Genocide Against the Rohingya
Download the Case Study Slideshow: Genocide Against the Rohingya
Dates: June 2012 – Present
Location:Â Myanmar/Burma (Southeast Asia)
Perpetrators:Â Local Arakanese political party operatives, Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP), the Buddhist monkhood, state security forces
Victims:Â Rohingya and Karakan Muslims
Number Killed:Â More than 30,000
Number of Refugees/IDPs:Â 900,000
Background Articles:
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Burma’s Path to Genocide
- HRW:Â Â All You Can Do Is Pray
- HRW: Questions and Answers on Gambia’s Genocide Case Against Myanmar before the International Court of Justice
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Atrocities Against Burma’s Rohingya Population
- National Geographic:Â Rohingya Crisis: What You Need to Know
News Articles:
- HRW Photo Essay:Â Rohingya Refugees Surpass Half a Million
- HRW:Â Scores of Rohingya Villages Bulldozed
- HRW:Â Burma: Ethnic Cleansing, Repression, Denials
- HRW:Â Yes to Refugee Repatriation, But First Things First
- HRW:Â US Imposes Human Rights Day Sanctions on Myanmar
- HRW:Â Myanmar: No Justice, No Freedom for Rohingya 5 Years On
- New York Times Interactive Report:Â Nothing Bad Happened Here. Believe Us, They Said.
- BBC: Myanmar’s army massacred Rohingyas. Now it wants their help
Videos:
Burma: Methodical Massacre at Rohingya Village (2:19)
(Click to watch, 2:19)
Widespread Rape in the Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya in Burma (4:39)
(Click to watch, 4:39)
The ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, Explained (5:14)
(Click to watch, 5:14)
Rohingya Crisis: Meeting Myanmar’s Hardline Buddhist Monks (4:29)
(Click to watch, 4:29)