"An overwhelming body of published accounts has detailed the Myanmar Army?s campaign of killing, rape and arson in Rakhine, which has driven more than 600,000 Rohingya out of the country since late August, in what the United Nations says is the fastest displacement of a people since the Rwanda genocide. But in Myanmar, and even in Rakhine itself, there is stark denial that any ethnic cleansing is taking place. The divergence between how Myanmar and much of the outside world see the Rohingya is not limited to one segment of local society. Nor can hatred in Myanmar of the largely stateless Muslim group be dismissed as a fringe attitude. Continue reading the main story Related Coverage THE INTERPRETER Myanmar, Once a Hope for Democracy, Is Now a Study in How It Fails OCT. 19, 2017 NEWS ANALYSIS Hands Tied by Old Hope, Diplomats in Myanmar Stay Silent OCT. 12, 2017 Rohingya Recount Atrocities: ?They Threw My Baby Into a Fire? OCT. 11, 2017 New Surge of Rohingya Puts Aid Workers Back on ?Full Alert? OCT. 10, 2017 In Grim Camps, Rohingya Suffer on ?Scale That We Couldn?t Imagine? SEPT. 29, 2017 Government officials, opposition politicians, religious leaders and even local human-rights activists have become unified behind this narrative: The Rohingya are not rightful citizens of Buddhist-majority Myanmar, and now, through the power of a globally resurgent Islam, the minority is falsely trying to hijack the world?s sympathy..."