Rohingya genocide
 Destroyed village in Rakhine State in September 2017. | |
| Date | 9 October 2016 – January 2017 25 August 2017 – present |
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| Location | Rakhine State, Myanmar |
| Type | |
| Theme | Military crackdown on Rohingya by Myanmar's armed forces and police |
| Cause |
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| Motive | Anti-Rohingya sentiment, Islamophobia, ultranationalism, ethnic cleansing, religious persecution |
| Outcome | |
The Rohingya genocide is a series of war crimes committed against the Rohingya people by the Burmese military.[a][2]
The genocide has been commited in two phases[4][5] to date: the first was a military crackdown that happened from October 2016 to January 2017, and the second has been happening since August 2017.[1][6] The crisis forced over a million Rohingya to flee to other countries. Most fled to Bangladesh.[7] Others escaped to India, Thailand, Malaysia, and other parts of South and Southeast Asia.[source?]
Background
[change | change source]Since Myanmar went independent in 1948, violence towards the Rohingya has happened from time to time.[1]
Events
[change | change source]Genocidal attacks[1] against the Rohingya happened in August 2017,[1] involving mass rapes, massacres and burning of villages.[1] At least 700,000[1] Rohingya lost their homes and fled to Bangladesh.[1] The displaced Rohingya lived in overcrowded camps,[1] facing a humanitarian crisis.[1]
Reactions
[change | change source]United Nations
[change | change source]A fact-finding mission of the United Nations Human Rights Council concluded in September 2018 that Myanmar's government had committed crimes against humanity against the Rohingya.[1]
United States
[change | change source]On March 21, 2022, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) to announce that the US government recognized the Rohingya genocide.[1]
Footnotes
[change | change source]- ↑ A Muslim minority in the Rakhine (or Arakan) State of Myanmar,[1] which borders Bangladesh.[1] Myanmar's government has not recognized the Rohingya as an ethnic group but considered the Rohingya "illegal immigrants".[1]
References
[change | change source]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "Atrocities against Burma's Rohingya Population". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). Retrieved May 7, 2025.
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- "Rohingya testimonies added to Visual History Archive". USC Shoah Education. September 11, 2018. Retrieved May 7, 2025.
- Chauhan, Khushboo (2020). "The Holocaust and the Rohingya Conflict of Myanmar". Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Retrieved May 7, 2025.
- "Award-Winning Photography by Rohingya Artists to be shown at the Wiener Holocaust Library". The Wiener Holocaust History. February 12, 2025. Retrieved May 7, 2025.
- ↑ "Myanmar's military accused of genocide in damning UN report | Myanmar | The Guardian".
- ↑ "World Court Rules Against Myanmar on Rohingya". Human Rights Watch. 2020-01-23. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ "Myanmar's Rohingya Crisis Enters a Dangerous New Phase". Crisis Group. 2017-12-07. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ Katie Hunt. "Rohingya crisis: How we got here". CNN. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑
- Sengupta, Somini and Henry Fountain: "The Biggest Refugee Camp Braces for Rain: 'This Is Going to Be a Catastrophe'; More than half a million Rohingya refugees face looming disaster from floods and landslides...," March 14, 2018, New York Times, retrieved May 26, 2020
- The 2010 – 2020 UN News Decade in Review, part three Archived 2020-12-21 at the Wayback Machine, December 27, 2019, UN News, United Nations, retrieved May 26, 2020
- "Coronavirus: Two Rohingya test positive in refugee camp. Two Rohingya refugees have tested positive for coronavirus in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh, officials say." May 14, 2020, BBC News, retrieved May 26, 2020
