If the last few years are any indication, the “global community” can’t prevent genocides. The civil war situation and the rise of the Islamic State helped mask the grave oversight of the international community. Unlike Syria, where the minority regime is out killing the majority population, the Myanmar junta is targeting a specific minority. The Rohingyas, a largely Muslim ethnic group of nearly a million people, have been beaten, and bruised, and displaced from their homes. The military junta of Myanmar has long persecuted the Rohingyas, living in the Rakhine state in the northwest.

Source: Huffington Post September 09, 2017 16:07 UTC