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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

Burma: Methodical Massacre at Rohingya Village (2:19)
Widespread Rape in the Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya in Burma (4:39)
The ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, Explained (5:14)
Rohingya Crisis: Meeting Myanmar’s Hardline Buddhist Monks (4:29)