Rohingya massacre

Rohingya Muslim women look out from their home at Aung Mingalar quarter in Sittwe, Myanmar

Holocaust museum researcher finds early warning signs of genocide in Myanmar

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The plight of Rohingya migrants stranded at sea puts a spotlight on conditions in the country they fled. Staffers from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum were on a fact-finding tour to Myanmar this spring and found what they call a genocide in the making. Andrea Gittleman, program manager for the Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, says recent violence and persecution of Rohingya could be early warning signs of greater atrocities to come.

Recent violence in Myanmar displaces thousands of Muslim minorities