Description
| Product ID: | 9781849049733 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Rohingyas |
| Subtitle: | Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide |
| Authors: | Author: Azeem Ibrahim |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Asian history, Asian history, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Social discrimination and social justice, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Human rights, civil rights, Political oppression and persecution, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Social discrimination & inequality, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Islamic studies, Human rights, Political oppression & persecution |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Ibrahim's searing book documents the slow-motion genocide of the Muslim Rohingyas and exposes the culpability of the Buddhist clergy in fomenting the religious cleansing of Myanmar. According to the United Nations, Myanmar’s Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet the signs of this genocide have been visible for years.For generations, this Muslim group has suffered routine discrimination, violence, arbitrary arrest and detention, extortion, and other abuses by the Buddhist majority. As horrifying massacres have unfolded in 2017, international human rights groups have accused the regime of complicity in an ethnic cleansing campaign against them. Authorities refuse to recognise the Rohingyas as one of Myanmar’s 135 ‘national races’, denying them citizenship rights in the country of their birth and severely restricting many aspects of ordinary life, from marriage to free movement.In this updated edition, Azeem Ibrahim chronicles the events leading up to the current, final cleansing of the Rohingya population, and issues a clarion call to protect a vulnerable, little known Muslim minority. He makes a powerful appeal to use the lessons of the twentieth century to stop this genocide in the twenty-first. |
| Imprint Name: | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-02-22 |