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The Rohingya of Myanmar Suffered Crimes Against Humanity. Can There...
by Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
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In August 2017, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya
muslims from Myanmar fled across the border to
Bangladesh. The Rohingya are a minority population that
have long faced discrimination by the Buddhist Burmese
majority. In the summer of 2017, things got very bad,
very quickly. A Rohingya militant group attacked some
police outposts in Myanmar. The government and military
responded by attacking Rohingya towns and villages,
unleashing massive violence against a civilian
population. This drove over 600,000 Rohingya to refugee
camps in a region of Bangladesh known as Cox's Bazar.
Some 700,000 Rohingya refugees remain there, to this day.
The violence that drove these people from their home was
certainly a crime against humanity -- a UN official
called it \\"a text book example of an ethnic
cleansing.\\" And maybe even a genocide. That of course
demands the question: who will pay for these crimes. What
does accountability look like in a situation like this.
And can perpetrators of these crimes even be brought to
justice in the first place? On the line with me to
discuss these questions in the context of the current
plight of the Rohingya refugees is Param-Preet Singh,
Associate Director, International Justice Program of
Human Rights Watch. We kick off discussing the events of
August 2017 before having a longer conversation about
possible avenues for justice for these crimes. This
episode pairs well with my conversation last week with
former Obama administration official Ben Rhodes, who
discusses the fall from grace of Aung San Suu Kyi, the
nobel peace prize winner who was the de-facto head of
state of Myanmar while these crimes against humanity
occurred--and who remained a notably silent bystander to
ethnic cleansing.
Date Published: 2021-12-11 04:52:48
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