Myanmar’s government labeled thousands of missing victims with a euphemism for death.

Evidence

Those who were massacred, raped, or thrown into the burning fires of anti-Muslim rage yearned for but never saw those cruel waters. Tens of thousands of people were killed, and even more dubbed “missing,” a strategic synonym in Myanmar for death. … They never saw the waters that saved Fatima and others thrown into statelessness. Instead, they saw fire. Fire ignited, in part, by a woman who refused to put it out. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 654

Categorization

• DEFINE: The author flags ‘missing’ as a strategic euphemism deployed by Myanmar’s state for mass death — a term useful for analyses of official language.
• XREF: Links to the reader’s global-synthesis frame: state euphemism as genocide technique parallels other national cases of erasure-by-terminology.