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Rohingya refugees turn to boats to escape abuse and atrocities at the hands of Myanmar's military and civilian government and Buddhist mobs, time and again, over the last decade. UNHCR
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PRIOR EVENTS
2013-2017
(BEFORE CURRENT CRISIS)
Major Media Reports
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KEY FACTS & NAMES:
The names Myanmar (official)
and Burma (traditional)
refer to the same country.
Rakhine State is Myanmar's coastal province where most of the violence has happened.
Rohingya Muslims were the majority there (particularly around the coastal district of Maungdaw Township), until this crisis.
Myamar's military, the notorious Tatmadaw, working with local Rakhines (a large Buddhist minority), attacked the Rohingya -- in 2012-2013, 2015, 2016-2017, and most brutally in 2017-2018 -- killing, torturing, wounding or raping tens of thousands of them -- ultimately driving most of the Rohingya out of Rakhine State into the neighboring country of Bangladesh.
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PRIOR NEWS REPORTS:
(Early 2013 - Early 2017):
NOTE: These news accounts document a history of persecutions and violence against the Rohingya, involving the Myanmar military and civilian government, and other factions in Myanmar / Burma -- and particularly major abuses of the Rohingya prior to the current crisis (which erupted in August 2017). Multiple previous episodes of violence are noted here, including a lenghthy one in late 2016 / early 2017.
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ESSAY:
The repressed Rohingya of Myanmar
- 2013-08-09 Los Angeles Times
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'Prison camps' or risking death at sea:
Anti-Muslim mob violence
provokes dilemma in Myanmar.
- 2013-09-07 NBC News
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The Rohingyas:
The most persecuted people on Earth?
- 2015-06-13 The Economist (London)
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Persecuted Rohingya refugees
from Myanmar
suffer horrific abuses at sea.
- 2015-10-21 Amnesty International
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Genocide in Burma:
The Rohingya may well be the most persecuted people on the planet, and nobody, including the United States, is lifting a finger to help.
- 2015-06-13 Washington Monthly
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Burma's Million-Strong Rohingya Population
Faces 'Final Stages of Genocide,' Says Report
- 2015-10-28 Time Magazine
Extrajudicial Killings:
The Violation of Human Rights
in Bangladesh
- 2016-01 (academic paper)
Even Bangladesh, refuge of the Rohingya, has abuses of police power -- notably through Rapid Action Batallions (RABs). Eventually, in 2020-2021, RABs would be given "security" control of controversial Rohingya refugee transfers from mainland camps to an island concentration camp.
Unrest in Burma's Arakan State:
A Timeline
Something Shocking Is Happening to Burma's Rohingya People.
Take a Look at This Timeline ...
- 2016-11-21 Time Magazine
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EDITORIAL:
When will Myanmar stop persecuting the Rohingya?
- 2016-11-22 Los Angeles Times
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Myanmar wants ethnic cleansing of Rohingya - UN official
- 2016-11-24 BBC News
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Bangladesh pushes back Rohingya refugees
amid collective punishment in Myanmar.
- 2016-11-24 Amnesty International
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Myanmar Rakhine:
Inside the closed Rakhine region
- 2016-12-07 BBC News, U.K.
The BBC has obtained footage from inside Myanmar's Rakhine state, where allegations have emerged of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya community.
The Burmese military denies it but has banned independent journalists from investigating in the area.
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UN getting daily reports of rapes, killings,
and other abuses against Rohingya Muslims in Burma
- 2016-12-18 The Independent, U.K.
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VIDEO:
Images Show Burned-Out Villages
After Clashes in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
- 2016-12-23 Benar News / Radio Free Asia (RFA)
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VIDEO:
'They Raped Me One After Another'
- 2017-01-19 Benar News / Radio Free Asia (RFA)
Benar News interviewed 54 Rohingya Muslim women from Myanmar, who arrived in camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district since October 2016. They say security forces committed the crimes.
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Myanmar says it will 'take action' against police
after video shows beating of Rohingya Muslim villagers
- 2017-01-02 Chicago Tribune
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After years of government persecution,
some of Myanmar's Rohingya minority
taking up arms
- 2017-01-04 Los Angeles Times / Chicago Tribune
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Persecuted Minority in Myanmar
Is Escalating Its Armed Insurgency
- 2017-01-21 New York Times
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Rohingya Face ‘Campaign of Terror’
in Myanmar,
U.N. Finds
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2017 Feb. 3 - New York Times
Members of Myanmar’s Army and the police have slaughtered hundreds of men, women and children, gang-raped women and girls, and forced as many as 90,000 Rohingya Muslims from their homes, according to a United Nations report released on Friday.
The report, the world body’s first official account of a four-month government crackdown on ethnic Rohingya in Myanmar, said the actions of members of the army and the police “very likely” were crimes against humanity.
“The gravity and scale of these allegations begs the robust reaction of the international community,” said Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, whose office released the 50-page report.
(details at:
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Official U.N. Report, UNHCHR
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Myanmar Muslim minority subject to horrific torture, UN says
- 2017-03-10 BBC News
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World's "most persecuted minority"
recall the horrors of home:
Rohingya Muslim refugees in India
tell of rape, torture and murder
in Myanmar's Rakhine.
- 2017-05-10 CBS News
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Myanmar’s Rohingya stuck in limbo
between persecution and relocation.
- 2017-07-24 PBS News Hour
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World Islamic body OIC
tells Myanmar to protect rights
of Rohingya minority .
- 2017-08-03 Reuters News Service
NOTE: ALL OF THESE EVENTS TOOK PLACE BEFORE THE CURRENT CRISIS ERUPTED IN LATE-AUGUST, 2017.
(also see:
BACKGROUND)
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