PSC 1002 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, Al-Qaeda, Rwandan Patriotic Front
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Political violence is violence outside of state control that is politically motivated. Challenge to the state"s monopoly on legitimate use of force. State repression, police brutality, genocide, civil war. Violence by social groups toward the state. According to the un, around a half a million. Rohingya have fled to bangladesh since august 25th. Most are now in camps just across the border in cox"s bazar, bangladesh. The rohingya are a muslim minority of about 1. 1 million who live mainly in the rakhine state in myanmar. According to the rohingya, they are descendants of muslims who came to. According to the myanmar government, they are outsiders from. They speak a language similar to the bengali dialect of chittagong in bangladesh. The rohingya have long been persecuted in myanmar. In fact, they are often referred to as the world"s most persecuted minority. They are a stateless people who are denied citizenship by the.