Amani Shahan
January 31, 2020
The Rohingya have been named “the most persecuted minority in the world” by the United Nations, following a wave of atrocities unseen since genocides in Rwanda and former Yugoslavia. The author details the plight of Rohingya left unchecked.
The Rohingya are an ethnic group, primarily Muslim (though a small number are Hindu) in majority-Buddhist Myanmar (formerly Burma). Although a small Muslim population has lived in what used to be Arakan State for centuries, the influx of Bengali Muslims during the British colonial rule tripled the country’s Muslim population.