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"“What can we do, Brother, they (the Rohingya) are too many?
We can’t kill them all.” Ex-Brigadier General, formerly
stationed in Arakan or Rakhine State, and Ambassador to
Brunei, Fall, 2012.1
“How can it be ethnic cleansing? They are not an ethnic
group.” Mr. Win Myaing, the official spokesperson of the
Rakhine State Government, May 15, 2013.2
“We do not have the term ‘Rohingya.’” Myanmar President
Thein Sein, Chatham House, London, July 17, 2013.3
“There are elements of genocide in Rakhine with respect to
Rohingya . . . . The possibility of a genocide needs to be
discussed. I myself do not use the term genocide for strategic
reasons.” Tomás Ojéa Quintana, United Nations Special
Rapporteur for Human Rights, London Conference on
Decades of State-Sponsored Destruction of Myanmar’s
Rohingya, April 28, 2014.4
Over the past thirty-five years, the State in Myanmar has
intentionally formulated, pursued, and executed national and state-level
plans aimed at destroying the Rohingya people in Western Myanmar. 5
This destruction has been state-sponsored, legalized, and initiated by a
frontal assault on the identity, culture, social foundation, and history of the
Rohingya who are a people with a distinct ethnic culture..."
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Compilation © 2014 Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal Association via "Academia.edu" (USA)
Date of Publication:
2014-05-31
Date of entry:
2019-10-19
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- Individual Documents
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Countries:
Myanmar, Bangladesh
Administrative areas of Burma/Myanmar:
Rakhine State
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English
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