Story highlights More than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar for BangladeshThe exodus has been building for years and should be recognized as genocide, Ibrahim saysDr. Azeem Ibrahim is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Policy and author of "The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide" (Hurst & Oxford University Press)(CNN) The Rohingya crisis in Myanmar is now widely described as ethnic cleansing. And now, it seems, we can no longer avoid the conclusion we have all been dreading. But the final peak of violence is in all historical cases merely the visible tip of the iceberg. The frenzied killing was not something that just occurred to the Hutus one day in April 1994. It was the logical conclusion of a campaign of dehumanization and paranoia which lasted for years.

Source: CNN October 23, 2017 05:26 UTC