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“Transmutations of the Rohingya Movement in the Post-2012 Rakhine State Crisis” in: Ethnic and Religious Identities and Integration in Southeast Asia, edited by Ooi Keat Gin and Volker Grabowsky (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2017), 191-239.
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Southeast Asian Studies, > Islam in the Southeast Asia, >Islamic History, >Southeast Asian history, >Burmese/Myanmar history
Taking stock of the historical background, the article focuses on some of the most recent developments arguing that the Rohingya movement underwent important changes after 2012 and that these mutations produced a powerful new narrative of Rohingya persecution. The triangular matrix of dissent in Rakhine State (Burmese state vs. Buddhist Rakhine; Burmese state vs. Muslim Rohingyas; and Buddhist Rakhine vs. Muslim Rohingyas) has been displaced after 2012 by the interpretation of a twofold relationship where the state is perceived as the author of a long-term campaign of persecuting and potentially eradicating the Muslim community. The implications of the state’s repression of the Muslims, rather than the historical alienation of the two religious communities, have been represented after 2012 as the exclusive concern that the international community should focus on.
