Myanmar Genocide

Everyone’s Deepest Fear

In this world, we have peace and war, happiness and melancholy, and perfect and

imperfect. Unfortunately, a thing that has to exist in this world is murder, and an even worse the

concept of genocide, which is in fact mass murder. Many people fear this concept and fear that if

heard throughout mass media, it’ll cause extreme hysteria and chaos in general society. This is

due to whenever we think of genocide, the first topic that comes to mind is the Holocaust, and no

individual wants to think of that. That’s why in modern society, it is difficult to label an event as

a genocide, because when it is then that means different countries or the entire world has to take

action. Governments around the world were afraid of labeling the events that took place in

between 2016 and 2017 in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, as a genocide.

October 9, 2016 was the day that mass killings started to take place in the Rakhine State

of Myanmar. Even though there was violence against the Rohingya muslims before the events

took place, no act against them were to this level. Is has been reported by dozens of news outlets

that this violence wa