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The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Genocide Paperback – February 1, 2018

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According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet the signs of this genocide have been visible for years.
For generations, this Muslim group has suffered routine discrimination, violence, arbitrary arrest and detention, extortion, and other abuses by the Buddhist majority. As horrifying massacres have unfolded in 2017, international human rights groups have accused the regime of complicity in an ethnic cleansing campaign against them. Authorities refuse to recognise the Rohingyas as one of Myanmar's 135 "national races," denying them citizenship rights in the country of their birth and severely restricting many aspects of ordinary life, from marriage to free movement.
In this updated edition, Azeem Ibrahim chronicles the events leading up to the current, final cleansing of the Rohingya population, and issues a clarion call to protect a vulnerable, little known Muslim minority. He makes a powerful appeal to use the lessons of the twentieth century to stop this genocide in the twenty-first.

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"[The book's] claim on the reader's attention is . . .its urgency and prescience." -- The New York Review of Books

"One of the few accessible primers on this battered group." --Washington Monthly

"This excellent book demolishes the Myanmar argument, shamefully echoed by Suu Kyi, that the Rohingya are 'illegal immigrants.' Their ancestors may have been in the area when the Rakhine showed up around 900AD."--Nicholas Kristof, New York Times

"The persecution of Rohingyas rests on a belief that they are outsiders . . . Ibrahim debunks these claims in his essential new book, claiming that Rohingyas were in Arakan well before 1784, and may even have arrived there before the Buddhist Rakhine. Ibrahim offers a credible genealogy that links Rohingyas to Indo-Aryan groups who arrived from the Ganges Valley as early as 3000 BC."-- London Review of Books

"Exhaustively researched book does a valuable job of recording the group's suffering in painful detail, and he is right to urge the world to pay even closer attention to what is happening in Arakan." --The National Interest

"Ibrahim dwells on the history of the Rohingya in order to give an account of how and why they have come to arouse such fear and loathing. . . [his] analysis is excellent." -- Literary Review

"[An] excellent book." --The Scotsman

"Myanmar (also known as Burma) recognizes 135 ethnic minorities and treats many of them badly. But the 1.3 million Rohingyas are treated worst of all... This analytic but passionate book makes a strong case that Myanmar stands 'on the brink of genocide.'" --Foreign Affairs

"In the last decade of the twentieth century the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia could have been prevented by earlier active engagement by the international community. Azeem Ibrahim has issued a clarion call to protect a vulnerable and little-known Muslim minority in his compelling and throughly researched book. He makes a powerful appeal to use the lessons of the twentieth century to prevent a foreseeable genocide in the twenty-first." -- John Shattuck, President of the Central European University, former US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and author of Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response

"Time and time again, experience has shown that what minorities who live under the threat of annihilation need most is a voice that cannot be ignored. The Rohingyas promises to provide desperately needed awareness at a critical turning point in the history of Burma -- awareness provided by a renowned and accomplished scholar and policy advisor, Dr. Azeem Ibrahim." -- Steven Kiersons, Team Lead, Burma, The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention

"In Ibrahim's The Rohingyas, the author wonderfully details how a historical canard is used as a pretext to completely erase them from Myanmar. The book also explores the fact that among 135 ethnic minorities, Rohingyas are the worst treated, stripped of all rights as citizens, depleted of wealth and property, pushed to the edge, and systematically exterminated." -- Dhaka Tribune

"Dr Ibrahim makes a strong case for naming the situation facing the Rohingya a genocide and convincingly shows the urgent need for immediate action to alleviate ongoing suffering as well as to arrest any escalation. He does an excellent job of dismantling the arguments made by some commentators that the Rohingya, as a group, did not exist in Myanmar in the past."-- Dr Jonathan Saha, Academic Fellow in the History of Race and Empire University of Leeds

"Azeem Ibrahim's book is a well-researched treatise that answers the perplexity of a democratic regime's discriminatory attitude towards certain ethnic and religious groups, by taking recourse in history. . . . It is a must read for anyone who wishes to grasp an understanding of the reasons behind the fate of Rohingyas in Myanmar."--Insight Turkey

"In exploring and exposing the treatment of the Rohingya people of Burma Azeem Ibrahim has done great service to the truth about the terrible oppression which they are enduring, and has issued a call to all free people to secure international action to uphold their basic human rights." -- Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Burma

"Ibrahim's brilliantly researched book exposes the dark underbelly of this emerging state. Discrimination against minorities is rampant, but most acutely against the Muslim Rohingyas who are persecuted at the hands of the vast Buddhist majority. This important book exposes very great suffering that even Myanmar's now elected leaders have little or no interest in combatting."-- Jon Snow, Channel 4 News

"Important . . . excellent . . . for those wanting to understand more about the situation of the Rohingya in Myanmar."-- International Affairs

"This is a much-needed ethnography of a hitherto relatively ignored community of people...This academic text is refreshing for the way it moves from critiquing a current, ongoing crisis to suggesting a concrete solution to the problems the Rohingya face moving forward. Highly recommended. All levels." --CHOICE, C. A. Barnsley, Transylvania University

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Brings to light the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya going on in Burma

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1849049734
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hurst; Revised edition (February 1, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781849049733
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1849049733
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.4 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches

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Prof Azeem Ibrahim OBE is a Director at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy in Washington DC, Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College and a columnist at Foreign Policy magazine. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge after which he was appointed an International Security Fellowing at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a World Fellow at Yale University and a Rothermere Fellow at the University of Oxford.

He has published hundreds of articles in diverse publications including in the New York Times, Daily Telegraph (UK), Foreign Policy, Al Arabiya, Chicago Tribune, LA Times and Newsweek. He is the author of the seminal book: “The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Hidden Genocide”, Hurst (UK). His latest book “Radical Virus: Why We Are Losing the War Against Islamic Extremism” was published in November 2017 by Pegasus (New York).

Outside academia, Dr Ibrahim has been a reservist in the IV Battalion Parachute Regiment (UK’s elite airborne infantry reserve) and a multi-award winning entrepreneur. He was ranked as a Top 100 Global Thinker by the European Social Think Tank in 2010 and named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In 2019 he received the International Association of Genocide Scholars Award for his research on the Rohingya genocide; and in 2022, Dr Ibrahim was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, for his services to foreign policy.

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Comprehensive, well-written, and urgently needed.

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2016

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"The Rohingyas" is comprehensive, well-written, and urgently needed. The Rohingyas have been a persecuted minority in Burma for decades, a persecution that has accelerated under the current government of Aung San Suu Kyi. "The Rohingyas" presents research to suggest that the persecution amounts to genocide, an accusation that recent events seem to be confirming. Sadly, the response from the international community has been feeble. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the historical and contemporary context of this ongoing crisis. One hopes that it will also help bring additional attention to the crisis, and halt the genocide before it's too late.

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No One Cares About the So-Called "Other"

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2021

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The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide by Azeem Ibrahim, shows, sadly, that more than half a century since the Holocaust, and other genocidal acts since then, the world community will not come to the aid of endangered minorities. The Rohingyas are on their own. The world does not care.

This books explains how the Rohingya were transformed into “the other” by the government of Myanmar (Burma). Ibrahim illustrates what Timothy Snyder has written of the Nazis in World War II: the prime way to commit genocide is to strip a people of their national, legal rights. Once that is done, a minority group is at the mercy of the government, and other groups. Without access to the legal apparatus of the state, genocide is nearly inevitable.

The sad take away from this book is that minority groups have to have some kind of self-defense (as backup) especially if they find themselves in a situation like the Rohingya. Humanity is not yet evolved enough to treat the so-called stranger with love and care. We don't risk our well being for others.

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R. David Coolidge

Well-Documented and Clearly Written

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2017

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Anyone moved by the ongoing plight of the Rohingya people will find in this book a thorough explanation of how this has happened.

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Mohammad Sajed

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Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2017

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Excellent Book and gives a historical perspective to the recent Rohingya Genocide and more....

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Huibert

If you want to learn more about the Rohingya history ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2018

If you want to learn more about the Rohingya history, the book is alright, but I was expecting more depth...

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2017

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Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2017

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Well researched and presented in a simple and succinct language,for any reader to understand the tragic fate of Rohingyas.

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Excellent read

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2016

A detailed journey into how the Rohingya become the most persecuted minority in the world

Ibrahim has produced a thoroughly researched book which documents the roots of the slow motion genocide against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar. He clinically demolishes the main accusations made against the Rohingya by the Buddhist extremist such as the Rohingya being illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and having no roots in Myanmar. Ibrahim tackles this head on and uses extensive archival documentation dating back to 1799 to expose the fabrication of such ideas. This is a must read if you want to understand what is quite likely to be the next genocide of our time.

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Brilliant book to read if you want an overall understanding ...

Reviewed in Canada on December 30, 2017

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Arguably the most thorough, holistic, collection of research and the leading piece of literature on the crisis at the moment. Brilliant book to read if you want an overall understanding of the conflict, it’s history and the cultural and geographic politics of the issue.

Sukumar Shidore

Well-researched book on a burning issue

Reviewed in India on June 17, 2018

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Rohingyas are by far among the most persecuted communities in the world today. This book by Azeem Ibrahim reveals the racist actions of Myanmar government, its military and Buddhist hardliners to oust the Rohingyas permanently from their land (Rakhine or Arakan) which they have been inhabitating for generations. The author has painstakingly done a lot of research and come out with substantial arguments to support Rohingyas' claim for citizenship and an honourable recognition, protection, freedom and rights as Myanmarese nationals in their own country, and of course repatriation of Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar from Bangla Desh and several other countries where they had to flee, to save themselves from the terrible violence mounted against them by the powers-that-be in Myanmar. Incidentally ,I wish the author had presented his own analysis of the Kofi Annan Commission's report, considering that the Commission to look into the Rohingyas issue was appointed in 2016 by the Myanmarese government itself. However, this omission does not affect the overall high quality of the book. Every student of world affairs needs to read this book to acquire a more informed and balanced view on the subject. My review of this book has been published by the Marathi newspaper 'Loksatta' on 16 June 2018. -- Sukumar Shidore

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Dylan Ross

ESSENTIAL ANALYSIS ON THE SLOW MOTION GENOCIDE OF THE ROHINGYA PEOPLE

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 3, 2016

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Genocide and mass murder stem from a complex set of circumstances that collectively legitimizes violence against a specific group. But these circumstances still need to be quite extraordinary. Despite the claims of ethnic or religious ideologues, intergroup harmony has in fact been the norm for most of human history. Yes, group differences on the grounds of ethnicity or religious belief can, and often do, lead to tensions between communities. If sufficiently serious and if no external authority intervenes, these tensions can spill over into localized acts of violence. But even when such local acts of violence flare up, they rarely produce something that could be defined as genocide.

In his book, Dr Ibrahim looks closely at four paradigm cases of genocide in the 20th century: the Armenian genocide by the disintegrating Ottoman Empire in 1915-1918, the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, the Soviet purges of the Turkic people of Crimea and the Caucasus in 1941 to 1943 and the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Each case demonstrates the importance of international partners in restraining, or providing a free hand, to a state on the verge of committing genocide.

The situation in Myanmar at the moment is showing some depressing parallels to Rwanda. No international power looks like it would be willing to intervene militarily in the country so the slow motion genocide continues until a trigger tips it over the edge to mass killing.

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Thomas Lubanga

A good first draft...

Reviewed in Germany on November 30, 2020

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This book is a passionate plea to end the ongoing discrimination and grave human rights violations against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar. While this aim is laudable, the book does not constitute a serious scholarly work. Indeed, it appears to have been written in a rush, with a confusing structure and without the necessary editing. In many ways, it reads like a draft. In addition, as previous commentators have pointed out, the book could have benefited from additional and more thoroughly researched sources.

Anunay Sahay

Head on with reality!

Reviewed in India on February 1, 2019

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Reality personified!

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