Buddhist Nationalism in Burma
Institutionalized racism against the Rohingya Muslims led Burma to genocide
By Maung Zarni
SPRING 2013
Rohingya are categorically darker-skinned people—sometimes called by the slur “Bengali kalar.” Indeed, the lighter-skinned Buddhists of Burma are not alone in their fear of dark-skinned people and belief that the paler the skin, the more desirable, respectable, and protected one is.
Read more: https://tricycle.org/magazine/buddhist-nationalism-burma/
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The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya
By Zarni, Maung; Cowley, Alice
Since 2012, the Rohingya have been subject to renewed waves of hate campaigns and accompanying violence, killings and ostracization that aim both to destroy the Rohingya and to permanently remove them from their ancestral homes in Rakhine State. Findings from the authors’ three-year research on the plight of the Rohingya lead us to conclude that Rohingya have been subject to a process of slow-burning genocide over the past thirty-five years. The destruction of the Rohingya is carried out both by civilian populations backed by the state and perpetrated directly by state actors and state institutions. Both the State in Burma and the local community have committed four out of five acts of genocide as spelled out by the 1948 Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide. Despite growing evidence of genocide, the international community has so far avoided calling this large scale human suffering genocide because no powerful member states of the UN Security Council have any appetite to forego their commercial and strategic interests in Burma to address the slow-burning Rohingya genocide.
Read more: http://digital.law.washington.edu/dspace-law/handle/1773.1/1377
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THE SYSTEMATIC REPRESSION OF THE ROHINGYA MINORITY CONTINUES
By Maung Zarni
March 14, 2017
The 1.33 million Rohingya Muslims may be “too many to kill,” but that has not stopped the state security forces or the local ultra-nationalist Rakhine from carrying out waves of pogroms against the Rohingya. The state's racist draconian policies make life so unbearable that the Rohingya would rather risk their lives on voyages across the high seas than wait like sitting ducks to be slaughtered in their ghettos or “open-air prisons,” as the BBC put it.
Read more: https://www.dissidentblog.org/en/articles/systematic-repression-rohingya-minority-continues
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An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide
By Alice Cowley and Maung Zarni
April 20, 2017
“Send us as many birth control pills as you can. They (Myanmar troops) are gang-raping our women. They are arresting and killing all our men. There is nothing else you can do. Just pray to Allah and to wish us speedy deaths! This is just simply unbearable,” said a Rohingya woman talking from her mobile phone from Myanmar’s predominantly Rohingya region of Northern Rakhine State bordering Bangladesh.
Read more: http://www.mei.edu/content/evolution-rohingya-persecution-myanmar-strategic-embrace-genocide
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Waves of Genocidal Terror against Rohingyas by Myanmar and the Resultant Exodus Since 1978
By Maung Zarni and Natalie Brinham
November 14, 2017
International lawyers, U.N. officials and world leaders may and do debate as to whether Myanmar’s mass atrocities constitute the crime of all crimes, a genocide. But over one million Rohingya refugees, displaced in Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Malaysia, India and other countries and the smaller number that are being trapped inside Northern Rakhine State between the unwelcoming world and the hateful Burmese society do not have the luxury of deciding what to call the crimes they have been subjected to for nearly 40 years.
Read more: http://www.mei.edu/content/map/waves-genocidal-terror-against-rohingyas-myanmar-and-resultant-exodus-1978
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Maung Zarni -- Myanmar's Slow-Burning Genocide of the Rohingya People
Watch a short video: https://watson.brown.edu/events/2017/maung-zarni-myanmars-slow-burning-genocide-rohingya-people
