Practical steps the NLD-led government can take in its first six months to address human rights violations against the Rohingya

By Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK • February 18, 2016

For decades successive regimes and governments in Burma have pursued a twin-track policy of impoverishment and human rights violations in order to attempt to wipe out the Rohingya community from Arakan State. Under the government of President Thein Sein human rights violations against the Rohingya sharply escalated, as he attempted to use Buddhist nationalism and anti-Muslim prejudice in the country to win public support.

Human Rights Watch stated that human rights violations against the Rohingya met the legal definitions of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. Fortify Rights also found evidence of crimes against humanity. Studies by the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School and Fortify Rights, and by the International State Crime Initiative of Queen Mary University London, found evidence that amounts to genocide of the Rohingya. There is a humanitarian crisis in camps that Rohingya fled to in 2012, and senior members of the nationalist Arakan National Party continue to whip up hatred against the Rohingya.

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Tags: Arakan State, ASEAN, Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, Crimes against humanity, Human Rights Violations, Rohingya

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Practical steps the NLD-led government can take in its first six months to address human rights violations against the Rohingya

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