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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.
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London, UK, October 2, 2025—The Burma Human Rights Network today releases "You will have to draw pictures to describe us: The Genocidal Process and the Plight of Myanmar’s Muslims," a comprehensive report documenting a state-engineered campaign of persecution against Muslim populations across Burma spanning from 1962 Ne Win coup the power to the present day.
The investigation reveals that Burma's military junta is advancing a decades-long genocidal process against around 15% Muslims population of the 55 million total population of Burma. There are six major Muslim ethnic groups exist in Burma – Pathi, Rohingya, Pashu, Kaman, Panthay, and Myaydu. This systematic persecution spans military dictatorships as well as civilian rule, and has accelerated since the 2021 coup.
