Thinking Spatially - AP Human Geography and Current Issues

The Rohingya Muslims--an ethnic religious minority group in the nation of Myanmar-- have once again fled their country by hundreds of thousands. Since August 25th of this year, it has been estimated that more than 400,000 Rohingya people have fled due to military and civilian violence. Villages have been burned to the ground, Rohingya women raped, and many have been randomly killed. This recent mass exodus is only the most recent example of intolerant ethnic cleansing. Rohingya Muslims’ existence in Myanmar, and more specifically in the Rakhine State, is traceable since the twelfth century. When under British rule (1824-1942) there was a large “internal movement” of Rohingya migrant workers from other parts of British India to Myanmar. After independence from Britain, in 1948, the Burmese government, angry with the mass influx, deemed the great Rohingya migration as illegal. “It is on this basis,” Human Rights Watch says, “that they refuse citizenship to the majority of the Rohingy...

On September 8th Mexico was hit by a devastating 8.1 magnitude earthquake, the largest in recent history. The earthquake just 74 miles south of Mexico City has left a toll of 96 dead and counting with many more homeless and injured. The Mexican military and Government have put as much as they can towards the relief effort but without sufficient donations or foreign aid, the majority of the people have nothing. Without the proper aid, these people may raise the death toll exponentially. With millions of people left homeless and hungry out in the streets of Mexico, the country needs a better source of relief as the country can only do so much alone. The countries army is doing its best to help its people but they can only help a small amount of the countries affected population. The following days of the initial earthquake multiple 5 to 5.2 quakes have been shaking the country. Not to mention the country also being hit by the massive hurricane Katia.  With America dealing with its o...