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Protect the Rohingya's Report: Hear Our Screams, Making A Case For The Rohingya Genocide

By Protect the Rohingya Protect the Rohingya, a South African based awareness organisation that advocates for the rights of the Rohingya, and the Muslim Lawyers Association of South Africa have co-authored a report on behalf of the Rohingya which they call, ‘Hear Our Screams, Making a case f or the Rohingya Genocide’. The information is structured in relation to the eight stages of genocide, as proposed by Gregory H. Stanton on Genocide Watch[1]. The facts presented within the eight stages are analysed normatively within the framework of the international law on genocide.  The outcome is that, amid an atmosphere of extermination, a genocide against the Rohingya is both probable and possibly already underway.  The report contains maps of the areas affected by the violence, a historical overview of the conflict followed by an exposition of the legal instruments pertaining to genocide within the framework of international law and a detailed presentation of the brut...