Burmese forces displaced a million Rohingya starting in 2017

Evidence

It was late July 2020, and I had been closely following the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims—an indigenous people from the Asian nation of Myanmar—since early 2017, months after the armed forces violently cracked down on the Muslim minority group in Rakhine State. The harrowing tales of children slaughtered, women raped, and 1 million Rohingya displaced from their homes and thrown into perpetual exile generated an endless list of questions I had for her. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 642

Categorization

• XREF: Direct detail for the global-synthesis view the reader is building — Rohingya ethnic cleansing is a second national case alongside China’s Uyghur camps and American Islamophobia.