Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech

Ronan Lee

Paperback, 320 pages

9780755602476

The genocide in Myanmar has drawn global attention as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be presiding over human rights violations, forced migrations and extra-judicial killings on an enormous scale. This unique study draws on thousands of hours of interviews and testimony from the Rohingya themselves to assess and outline the full scale of the disaster.

Casting new light on Rohingya identity, history and culture, this will be an essential contribution to the study of the Rohingya people and to the study of the early stages of genocide. This book adds convincingly to the body of evidence that the government of Myanmar has enabled a genocide in Rakhine State and the surrounding areas.

Contents

1. Background to Rohingya's situation

2. Burma pre-colonial history focussing on Arakan (Rakhine state) area

3. Archival research outcomes – new research outlining strong Rohingya claim to pre-colonial history

4. Burma/Myanmar's post-independence history impacting the Rohingya

5. Fieldwork research with Rohingya (in Myanmar and diaspora)

6. Development of modern Rohingya identity; Who do the contemporary Rohingya say they are?

7. Myanmar's transformation 2010-2015

8. 2015-2019 period in Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi comes to office, online hate speech increases, 2017 military action in northern Rakhine state, and the Rohingya's forced migration

9. The Rohingya's future