Hopelessness threatens to push Rohingya toward militancy

Hopelessness threatens to push Rohingya toward militancy

Dr. Azeem Ibrahim April 01, 2025 More than a million Rohingya are confined to a series of tent settlements in Bangladesh, like this one in Cox’s Bazar. (Reuters) Short Url https://arab.news/58qfv Last month’s arrest of Ataullah Abu Ammar Jununi, the leader of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, was heralded by some as a blow to…

Political struggle and activism require more than grandiloquent speeches or heroic gestures for political triumph in a world where oppression is perpetuated through misinformation and resignation. True activism lies not in being willing to die for a cause, but in living for it, which is why uncontrolled emotionality and identitarian thinking lead to inaction or a sterile resistance, functional to the very system it seeks to combat. Authentic act…