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For those who are not aware of the crisis:
The Rohingya people are a Muslim minority group residing in the Rakhine state. They have been persecuted for 40-50 years now by the Myanmar government. Those who fled Myanmar to escape persecution reported that women had been gang raped, men killed, houses torched, and young children thrown into burning houses. The military crackdown has resulted in over 2000 deaths after the Rohingyas attacked border posts an year ago. The Rohingya people are considered “stateless entities”, as the Myanmar government has been refusing to recognise them as one of the ethnic groups of the country. For this reason, the Rohingya people lack legal protection and basic rights from the Government of Myanmar, are regarded as mere refugees from Bangladesh, and face strong hostility in the country—often described as one of the most persecuted people on earth. To escape the dire situation in Myanmar, the Rohingya try to illegally enter Southeast Asian states, begging for humanitarian support from potential host countries. 25,000 people have been taken to boats from January to March in 2015 by human traffickers.
International State Crime Initiative released a report drawing on leaked government documents suggesting that the Myanmar government are in the final stages of an organised process of genocide against the Rohingya and have called upon the international community to redress the situation as such.
Intelligence reports linking the radical Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army to the Lashkar-e-Taiba; key individuals in ARSA, or its front organisations such as Rohingya Solidarity Organisation, are allegedly close to Hafiz Saeed. RSO has a Pakistan chapter, and the Jamaat-ud-Dawa front Falah-e-Insaniyat had a presence in Rohingya refugee camps in 2012. Though any Rohingya individual has not been linked with terror organisations, the fear has been enough to make them lead a life in dismal conditions.