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The Ongoing Genocidal Crisis of the Rohingya Minority in Myanmar

Abstract
The serious plight of the Rohingya ethnic group’s extreme victimization in Myanmar
has finally emerged on the international stage. They are mostly a stateless
Muslim minority from the state of Rakhine which, over recent decades,
have been abused by severe and repeated multiple human rights violations.
There are now approximately 850,000 displaced Rohingya refugees mostly in
Bangladesh and surrounding countries with thousands more waiting in peril
between Myanmar and Bangladesh. The saga of the Rohingya dilemma has been
fraught with complex ethno-religious conflicts between Buddhist, Muslim and
Hindu factions exacerbated by the scale of people involved, rapidity of events,
recency of occurrences, abject poverty, racial hatred, linguistic differences,
confused ancestral rights, severe humanitarian violations, genocidal policies,
surrounded by nations themselves struggling with few resources. The presentday
conflicted leadership in Myanmar between the military and the democratically
elected leader of her government, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been severely criticized
for their brutal continued ethnic cleansing.
Keywords
Rohingya, Myanmar, Bangladesh, ethnic cleansing, genocide, Muslim, Buddhist,
human rights, refugees, Aung San Suu Kyi