Rohingya crisis: a year since it shocked the world, what’s changed?

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    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 languageEnglish
    Specialist publicationThe Conversation
    Publication statusPublished - 13 Aug 2018

    Keywords

    • Minority Groups
    • national identity
    • Military involvement
    • human rights
    • international relations

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