We Can’t Let Myanmar Get Away with Ethnic Cleansing

By Matthew Gindin | Published by tricycle on February 16, 2018 The international community must not allow the Rohingya crisis to fade away without consequence. The situation of the Rohingya in Bangladesh and Myanmar continues to darken as the brutal Burmese campaign against them, one the UN has called a “textbook case of ethnic cleansing,” seems set to fade from international attention. Nearly 700,000 are now living in squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh while those still within Myanmar are subject to a two-pronged campaign of destruction. On the ground they continue to be victims of violence, while in the Burmese