It's not so much being created as it has just developed. They are lacking in everything, the Rohingya who have recently arrived there have set up camp with what they managed to bring with them and donations. They are not allowed to leave those zones and their movements are again restricted. It is a disaster in the making.
The military makes up a portion of the Government, but Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD party makes up the majority of their parliament. In other words, the citizenship laws that stripped them of their citizenship could easily be overturned if the NLD Party decided to vote on it.
The insidious nature of what they are doing though, makes that unlikely. When Aung San Suu Kyi stated a few weeks ago, that those who could prove their status as Burmese would have a right of return, harked back to those laws, which determine that Rohingya who can prove they were there from the 1800's, can be granted citizenship.. That means less than 1% of Rohingya are eligible.
I say it is insidious because her Government (and she, in her recent speech) was very sneaky about it. Prior to her winning the general election, she and the majority of her party won by-elections a few years prior. After the Rohingya had their citizenship stripped from them in the early 80's, they were given what are called 'White Cards', which are ID cards.
But prior to the general election, the Rohingya were ordered to turn in their 'White Cards' and all registration of new births and whatnot, stopped.
Proof of citizenship, the first requirement, is a status Rohingya had denied to them from 1982 by law. National Registration Certificates were cancelled and White Cards ordered to be surrendered in the lead-up to the 2015 election.
This was one of the conditions that was in place, which raised many flags of a likely genocide and ethnic cleansing was in the works.
This type of thing shows long term planning.
Because you do not force a persecuted minority, one that has already been stripped of its citizenship, to turn in their White Cards for no reason.
Those who fled Myanmar prior to the last election, still have those ID papers. Those who fled since the election and with the latest bout of ethnic cleansing, do not. Ergo, those hundreds of thousands of people, cannot prove that they are from there, because they no longer have their White Cards and seeing how they had to flee with just the clothes on their backs, they are unlikely to have stopped to pick up any papers they may have had. Combined with the fact that the military then burnt down all of their houses and villages and they were thorough to ensure nothing was left, they will have nothing to prove their ancestry.
All we have is the registration the Bangladesh Government, military and human rights groups and the UN have set up for those who just arrived over the border and those who were pre-existing diaspora from around the world, who have their papers.
So when Aung San Suu Kyi got up on that podium and said they could return, under the proviso that they can prove their identity and their origin, she did so with the full knowledge that they would not be able to do that. But hey, it sure sounded good, didn't it?
The only option now is to refer to the registration of new arrivals over the border. There would be things like primary school records, or any medical records, but they are more than likely destroyed. Given the destruction of mosque's, schools, town halls, businesses owned by the Rohingya, the Government and military wanted to ensure that this time, they forced out and/or killed as many as they could.
The solution is to review the 1982 law, and reinstate their citizenship. There are records, such as the registration of those who just arrived over the border, as one example. That is the first step. The second step is to ensure their protection upon their return. The Bangladesh people do not want them in Bangladesh, because they are Burmese. They have no real ties to Bangladesh. Which is why I had suggested what I had at the start of this thread. UN Peacekeepers is vital at present, to ensure their return and safety, allow them to rebuild their lives, reverse the citizenship, marriage and movement laws, close the IDP camps which are tantamount to slave labour camps and are like concentration camps because the are being starved to death in there, allow UN investigators to investigate human rights crimes and violations and the people who did this have to be held accountable and brought to justice. That is when the country can heal. That will mean people who spread propaganda, including the armed wing of the Buddhists who have bused people in, spread propaganda, who incited violence, they should also be held accountable. They are just as guilty as the members of the military and Government who ordered these acts against the Rohingya, but who worked to facilitate it and yes, sadly, that includes Aung San Suu Kyi and members of her NLD Party.
At the end of the day, this is a crime. A gross violation. And until something can be done to not only stop it, but ensure it does not happen again (reinstating their citizenship is a huge step in that direction), they cannot go back. And they have nowhere else to go. The longer it takes, the harder it will be to prove their status as Burmese.
