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New Paradigms of Violence: Are Burma’s Rohingya Facing a “Hybrid Genocide”?

New Paradigms of Violence: Are Burma’s Rohingya Facing a “Hybrid Genocide”?

by Steven Kiersons, MA | Jun 7, 2015 | Burma, Situations of Concern

At the very end of April 2015, an unspecified number Rohingya Muslims, members of what many have called the “world’s most persecuted people,” began to receive disturbing text messages on their mobile phones. The messages implied that if their home...
Burma: State Apparatus at the Center of Recent Violence and Persecution

Burma: State Apparatus at the Center of Recent Violence and Persecution

by Steven Kiersons, MA | Dec 22, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Technology

Civil war and ethnic cleansing have marred Burma’s ostensible transformation from Junta to democracy. In Rakhine State, the new era has been heralded by periodic outbreaks of mass violence involving mobs of Buddhist civilians waging pogroms on Muslim Rohingya...
Cleansing the Past: Burma Continues Efforts to Erase Persecuted Rohingya

Cleansing the Past: Burma Continues Efforts to Erase Persecuted Rohingya

by Steven Kiersons, MA | Oct 6, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern

At the end of 1932, genocide began in Ukraine. The Soviet-Russian government had made the decision to subjugate the Ukrainians by starving them. It was not a coincidence that 1932 was also the year that Moscow ceased publishing demographic data. The government was...
Recurring Nightmares: Genocide and the Long Shadow of Colonialism in Burma

Recurring Nightmares: Genocide and the Long Shadow of Colonialism in Burma

by Steven Kiersons, MA | Aug 31, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern

August 2014’s Burma update explores the issue of why countries with a history of Western colonial influence are at a higher risk of genocide.        The divide-and-rule tactic of all tyrants of previous epochs had required the creation or exploitation of some...
Urban Prisons: Burma’s Muslim Ghettos Harbor Ominous Historical Parallels

Urban Prisons: Burma’s Muslim Ghettos Harbor Ominous Historical Parallels

by Steven Kiersons, MA | Aug 5, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern

Reports from Burma’s embattled Rakhine State recall some of history’s most heinous crimes. In 2012, a Burmese government official told Dr. Maung Zarni, a persistent gadfly of the military-ruled state: “The bottom line is, we don’t want any more...
Burma Update: Genocide in the Age of the Internet and Social Media

Burma Update: Genocide in the Age of the Internet and Social Media

by Steven Kiersons, MA | Jul 10, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern

On July 2, 2014 a Burmese blogger alleged that two Muslim brothers who own a cafe in Mandalay raped their Buddhist employee. The blog post went viral on Facebook with infamous ethnic-nationalist monk Ashin Wirathu sharing the story on his page. In retaliation to the...

Deteriorating Conditions in Burma Prompt Rapid Reaction Team

by Steven Kiersons, MA | Jun 2, 2014 | General News

The past month has illustrated the continuance of grave violations of human rights in Burma’s Rakhine State, as seen here on ThreatWiki. The Sentinel Project’s geospatial mapping database recorded appallingly common occurances of violent crimes comitted by...

ThreatWiki: Almost 70% of “Communal” Attacks on Muslims Involve Government

by Steven Kiersons, MA | May 2, 2014 | General News

Recent analysis conducted for the London Conference on the Destruction of Myanmar’s Rohingya held at the London School of Economics in late April showed that violence often characterized as “communal” by many media outlets is in fact government...

Twenty Years After Rwanda, the Media is Still Failing to Report on Genocide

by Steven Kiersons, MA | Apr 15, 2014 | General News

Before he was murdered by the SS in a Riga Ghetto in 1941, Jewish historian Simon Dubnow assigned a mission to the victims and bystanders of genocide: “Write and record!” The witnesses of the holocaust heeded Dubnow; they knew intuitively that the...

Was Doctors Without Borders Standing in the Way of Genocide in Burma?

by Steven Kiersons, MA | Mar 30, 2014 | General News

Among the most notable developments from Burma in March was news that Nobel-Prize winning Doctors Without Borders, commonly known by its French moniker Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF), was removed from Burma. After media backlash, MSF was allowed to operate in Burma...

Recent Violence in Burma Shows Systematic Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing

by Steven Kiersons, MA | Jan 18, 2014 | General News

In August 2013, the Sentinel Project published an analysis of patterns of violence against Muslims in Burma entitled “A Formula for Ethnic Cleansing in Burma.” The article described the uncannily systematic means by which the Rohingya were being killed and...

December Update – Burma: Rohingya Continue to Suffer at Home and Abroad

by Steven Kiersons, MA | Jan 1, 2014 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements

In the month of December 2013, Reuters revealed shocking details about the system of human trafficking created to handle the expulsion of Rohingya and other Muslims from Burma, also known as Myanmar. The agency discovered that the Thailand government was selling...
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