94K views · 6.3K reactions |  8 YEARS SINCE ROHINGYA GENOCIDE On 25 August 2017, Myanmar launched a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign of the Rohingya, an ethnic-minority Muslim group in the state of Rakhine. The brutal operation led to: • Around 30,000 Rohingya Muslims killed • 19,000 women and girls raped • 740,000+ forced to flee abroad as refugees To this day, the situation for the refugees remains tragic, with their future still unknown. | 5Pillars | Facebook

"If they take us back into that regime, they will continue the genocide". Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh say the military coup in Myanmar makes them fearful to return to their homeland. | Al Jazeera English