Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech

Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acronyms
INTRODUCTION Bamboo, Tarpaulin and Mud
	‘We are Rohingya’
	Burma or Myanmar?
1 Rohingya Roots in Ancient Arakan
	First millennium Arakan
	Islam’s arrival in Arakan
	Slavery and forced migration from Bengal
2 British Colonial Rule and Rohingya Identity
	Arakan’s Rooinga community in 1795
	Arakan’s pre-colonial population
	Colonial Arakan
3 Citizenship Laws: Making Rohingya Stateless
	Independent Burma’s citizenship regime
	Citizenship after the 1962 coup
	1982 Citizenship Law
4 Myanmar’s Failed Political Transition
	Political change in the Golden Land
	Words as Weapons
	This is what genocide looks like
	A politician not an icon
	A new insurgency
	A political problem with a political solution
5 Conflicting Historical Narratives
6 People Would Like to Demolish Our History
7 We are Rohingya
	A genocidal military campaign
	The Mother of humanity
8 Seeking Common Ground
	A renewed domestic focus
	The Tatmadaw’s ‘unfinished job’
	A broken system
	Future hopes
Acknowledgements
Bibliographical Survey
Notes
Index