Myanmar government should give
citizenship to the immigration.
By Thang Mawi
When
I survey Kantkaw students whether Myanmar government should give citizenship to
the immigrants, as the result, most of students answer “should not”. Like wise,
most of Myanmar people can not accept this case/issue. Most of reasons are the
beliefs that it will cause social, religious and culture conflicts or mixed
culture. However if we think thoroughly
this case, we can see a lot of facts Myanmar government should give. In fact of, Myanmar people include all ethnics
minorities are the generation of immigration. Other way we can define as all of
us are connected with immigration. Thus Myanmar government should give
citizenship to them
Now I would like to discuss a bout that they are given
citizenship
.
Migration is human nature and it
will be happen till the end of the world. Whatever
government can never ban this process and it’s impossible to be ignoring in
this case. Actually, there is no nationality which didn’t come from migration.
According to Myanmar History, Chin and Kachin came from Tibetan, Kaya came from China, Kayin came from
Mongolia and, they settled here to survive and leave their country or
land and, most of Myanmar citizens are also the generation of immigration. So
if immigrations are not given by the Myanmar government, it is injustices.
Immigrations can not bring social
and religious conflicts. Most of people think it support to
cause social and religious conflicts in the future. The root of that problem is
not the generation of immigration, but this is the bad policy concerned with
migration of the local government. It may be the government’s ignorance in this
case, so later or in next generations, the government had to face a lot of problems.
Actually the government needs to make preparations in case of migration such as
policy, their right and, they need in order to see in the future. If the
government doesn’t give citizenship (may be banning), it is not good solution
for them, because they can not totally stop it. The best solution for future is
that the government has to give citizenship to them and makes law related with
migration.
It is human right and also
humanity. As democratic country, immigration should be given
citizenship because the concept of democracy based on humanity and human right.
It seems respecting and keeping human right and humanity. If in a country,
there are a lot of free places to live people and, but a few free places in
another country, it can not be fair, because in another country, many people
face many problem to live concerned with places, they need new places, but if
they are refused for new places, it is
injustice. For example, Hitler announced to the American that the war, his
message is related with population problem; American possess a lot of free
lands, but the population was not high. However In Germany, the population rate
is too high, the land was not enough to live freely .Thus Hitler said that it
was not fair.
Now I would like to argue that the
proposal of culture conflicts. I think that most of
people falsely understand that the concept of culture. Culture can be divided
into two kinds and they are Civilization and Tradition. What is Civilization?
Civilization means the culture that always change depend on mainstream. How a
bout Tradition? Tradition means the culture that can not change because of
mainstream. So we need to understand clearly in this concept. Our civilization
will change or (mixed with other culture) because of migration. And we have to
build Integration; this means we have to attempt in order to combine different
culture from different migration. Actually culture is the things that must be
changed regularly based on mainstream. For example, after World War II,
economics growth was fastest in Japan. In that case, Japan made changes
concerned with culture.
The
other point is the immigration is like the raw materials in implementing a
project to develop a country. It means that there are a lot of different
technician and expert from different field. So the interest is that the local
government will get a lot of technology and ideas from them and, thus they help
to develop a country.
In
conclusion, Myanmar Citizenship Law which was made in 1982 is the only people
who settled before 1823 was recognized or confirmed as citizenship. Actually
the target of this law intend to the people who came after Myanmar was occupied
by British. Concerned with this case, Dr. Min
Zaw Oo stated in the
Voice Weekly Journal “1982 citizenship law is not match with the present
Myanmar political reforms. Especially we have to delete the fact that have to
settle before 1823 and, this can not be practical reform. Myanmar’s Democracy
way may falsely run in the future.” Since it matches with the democracy concept
and system, and we keep the humanity and the human right, and concerned with
culture, we have to accept the Integration. We can say that the practical
action is that Myanmar government
which
is running to the democracy should give the citizenship to the immigration.