“The Rohingya Genocide: Starvation and Forced Labour as Tools of Erasure”

This report – the twelfth in our ongoing series – documents continued breaches of the International Court of Justice’s binding orders to protect the Rohingya, issued as part of The Gambia’s genocide case against Myanmar. It is being published ahead of Myanmar’s next six-month reporting deadline to the Court.

Drawing on first-hand documentation from Rakhine State, gathered despite severe access and communication restrictions imposed by both the Burmese military and the Arakan Army, the report exposes how both forces are using starvation, forced labour and widespread abuses as tools of erasure against the Rohingya. With the Arakan Army now controlling large parts of Rakhine State, Rohingya now face two oppressors instead of one.

The report details how aid and trade blockades, forced recruitment, and escalating abuses are driving acute malnutrition, particularly among children, and displacing Rohingya families into unsafe, overcrowded areas. Many are now attempting dangerous sea crossings in a desperate effort to escape worsening persecution.

In northern Rakhine State specifically, the Arakan Army has intensified forced labour and forced recruitment, alongside arbitrary arrests, incommunicado detention, disappearances, torture and extrajudicial killings – collectively amounting to an escalating campaign to erase the Rohingya from their homeland.

Read the full report here

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