Rohingya Crisis

Since my wife's work portfolio includes Bangladesh, and may soon include migration, we've both been following the mass flight of the Rohingya people from Burma to Bangladesh. This article in the Washington Post provides a concise background to the history of the Rohingya plight (there's a video terrorist group), but also deep seated historical ones. Ethnicity, religion, and resources are part of the equation. The Rohingya are seen as illegal immigrants in Burma, and are not recognized by the government (hence arguments that they are a stateless people). Their original roots are probably Bengali, but they haven't lived in what would today be Bangladesh for centuries. 
here too). It's hard to understand why there's so much hatred against the Rohingya, who are Muslim, in a predominantly Buddhist country. There are immediate reasons (i.e. militant Rohingya groups who've attacked Burmese police and been labeled a Islamic