Join HRW: Defend Rights & Secure Justice for the Rohingya

The Rohingya people have faced discrimination and violence at the hands of Burma's security forces for years. Last August, the Burmese government waged a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya minority, among the most horrific the world has seen in decades. Villages were pillaged and burned to the ground. Numerous villagers, including young children, were summarily executed. Soldiers committed countless gang rapes against women and girls and murdered entire families. Many victims were left to die in their burning homes. Couched as a counter-insurgency campaign, the widespread arson, sexual violence and murders amounted to crimes against humanity.

To escape this violence, more than 725,000 Rohingya women, men, and children fled their villages across the border into Bangladesh. Even with the goodwill of the Bangladeshi government, the camps are crowded, food and medical care is limited, and monsoon rains cause dangerous mudslides.

The Rohingya people have endured decades of state-sponsored discrimination that has limited their livelihoods and freedom of movement. Effectively denied Burmese citizenship despite living in Burma for generations, the Rohingya have nowhere to turn, except to the international community.

It's been almost two months since the UN issued a damning report documenting Burmese security forces' abuses against the ethnic Rohingya—including murder, rape, and torture—and concluded there was sufficient information to warrant prosecution of senior military officials for crimes against humanity and genocide.

But as the anguish of the Rohingya minority continues, their harrowing stories have faded from the headlines. Without the attention and awareness of the public, it's harder than ever to keep up the political pressure necessary to end the suffering and pursue justice for the Rohingya people.

You can help by taking action and showing the world that the Rohingya people are not forgotten. Join HRW to help ensure the US government supports a viable plan to hold perpetrators to account. Take action today, and stand with Human Rights Watch as we defend rights and secure justice for the Rohingya.