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ROHINGYA AND MUSLIMS IN ARAKAN STATE: SLOW-BURNING GENOCIDE

The experiences of more than 1 million Rohingya and Muslims from Burma are
often overlooked in global media coverage, whether in Burma or in exile in
Bangladesh, Malaysia and elsewhere.
• Rohingya are denied citizenship at home and protection in countries of asylum:
many have been forced to leave and denied resettlement, others forcibly deported
to situations of danger.
• Rohingya in exile present a humanitarian and political headache for neighbors – as
many as 250,000 in Bangladesh and 25,000 in Malaysia.
• Those remaining in Burma face human rights abuses on a scale that is disparate
when compared with those experienced by the rest of the population.
• In 1992 the UN General Assembly recognized the disproportionate suffering the
community had experienced under the military regime in Resolution 47/144.
• Since 1992, the “torture and arbitrary execution, continued detention of a large
number of persons for political reasons, the existence of important restrictions on
the exercise of fundamental freedoms and the imposition of oppressive measures”
that so concerned the UN have continued, forcing new movements of people, and
waves of refugees that place a burden on the limited resources of Bangladesh and
other neighbors.
• The campaign of displacement, denial of culture and identity, restrictions on the
right to marry and form a family, killings, rape, torture and denial of food are a
slow-burning genocide - “deliberately inflict[ing] on the group [Rohingya and
Arakan Muslims] conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical
destruction in whole or in part”.1
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