What We Are Reading Today: Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide by Ronan Lee

The genocide in Myanmar has drawn global attention  as forced migrations and extra-judicial killings have been witnessed on an enormous scale. This unique study draws on thousands of hours of interviews and testimony from the Rohingya themselves to assess and outline the full scale of the disaster.
About 250 Rohingya refugees, last week, in an overcrowded wooden boat were turned away from western Indonesia and sent back to sea.
The group of around 250 from the persecuted Myanmar minority arrived off the coast of Aceh province but angry locals told them not to land the boat. Some refugees then swam ashore and collapsed with exhaustion on the beach.
Casting new light on Rohingya identity, history and culture, this book will be an essential contribution to the study of the Rohingya people and to the study of the early stages of genocide. This book adds convincingly to the body of evidence that the government of Myanmar has enabled a genocide in Rakhine State and the surrounding areas.