Abstract
In 2017, an unprecedented number of Rohingya Muslim refugees began fleeing Myanmar’s Rakhine state for neighbouring Bangladesh, after Myanmar’s military launched a crackdown in response to attacks on border posts by Rohingya rebels. This crisis is, as rightly pointed out by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, “a humanitarian and human rights nightmare”; the United Nations described the military offensive in Rakhine that provoked the exodus as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”.
Original language | English |
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Specialist publication | The Conversation |
Publication status | Published - 13 Aug 2018 |
Keywords
- Minority Groups
- national identity
- Military involvement
- human rights
- international relations