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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.
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London, 20 September 2025 – The United Nations Member States convening in New York City for the General Assembly between 9 and 23 September should collaborate to impose a global embargo on jet fuel and arms to the Myanmar military junta, following daily airstrike attacks on civilians, said Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) today.
In a recent attack on 11 September 2025, the military junta killed at least 22 high school students and injured 26 others in Thayet Thapin village in Kyauktaw Township, Rakhine State. The military dropped two 500-pound bombs on a private school in the middle of the night while students slept. The attack was in a civilian area with no clear military target. This is just the latest of many deadly airstrikes against civilians by the military junta who has killed at least 284 civilians across Myanmar in August alone.
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Today marks eight years since Myanmar’s security forces carried out coordinated attacks against the Rohingya population in Rakhine State, burning entire villages, killing thousands of men, women, and children, and subjecting women and girls to widespread sexual violence. More than 700,000 Rohingya were forced to flee to Bangladesh. These atrocities shocked the world, but they were not isolated. They were the culmination of decades of persecution, the stripping of citizenship, apartheid-like restrictions, and state led efforts to erase the Rohingya from Myanmar. Genocide is a process, and for the Rohingya, that process began long before 2017.
