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• 1 2021-05-12T14:47:42-04:00 Rohingya in Myanmar 19 Read a brief history of the Rohingya in the Rakhine State of Myanmar image_header 1434 2021-12-16T20:16:59-05:00 The Rohingya people claim the Rakhine State of Myanmar as their ancestral home, but many have been living in exile since the 1990s¹. They represent the largest ethnic group of Muslims in Myanmar, and are systematically persecuted by the country’s military and government, which claims that the Rohingya are actually illegal immigrants from Bangladesh². The government’s violent crackdowns on Rohingya masquerade as a response to armed militant attacks from the Rohingya, but have far surpassed what could be considered a remotely reasonable response in this context. A wave of violence in the state beginning in 2017 has forced almost 750,000 Rohingya to flee to neighboring Bangladesh³. Since this time, Burmese security forces have decimated hundreds of Rohingya villages, forcing their residents to flee⁴. If this weren’t enough, the Rohingya have also been denied citizenship in Myanmar, and systematically targeted in violent attacks for decades⁵. See below for further reading on the Rohingya, and to learn more about what you can do.