Rohingya Human Rights Initiative - ROHRIngya

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Not one senior Myanmar military official has ever been held accountable for crimes against the Rohingya - not for the 2017 genocide, not for the ongoing violence in Rakhine State, not for the Hoyyar Siri massacre documented in the new HRW report.

The UN Special Rapporteur confirmed this in their most recent report.

One of the core drivers of this impunity is the world's short attention span. When the cameras move on, the accountability conversation ends.

We don't move on. We keep documenting. We keep posting.

Full report: rohingya.org

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Rohingya statelessness didn't begin in 2017.

It began in 1823, when British colonisers drew borders that converted the free movement of peoples within imperial space into "migration" - and then independence governments inherited those borders and weaponised them.

Myanmar's 1982 Citizenship Law requires Rohingya to prove their ancestors lived in Burma before 1823. That cut-off date is not arbitrary. It is the year British colonisation of Burma began.

A new article in the Melbourne Asia Review by researcher Subin Mulmi documents how colonial borders produced statelessness across Myanmar, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka - and why the Rohingya are the clearest example of this structural failure.

Read the article: https://www.melbourneasiareview.edu.au/colonial-borders-statelessness-myanmar-india-bangladesh-sri-lanka/
Read the R4R Report: rohingya.org

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Colonial borders and the production of statelessness in Myanmar, India, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka | Melbourne Asia Review Statelessness in Myanmar, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is rooted in the impact of British colonialism.

Her name is Arofa Begum.

She is from Hoyyaseri's Gora Para (Fatellah Para), Buthidaung, Rakhine State, Myanmar.

She was shot six times during the Arakan Army attack on Hoyyar Siri. She lost every member of her family - except her daughter.

She is still alive. She is still in a refugee camp. She is still waiting for justice that has not come.

Her wounds are documented. Her testimony is in the R4R 2025 Report. Her story is why we keep posting.

Read the full report: rohingya.org

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195,000+ people in Malaysia have signed a petition to expel the Rohingya. A lot of people asking what happens next. Here's the honest answer.

They can't go back to Myanmar. The same army that burned their villages still controls Rakhine State. Return means going back to the people who tried to kill them.

So removal means one of three things.

They get sent to Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh - a camp that already holds over a million Rohingya with no capacity for more. Families who fled one temporary shelter ending up in another, with even less.

Or they go into a Malaysian detention centre. Fortify Rights investigated these centres earlier this year and found people held for years with no trial, no timeline, overcrowded cells, little food, and no medical care. Children included.

Or they get pushed back to sea. Malaysia has done it before. In 2020 naval vessels tried to turn boats around before being forced to rescue people who jumped overboard rather than go back.

This is what the word "removal" actually means. Not a flight home. There is no home to go back to.

What's worth knowing is that this is already happening. Malaysian authorities arrested 92,000 migrants in 2025. Officials called it the year of enforcement and said operations would intensify in 2026. The petition isn't creating something new. It's pushing a door that's already open.

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