It is past time to call the violence against Rohingya genocide | Rohingya

The US and the international community have to officially declare the events of August 2017 genocide to help prevent further crimes by the Myanmar military.

Today marks four years since the Myanmar military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya, a mostly Muslim minority. Under the banner of a “clearance operation”, Rohingya communities were attacked, Rohingya women were abused and raped, and men, women and children were ruthlessly killed.

Soon after the brutal military campaign against the Rohingya started, Human Rights Watch reported that at least 200 Rohingya villages were destroyed and burned by the military, and an estimated 13,000 Rohingya were killed.

Today, more than 890,000 Rohingya refugees are sheltering in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar region: the biggest cluster of refugee camps in the world. Some 92,000 Rohingya refugees reside in Thailand, 21,000 in…