Louis’s Reviews > First, They Erased Our Name: a Rohingya Speaks > Status Update

“Women are systematically raped, or eviscerated if they are pregnant, and their babies thrown into fires. In October 2016, they launched Operation Nay Myay Chin Lin Yay (literally, Total Liquidation or Total Cleansing of the Land). But it is only since 25 August 2017, when over 600.000 people suddenly turned up at the Bangladeshi border, a mass exodus that is difficult to hide, that the world began to wake up.”

“Genocide: The world is unwilling to use the term, because then it would be forced to act.”

“Extremist monks inflame the internet by spreading images of young woman alongside Anti-Muslim hate speech.”

“In April 2012, groups of Rakhines go from village to village in Arakan waving flags glorifying Hitler and Nazism. Some celebrate the coming of a new era by washing the statue of Buddha with blood. They no longer bother hiding their hatred and desire to get rid of us once and for all.”

“I won’t get a job unless I bribe the recruiter.”

“Every night, it’s the same story: I’m scared to go to sleep for fear of being taken away.”

“The Buddhists’ hidden agenda is to concentrate the Muslims in towns close to the borders where they are left to die.”

“A few squashes and mangoes for sale at the roadside constitute an entire family’s hopes of surviving another day.”