Description:
"A 12-year-old boy in ragged clothing shoulders a child, his younger sister of 3
years, as they walk mile after mile, escaping their home, because their father was
shot dead on the spot and their mother was raped in front of them and killed
thereafter. They are fleeing with many others who have similar experiences.
Some of them lost their parents, or brothers and sisters while others saw their
entire families burn alive. Two pregnant women walk for miles with inexplicable
hardship, but try their best to keep their babies inside alive.
The group finally enters Bangladesh after walking one day and seven hours,
crossing lands and hills, and riding by boat. Like this group, more than half a
million Rohingyas have fled persecution in Myanmar to Bangladesh since the
military crackdown started on August 25, 2017. Following an alleged attack on
30 police camps and one military base by the radical Arakan Rohingya Salvation
Army (ARSA), Myanmar security forces indiscriminately fired on Rohingya
civilians, burnt their houses down, raped girls and women, and killed hundreds
of Rohingyas mercilessly. The intensity of atrocity was so extreme that the global
community, including the United Nations, the European Union, human rights
groups like International Organization of Migration (IOM), Amnesty
International, and the Human Rights Watch, came forward to stand beside
Rohingyas and condemn Myanmar for its deadly violence, severe brutality, and
crimes against humanity. The United Nations Human Rights Council termed it
as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” and major international media
outlets like the New York Times, ABC News, and CNN have called it genocide..."
Source/publisher:
"BERKLEY CENTER for Religion, Peace & World Affairs" (USA) via "Academia.edu" (USA)
Date of Publication:
2017-10-25
Date of entry:
2019-10-20
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
Countries:
Myanmar, Bangladesh
Administrative areas of Burma/Myanmar:
Rakhine State
Language:
English
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151.16 KB (3 pages)
Resource Type:
text
Text quality:
- Good