Staying Objective

The Tone of the Essay

Even if you are a Muslim who is writing about the persecution of Muslims around the world, try not to be sentimental. Your language would suggest if you are part of the picture or an independent observer outside it.

Today Burmese Citizenship Law does not acknowledge those Rohingyas as citizens who migrated after 1823. It was then that the British government allowed mass migration within India, and the flux of laborers that Myanmar experienced then was later termed by the Burma government as “illegal”. Last year when the Buddhist government asked the Rohingyan minorities, including a large chunk of Muslims, to leave the country, followed by extreme military measures, not only the Muslims living across the world but everyone knew what was happening. The international community raised its voice against this crime against humanity, persuading Myanmar defacto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate, to stop this persecution. The ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of people who have been living in Rohingya for three generations (some ninety-three years) has been reported throughout the world, watched and disapproved by millions. The world came to know of the crime as soon as it started to take place. Petitions were signed; photographs were shared; videos were made; banners were uploaded: the world disapproved the suppression of the minority and raised its voice for the violation of basic human rights (how in/effective that voice proved in political realm is a separate issue). Cherry on top is the way these modern-day platforms have empowered journalism, both print and electronic, with the ability to stay informed all the time and to keep their ‘followers’ informed.