"In the past several months1 the international community has watched as a huge human tragedy unfolded for the Rohingya people living in the northern Burmese state of Rakhine.2 In a culmination of many decades of discrimination, marginalisation and abuse, a ?textbook example of ethnic cleansing”3 has been perpetrated by Burma?s security forces against the Rohingya under the guise of an appropriate response to militia violence in the summer..."