By Zubaidah Chowdhury “My daughter shook me and said, ‘Mom, get up. The house is on fire. You’re burning,’” painfully recalls Mumtaz...

By Kelly Su The cries of the Rohingya wail, “Please, I have no place to call home and nowhere to go. I am only a displaced person denied...

By Jason Tan 727,000. To ignorant bystanders, this number represents nothing; to Rohingya refugees this number represents everything....

By Elena Li In 1997, a band of masked attackers with ties to the municipal government sprung from the forests of Chiapa, Mexico,...

By Iftida Faria “Please don’t kill my baby”, begged the mother as the Myanmar police snatched her child away. While the Rohingya crisis...

By Anab Khan Over 700,000 men, women, and children have been displaced from their ancestral home in the worst ongoing humanitarian crisis...

By Fiona Neibart “Maggots.” “Rapists.” “Dogs.” These slurs—translated from Burmese and aimed at Rohingya—are among more than a thousand...

By Eric Han Gudar Mia, an eighty-year-old Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, with smoke-filled lungs, croaks an old Rohingya folk song. The...

By Yotam Peer Men, women, and children of all ages sit hunched together. Their clothes are raggedy, and they fill each hut and room to...

By Vincent Jiang The irony of the Rohingya crisis is that a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”, in the words of UN High Commissioner...

By Zoe Lee In order to confront the genocide of the Rohingya, we must recognize the compounding factors that ultimately engender...

By Madelyn Fried A boy sits in a rusted chair on the border of Myanmar with a screwdriver and toothbrush in hand. He fixes phones for...

By Aruna Das The word “genocide” is younger than three of my grandparents. A Polish lawyer coined the term in 1944 during Nazi Germany’s...

By Hana Kim In the wake of World War II, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was proposed—a vow to never allow the...

By Mahiul Bhuiyan Former U.S. President Barack Obama once said in an interview, “When you see a genocide, whether it's in Rwanda or...

By Emily Hollander Genocides are bred in a cesspool of contradictions. Their perpetrators thrive in inconsistencies, using them to build...