The genocide of Rohingyas in Burma

The Rohingya are a Muslim community living in the current-day province of Rakhine in western Myanmar. The last 10 years have seen waves of violence aimed at driving them from their communities all carried out by an alliance of the military, extremist Buddhist monks, and the ethnic Rakhine political establishment. The violence has never been challenged by the National League for Democracy (NLD) and its leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Key to this consensus is the view that the Rohingyas are foreigners, with no right to live in Myanmar. In 2016, this ethnic cleansing provoked the emergence of an armed resistance among some Rohingya (ARSA). In turn the Myanmar military carried out a sustained campaign of brutality and ethnic cleansing, driving around one million Rohingya into Bangladesh. Most of the Rohingya still in Myanmar are held in camps. Effectively 10 years of national democracy has seen the complete destruction of an ethnic community.