By Maung Zarni and Alice Cowley | Published by Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal on June 3, 2014 Abstract: Maung Zarni, an International Judge, People’s Tribunal on Sri Lanka, Germany (2013); Fellow, Center of Democracy and Elections, the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur; and Visiting Fellow (2013-15), Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, London School of Economics, Alice Cowley, Consultant Researcher, Equal Rights Trust (ERT), London. Abstract: Since 1978, the Rohingya, a Muslim minority of Western Burma, have been subject to a state-sponsored process of destruction. The Rohingya have deep historical roots in the borderlands of Rakhine State,