Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) has issued a statement marking the fourth anniversary of the military junta’s coup on 1 February 2021.
The statement is as follows:
Today marks four years since the Burmese military began its attempted coup. Since the coup, the Burma military has conducted a campaign of war crimes and crimes against humanity throughout the country.
For the Rohingya, the human rights situation has continued to deteriorate. The same Burmese military that carried out mass killings, rape, and the destruction of entire Rohingya villages in 2017 continue their atrocities today. More than 600,000 Rohingya remain trapped in Rakhine State under a system of apartheid, persecuted and deliberately deprived of food, medicine, and freedom. The Burmese military has weaponised starvation, cutting off aid to Rakhine State, where a famine impacting all communities is now imminent.
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