The Rohingya and the World

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"Ending Myanmar?s ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya will require confronting both local elites and foreign capital...In Myanmar?s ongoing massacre of the Rohingya — a two-million person strong Muslim minority — the country?s military has burned hundreds of villages, destroyed thousands of homes, and slaughtered 6,700 people. Gang rape, torture, and infanticide have punctuated the egress of the Rohingya, more than 660,000 of whom have fled from northwestern Rakhine state into Bangladesh. These obscenities have not been occasional excesses but rather, according to a United Nations Human Rights investigation, part of a ?consistent, methodical pattern” — an ethnic cleansing. The horror, in its seeming boundlessness, feels alien. And yet, in its popular renderings, there is also something all too familiar about it. The images of Rohingya enduring injustice blur with images of other groups, enduring other injustices in other places..."

Creator/author: 

Elliott Prasse-Freeman

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Jacobin

Date of Publication: 

2017-12-28

Date of entry: 

2017-12-29

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English

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