This introduction can be one of the reasons for the hatred of the West against the Rohingya people, as well as the order to silence to Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, who is supported by the British.
In any case, the Rohingya crisis, with the displacement of around one million people and the killing of thousands of children, women and the elderly, was big enough to be in the headlines for years. But regardless of the historical reasons, the following reasons can be mentioned for forgetting the crisis:
1. Bangladesh and the pro-Indian government of Sheikh Hasina, as the country that was most affected by this displacement, joined the positive interaction that India and Myanmar had with each other and practically kept silent about it after receiving economic promises.
2. The international capacities of Bangladesh as the country most affected by the crisis were very low, and at the beginning of the crisis, we saw that the country’s efforts to create at least a semi-global consensus in this matter also failed.
3. The Rohingya crisis and the crimes of extremist Buddhists of the 969 movement against women, children and the elderly caused serious damage to the Western cultural investment in the spread of Buddhism as a spiritual tradition free from violence and the symbolic use of figures such as Tenzin Gyatso against the Communist Chinese government. As a result, the immediate exit of the crisis from the media agenda had a high priority.
4. As the main claimant of the Rohingya Muslim case, the Islamic world faced the Rohingya case in 2015 in the middle of the rise of the ISIS and the crisis in Syria and Iraq that started in 2011. Due to the urgency and importance of the ISIS case, which divided the Islamic world into two groups for and against [the ISIS], the case of Rohingya Muslims was soon forgotten.
5. Considering the relations of the West with the then government of Myanmar, the case of this crisis did not seriously dealt with in the UN Security Council and we only saw reactions to the extent of expressing concern.
What is the responsibility of Organization of Islamic Cooperation in this regard?
This question reminds the audience that there is basically an organization with this name! This organization has not been able to play an effective and practical role in the case of Palestine, Kashmir, Arab Spring, extremism, unity of the Islamic world, etc.
What is the current situation of the Rohingya Muslims who were forced to flee and settle in Bangladesh due to the massacre of the army and extremist Buddhists in 2017?
Rohingya refugees have settled in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand and India in proportion to their ability to escape from the Rakhine State. Of course, some countries in the region, including Turkey and Qatar, took advantage of this crisis to attract the elites of this nation in various fields, especially the media field.
But in general, more than 700,000 people out of a million displaced people are now in border camps, including Cox’s Bazar, in Bangladesh. In addition to their livelihood and housing situation, their cultural situation has also suffered complications due to displacement. Prostitution has reached its peak on the outskirts of Cox’s Bazar. Extremist Salafi-Wahhabi groups are recruiting mercenaries from among the refugees, and lack of educational and health facilities has brought the refugees a situation worse than the crisis of fleeing the homeland.
Part of the Rohingya refugees are now settled in the state of West Bengal in India, where they suffer a lot of persecution even from the Muslim minority population of the state, and there is a lot of pressure for them to leave West Bengal. But the situation of refugees in Malaysia, Thailand and sometimes in Indonesia is a little better.
In relation to this crisis, the Islamic Republic of Iran is expected to encourage the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to take effective steps through consultation with some Islamic countries in the region.