State continues to deny genocide accusations and borrows US President’s most enduring catchphrase – despite White House condemnation of ‘ethnic cleansing’
He was a member of the Rohingya student union in college, taught at a public high school and even won a parliamentary seat in Burma’s thwarted elections in 1990.
But according to the government of Burma, Kyaw Min’s fellow Rohingya do not exist.
A long-persecuted Muslim minority concentrated in Burma’s Rakhine state, the Rohingya have been deemed dangerous interlopers from neighbouring Bangladesh. Today, they are mostly stateless, their very identity denied by Buddhist-majority Burma.
“There is no such thing as Rohingya,” said Kyaw San Hla, an officer in Rakhine’s state security ministry. “It is fake news.”
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