Representation of the Rohingya crisis in The Daily Star / Tanjina Akter Ety

Tanjina , Akter Ety (2022) Representation of the Rohingya crisis in The Daily Star / Tanjina Akter Ety. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaya.

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Abstract

This study investigates the representation of the Rohingya crisis in the media. The corpus of 223 news articles has been collected from Bangladeshi newspaper, The Daily Star from November 2017 to November 2019, after the repatriation deal between Bangladesh and Myanmar on 23 November 2017. To explore how The Daily Star used quoted voices to represent the Rohingya crisis, Halliday's transitivity process was used as an analytical tool from his Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) method. The UN, NGO, Government and Other government voices state that the human rights violation by Myanmar created the Rohingya crisis. The humanitarian UN and NGO voices reflect the Rohingya victimization and also represent them as a vulnerable group in both Bangladesh and Myanmar. The crisis is also reflected as a humanitarian issue in Bangladesh through Government, UN and Other government voices. Meanwhile, the Government voices reflect Myanmar as obliged to make a successful and voluntary return of the Rohingya in Rakhine and Rohingya as threat, representing the crisis as a problem in Bangladesh and the voluntary return of the Rohingya to Myanmar is the only

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