Lastamender
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That gives them the right to rape Buddhist women then, wouldn't you think.The vast majority of Rohingya Muslims are not legal citizens. Further, this large, mostly illegal population has pressured the government for special rights and their own autonomous state.From the article that you linked in the OP ....
3. How have the Rohingya been treated?
Myanmar’s authorities have progressively denied the Rohingya rights and, along with vigilantes sometimes led by Buddhist monks, persecuted them, driving them from their homes and into neighboring countries, mostly Bangladesh. In 1982, the government stripped the Rohingya of citizenship. In the name of bringing order to Rakhine, the army launched an operation in 1991 featuring forced labor, rape and religious suppression. The Rohingya face numerous legal restrictions. Couples need government permission to marry and to travel beyond their home town or move to a new one. Those in two of Rakhine’s cities are limited to having two children.
The Myanmar government is simply showing them the door back into neighboring Muslim shithole Bangladesh.
They have lived there for hundreds of years as legal citizens. Their citizenless status is a recent government decree.