Myanmar’s 2016 ethnic cleansing used citizenship status to justify violence

Evidence

The violence took a turn toward ethnic cleansing in late 2016, when armed forces and police descended upon Rohingya villages to rid them of the Muslim population branded “illegal” by the Citizenship Law. No means of brutality was off the table, and every weapon of violence was unleashed by the state-sponsored mobs. … Police and soldiers gang-raped Rohingya women and girls, some of them still children. Private citizens joined in, ransacking Rohingya businesses and breaking into homes, where they beat up elders and shot fathers and raped mothers in front of children. … The United Nations collected evidence of mosques being burned to the ground. Schools were raided and razed. Entire villages were flattened, and the people who called them home were sent off without any knowledge of where they would end up. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 663

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which Citizenship Law specifically, and when was the Rohingya declassification of Muslims enacted? Worth chasing the legal timeline.