It is a fact the present situation is a mess and the victims are innocent people from the Muslims and also the local Buddhists.
But the ultimate root cause is the inherently toxic and malignant evil ideology of the religion wherever it infect.
There were a small minority of Muslims in the Rakhine and Arakan provinces in West Myanmar since >500 years ago living peacefully with the local Buddhists and Hindus.
In the early 1920s++ the British enabled mass Muslims immigration into the area for various field works and later fighting forces as resistance against the Japaneses in the 1940s.
Then note the default resultants when the number of Muslims increased in any location;
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-902514
EXPOSING THE LIES AND MANIPULATION in ‘THE HIDDEN GENOCIDE’ FROM AL JAZEERA
(by Rick Heizman)
As a divine duty, Muslims cannot integrate with non-Muslims because the Q-u-r-an brainwashed them as superior to the nons.2:10 The word GENOCIDE is used, also, to inflame opinion. Okay, let’s talk about GENOCIDE.
The film purposely doesn’t mention the REAL GENOCIDES that are historical and well documented – in 1942 the minority Bengali Muslims (the word Rohingya was not used at that time) were armed by the British to fight the advancing Japanese in World War II, but as soon as the British retreated the Bengalis used the weapons – not against the Japanese – but to launch a GENOCIDE against the Buddhists, burning down over 400 Buddhist villages, and slaughtering 30,000 Rakhine people.
Since then Rohingya have formed Mujahid (holy warrior fighting for Islam) groups to engage in Jihad (holy war) and declared their goals, numerous times, of a Muslim-only separate state.
The talk of many of the leaders and imams of the Rohingya is of eliminating the Buddhist population, and THAT IS ENCOURAGING THEM TO COMMIT GENOCIDE. Example: In 1985, Ahmed Shah, the Chairman of RLO – Rohingya Liberation Organization – freely distributed many copies of his recorded cassette tape urging the Bengalis in the Maungdaw District to drive all non-Muslims out of the District. He was basically calling for the GENOCIDE OF RAKHINE BUDDHISTS and all other non-Muslims of Maungdaw District.
3:10 The film says the population of Rakhine State is about one million (1,000,000) Buddhist and 800,000 Muslims. Very far from the truth, there are about THREE MILLION Buddhist and 800,000 Muslims, and it is the Muslim population that has grown so quickly with massive migration across the border from Bangladesh.
It is this default that caused the nons in Rakhine and the rest of Myanmar to fear the 'Muslims' based on their own past experiences and reports of Muslims atrocities in other parts of the World. We cannot expect all the nons to be saints and some who are evil prone will react in evil ways as we have seen.
But like any problem the critical way to understand and find solutions to the problem is to analyze and find the ultimate and proximate root causes which in this case leads to the inherently toxic and malignant evil ideology of the religion.