Professor Delwar Hossain of Dhaka University thinks even a limited war on this issue is quite unlikely. This reviewer has looked into history, and seen that no such problem involving a crime of genocide has been resolved peacefully. The issue is likely to be prolonged and in such a case, the growth of an insurgency and recruitment of young zealots by international terror groups is a distinct possibility. To resolve the problem, General Karim suggests that great powers like China, Russia, the US, and the UN and other international organizations work together to ensure citizenship for Rohingyas and their repatriation, and federalism and autonomy in Myanmar. Alas, the Myanmar state looks unlikely to proceed this way; nor are the great powers showing any such inclination. The author agrees that this sounds like tall-talks, but he would still like to be optimistic. Unfortunately, going by the proceedings so far, there seems little space for such optimism. All said and done, this book is unique in as much as it has the intellectual dimension of an academic. It also reflects the strategic perspective of a professional who has had a decades-old career in military and security matters. A remarkable work, this book would be useful both for researchers as well as policymakers who can devise strategies to handle the issue in the years to come…READ MORE“ -Reviewed by Md Touhid Hossain, Former Foreign Secretary, published in The Daily Star (December 24, 2020)

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