Press Release 14 August 2018 REMEMBERING ROHINGYA GENOCIDE ON 25 AUGUST 2018 Free Rohingya Coalition, a global network of Rohingya and non-Rohingya activists and advocates, are planning to commemorate 25 August 2018 as the “Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day”. On this day one year ago, Myanmar Tatmadaw or the Armed Forces launched the largest scale mass killing, rape and arson to date. Over 300 predominantly Rohingya villages and a few towns in Western Myanmar were targeted. The official pretext for this operation was the existence of a small band of desperate, young and militant Rohingyas. Rohingya rights activists and researchers have