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(London, 1st February 2026) Today marks five years since the Myanmar military seized power on February 1, 2021. In that time, the junta has killed thousands of civilians, detained more than 30,000 political prisoners, and displaced at least 3.6 million people. Its atrocities, which include war crimes and crimes against humanity, have only intensified over the past year. For Myanmar's Muslim communities, the military's violence has been accompanied by systematic attacks on religious life. Since the coup, the junta has destroyed several Islamic religious buildings through airstrikes and arson, sealed mosques, seized historic cemeteries, and permitted ultranationalists to incite hatred with impunity.
"The military stood before the ICJ this month and denied committing genocide while its allies back home called for Rohingya to be 'shot, killed, dumped, buried,'" said Kyaw Win, Executive Director of the Burma Human Rights Network. "Five years after the coup, the military is still bombing civilians, raiding mosques during prayers, and permitting open calls for Muslims to be exterminated. Not a single general has faced justice. There is still no arms embargo, no global jet fuel ban, no ICC referral. That impunity is why the killing continues. The question is whether the world will do anything about it?"
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Today marks 77 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) affirmed that all people are entitled to safety, dignity, and equal protection under the law. Yet in Myanmar, these principles have been systematically violated for decades by the military, through persecution, dispossession, and violence carried out with impunity.
For nearly eight decades, the military has engineered systems of control, segregation, and erasure against Muslims and other minorities, including the Rohingya. These abuses have included forced displacement, denial of citizenship and legal status, mass killings, and the destruction of homes, religious sites, and entire communities.
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London, 17 October 2025 – Documentation by the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) reveals an alarming increase in hate speech and incitement to violence targeting Myanmar’s Muslim minorities, including the Rohingya. These developments, amplified by ultranationalist Buddhist monks aligned with the military junta, reflect an increasingly coordinated effort to legitimize discrimination, provoke religious tensions, and normalize violence. The patterns observed online and offline raise urgent concerns under international law and signal an elevated risk of mass atrocity crimes.
