ARAB NEWS
DR. AZEEM IBRAHIMSeptember 05, 2019
Since the creation of Myanmar’s 1982 Citizenship Law, the Rohingya have been excluded from the country’s list of “indigenous” ethnic groups.
The rationale for this move was that the Rohingya were not a “natural,” “indigenous” ethnic group in their native northern Rakhine state, but rather that they were imported to the region under British imperial administration in the 1800s.