One of the most isolated and ignored women communities
all over the world is Rohingya women who
culturally take their role supporting
their males companion in term of looking
after the houses and children. Most of them misbelieve that women should not
involve common development of their communities such as politics, economics,
proper health system, social etc. They wrongfully believe those are male jobs
and don’t pay much attention on that the most vital aspects of their
communities. Over long period of time, Rohingya communities has been become
completely male dominated society at the price of rohingya’s women negligence
and part of ignorance. Gradually, their lives become prisoners in their own
houses, unfortunately without realizing that they are and become so dependent
on men for everything.
That undeniable and obvious weakness of our community
has been systematically used by all Burmese dictators who want to drive all
rohingya out of Arakan by every possible ways since 1962. It might probably be
simple and vague or hidden but it has
been so effective technique for racist authority concerned for such a long
period of time . For example, if husband was arrested, murdered, tortured or
make him disabled by authority concerned , the whole family would have been
destroyed because the wife was so dependent on his husband and she did not know
anything and she did not learn any profession to lead her family; the worst
part is she did not even realized what
had happened to her husband because she never had any political knowledge of
what was going on and how it could affect on her. As a result imagine the lives
of future rohingya children who have those kind of desperate mothers who become
beggars or housemaids, hardly could meet two meals for their
family. There are thousands of those similar or crueler stories behind the
scenes of world media attention by seeing rohingya children are one of the
worst victims of malnutrition and rohingya society has extremely low literacy
rate which has been indirectly affected by lack of women empowerment.
Almost 75% of rohingya population in Arakan are
women and children because most of the
men are forced to leave their home land to escape daily basis of persecution.
Some of them are in prisons. Most of them die in the sea or die on the way to
escape. Imagine the future of rohingya with the
women who left in Arakan are without education, without any
professions, lack of any kind of
knowledge and ultimate lack of security
except how to bear the children and how to look after houses, who does
not know world beyond either their
compound or fences. At the face of systematic ethnic cleansings, rohingya women
must wake up and play an important and
significant part in the struggle of freedom by noticing the fact that rohingya
future is in their hand either directly or indirectly.