Case Study: Possible Genocide Against the Rohingya
Background
When: June 2012 – Present
Where: Burma (also known as “Myanmar”)
Who:
- Perpetrators: Burmese Security Forces, Rakhine Nationalist Development Party (RNDP), Buddhist Monkhood
- Targets: Rohingya people, an ethnic and religious minority in Burma
Victims:
- ~6,800 people dead (exact total unknown)
- Hundreds of thousands refugees
Take Action!
- Politico: Trump officials split over punishing Myanmar for atrocities
- Help prevent a possible genocide by calling Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and asking him to bring the Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act (S.2060) to a vote:
- Washington, D.C. phone: (202) 224-2541
- Contact via email
- Read Human Rights Watch’s analysis on the Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act.
Learn More:
Background Articles
- Human Rights Watch: All You Can Do Is Pray
- Human Rights Watch: 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: Myanmar’s Rohingya Are in Crisis—What You Need to Know
News Articles
- Human Rights Watch Photo Essay: Rohingya Refugees Surpass Half a Million
- Human Rights Watch: Scores of Rohingya Villages Bulldozed
- Human Rights Watch: Burma: Ethnic Cleansing, Repression, Denials
- Human Rights Watch: Yes to Refugee Repatriation, But First Things First
- Human Rights Watch: US Imposes Human Rights Day Sanctions on Myanmar
- New York Times Interactive Report: Nothing Bad Happened Here. Believe Us, They Said.
