Myanmar Stands Accused of Ethnic Cleansing. Here's Why

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, said Monday that recent violence committed by the state against Myanmar's Rohingya minority appears to be a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing." The Rohingya, a stateless Muslim group in a predominantly Buddhist country, have been subjected to decades of persecution. The emergence last year of an insurgent Rohingya army has further deepened their misery; two separate and fatal attacks on state security forces — on Oct.