Genocide Against the Rohingya
Dates: June 2012 – Present
Location: Myanmar/Burma (Southeast Asia)
Perpetrators: Local Arakanese political party operatives, Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP), the Buddhist monkhood, state security forces
Victims: Rohingya and Karakan Muslims
Number Killed: More than 30,000
Number of Refugees/IDPs: 900,000
Background Articles:
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Burma’s Path to Genocide
- HRW: 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: Rohingya Crisis: What You Need to Know
News Articles:
- HRW Photo Essay: Rohingya Refugees Surpass Half a Million
- HRW: Scores of Rohingya Villages Bulldozed
- HRW: Burma: Ethnic Cleansing, Repression, Denials
- HRW: Yes to Refugee Repatriation, But First Things First
- HRW: US Imposes Human Rights Day Sanctions on Myanmar
- HRW: Myanmar: No Justice, No Freedom for Rohingya 5 Years On
- New York Times Interactive Report: 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)