| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 239 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms -- List of Key Individuals -- List of Figures and Tables -- Map of Myanmar -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. A Short History of Burma to 1948 -- 2. From Independence to Democracy (1948-2010) -- 3. The Return to Democracy (2008-2015) -- 4. Implications for the Rohingyas (2008-2015) -- 5. Genocide and International Law -- 6. Current Situation -- 7. What Can Be Done? -- Conclusion -- Epilogue, November 2017 -- Appendices -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet the signs of this genocide have been visible for years. For generations, this Muslim group has suffered routine discrimination, violence, arbitrary arrest and detention, extortion, and other abuses by the Buddhist majority. As horrifying massacres have unfolded in 2017, international human rights groups have accused the regime of complicity in an ethnic cleansing campaign against them. Authorities refuse to recognise the Rohingyas as one of Myanmar's 135 "national races," denying them citizenship rights in the country of their birth and severely restricting many aspects of ordinary life, from marriage to free movement. In this updated edition, Azeem Ibrahim chronicles the events leading up to the current, final cleansing of the Rohingya population, and issues a clarion call to protect a vulnerable, little known Muslim minority. He makes a powerful appeal to use the lessons of the twentieth century to stop this genocide in the twenty-first |
| Notes |
Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2016 by C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-226) and index |
| Notes |
"With a foreword by Nobel Pease Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus."--Cover |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Rohingya (Burmese people) -- Civil rights
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Genocide -- Burma
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Ethnic relations.
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Genocide.
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| SUBJECT |
Burma -- Ethnic relations
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| Subject |
Burma.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yunus, Muhammad, 1940- writer of introduction.
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| ISBN |
9781849049825 |
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1849049823 |
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