The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s new online exhibition shows how years of escalating exclusion and persecution of the Rohingya at the hands of the Burmese military eventually resulted in genocide.
“Beyond the rooftops of the refugee camps, Rohingya can see the mountains in their home country of Burma. Today, nearly one million members of the Muslim minority live across the border in Bangladesh.
Many fled violent attacks in 2017 by the Burmese military, who murdered their family members and destroyed their homes and villages. Thousands died. The Rohingya remain in the camps because they fear for their lives if they return home.
They have faced persecution before. After a 1962 military takeover, extreme nationalism based on religion and ethnicity began to take hold in Burma. In the decades that followed, the military attacked minority groups including the Rohingya.
Photo: Greg Constantine