Human rights organizations identified Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing years before the main genocide

Evidence

The genocidal ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims was not an overnight phenomenon, of course. And international agencies monitoring the world for serious crimes have done a better job of identifying and tracing its trajectory. As early as 2013, prominent human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch were releasing warnings that the government of Myanmar was conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 142

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 142
• XREF: connects to: The ICJ unanimously ordered Myanmar to prevent genocide against the Rohingya — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 155

Related

• The ICJ unanimously ordered Myanmar to prevent genocide against the Rohingya (similarity 0.83)
• Burmese forces displaced a million Rohingya starting in 2017 (similarity 0.82)
• Myanmar killed about 30,000 Rohingya and displaced nearly a million from 2017. (similarity 0.82)
• Myanmar state forces and civilian mobs committed systematic atrocities against Rohingya. (similarity 0.80)
• Rohingya population in Myanmar fell from over a million to under 200,000. (similarity 0.80)
• Rohingya constitute four percent of Myanmar’s population and were rendered stateless at home. (similarity 0.79)
• Myanmar’s 2016 ethnic cleansing used citizenship status to justify violence (similarity 0.79)
• Rohingya genocide killed roughly 30,000 people and displaced nearly one million (similarity 0.78)
• The Rohingya are indigenous to Myanmar despite government claims they are immigrants (similarity 0.78)