--- title: Burma's War on the Term 'Rohingya' description: Burma's persecuted Muslim minority is being deprived of the right to use its own name in the latest bid to strip it of its rights. canonical: https://time.com/4322396/burma-myanmar-rohingya-us-embassy-suu-kyi/ author: Feliz Solomon article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-09T09:55:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:41:55.288Z article:section: World og:title: Burma's War on the Term 'Rohingya' og:description: A Muslim minority is being deprived of the right to use its own name og:url: https://time.com/4322396/burma-myanmar-rohingya-us-embassy-suu-kyi/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d53c6c4a2d78999/6988925eab6d773fc36a99b2/rtx2c2o2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: A man shouts while demonstrating against the United States for its use of the term Rohingya to describe Myanmar's stateless Muslim community during a protest outside the U.S. embassy in Yangon og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Burma's War on the Term 'Rohingya' twitter:description: A Muslim minority is being deprived of the right to use its own name twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d53c6c4a2d78999/6988925eab6d773fc36a99b2/rtx2c2o2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Why Burma Is Trying to Stop People From Using the Name of Its Persecuted Muslim Minority > Sponsored content. 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The move is an apparent bow to pressure from a small but influential [ultra-nationalist](http://time.com/4147171/burma-buddhism-islam-interfaith-intolerance-rohingya-myanmar/) movement that refuses to recognize the rights of the Rohingya people to belong in Burma. A spokeswoman for Burma’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aye Aye Soe, tells TIME that the government is “not objecting \[to\] the term \[Rohingya\] but requesting not to use it.” The suggestion was made during private “courtesy calls” between Aung San Suu Kyi — in her role as Minister of Foreign Affairs — and the U.S. Ambassador to Burma Scot Marciel, after the embassy had been targeted by Burmese over its use of the word. Protesters see the term — which means a person of Rohang, the old Muslim term for what is now Arakan state in western Burma — as conferring historical legitimacy on the Muslim presence in the country that is also known as Myanmar. Though the historical origins of the term Rohingya are muddy, many Rohingya families have lived in western Burma for generations and the majority choose this term to describe themselves. However, during the 2014 census, the Rohingya were forced to identify themselves as “Bengali” — the official term for them — or they would not be registered. They are not recognized as one of the 135 official ethnic groups in the country, and nearly all of the 1.1 million Rohingya are denied citizenship and basic rights. The U.N. considers the Rohingya, who reside near Burma’s border with Bangladesh, to be among the world’s most [persecuted minorities](http://time.com/3907039/rohingya-james-nachtwey/), but in most of Burma they are viewed as dangerous interlopers. In western Arakan state, a spate of deadly riots beginning in 2012 between the local Buddhist population and the Muslim Rohingya claimed more than 100 lives and displaced some 140,000 people — mostly Rohingya. Many are still confined to squalid camps where they are denied freedom of movement, education and health care. Conditions are so dire that tens of thousands have [fled by boat](http://time.com/3908367/burmas-boat-people/), undertaking perilous voyages in the hands of traffickers in the hope of finding refuge in Muslim-majority Malaysia or other Southeast Asian countries. **Read More:** [_Burma’s Hard-Line Buddhists Are Waging a Campaign of Hate That Nobody Can Stop_](http://time.com/4147171/burma-buddhism-islam-interfaith-intolerance-rohingya-myanmar/) While the international community has repeatedly urged the government to end persecution and allow the group to call themselves Rohingya if they wish, last week’s advisory signals that the county’s new government, led by Nobel laureate Suu Kyi, is not inclined toward concessions and will continue to scrub the term from official usage. “Many Buddhists believe the name _Rohingya_ is a political claim that they cannot agree to,” according to Ronan Lee, a researcher and former Australian lawmaker who has conducted extensive studies in Arakan state. ### The Plight of the Rohingya by James Nachtwey  Children rest at a refugee camp in Bayeun, outside of Langsa, Indonesia, May 20\. They were among the 25,000-plus Rohingya Muslim migrants who have fled reported persecution in Burma and Bangladesh this year by crossing the Indian Ocean in search of refugee status in Indonesia and Malaysia. James Nachtwey for TIME  Refugees rest at a camp in Bayeun, outside of Langsa, Indonesia. They reached Indonesia after months at sea off the coast of Southeast Asia. James Nachtwey for TIME  A mother holds her child at a refugee camp in Bayeun, outside of Langsa, Indonesia, where they were given shelter, food and medical care by Indonesian and international NGOs. James Nachtwey for TIME  Refugees rest at a camp in Bayeun, outside of Langsa, Indonesia, where they were given shelter, food and medical care by Indonesian and international NGOs. James Nachtwey for TIME  A Rohingya child is registered at a temporary shelter in Indonesia. James Nachtwey for TIME  A 2-year-old boy cries as he is being registered at a temporary shelter in Indonesia. James Nachtwey for TIME  A refugee receives medical care in Indonesia. James Nachtwey for TIME  A refugee gets his head shaved in order to remove lice. James Nachtwey for TIME  Human remains are being disinterred from an informal cemetery near an abandoned camp for trafficked refugees in the jungle on the Malaysian side of the Thai-Malaysian border. James Nachtwey for TIME  Malaysian officials find bodies of migrants in an abandoned camp used by smugglers. James Nachtwey for TIME  Malaysian Navy officers pray on a navy ship out of Langkawi, an island in the Andaman Sea. They are on routine patrol looking for boats with Rohingya refugees in waters neighboring Thailand. James Nachtwey for TIME The fear among local Arakan communities appears to be that recognizing the rights of the Rohingya would open up Burma’s porous border with Bangladesh, and lead to a Muslim incursion in a devoutly Buddhist nation. These fears have been fueled by a burgeoning movement led by hard-line Buddhists, with the support of influential monks, who in recent years have spread [pervasive rumors](http://world.time.com/2013/06/20/extremist-buddhist-monks-fight-oppression-with-violence/) about the Muslim community. The movement even successfully lobbied for the passage of [discriminatory laws](http://time.com/38249/burma-anti-muslim-laws/) restricting religious conversion and birth rates, buoyed by a popular belief that Muslims were having too many children and could eventually overtake the Buddhist population. The issue is so sensitive that there was uproar in late April, when the U.S. embassy in Rangoon issued a statement after at least 22 people, including nine children, [died in a boat accident](http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/19913-disaster-spotlights-segregation-policies.html), and expressed condolences to the victims’ families, “who local reports state were from the Rohingya community.” Hundreds of hard-line nationalists, including Buddhist monks, responded with a protest at the embassy, calling on diplomats to stop using what they called a “fake term.” Marciel in turn told reporters that referring to the Rohingya by their preferred name was “not a political decision; it’s just a normal practice,” reiterating that “communities anywhere have the ability to decide what they should be called.” **Read More:** [_Rohingya Survivors Speak of Their Ordeals as 139 Suspected Graves Are Found in Malaysia_](http://time.com/3895816/malaysia-human-trafficking-graves-rohingya/) His response didn’t satisfy the protesters, members of a nationalist group called the Myanmar National Network. The group says they will continue to protest until the Burmese government publicly condemns the use of the word by foreign officials. ### The Rohingya, Burma's Forgotten Muslims by James Nachtwey  More than 140,000 minority Rohingya Muslims have been forced to live in camps, where disease and despair have taken root. Abdul Kadir, 65, who has a severe stomach ailment and malnutrition, is cared for by his wife in one of the camps. James Nachtwey for TIME  Relatives weep at the funeral of a woman who died at 35 of a stomach disease; she left five children behind. James Nachtwey for TIME  A mourner weeps as she sits by an internee's coffin. The Rohingya lack medical care since most NGOs are now barred from the camps. James Nachtwey for TIME  Two men are seen mourning at the funeral of a woman who died from stomach disease. James Nachtwey for TIME  Internees in one camp operate brick kilns to earn money. Adults are paid about $2 a day; children, half that amount. James Nachtwey for TIME  Thek Kay Pyin, 7, is among the Rohingya Muslims interned in Rakhine state, on the northwest coast of Burma. He is seen here working at a brick kiln where he earns $1 a day. James Nachtwey for TIME  Children working at a brick kiln where they earn $1 a day. James Nachtwey for TIME  Workers at a brick kiln are seen tossing bricks. James Nachtwey for TIME  At the camp, mourners are seen at a funeral for a 16-year-old girl who drank poison. James Nachtwey for TIME  Suffering in the camps continues unabated. James Nachtwey for TIME  Children learning the Quran at a madrassa in one of the camps. James Nachtwey for TIME  A child suffering from malnutrition in one of the camps is held by its mother. James Nachtwey for TIME  At a government-run hospital in Da Paing, a mother watches over her 45-year-old son Abdul Salam, who suffers from diabetes. James Nachtwey for TIME  A child suffering from stomach worms with her mother at a pharmacy waiting for treatment. The owner of the pharmacy is neither a doctor nor a pharmacist but does his best to help people. International NGOs such as Doctors Without Borders have been expelled from the camp by the government, leading to a soaring crisis in health care. James Nachtwey for TIME  Malnutrition among the camps' children is commonplace. In June a top U.N. aid official who traveled to Rakhine said she had never before “witnessed \[such\] a level of human suffering. James Nachtwey for TIME  Fishermen tend their nets before going out into the Bay of Bengal to fish, one of the main sources of food and livelihood for the Rohingya. James Nachtwey for TIME  A blind beggar on railway tracks between two IDP camps. James Nachtwey for TIME  A boy using an umbrella as a sun shield jumps across a drainage canal behind a row of latrines at Baw Du Pha camp. James Nachtwey for TIME “The right to self-identification should not be controversial,” says Wai Wai Nu, a renowned Rohingya activist and former political prisoner, who is known as one of the few activists in Burma to speak up on behalf of the beleaguered minority. But the issue has become so volatile that some international actors believe it would best be put aside for pragmatic reasons. Lee says that while the international community’s use of the term _Rohingya_ has helped bring the issue to the world’s attention, within Burma it could be creating a “political roadblock that stands in the way of Arakan state’s Muslims gaining the human rights and citizenship they are entitled to.” **Read More:** [_Burma’s Nowhere People_](http://time.com/3908627/burmas-nowhere-people/) The Burmese government also sees other issues as more pressing. Last year, Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party[ swept the polls](http://time.com/4104035/burma-myanmar-nld-aung-san-suu-kyi-election/) in a landslide win and assumed [power](http://time.com/4201865/aung-san-suu-kyi-parliament-myanmar-burma/) in April, taking over from a military-backed government after decades of authoritarian rule. But the new democratic government has inherited [a host of problems](http://time.com/4275928/burma-myanmar-civilian-government-challenges/) including civil war, grinding poverty, rampant corruption and a dysfunctional bureaucracy. “As a new government \[we have\] thousands of problems to deal with,” Win Htein, a member of the ruling party’s central committee, tells TIME, frustrated by the Rohingya controversy. “The Rohingya and \[Arakan\] state is just one of the problems.” The international community maintains that the plight of the Rohingya is urgent; the U.N. special rapporteur on Burma, Yanghee Lee, has called on the new government to improve the Rohingyas’ living situation within the first 100 days of its term. So far the government has given no public indication that it is addressing the issue, and Win Htein says that “Aung San Suu Kyi is the only one” authorized to speak on it. **Read More:** [_Who Is Htin Kyaw, Burma’s New President?_](http://time.com/4258655/htin-kyaw-burma-myanmar-president-aung-san-suu-kyi/) To the great disappointment of human-rights advocates, she hasn’t. David Mathieson, a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch in Burma, says that Suu Kyi’s silence on the issue could “sully her and her government’s reputation,” urging her to rescind her ministry’s request to diplomats. “It will be hard for Suu Kyi to address the Rohingya issue if she refuses to refer to them by their name and continues to kowtow to extremists,” Mathieson says, “which is what her qualified public statements amount to.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4322396/burma-myanmar-rohingya-us-embassy-suu-kyi/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4322396/burma-myanmar-rohingya-us-embassy-suu-kyi/"},"headline":"Why Burma Is Trying to Stop People From Using the Name of Its Persecuted Muslim Minority","datePublished":"2016-05-09T09:55:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:41:55.288Z","description":"Despite international calls to help the country's Rohingya people, indications are that Burma's new government is trying to scrub the very term Rohingya from use","url":"https://time.com/4322396/burma-myanmar-rohingya-us-embassy-suu-kyi/","keywords":["Burma","Rohingya","Aung San Suu Kyi","myanmar","citizenship"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d53c6c4a2d78999/6988925eab6d773fc36a99b2/rtx2c2o2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Feliz Solomon / Rangoon"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d53c6c4a2d78999/6988925eab6d773fc36a99b2/rtx2c2o2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A man shouts while demonstrating against the United States for its use of the term Rohingya to describe Myanmar's stateless Muslim community during a protest outside the U.S. embassy in Yangon","caption":"A man shouts while demonstrating against the United States for its use of the term Rohingya to describe Myanmar's stateless Muslim community during a protest outside the U.S. embassy in Yangon","creditText":"Soe Zeya Tun—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/burma/","name":"Burma"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4322396/burma-myanmar-rohingya-us-embassy-suu-kyi/","name":"Why Burma Is Trying to Stop People From Using the Name of Its Persecuted Muslim Minority"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Know Right Now: Burma Elects New President","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/TgXarGDC/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-03-15T14:06:05.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/TgXarGDC.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4322396/burma-myanmar-rohingya-us-embassy-suu-kyi/","duration":"PT1M","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4322396/burma-myanmar-rohingya-us-embassy-suu-kyi/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```